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

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iExtntBtmt Stephen A. Harbourt L. W. Miller The extension department of Kent State Normal College was organized very soon after the establishment 1 of the College. The regular instructors began teaching college subjects in the field before the buildings were completed on the campus. The value of this type of work can hardly be over-estimated. It has offered opportunity for many teachers in service to secure professional training. Ex- tension instructors cooperate with Superintendents of Schools in the intro- duction of standard tests, address community meetings in behalf of bond issues and otherwise promote the best interests of work in the communities where they are working. Prof. S. A. Harbourt and Prof. L. W. Miller are now acting as the regular extension instructors for the college. During the first term Prof. Harbourt conducted extension classes at Ashland. Mansfield, Akron, Kent, East Liver- pool, Toronto, Steubenville, and New Philadelphia. Prof. Miller had classes at Sandusky. Norwalk, Elyria, Lorain, West Park. Youngstown, and Warren. Prof. Packard held an extension class at Massillon and Prof. Stopher con- ducted a class at Canton and one at Lakewood during the first term. Students who desire information relative to extension work or work in ab- sentia should write to the college for the information desired. Page Seventeen

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iEttgltalj in Edgar Packard The English Department deals with LANGUAGE, than which there is no greater subject. Were we deprived of our language, our very thinking would cease; we could not retain our wisdom; and our whole civilization, like another Tower of Babel, would have to be abandoned. Verily, in more ways than one, In the beginning was the word. The English Department deals with the ENGLISH language, than which there is no greater. It is the language of the Magna Charta and of the Bill of Rights, of Shakespeare and of King James, of the Declaration of Inde- pendence and of the Constitution of the United States. It is the language of the steamboat, the railroad, the tramway, the electric light, the telephone, the telegraph, the cable, the typewriter, the cash register, the automobile, the sky- scraper, and on and on. It is the language of the sea, and first or second every- where on the land ; and it circulates more printed matter than all the other languages combined. The English Department makes a study of the classics, in which masters of language have quickened dead vocabularies into living stories, expressing the masterful motives of the race. Stories that tell not only what man has done, but. what he has tried to do ; yes. even the dreams of deeds no mortal dared to do. Finally, the English Department encourages its members to acquire skill adequate for present-day demands. First, the demand to be brief and to the point. Every day our language goes humming along the wires, clicking through the typewriters, crashing through the printing presses, and every act a costly one. Language must be reduced to its lowest terms; slang and oaths, hard words and foreign phrases, dialects and even polite expressions — all must go. And second, the demand to speak some message for human hearts; To sound some note from out God ' s highest heaven, To breathe some word to which sad hearts may cling. To weave some verse filled with divinest leaven. To build some song for angel choirs to sing. Page Sixteen

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Henri Boulet The aim of the course called Romance Languages ' ' is evidently and above all to comply with le programme of colleges, universities, and many special schools that demand the knowledge of French and sometimes of Spanish. Either you must know a foreign modern language or it is not indispensable; what difference does that make? Don ' t forget the Utile Dulci of the Latins and learn one; and if you have the choice, don ' t hesitate to take French. As it is the most spoken language in the world, after English, you need it to be con- sidered refined; you need it for business, you need it for traveling, or just for the pleasu re of being able to read, understand, and speak this harmonious language. Apprenez le francais, ma ehere, ' est si fixcile. Three steps only : 1st. The teacher gives you a general little knowledge that enables you to bluff those of your friends who do not know a single word of French. How easy ! 2nd. The teacher makes you believe that you really do know something. You are so pleased and proud that he has no trouble at all in convincing you. 3rd. Being able to bluff the non-initiated ones, being able to bluff yourself, we come to the third and last stage. You just have to learn a little more and show every one, even native French people, that you do master the language you were only pretending to know. This is indeed a little more difficult: but with the well known intelligence of the Kent Staters! Courage! Allez-v ! Page Eighteen