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

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That ' s how it wos in Mama ' s Day. I ast and J- p msen ly » » t She ' s a big girl now . . . boasting an enrollment of over 5,000 and promising to grow even more. Her story is almost like a fairy tale when you think back how at one time Kent had only 250 in its first graduating class, composed of nearly all women. Yet those 250 started KSU on its way, leaving a growing Kent to aid a growing nation. Back then, Kent turned out mostly elementary teachers. Today the university produces competent men and women and it is Kent ' s aim, now as then, to nurture sound scholarship, to encourage careful research and to maintain foundational principles. KSU, in these eventful days, offers special interest courses, keeping abreast with changing conditions in ex- port and import trade, governmental service, management and labor, atomic studies, health improvement, and on, and on, in an endless list. With the goal our 40-year-old alma mater has in sight, tomorrow she will surely be one of the great educational centers of the Middlewest, if not the country. Her aim is expansion . . . educational and humanitarian expansion across our green, gleaming campus. Her newly polished confidence will shine brightly when that aim is fulfilled. 14

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- •J - ' T ' - ' J ' - r ' - i!d i . . iJWSt-Vj KL... .•. ■ j6 -i.. - ■ 4 - di ' The Old and the New . . . Art and books . . . boys and girls. The old and the new. They blend as one. All pride themselves on things past; all reflect this in dealings present; all pledge themselves anew to pursue truth. 13

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Mexico is part of the world ' s classroom today. IS