Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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AmirultiuT Lester S. Ivins The law of Ohio requires that Agriculture be taught in all the elementary and high schools of the state in school districts where the population is less than 5,000. In districts where the population is ahove 5,000, Agriculture is taught as an elective in the high school and as a required subject in the grades. In many of the grades where agriculture is elective in city districts the subject is taught under the name of Elementary Science. Elementary Agriculture. Gardening, General Science. Science, Nature Study or Economic Nature Study. The State Department of Education in Ohio has ruled that our course for elementary teachers called Agriculture II should contain lessons in Nature Study. When this nature work was added the elementary course, known as Agriculture II, was classed witli the Arts ' subjects by the State Department of Education. The addition of Nature Study work made it possible to give students, who expected to teach in villages and cities, the kind of work that these school districts required of their elementary teachers in Economic Nature Study. For the purpose of aiding the teacher of elementary Agriculture in bis work the State Department of Education has published a series of courses for the elementary schools of Ohio. All these courses are used in classes at Kent, where elementary professional work is taken. Students are furnished copies of these courses free by the State when they begin their work in the schools. Since so much emphasis is placed upon the uniform course in Ohio ' s schools, the college feels it proper to give this course due recognition at the institution. Boys ' and Girls ' Club work in Agriculture is now carried on as a national program. Ohio is one of the leading states in this work. It has had such a wide and satisfactory development iu Ohio that Governor Donahey, in his first message to the legislature, recommended that club work lie properly financed by the state. Kent State College has always recognized the work as a means of carrying out the project method of teaching in Agriculture and has, there- fore, given student ' s detail plans for aiding this state and national movement. Pagr Thirteen

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Sean of Mnmen Blanche H. Verder Tn a college of the nature of Kent State, the duty of the Dean of Women is to look after all those things in connection with a women student ' s life that are not cared for by the regular classroom instructor. These will include the living conditions, and the social relations, together with a keen interest in the development of the religious life of the women student. Working under the direction of the Dean of Women in Kent are the two house mothers of Moulton and Lowry Halls, the dietitian, and the resident nurse. Together these form the Dean ' s Council, which meets regularly to con- sider all the matters concerning the women residing in the halls. As there are about twice as many women students at Kent State living off campus as on, the Dean ' s major problem is to get into close touch with the women who hoard or live at home in Kent, or at home, in nearby towns. To accomplish this purpose, an Off Campus Women ' s Club has been formed, which has already done much. In November, the Dean of Women gave a tea to all the landladies of Kent who have college women living with them, that they might become better acquainted and might better understand their mutual relationships and responsibilities. During the winter term, the Dean of Women visited the houses in Kent, and made a list of approved rooming places for college women students. The organized social functions during the year have been many. These, in the main, have been the week end parties held in Moulton Hall. Various clubs and classes have financed the parties, which have been supervised by the Dean of Women and members of the faculty. Most of the gatherings have been all college women. The religious life on the campus centers in the Y. W. C. A. An increased interest in the organization is being manifested. The regular time of meeting has been changed from Sunday night to Wednesday evening. A religious census of the college women was made in the autumn term, and the local clergy were given lists of the names of the students who signified a church preference. During tin ' winter term a series of Sunday afternoon teas was given, to which both faculty and students were invited. At each tea, the Dean of Women in- vited as special guest some one of the clergy of Kent, who made a short address. Page Twelve

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Art Xina S. Humphrey Rena. S. Pottorf Our Art Department this year has been a series of surprises to those who have watched its work. Throughout the entire .year new products have been turned out with just enough thorough rapidity to startle Ford into increased action. It seemed that every student in the school wanted to get into the construc- tion class. Miss Humphrey has shown patience and true director ' s ability in managing her construction class. A formation of new looms and finished product makes our weaving room like unto a combined Carolina Mountain ' •home-spun factory and a color-crying, rug-hung harem room in India. Every vacant period in the student weaver ' s life is filled with a wang of the shuttle or the twang of a broken warp thread. And our design class is not in the rear of the inarch. Parchment lamp shades, true to Mazda ; sanitas table covers ; Batik ' kerchiefs and ties are work- ing havoc on the blue eyes of those who are not designers. We see green eyes now, instead of the blue. Next year we fear that the Art Department will need a few assistants, plus an extra room or two, in order to artistically house the on-coming class of Juniors who have been acting as foliage in the background of the Art Scene this past year. Page Fourteen