University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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llllilf. IIIIIITIIIHEII illllll 0llllE YEARS There are two aspects of a university which we shall consider in this brief historical sketch of the University of Louisville. The first is a conception of the physical development of the institution. This, in our case, begins in the year 1837. At the time as we consider the physical growth we shall have in mind the conception of a university as a way of thinking, a system of beliefs and ideals which bestow upon the institution its unity and self consciousness. We wish to bring out also the fact that a municipal university is an expression of the culture of the community which sponsors it and that each part comes into being only as the community is ready for it. There are two parts into which we have chosen to divide the history of the University of Louisville. The first part treats that period from 1837 to the year 1907, when the College of Liberal Arts came into being. Until this time the University as such had to a large extent existed in name only. It had consisted of two professional schools which were united only somewhat loosely. In 1907 the College of Liberal Arts was added to round out the picture. At the same time each of the other schools underwent a period of reorganization. The result was a rejuvenated university, one which was beginning to exist in fact as well as in name. In the second part of the history we treat the University as it grew after the preliminary formative period was over. Having established a university with a certain sense of unity and selffconsciousness, we attempt to bring up to date each of the three original schools, and then proceed to give a brief historical sketch of each school and division which has been added since 1907. The University of Louisville is the oldest of municipal univerf sities. It had its beginning in two separate institutions, the Louis' ville Medical Institute and the Collegiate Institute of Louisville, both established by the City Council in 1837. The Collegiate Institute, the name of which was later changed to Louisville Col- lege, was short lived. It really passed out of existence before the University was chartered. The Louisville Medical Institute, on the other hand, presents a picture of steady growth and progress. In April, 1837, the City Council passed resolutions to establish a medical college on a site which should be a college square and which would later contain other college buildings. This square was to be bounded by Chest' nut, Magazine, and Eighth and Ninth Streets, and the college was known 'as the Medical Institute. The medical building was fin- ished in 1839, but the first session of the Medical Institute began in October, 1837 in an improvised hall in the City Workhouse. In 1846, as the result of a desire on the part of the City Counf cil to unite the two colleges under one head, the Kentucky Legisf lature granted to the Louisville College and the Louisville Medi' cal Institute a charter as one institution to be called the University of Louisville, and it provided that the Louisville College become the academic department of the University of Louisville. The academic department finally became the Louisville Male High School in 1860. It can in no sense be called a College of Liberal Arts. Under the same charter of 1846 the Law School was estabf lished, graduating its first class of twelve members in 1847. Its first quarters were on the University property referred to above as the college square. From the year 1860, when the academic department became the Louisville Male High School, until the year 1907, the Uni' versity consisted of merely the School of Law and the School of Medicine. Officially these Schools were two departments of the University, but for practical purposes they were independent. The popular conception seemed to be that they were two entirely separate schools. In 1907 the Medical Department of Kentucky University was combined with the University of Louisville's School of Medicine. In the following year the Kentucky School of Medicine, descended from the Medical Department of Transylvania University, and the Louisville Hospital College of Medicine, united with the Uni' versity of Louisville, and out of this union has grown the present University of Louisville School of Medicine. In the following year the Law School was reorganized and the faculty substantially increased. At this time the case method of teaching was introduced. In the year 1907 the community seemed at last ready to sup' port an Arts College. The College of Arts and Sciences was established in the old Silas Miller residence at 119 West Broad' way, which had been occupied by the Medical Department of Kentucky University from 1899 to 1910. Now, for the first time, was carried out the original design of the founders of setting up, in addition to the professional schools, departments for the prof motion of science, literature, and the liberal arts. Thus we see the beginning of the more adequate fulfillment of the deep purf pose of a university. The professional schools had, by their very specialized nature, tended to resist unification. But now that a common background for both schools had been provided by the establishment of a Liberal Arts College, the prospects of a unified, selffconscious university were greatly increased. . . - - . . . . H ' he skyline of the city, as seen from the Clinical Department at 517 S. 6th St. Neville Miller, uho seived as Bennett M. Biignianqnas T V h I k d H: thi when the Th' ' -, k ' 1 1911, 'vI.,'oi' of Louisville from 1933 the first dean of the Speed Illtllrlllfl S Off, 09 QC 1 eu 5 , ls Picture Ins ul en m Jimunry, foTl9S7, was dean of the School Scientific School. l-le died School of Law uns established, in 1846. nf Law until 1933. in February, 1938. um m vw im tr tvatfuui, mvwtvz UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE 17