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

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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

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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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Ouratimt Paul G. Chandler The classes in education have appeared less bored this year than those formerly. The present students may wonder at the martyrdom which former classes have produced for the cause of the two-year certificate, while those ex- perimented on first can get some compensation from the feeling ' that their trials have to some degree alleviated the burden of those who have followed in their foot-steps. Still the mental impulses frequently wander from the topic in hand over the sensori-motor arc of pleasanter associations, but with more time and research we hope to find what the inviting fields are, whether they are thinking of next Friday evening at home or the last Moulton Hall function. and then we will, by the process of substitution, project the History of Edu- cation into those nerve circuits and finally usurp for it those interesting and romantic emotions. Page Fifteen