University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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DEPARTMENTAL DEANS T. C. EVANS, M. D. JUDGE W. O. HARRIS JOHN PATTERSON, A.M., M. Litt., LL.D. Dean of Medical Department Dean of Law Department Dean of College of Liberal Arts

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Within the last year the corps of instructors has been increased, and the mode of teaching has been supplemented by the best modern methods employed at Harvard, Columbia, and other universities of prominence. From these few words it will be seen that the old and reputable Law College of the University of Louisville has kept pace with progress, and that it is a worthy coadjutor of the medical college in training young men for useful and honorable professional life. Judge W. O. Harris is dean of the College of Law, and with his Faculty stands high in the respect and confidence of Louisville. The Academic Department was added to the University of Louisville in 1907, to carry out the founders’ original design of establishing departments for the promotion of science, literature, and the liberal arts. This department is at present sup- ported by an annuity guaranteed by certain generous and public-spirited citizens. Before the period of annuity expires this means of support should be replaced by a more permanent and public one, or by an endowment fund, since the city of Louisville can not afford to neglect an opportunity for supplementing the training of its public schools and private academies and for advancing higher education, broader culture, and better citizenship. It is the higher ideal of education and the standard set by the higher institu- tions of learning which chiefly effect the best education in a community, for the elevating principles of knowledge and culture paradoxically operate from the top down, and not from the bottom up. Reform, if needed in our preparatory and secondary academies, can only be assured by the possession of a college of lofty ideals and learning, radiating invigorating light and the warmth of emulation to the lower schools. Recognizing this fact, the larger cities of the United States, and among them Louis- ville, are rapidly developing within their own communities significant and effective university centers. The College of Arts of the University of Louisville does not claim to rival the older and longer-established colleges, but it does claim to have an adequate equipment and a good Faculty, competent to give instruction in courses which lead to an honorable baccalaureate degree. The requirements for admission to the college conform to an approved standard, and credit will not be given for work done elsewhere than in a college of good standing, nor will credit be given for work done in absentia or by cor- respondence. The master’s degree will, for the present, be granted only in the departments of Greek, Latin, English, French, German, History, Pure Mathematics, Biology, and Chemistry. The doctorate will not be granted until the college is better equipped with laboratories and libraries. The college, as a guarantee of serviceable work, has a Faculty which numbers among its members men whose reputation for learning and teaching ability is excellent among scholars. Dean PATTERSON. ihe

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Ode to the University I would to thee some lines indite, O thou abode most erudite, O thou great pile of stately height That rests on such a worthy site. List then to my ditty. Would that ‘twere but within my might On thee such noble lines to write As thou art worthy to incite. But lack-a-day! the Muse did slight Me, who am such an ungifted wight, So I’m neither wise nor witty. To those who in thy halls recite The courses made so requisite— No matter in what sorry plight Had been their heads so very light— Thou sett’st them on the path that's right, In reason sweet their souls dost dight, Life’s battles teach’st thou them to fight, From ignorance their minds invite, And on their brows A. B. dost write, Pride of our fair city! My zeal for thee I pray requite, By granting me thy deep insight, Shed on me thy wondrous light, Make for me all things so bright That I shall have no more of night, O University! Minnik C. Frost, A. B.