University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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.nu-uu.....unuu ....... Iuunnuuuunuuuu DEAN MULVANIA DEAN MULVANIA School of Preliminary Medicine Perhaps in no field of knowledge has progress gone forward more rapidly within the last century than in the science and practice of medicine. Based on the establishment of the relation of microorganisms to disease, understanding of human ills has expanded to a re- markable degree. Such a mass of information has accumulated within the last few decades that it has taxed to the utmost the capacity of medical' students to encompass it in the period normally allotted to his professional training. This burden has precluded the possibility of including in modern medical curricula any of the studies calculated primarily to instill broad, humanitarian ideals into the prospective doctor. By the profession as well as the laity it has generally become apparent that the physician should be possessed of an interest in thought beyond the borders of his professional field. This, among other things has brought about the establishment of pre-training of college grade for prospective medical students, which shall serve the dual purpose of giving basic knowl- edge of the sciences related to his professional studies as well as a more liberal view point toward the world at large. The effort to subserve this double purpose has focused attention on the relative quantity of humanities and sciences that should be included in this preliminary study. Considerable difference in opinion exists in this respect and therefore no fixed ratio has been accepted among the schools attempting this work. At the University of Tennessee the course has varied somewhat according to the success of those most interested in its success at any given time. Accordingly some slight changes have been made which, it is hoped, will prove helpful. The past year brought a very gratifying number of students to our university to fit them- selves for entrance into the medical college, and a very creditable rating in the institution has attended their efforts In this department our steadfast aim inspires the hope of worthy accomplishment. mMaurice Mulmmia Page Twenty

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DEAN MCDERMOTT The College of Law The College of Law of the University of Tennessee has for its ambition the establishment here of a law school equipped to give its students a training second to none in America. For years it has been customary for those interested in the highest professional education to turn their eyes to the East and t0 the North. It is inconceivable that these or any other sections of the country can have a monopoly on any branch of education. There is no reason why southern schools and universities cannot match the very best the North and East have to offer. It is purely a question of what type of education we care to deal in. The South has fully recovered from those years of depression following the Civil War, and now stands on an equal footing with the rest of America, quite able to do its part in supporting the best brand of popular education. Southern schools and universities have realized that the best element of American youth wants and demands the best in education as in other fields of life. Therefore the raising of standards and the increase of entrance requirements has not cut down attendance. On the contrary, more and finer young men and young women are clamoring to be admitted. Because of a realization of these facts, the College of Law at Tennessee does not concern itself about numbers, altho the striking fact is that with the present high standards there are more entering students than ever before. What really concerns us is the thoroughness of the training and the development of character that we can give to each individual student who goes out from here to promote the administration of justice. When these things have been properly cared for, numbers will take care of themselves. It is therefore the declared policy of this College to raise its entrance requirements and its standards in every branch until they are in complete accord with the very best recognized in modern legal education. Already the case system, now generally regarded as the most approved method of instruction in law, has been introduced in all courses; in addition to a complete high school education, the entering student must have to his credit one year of standard college work; beginning with 1925, two years of college work will be required of all entering students. New courses have been added to the curriculum; additional instructors have been added to the faculty; and the number of volumes in the law library has been more than doubled in the last two years. This is but the beginning of a sustained and determined effort to place this department of the University in the front ranks of law schools in America. The result cannot be accomplished in a day, nor in a year, but the fact is that the plans have been carefully laid and step by step they are being worked out as rapidly as it is possible to do. -Malcolm McDermott Page Nineteen

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..i.m a 5m mm A Few Prominent Professors On this and following pages are photographs and brief biographies of a few of the faculty men of the University who because of the unusual value of their work and their active interest in student affairs are among the outstanding famlty men on the campus. 9U AMES DOUGLAS BRUCE Everybody knows Dr. Bruce; in fact he is one of the land-marks of U. T. Were he gone, we would miss him as much as Ayres Hall. A Vir- ginian by birth, he studied at the University of Virginia, where he received his RA. and M.A. degrees. A Ph.D. came later at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Bruce came to Tennessee in 1900, after having taught at Centre College, Bryn Mawr and Penn- sylvania. He was President of the Modern Lan- guage Association in 1915. Besides being an authority on Anglo-Saxon literature, he has pub- lished a number of valuable works including the authoritative work on the King Arthur legends. ASA ARTHUR SCHAEFFER Although he works us very hard in his laborav tory we all like Dr. Schaeffer. He knows animals from amoebas up. He came to U. T, in 1909, after studying at Franklin and Marshall and re- ceiving his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, where he was a Fellow in Zoology. Since coming to U. T., Dr. Schaeffer has done a great deal for the Biologi- cel Department. He is well known in scientific Cll'Cles and has published several valuable 'papers and books on zoological subjects. N ATHAN WASHINGTON DOUGHERTY While we are not all engineers, we are well acquainted with Professor Daugherty. As the financial caretaker of our athletics he is invalu- able. Professor Daugherty did not come to U. T. until 1916, when he was made Associate Profes- sor of Civil Engineering. In 1918, he became a full Professor of that subject. He obtained his M.C.E. at Cornell University. He has made a number of scientific investigations in his special lines of study, edited the Tennessee Alumnus from 1917 until 1920, has represented U. T. at numerous athletic conferences and was Secretary of the S. I. A. A. in 1922. iEditor's Note:-The above sketch of Dr. Bruce was CUIIlv pleted shortly before he was so suddenly stricken with his fatal illness. In spite of his death we feel that to puhlish this in its original form, unchanged, will more tittingly ex- press the true esteem in which he was held by the students. Page Twentywnr