University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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University of Louisville may HE University of Louisville was founded in 1873 by a de- Fs} cree of the City Council, and the tract of land comprising the town block between Eighth and Ninth streets, extend- ing south from Chestnut, was granted to the corporation chartered by an act of the Legislature of Kentucky in 1846 a “for the establishment of a university for the promotion of every branch of science, literature, and the liberal arts.” A special subsidy of $50,000 was also allowed for the construction of suitable buildings. Ths enactment of the civic government speaks well for the in- telligence and forethought of Louisville when it was nothing more than a village, and these facts, indicating the provision and solicitude of their grandfathers for the cultivation of higher learning and purer citizenship, are worth recalling to their descendants. Soon after the appropriation made by the City Council for a univer- sity, the Medical College and the Law College were put in active opera- tion. The Medical College of the University of Louisville is thus the sec- ond oldest medical school now in existence west of the Alleghanies. By the recent coalition of the medical schools of Louisville, embracing the Medical Department of the University of Louisville, organized in 1837, the Kentucky School of Medicine, 1850, the Louisville Medical College, 1869, the Hospital College of Medicine, 1873, and the Medical Depart- ment of the Kentucky University (now Transylvania University), 1898, new property, greater prestige, and wider influence were added to the old institution, thus making it one of the strongest of its class in the country, and promising for the future the maintenance of increasingly higher standards to satisfy the increasing requirements demanded by the State medical boards. The additions that have also been made to the labora- tories and clinical facilities of this department make it one of credit to the city and of distinct usefulness to the State and country. The five schools of the Medical Department have graduated alto- gether in the past about 20,000 alumni. Dr. J. M. Bodine is the Presi- dent of the medical Faculty; Dr. J. B. Marvin, Vice President; Dr. T. C. Evans, Dean of the College; Dr. Philip F. Barbour, Secretary; Dr. Hugh N. Leavell, Comptroller. The Faculty includes about one hundred sur- geons and physicians, a number of whom stand at the top of the medical profession in America. At a meeting of the Council of Education of the American Medical Association held in Chicago the Medical Department of the University of Louisville was placed Class “A.” The Law Department of the University of Louisville is the oldest law school in the South. It has graduated about 1,400 students, many of whom are practicing their profession or filling offices of public trust in most of the States of the Union. Not a few of the graduates of the Law

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College are located in Louisville, and have a high rank in the legal pro- fession of the city. 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. a4 The Academic Department was added to the University of Louisville in 1907, to carry out the founders’ original design of establishing depart- ments for the promotion of science, literature, and the liberal arts. 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 oper- ate 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 Louisville, are rapidly developing within their own communities signi® :ant and effec- tive 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 require- ments 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 corres- pondence. 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 abili- ty is excellent among scholars. The college expects to add during the year 1910-11 an Engineering School in charge of two Engineers familiar with the co-operative plan in use at the University of Cincinnati. The college also hopes to increase its Faculty by a professor of Philosophy and Psychology; a head of the French Department, and possibly by a Professor of Geology and Botany. DEAN PATTERSON.