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

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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

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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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' ' V 1 - ; ' Aj |L Jj ! 1 1 H n ! - J i] Music Ha — School of Music C. H. MiLu Director USIC HALL, the gathering place of the returning alumni, IS the one spot which seems unchanged with the years, and the returning sons and daughters, though reminded by the chime from its tower of the passing of time, find it hard to believe that years have intervened since they last saw this faithful old sentinel of the upper campus. But though externally. Music Hal! IS the same, it is when they pass through its doors and en- counter the bustling lite of one of the fastest growing schools on the Campus, that they realize time has worked well in this particular corner of University life, and that historic old Library Hall will not adequately house, for many more years, the many activities which now count it their home. The School of Music, because of its very nature, is intimately connected with every phase of University life. No All-Uni- versity function is considered complete without the band, the orchestra, the glee clubs, or soloists. The state at large is also coming to depend largely on the School of Music for its Fes- tivals, its Radio entertainment, and its supervision of musical activities. It is through service that the School has reached its present position and through continued service it hopes to increase both Its growth and its usefulness. Il65