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

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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

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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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(Snnirapltij David Olso,, Until a knowledge of science has given him vision, man walks with unseeing eyes among marvels beside which fairy tales are tame. He is unaware that all about him, — in the earth under his feet, in the sky above him — there are vast forces, working with him in friendly accord, or pitting themselves grimly against him. He does not know that the form of his body and the fashion of his mind have their far beginnings in times so remote that in comparison man ' s most ancient records were written but a moment ago. He cannot fully realize the brotherhood of man, the universal likeness that underlies the transient im- press of environment. The task of the geography teacher is to give this broader vision. Geography is not primarily a study of facts; it is a study of principles around which facts may be interpreted. When man once sees himself in his relation to his physical surroundings, when he recognizes to what extent his beliefs and his emotions are the product of the stage upon which he acts his part, when he learns that other nations and other races differ from him only because the external setting of their lives is differently arranged, — when he recognizes all mankind as his kindred, children of the same great mother, he will lay aside his foolish pre- judices and his causeless hatreds. Geography, rightly understood, is one of the mightiest of the forces toward peace on earth, good will toward men. Page Nineteen