Milwaukee Vocational School
Milwaukee—Its Schools and Colleges
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HEN you come to Milwaukee, September 5 to 9, to attend the meeting of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY,
you will find a city famous, not only for its industrial activities and manufacturing interests, its health and safety records, but also for its schools and colleges. Milwaukee is progressive in its system of education. The public schools, controlled by the Board of School Directors, number 106 school units, including 85 elementary schools, 4 junior technical high schools, 5 junior high schools, 4 combination senior and junior high schools, 6 senior high schools, and 2 technical high schools. There are approximately 153,000 children from 4 to 19 years of age attending the public schools. The Extension Department of the Milwaukee Public Schools in attending to its responsibilities of administration of the street trades law, the citizenship training work for the foreign born, and operation of the municipal recreation department has achieved wide acclaim. Through 17 full-time and 4 part-time social centers and 59 supervised playgrounds a varied program of classes for self-improvement and relaxation is carried on during the year. Chess, dramatics, and music projects and clubs are very successful. The playgrounds have well-lighted game courts and each year present a pageant or festival as individual projects. The Milwaukee Vocational School, located near the downtown area, is recognized as one of the best institutions of its kind throughout the country. It occupies one complete block and is 6 stories high. The industrial division offers courses in all applied trades with unusual shop facilities. There is also a homemaking division, commercial division, and additional vocational guidance opportunities for the high-school graduate. The school also conducts day and evening classes for adults offering selective educational opportunities. Directly across the street from the Vocational School is the University of •Wisconsin Extension Center. It comprises 7 stories containing 25 classrooms and lecture halls, laboratories, a spacious library, and reading rooms The center has been established in Mil-
waukee since 1908, when rented headquarters were used. The present building was erected in 1928. I t is the aim of the Extension Division to develop in Milwaukee a program of study to meet the needs of the individual, rather than one that forces the individual to follow a regular curriculum. Here, too, adult education is given a great deal of attention. Milwaukee also h&s many private and parochial schools, Mount Mary College, Milwaukee Downer College, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Concordia College, and others. M a r q u e t t e University Marquette University, built upon the foundation of what for many years wa«* Marquette College, is Milwaukee's largest institution of learning and, with the sole exception of the State University, the largest in Wisconsin. Incorporated as a college in 1864, the institution broadened its field and was chartered as a university in 1906. In the same year the new building adjoining Gesu Church was erected. Milwaukee Medical College affiliated with the university, and the Milwaukee Law School became its Law Department. In 1912-13, the university acquired possession of Trinity Hospital and the schools of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy of Milwaukee Medical College, and purchased the property of the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons, on the corner of Fourth and Reservoir Avenue. High standards were established in all of the schools, new buildings erected, and students flocked to the classes in numbers which proved that the university filled a real need of the city. As now organized, Marquette University consists of the College of Liberal Arts, the Robert A. Johnston College of Business Administration, College of Engineering, College of Journalism, School of Speech, Dental School, School of Medicine, and the Graduate School. The Robert A. Johnston College of Business Administration, which was organized as a separate division of Marquette University in 1910, is a 4-year undergraduate professional school. It is located in Johnston Hall, the gift of the late Robert A. Johnston. 400
The General Library of the university consists of approximately 66,000 bound volumes, exclusive of government documents. It occupies part of the second and third floors of Johnston Hall. In May, 1908, Marquette University acquired the Milwaukee Law School, an evening institution, which had been in operation nearly 15 years, with over 100 graduates in the active practice of law. Later it absorbed the Milwaukee schools with their students and, with the strongest members of the faculty and other instructors, formed the basis of a night law school at Marquette. On September 26, 1908, the day schoo was organized, and in February, 1924, the night law school was discontinued. The Law School is a member of the Association of American Law Schools and is approved by the American Bar Association. The Law School's rapid growth made it necessary to erect a new building which was completed and dedicated on August 27, 1924. The architectural style of the building is Collegiate Gothic of the Tudor period. On the first and second floors are recitation rooms, offices, and a moot court room appropriately furnished and having ample room for spectators. The third floor and the mezzanine floor of the west wing are used for the library and stockroom with a capacity of 50,000 volumes. The third floor of the east wing is devoted to a reading room, known as Grimmelsman Memorial Hall. The roof is high pitched, and there are large ornamental windows at either end. Directly opposite the entrance is an immense stone fireplace. The general design of the room is similar to the Old Hall of the Middle Temple, Innsof Court, and other collegiate buildings in England. The Dental School Building and Gymnasium were erected at the same time and were first occupied in September, 1922. The new Medical Building joins the Dental Building on the east, so that the two units, medical and dental, are now housed in one large splendidly equipped building. Dental students use the anatomical, t h e physiological chemistry, and the pharmacological laboratories in this building jointly with the medical
JULY 20.1938
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Physical, Inorganic, and Organic Chemists to Dine Together a t Milwaukee
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OR the first time in history, the physical, inorganic, and organic chemists will hold a joint dinner at the Milwaukee meeting on Tuesday, September 6 at 6 P. M. Charles Kraus, President-Elect of the
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY,
has
promised to give the keynote speech at the dinner, and one of the leading organic chemists of the country, who wishes his name to be withheld, has promised to speak in reply. This dinner bids fair to be an extremely interesting meeting, and full of life. It is anticipated that the dinner will be well attended, and that seats will be at a premium.
Abstracts of Milwaukee Meeting Papers HE A. C. S. News Service, 706 T Mills Bldg., Washington, D. C., will supply abstracts of papers Marquette University Group, Milwaukee, Wis., Wisconsin Avenue View. Right to left. Science Building (foreground); Gesu Church; Johnston Hall; Law Building. students. The dental curriculum was of Speech, the University Hospital, the increased from 3 to 4 years in 1917, and Dental School, the Gymnasium, and the from 4 to 5 years in 1925. Beginning the School of Medicine. 1936-37 term, the course was increased The Science Building, completed in the to 6 years. summer of 1924, is part of an extensive The School of Medicine, according to a building program which was initiated in report of the American Medical Associa- 1923. It is fireproof and equipped with tion, is the most modern of its type in the the latest apparatus for ventilation, heatuniversities. It is the newest medical ing, and sanitation. It has a frontage college and its laboratories are fullv of 150 feet and a depth of 160 feet. There A equipped with the most modern and are 4 floors and a well-lighted basement. scientific apparatus. The first floor contains the general adThe College of Journalism is located ministrative offices; the second floor, in Johnston Hall. The Marquette Uni- the laboratories for physics; the third versity courses in journalism were offered floor, laboratories for the biological by the Rev. John E. Copus, S.J., in 1910, sciences and cabinets with specimens for in response to a demand for training in biological studies; the fourth floor, the newspaper work, and at the suggestion laboratories for chemistry. In the east and with the assistance of Milwaukee wing of the Science Building are 3 lecture newspaper men. Father Copus was him- rooms, each with a seating capacity for self a former newspaperman, with 15 250 auditors. years' experience in various phases of The Green House, erected in 1925 for journalism. The journalism course botanical experimentation, provides facilibegan as an integral part of the Robert ties for practical work in botany. A. Johnston College of Economics. Two The Marquette Union Building is a courses were offered—one of 2 years leading 2-story structure of brick. On the lower to a diploma, and another of 3 years floor are a cafeteria and a reception room. leading to a degree of bachelor of journal- The upper floor has a lounging room, a ism. In 1916 the Marquette University refreshment counter, a billiard room, a College of Journalism became an inde- small banquet hall, and offices for private pendent unit of the university and meetings of the executive boards of stuabolished the 2-year diploma course. dent organizations. In 1917, the course of studies was inDrexel Lodge, the social center for creased to 4 years, requiring, in addition women students, is provided with study, to journalistic branches, all the cultural rest, and recreation rooms.. studies necessary to secure a bachelor's The Gymnasium occupies the length of degree. a block. The Gymnasium floor has a A few years later, realizing that labora- clear straightaway of 160 feet, a sustory work was necessary to a complete pended running track, and seating capreparation for journalistic success, a pacity for 2000 spectators. modern printing plant equipment was The University Athletic Field, with a installed. Now the Marquette University seating capacity of 20,000 and planned to College of Journalism students, in addi- accommodate 48,000 when completed, tion to work on the metropolitan press provides an athletic field of 6 acres. of Milwaukee and on dailies in this and other states during vacation, receive experience on the Marquette §radical Vtfcme, the university newspaper, the ROBERT R. WILLIAMS, chemical director Marquette Journal, the university literary of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, magazine, and the "Hilltop," the MarNew York, N. Y., was the recipient of quette annual. the honorary degree doctor of science, The university buildings are grouped conferred upon him by Ohio Wesleyan in two main divisions. The first group University, Delaware, Ohio, June 13, includes the Law School, Johnston Hall, for his accomplishments in the chemGesu Church, Science Building, the istry of vitamin B t . At the same College of Engineering, Drexel Lodge, commencement exercises, his daughter Lalumiere Hall, and the Green House. Elizabeth Williams, received the A.B. The second group includes the School degree with a major in fine arts.
presented at the Milwaukee meeting a t $1.25 a set. These are not guaranteed to be complete, but contain abstracts from all divisions as furnished by authors. They will be mailed soon after the meeting. Please send remittance with order. Abstracts will also be on sale in Milwaukee at the time of the meeting.
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