The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-31
BUTLER MAKES
GREAT ADVANCE
IN LAST YEAR
Extension Courses Offer
Rare Opportunity to
City Residents.

marked 1892 at Butler university.
Under the guidance of DR.. Walter
Scott Athearn, Buffers new presi-
dent, program affecting curricu-
lum, equipment. organization, and
staff of the institution has been in
augurated which will establish the
closing year as one of the most
noteworthy in Butler history.
Not only nave the wheels been
set in motion for greater Butler,
but many completed accomplish
ments vouch for a profitable year Of
intense activity and improvement.
Outstanding among the recent
changes and additions at Butler
university are organization Of the
new division of evening and ex-
tension courses, the new intramural
athletic program, new emphasis on
student health, the new department
of clinical psychology. the student
welfare agency reorganization, and
the recent formation of q freshman
advisory committee.
A program to make Butler uni
versity, in reality, "the university
of the city of indianapolis" has been
started by President Athearn. It is
his desire to throw open all facil-
tiles Of the university to citizens.
Made More Accessible
It was with the express view of
making Buffers offerings more ac-
cessible to the city that the division
of evening and extension courses was
established last summer. With
Dean Albert E. Bailey in charge, it
has grown rapidly and now enrolls
approximately 1000 students.
A total of $50 are from Indianapo-
Is and the remainder are citizens Of
four Indiana towns in which the
university maintains extension CEN
tiers. All courses of the university
are being made available during the
evening.
A student now can complete his
entire baccalaureate requirements in
the evening division. Employed per-
sons are quick to sense this advan-
tage for personal improvement.
All Butler students are being con-
sidered in the new intramural ath-
letic program, which calls for 100 per
cent campus participation in some
form of recreational or remedial
sports. New equipment, addition of
new games to the curriculum, and
new faculty members assure Butler
students that some form of health
full exercise awaits them at the But
Ter f1eldhouse. The new program was
begun in September
The large enrollments in physical
education classes and extra-curricu-
lar activity at the fieldhouse attests
popularity of the new program.
New Departments Opened
A new division of clinical psychol-
ogy and a new department of re-
ligious education are among out
standing additions of the year. The
division maintains its own clinic
for laboratory work and solicits
patients who wish to improve their
mental health.
Dr. Harry H. Young heads the
division of clinical psychology and
Dr. Walter E. Bacllman is the new
head of the department of religious
education.
Students are aided in securing
employment, making budgets, audit
ing accounts and securing rooms by
the new student welfare agency.
Under supervision of Professor
George F. Leonard, the agency acts
as a sort of right hand man" to
all students.
BY appointment of a full-time
university physician and a full-time
university nurse, besides assistants,
the university intends that hence
forth the physical as well as mental
development of Butler students shall
be emphasized.
Health Is Guarded
At present the department of
health is engaged in examining
every student in the university.
Periodic examinations IN the future
will enable the health department
to note improvement where debilities
have been pointed out.
Other Improvements of the year
include administrative changes, pub
hcation of the Butler Handbook
and establishment of the Butler
News Bulletin, which goes monthly
to hundreds of alumni and friends
Of the institution.