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

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Ham? Ernnomtrs Bertha Louise Nixson Ruth West Do you know that ninety per cent of all girls sooner or later become home makers ' ? Perhaps you do not realize that the work offered in Home Economics serves a double purpose. It trains for the teaching of Foods and Clothing in the schools, and at the same time trains for the life work of home making. We hear much in these days of Home Atmosphere . Who can better create this desired atmosphere than the girl who has studied carefully home planning, the suitability of home furnishings, and the systematic management of the home? This knowledge will aid us in the furnishing and arrangement of one room if we happen to belong to the ten per cent. Certainly we need to know the AVhat-IIow-and- Yhere of clothing. It is said that ninety-nine women out of hundred lack simplicity in dress. Being well dressed often means the knowing of what to leave off. The third phase of our work, Foods and Nutrition, is quite essential for the maintenance of health. The ability to select wisely one ' s food is just as vital to the one who eats out, as to the one who is fortunate enough to live at home. Home Economics is the economical use of material, time and talent. Page Twenty-one

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History nnh Mortal rirnrr . D. Byrne Eleanor Ann Meyer This Department, in common with the various others of Kent State has. since the establishment of the school, experienced a gradual growth in student enrollment and in the number and variety of courses offered. During the past year the Department has undergone reorganization and as at present constituted it comprises the work offered by the college in the re- lated fields of History, Government, Economics, and Sociology. A student can now secure four full years work in the first subject and the present plan is to offer at least a year ' s work in each of the other fields. This will be still further increased as rapidly as the growth in numbers and facilities justify. At pres- ent the Department is offering a total of twenty-seven courses, five of these — History 20A, History 20B, History 29A, Sociology 21, and Sociology 22— having been added during the current year. Tlie courses in Sociology which are being cataloged will run in sequence through the academic year and will be styled Principles of Sociology, Social Progress, and Social Programs, respectively. These courses are planned to meet the general cultural interests of students but particularly with reference to the needs of prospective teachers of sociology in the Junior and Senior High Schools of the State, in which the subject is assuming a growing importance. As a part of the program of special extension work which was initiated by the College last September in order to meet the demands of deserving non- resident students, this Department has been offering the following courses in absentia: Government 21, Sociology 21, History 20, and History 11. It is probable that a few additional courses will lie offered in absentia during the ensuing year. The increasing number of high school students taking work in the field of History and Social Science is highly gratifying. It is the hope of the Depart- ment to be able in due time to enroll its fair portion of the students of North- eastern Ohio who are interested in these fields of work and to give them as at- tractive an offering as any other institution of similar character in the state. Page Twenty J

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Hanual ©raining Clinton S. Van I m George A. Dumann Manual training, to many people, belongs somewhere in the hazy fringe of the field of education. Even some superintendents have a very vague idea of what manual training really is. This is not to he wondered at when we realize that few superintendents have had any real contact with it. Could you expect a person who had never used figures in any way to appreciate mathe- matics? Even if he had heard lectures about mathematics but had not used figures he could not appreciate the value of the subject and its place in educa- tion. So it is with manual training. Few superintendents have more than a lecture knowledge of manual training. One must experience manual training to appreciate it and to realize its proper place in the field of education. Manual training is hand work (not woodwork only; so carried on as to co-operate with the other subjects in the curriculum in the mental development of the child. Stop and consider what part of an adult ' s time is devoted to doing and you will realize why manual training should have fully as large a place in education as mathematics or any other subject. To instill in Kent Staters — the future superintendents and principals of North-Eastern Ohio — a true appreciation of manual training and its place in education is the main aim of this department. No student should leave our college without taking at least one course in this department. The courses offered include work in paper, strawboard. wood, metal, cem- ent, and leather and also mechanical drawing and printing. Persons working for the degree of B. S. in Education may major or minor in manual training. Page Twenty-two