University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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npHE College of Arts and Science is the largest division of the University , with an enroll- ment approximately half of all the students in residence. It holds the central place in the general University scheme, influencing all the professional schools and furnishing part of the curriculum of each. Its purposes are (1) to train the mind to clear and vigorous thinking; (2) to develop intelligent citizens of the modern world familiar with the aims and methods of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities (including philosophy, literature, music, and art); (3) to teach the basic non- technical courses necessary to the various professional and vocational curricula. These aims are essential to genuine University training and distinguish a real from a loosely connected group of professional schools. Dean F. M. Tisdel Officers of tke ScIm Charles Wiggins All-Department President Jack English Junior President Ralph Jones Sophomore President The Dean Wiggins E GLI ' H Jones

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The Graduate School HE Graduate School is one of the youngest divisions of the University of Missouri; it is now in its twenty-eighth year. It admits no one but graduates of acceptable colleges and universities. The total registration for the present year will pass the seven hundred mark. The chief business of the Graduate School is independent investigation, re- search, widening of the bounds of human knowledge. To encourage such study the University offers each year a number of fellowships each bearing an annual stipend of $600, open to those who have had at least one year of successful graduate study, and a number of scholarships each bearing a yearly stipend of $300, open to college graduates of unusual promise. These fel- lowships and scholarships are awarded to the best candidates applying, irrespective of the de- partment in which they wish to specialize. Dean Walter Miller The watchword of the Graduate School is Research — independent investigation on the part of the student, directed and guided by an expert authority in his field as adviser. The student, largely freed from the restrictions of assigned lessons and class routine, works on his own initiative and on his own responsibility. The graduate student ' s aim is for depth rather than breadth of learning. Because of the nature of the school, it is impossible to have any very definite organization of the department as far as class meetings and election of officers is concerned. As a result, the only officer of the Graduate School is a member of the Student Council. The Dean

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School of La w THE school year of 1924-25 is a significant year in the life of the School of Law which was established more than fifty years ago. In December, 1924, the Board of Curators let a contract for the construction of a new building. This building comes as a result of an appropria- tion of .fTS.OOO by the Fifty-Second General Assembly of Missouri, and a gift of the same amount by Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Tate of St. Louis. The building is to be a memorial to their son, the late Lee H. Tate, a graduate of the School of Law of the class of 1914. The building was designed by Jamieson and Spearl, St. Louis architects. All who have seen the plans agree that the building is to be both beautiful and useful. It is to be a fire- proof structure and hence will afford proper protection for our valuable law library of over 25,000 books. From the standpoint of utility it is believed that it will equal any law school building in this country southeast corner of Francis Quadrangle. Dean J. P. McBaine It is to be located in the Officers of tke Scliool Henry Depping All-Class President EssLiE R. Morrison Junior President Isaac S. Skelton Sophomore President RussEL R. Casteel Freshman President