University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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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

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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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s m ' t 51 lllSIII 4lf W(llll€ ll Dean Priddy Lucy Wilson Lucy Wilson President Gertrude Poe ' ice-President Martha Gilliam Secretary Dorothy Andris Treasurer THE conception of just what relation of the Office of the Dean of Women i ears to the rest of the Campus aries extensively v ith the indixiduals endeavoring to make the interpretation. Probably those working in this field would say unanimously it is a buffer state . The office was created primarily to help the indi idual girl make her adjustments in academic, residential, social, financial, and health matters. It also functions in assisting in her transfer from another school to this one and from this school to institutions more suited for her chosen specialization. It follows her out into the great wide world, recommending her as highly as possible, and it is con- stantly heartened by news of success in life careers. When a girl is in trouble about courses elected, class room discipline, University regulations operating in any department or her own private matters, her first aid opportunity is in this office. The second major duty of the office of the Dean of Women is to assist in the executive business of all the Campus Women ' s Organizations. Here assistance is given in connecting the individual girls with organizations in outlining programs for organizations, in the work of individual officers, and in connecting the local work of campus organizations with their respective national organizations- The approval residence lists, party permissions and chaperonage, eligibility for acti ities, public pro- grams for which the women are responsible, election to general honorary societies and comparative grade statistics for women ' s organizations all have the attention of this office. Sometimes in reflecting on the work, Deans of Women almost regret the title as it stands and long to write themselves dwellers in a little house of friendship on that road of promise travelled by all college women. Dean Bessie Leach Priddy. Page 23