The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-11
VII. Natural history geology,
zoology, etc.)

VII. Natural history geology,
zoology, etc.)
VIII. Moral philosophy (ethies,
logic and psychology
TX. Oidactics.
These general schools may as soon
rs n demand is created be increased,
and some of them be divided. Pos
sibly Latin and Greek should be di-
vided in the beginning; so with ma
tural philosophy so with chemis-
try. But at first, and in the begin
ming in the literary or academic de-
partment, the schools named seem to
be sufficiently comprehensive.
Having determined the extent of
the academic department, having
laid the foundations for broad and
liberal culture, upon the possession
of which the professional student
must rely for his future success,
the next step is to provide for the
professional schools, and under this
head, the law department seems to
| claim for its successful Inauguration,
at least the following:
/. n professor of law and equity.
III. a professor of common statute
law.
III. A professor of the law of
pleading, practical and evidence.
This gives the law faculty one less
professor than Harvard, one more
than the university of Virginia, the
same as the Vanderbilt.
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT..
Here is a difficulty in prescribing,
since it is not decided as yet for
which particular school of practice
the university of Texas will make
provision. | should like to see am
pie facilities for the homeopathic
and allOpathic practice. For the al
lopathic faculty we should have:
l. A professor of anatomy and sur
gerry.
III. A professor of the institute and
practice of medicine.
Ill. A professor of diseases of
women and children and of clinical
medicine.
". A professor of materia-
medica, therapeutics, etc.
V. Demonstration of anatomy.
In connection with and located at
the same place as the university
proper, the medical department can
be successfully and literally pro-
vided for with five chairs or even
less since this is a larger number
of professors than usual in the uni
versities where the medical college
is a part locally of the university.
But more upon this anon.
| There should also be attached to,
and n part of, the medical depart
ment II school of dentistry. All
our leading universities pro-
vide for this now very import
ant branch of medical science, and
all agree that the dental college or
with the medical department.
In addition to the instruction fur
nished by the schools of the acadcm-
ic and medical departments to the
dental there will be required three
or four special professors additional
for this department..
AS Il third general division of the
professional schools we shOul have
| A SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM.
This may seem to be new and not
quite entitled to so much considera-
ton, yet one has but to look for a
moment at the question and to COM
pare the actual daily influence of the
press with our other Instrumental
ties as an educator and director of
public opinion, to admit the business
of such classification.
have placed in this academic
department the school of didactics.
1t is not intended by this arrange
ment to deprive the science OF
teaching of professional character
far from it-but as it is reared
closer in its relationships to the
academic schools than the other pro-
fessions, and it has been thought
best so to locate it.
The name adhered TO is preferred
also, TO the abnormal and new I'M
meaning nomenclature,
NORMAL SCHOOL.
Didactcs or the science Of teaching
dates back to the days of Socrates,
Plato and Aristotle, and has been
provided for through all the univer-
sity systems.
In Oxford and Cambridge 1t ap-
pears as II result in fellowships in the
German universities as private
dOcentens, in the American univer-
sites as tutors, licentiates, etc. In
deed the oldest and most common
degrees. the "a. BPS" and an. A.'s''
mean simply that those receiv-
ing these degrees are prepared to
instruct in the liberal arts; and as
an evidence of this, the latter degree
} is usually conferred by most col
leges upon those "whO have followed
teaching since receiving their A. b.,
for specified time.
THE FACULTY.
Having decided upon the scope OF
the university the most important
work of the board is the selection OF
Il faculty. We must have q collection
of learned PROFESSIONALISM who
have prepared themselves for, and
devoted their lives to, teaching as a
profession. Men who have become
known already, or who are able to
become so in their special depart
ments. The university faculty may
be likened to a chain while each
link is separate and distinct, yet
the strength and fitness of the chain
: is dependent upon the individual
links-each must be strong enough
to bear its individual part, and while
the fineness, elasticity and tension
of the metal may be greater in one
link than another there is no harm
so long as the links, as whole, bear
up their part of the brethren. For
those who are of classical turn
of mind q university faculty should
be
"Quam fuctus diversi,
| Guam mare conjecti."
According to theprOvisions of the
bill, the president of the faculty will
be from the faculty, and therefore
will be of the faculty, with a COM
mon purpose, viz: The success, not
of his administration, but of the uni
versity, the success of which will be
an endorsement of all connected with
it. That great professors make a
great university is eminently true,
also great universities make great
professors, the action being re-
ciprocal, yet the selection of a
faculty for a university is not
so difficult as for college,
and the reason is plain. In a
university you select men for special
ties-fOr single chair or depart
ment-in college the same profess
sOrs have to fill several departments.
This, however, should not be con-
strued to intimate for a moment that
the university professor is not to be
a man of the b:oadest scholarship.