University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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i t Ik B- Si ' liiMil 4»l ' 3l ili4 ine Dean Allen Charles A Lusk Charles Lusk President Ben Putman Vice-President James Bagley Secretary-Treasurer John- O ' Conner Senator FROM its location upon the campus the School of Medicine is in fact an integral part of the Uni- versity. From many points of view this offers ad antages when compared with schools w, hich do not enjoy such intimate university relationships. Upon the University Hospitals, which are a part of the School of Medicine, the function of safeguarding the health of the university community rests. During the past twenty-two years the School of Medicine has maintained only the first two years of the medical course which consist of the preclinical curriculum; anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology and bacteriology. Students completing these courses receive the degree of Bachelor of Science in Medicine and may enter four-year schools in all parts of the country. In the fall of 1930, however, the President recommended and the Board of Curators authorized the re-establishment of the clinical years of the medical curriculum at the University. A part of the present Sophomore class is to be registered in the third year work in September, 1931, and in fourth year work in September, 1932. The degree of Doctor of Medicine will be conferred at the 1933 commencement upon students satisfactorily completing this work. Therefore, the present year finds the School of Medicine on the verge of expansion, which will place medical education in the State of Missouri on an equal footing with education in Law, Journal- ism, Engineering, and other professions already supported at the University. The University Hospitals furnish a maximum capacity of one hundred beds and contain provi- sions for a university health service, a free clinic and a state crippled children ' s service. A School of Nursing is maintained at the University under the direction of Miss Pearl B. Flow ers. Principal. In addition to the usual course in nursing, students may take a course combined with work in the College of Arts and Science. From the point of view of a well rounded cultural education this offers many advantages to the usual nursing course in city hospitals which are not connected w ith uni ersities. Dean Edgar Allen. Page 21

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Si ' liool of Law William Becker Dean Parks William H. Becker President Marion- Lamb Vice-President Elvi.n S. Douglas Secretary-Treasurer THE primary purpose of the Law School is to equip men and women for the practice of the law. The demand for finely trained, competent and ethical lawyers is great, and it is this type that in- terests the school. For this reason, the School does not seek merely a large number of students, and its entrance requirements and scholastic standards are such as to attract to the student body only those whose maturity, education, ability and character fit them for serious study. However, graduates of the School are to be found in all parts of the state and there are included in their ranks, leaders in the professions and in public life. While the School ' s first duty is to train lawyers, many University students, who do not intend to practise law, take the law course because they consider it good training either for a business or public career. The School is a charter member of the Association .American Law Schools, an organization com- posed of the leading law schools of the United States and Canada, whose purpose is to further the cause of legal education and promote better legal scholarship. The School has always been given the highest classification by the Council on Legal Education of The .American Bar Association. It is the only school in the state outside of the city of St. Louis that is endorsed by the Association. In addition to the every day work of preparing students for the legal profession, the Faculty of Law is engaged in arious research projects. The results of these in estigations are made available in published form in the Law Series of the University of Missouri Bulletin, a magazine published quarterly. Some members of the Faculty are also in estigating -arious legal problems for the Mis- souri Bar Association. In this connection several research assistants, selected on the basis of scholar- ship from the student body, are being employed. The monc - for this purpose has been furnished by the Missouri Bar .Association. Dean James L. Parks. Pnge 10

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Ih. - jt 3 ii ei v I Tfe Demi if Men James Finch Dean Heckel James A. Finch Charles Hughes Constance Read President Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer EVERY September several thousand students arrive on our campus, most of them w ith high hopes and purposes. Their coming creates real problems, not only for themselves, but for those who are to be their teachers, advisers, and guides. There is much waste in our educational institutions, and someone needs to be responsible for seeing to it that no student shall go out from his college a failure until everything possible has been done to make him a success. Of course, the student will have to solve for himself the scholastic, social, and moral difficulties of a university community, diffi- culties which grow more and more complex as the size of the university increases. But in making their adjustments to new and experimental relationships, to a new freedom, and to new and larger responsibilities, few students are so self-reliant as to feel no need of help or advice from persons more mature than themselves in age and experience. The office of the Dean of Men provides to the students opportunity for personal conference on their many interests. The Dean of Men has the super ' ision of extra-curricular activities. In his office also are centered matters of discipline, but in this his aim is to have concern with men rather than rules, emphasizing prevention and cure above punishment. In all ways the dean of men intends to deal with each student not only as a member of a very im- portant organization, but also — and, perhaps, chiefly — as an individual of vital interest and importance in himself. He seeks to enlist the students in an intelligent furthering of their own interests an l the interests of the University and community. Dean Albert K. Heckel. Page 22