University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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COLLEGE OF LAW s =» « By offering new, up-to-date courses in the curriculum, Dean Pendleton Howard retains for his College of Law the highest respect of all capable critics—student lawyers and professional members of the bar. To meet the pace of increas- ing complexities in laws passed by local, state, and national agencies, Dean Howard has ‘'stepped up the courses offered in the school’s curriculum. Fifty-eight students are now registered in senior Law College, an increase of five over last year. About twenty will be graduated in June. Dean Howard, who has studied closely the developments in such New Deal legislation as the NRA and the Securities Act, gained his LL.B. degree from Texas, and his Ph.D. from Columbia. Pendleton Howard Ripe aie GRADUATE SCHOOL « » » Charles William Hungerford is dean of a school which offers courses leading to the degree of Master of Arts and the Masters’ degrees in the various sciences. He holds a B.S. degree from Upper Iowa University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Wisconsin. He has been with the University of Idaho since 1919, and is now professor of pathology and vice- director of the agricultural experiment station. He is interested in plant study and has as his hobby the collection of exceptional irises. There are now 103 students enrolled in the Graduate School—a slight decrease compared with the 1934 enrollment. The decrease has resulted from more students having secured posi- tions at the close of each year. Charles William Hungerford

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SCHOOL OF EDUCATION » » « James Franklin Messenger, dean of the School of Education and director of the summer session, says his greatest interest is the same as that of many other deans— 'the hope of advan- cing education and promoting a finer, more beneficial school system.”’ Dean Messenger received his A.B. degree from the University of Kansas, his A.M. from Harvard, and a Ph.D. degree from Columbia. He came to ermont in 1920. in the summer school during the 935 was about 890, which is almost ed more than were enrolled in the dames Franklin Messenger JUNIOR COLLEGE » » « An Idaho facultyman since 1924, and dean of the Junior College since 1929, T. S. Kerr rep- resented Idaho as a speaker at the Institute of World Affairs held in California this winter. From the Institute he went directly to a meeting of the National Business Law Association in New York City, where he again spoke. As Chairman of the public events committee, Dean Kerr has brought such speakers to Idaho as General Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA chief. The dean says: The Junior College curriculum is being devel- oped for the student who hasn't yet discovered his calling; by employing individual guidance, the course gives such a student an opportunity to find himself'.’’ Thomas Stone Kerr

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DEAN OF WOMEN » » s Permeal J. French, dean of women, has served the University of Idaho for more than a quarter of a century with an enviable under- standing and ability. Her remarkable memory, interest, and alertness have made her one of the most widely known women in Idaho. Miss French is a true Idahoan, being educated in the public schools of Idaho, and having received her M.A. degree from the University of Idaho. She became dean of women in 1907, after g as State Superintendent of Public Instruc- : sr activity in the administrative and affairs of the campus, Dean French has DEAN OF FACULTY » « s The dean of them all in point of strictly continuous service on the faculty, Jay Glover Eldridge, came to Idaho in 1901, and was in 1903 made dean of the university faculty—a title which he has never relinquished. From 1903 until 1909 he was the one and only dean at Idaho—direct- ing the “‘ags, ’ the engineers, the scientists—all students. Dean Eldridge, a professor of Modern Lan- guages, presides at academic council meetings in the absence of President Neale. Add to his Phi Beta Kappa key and a Yale Ph.D. degree his latest achievement in the schol- astic field—teing initiated as an honorary mem- ber of Phi Eta Sigma, national scholastic honorary. day Glover Eldridge 26 @