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

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Kent State Summer Term The United States Bureau of Education places Kent State at the top when listing the Teacher Training Schools of this nation on a basis of summer term attendance. The National Educational Association Journal using another basis for classification places Kent State fourth among Teachers Colleges. Isn ' t this evidence enough that Kent State ranks as one of the great among colleges of its kind? When one considers that Kent State is only a dozen years old the natural questions are: Why? And How? The answer to one question is PRESIDENT McGILVREY. The answer to the other is PRESIDENT McGILVREY. A college never rises higher than the idealism of the man or woman in charge of administration. Kent State from its beginning has had the guiding hand of one who dreams great dreams and then makes them real. When President McGilvrey came to Kent there was only a wood-lot and quietly grazing cattle where now we see the great circle of buildings, but his vision was great enough to see beyond the present, so he engaged his faculty and estab- lished the college. Classes were held in the nearby towns in churches, in halls, in school houses and private homes. By the time the first building was up there were twice as many students as it would hold. This was again true of the second building and the third — has always been true and is still true. Tents are used to take care of the over-flow. Kent State at present is not only serving the thirty odd counties in the northeastern part of the state but is reaching out to serve indirectly all the states in the Union. Our graduates carry the Kent idea abroad through the land and wherever they go there is established a center from which new students come. Indications at present promise three thousand students on the campus in June. They will come to Kent State because the college is pledged to a democratic policy based on sound educational theory. The college is pledged to service and the spotlight is on the student rather than the subject matter. Kent State produces superior men and women. [12]