University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Librarv Library School C. B. Lester Director T: HE Library School is part of the Larger Campus. It looks for- ward to the day when a new building to house the university library will make a place for it on university ground. In the meantime, in its present location, midway between the Capitol and the Hill, as well as in its organisation, it symbolises that close relationship between University, and State that has always been uniquely characteristic of Wisconsin. The Director of the School, Clarence B. Lester, is also Secretary of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission, and another link is formed by the fact that the Chairman of the Commission, Miss Zona Gale, is a member of the Board of Regents of the University. The School works in a close co-operation with the libraries of the state. Like the School of Medicine and the School of Journalism, the Library School sends its students out into the state for observation, study and practical experience. During two months of the school year the students work under close supervision in selected libraries, giving service in return for experience. The Library School shares another characteristic of the University as a whole. In addition to fulfilling the ideal of service to the state, it attracts to its ranks students from all parts of the country and from foreign lands as well. The present class, the largest m the history of the School, has representatives from eleven states, the District ot Columbia, Canada, and Nor- way. And the graduates ot the School have carried the Wis- consin spirit into thirty-eight states, the District of Columbia, the Canal Zone, the Philippine Islands, Hawaii, Canada, China, Denmark, Italy, and Norway. (ty . u 5241

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Bascom Hall Letters and Science G||| HE College of Letters and Science is the old original part of the - ' - university edifice. It was built many years ago, out of tried, dependable materials, by men of wisdom and skill — the found, ers of the university. It has been kept abreast of the times — ■ modernized — again and again by successors of equal and sometimes of greater merit. Those who go out from its protect- ing roof on graduation not infrequently think that the old college is not what it used to be. But seen in proper per- spective, after the lapse of years, the old grad will discover, with pride, that the old academic home was a center of light, that It strengthened purposes, shaped ideals, equipped with knowledge, and furnished an opportunity for the growth of wisdom. May the old grads of 1928 find this to be true. G. C. Sellery Dean t-3}

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Wisconsin Geiieral Hospital The Medical School ITnEGREES were first granted at the University in 1854. At that - ' - time a medical school was contemplated as an integral part of the institution and was temporarily established on paper. About three-quarters of a century passed, however, before the Uni- versity granted its first medical degrees at Commencement last June. Though slow to hatch, the medical school has had a vigorous growth under the fostering warmth of the mother institution and is now emerging from its shell a healthy young- ster. The new Service Memorial Institute building for the medical sciences, now nearing completion, constitutes together with the Wisconsin General Hospital, the Bradley Memorial Hospital, the Student Infirmary, and the Nurses Dormitory, a fine group of buildings for the advancement of medical knowledge, for teaching, and for state service. The chief fea- tures which distinguished Wisconsin as compared with other university medical schools are first an unusually close connec- tion between the departments devoted to the basal medical sciences and other university departments such as physics, chemistry and biology as pure sciences and as applied to agri- culture, and second an exceptional development of state-wide laboratory, library, and consultation service. The former promotes the advancement of medical knowledge; the latter promotes the immediate application of advancing knowledge to human needs. So long as these ideals are maintained, the future of the medical school is assured. C . { ' Sj cXjLSi C. R. Bardeen Dean hs