The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-12

8. That provisions be made for a mems dormitory and clubhouse.
 9. That provision be made for a hall of residence for the proper accommodation and care of women pursuing studies in the graduate school and other schools of the university.
 10. That the desire of the de- partment of chemistry for a university laboratory in chem istry be approved in order to facilitate work in this important branch of science in the gradu- ate school as well as in other schools of the university.
 II. That efforts be continued to secure endowment for univer- sity fellowships. American as well as international, to be awarded not only for proficiency to candidates for degrees, but also for research to students who have already obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy or another higher degree.
 These resolutions, which met with a favorable reception, have formed, as it were. charter under which the graduate school has taken shape and developed during the last decade.
 The corporation immediately transferred to the executive board of the graduate school the administration of all ad- vanced degrees in the natural sciences and In the humanistic studies except those in public law and jurisprudence. Hitherto the A. M. degree had been granted for work in any field of study, whether literature or science. Under the new order it has become the degree in the humanities and the fine arts; while the M. s. degree, placed upon an equal. though not ex- actly the same, footing, has spread through all the natural sciences, including engineering if the study is in a subject or a group of subjects rather than in branch of engineering where the work is of a more technical character. , ~.
 Of great significance has been the extension of research in connection with the Ph, D. degree. The university policy has been consolidation and in- tegration. The Sterling chemis- try laboratory brought together all branches of chemistry in "A viously been done in physics and in zoology. Later came the Sterling hall of medicine and the institute of psychology, which has been merged into the larger unit of the institute of human rela tions, where meet psychology, psychiatry, law. and the entire group of the so- cial sciences. With all these and other parts of the university the graduate school is closely affiliated in manner that was but di!nly anticipated a decade ago. The process of integration began with the professional schools, where there has been very year an increasing number of students who, instead of pro- ceedfng to a professional degree, have concentrated upon the Ian guages, literatures. histories, philosOphies, and sciences un- deriving the professional disci- plines. In varying degrees of completeness integration has been gradually achieved with all the professional schools. It is complete with the divinity school, the school of medicine, and the school of forestry, where provision has been made for students midway in their course to begin research for the Ph. D. degree or for the appro- priate masters degree. Though the school of law still maintains it's special higher degrees, it's students may qualify for the Ph. D. degree through the graduate department of the social scienes. Similarly students in the school of fine arts. the school of music, and the school of nursing may become candidates for mas ter's degree. The Ph. D. degree, as well as the M. s. degree, has
  the sciences fundamental to mining and metallurgy and to chemical engineering, and may be obtained in civil. mechanical. and electrical engineering. This large program of integration has been carried through, detail by detail, with the greatest cau- tion so as to avoid the ever present danger of professional izing the Ph. D. degree. The process has meant the substitu- tion, 10 a large extent, of the seminar for ,the lecture in the professional schools and the creation of large educational units. overlapping departmental boundaries. within the jurisdic- tion of the graduate school. Of these educational units there are now thirty-one, or an increase of fifteen since 1916. Instead of being an extension of under graduate instruction. the gradu- ate school has come to permeate the entire university for collec- tive effort in the higher branches of learning.
 Unification on this large scale was greatly facilitated in Jan uary, 1920, when in place of the executive board there was created board of permanent officers having the same powers as similar bodies in the long, established schools of the uni versity. By this act of the cor poration the graduate school. hitherto school by courtesy, came into legal existence. As a necessary corollary. the corpo- ration adopted the definite policy of appointing university professors, like those on the Sterling foundation. who should be assigned to the school wherein the major part of their work was destined to lie. Under this plan. the board of perman- ent officers has grown to a body of over forty professors of the first rank. who. while carrying on in many instances their work in affiliation with professors in various faculties of the univer- sity. have under their direction graduate instruction and re- search leading to the advanced T.