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

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McQilvrey Symbolizes Progress Indeed, classroom work is McGilvrey ' s main interest. His school is offering courses from household arts to manual training; there are food, clothing and the home, woodworking, me- chanical drawing and homeplanning, sociology, economics, agriculture, psychology, and art and design. President McGilvrey, who frequently quotes Emerson, believes in non-conformity and inde- pendence of thought. He does not grade by let- ters or numbers as most colleges are doing; instead, he grades them by simply issuing a white slip (passing) or a blue slip (fail- ing). His college is not structured on the semes- ter basis as are most colleges; instead, his oper- ates on the quarter plan. A man with vision. President McGilvrey foresees the growth of the institution. He fore- sees its responsibilities in an area rapidly ex- panding in industry and population. The idea of the Normal school giving its students know- ledge of the problems and principles of teach- ing, of the Normal school developing originality and individuality, of the Normal school keeping alive in the pupil-teacher a sense of the dignity and worth of teaching, spurs his dreams, and Laboratory facilities are provided and emphasis is given to individual work. Weavmg is ottered by the art department under the direction of Nma S. Humphrey. An early poster advertises cottages on Brady lake and free tuition during the 1917 summer sessions at Kent State Normal. 3NT STATE NORMAL COLLEGE SUMMER 1917 Long Summ r Tl f2 W h k Short Sumn Titm, W k M V 7 Augus Junt. 25 Aui:us 3 ADVlNT l-l- 15|t - . » TATE U 1 lESTintATE §§-jL l l F -%1 . -Ui t FREE Tl ITI Ml S-. ■ , - ■€ Kent Ohio I 1 „ ™ Harness-making class. Courses in manual training include work in paper, strawboard, wood, metal, cement and leather.

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first basketball team in the 1914-1915 season, winning three games against local teams but losing all college competition. The squad played its first intercollegiate game in the newly- com- pleted auditorium building in the Atrium. On January 28, 1915, the Normal High School News reported the game as follows: The Normal quintet was defeated by the Otterbein machine, Friday evening, at 8 o ' clock, 56 to 5. It looked as if Otterbein could keep three balls away from the Normal. Carpenter shot the only field basket for the Normal; Cort shot three foul baskets. There was a large at- tendance — about two hundred. Goodrich led the cheering. Normal did well considering it was their first big game. The baseball team also played during this season. The K. S. N. sluggers won their first game over Baldwin-Wallace, 7-6. They lost to Mt. Union and twice to Hiram, Mt. Union emerging with a winning 9-3 score, and with Hiram also defeating Kent, 16-4 and 15-3. Then came football. But after two scrim- mages with the local high school team, the sport is abandoned. Not until 1920 will Kent Play its first intercollegiate football game. At that time they ' ll play against Ashland on October 30, losing 6-0. Kent ' s next game will be played against Bowling Green, with Kent losing 7-0. Paul Chandler will serve as Kent ' s coach as well as head of the department of education. Why is Kent ' s early record anything but glorious? Some say it ' s because McGilvrey doesn ' t see much point in emphasizing upon varsity athletics. The Normal nine beat local pick-up teams with ease, but are trounced by other colleges. f f . 0- The first basketball squad plays t n mui collegiate games that prove disastrous. In 1920, the football team is called the Silver Foxes because President McGilvrey has purchased a silver fox farm adjoining the campus. ZT : vv L ■ j . pJ ' r ■ - ' ITdL- ' ' w mm % ' .y ' ■% 1 19 ... « . m V 1 3 .- -;s m ' ■m ■—% .... ' ' - ' :-—• ■ ' ■ ■

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A favorite spot for skating is a pond behind the Administration building. from 1911 to 1926, he will work to make many of them realities. He will waken interest and kindle enthusiasm. He will induce men and women to think! Outside the classroom social activities are many and varied. They range from skating in winter on a pond back of the Administration building, to dancing round a May pole in spring. They range from week-end nights popping corn, having fudge parties, parading and singing to summer evenings canoeing on Brady lake. Rag- time is the music and fox-trotting the dance. Songs like The Little Old Ford Rambled Right Along and We ' ll Play Cards on Mother ' s Grave are popular. How ' bout the movies? Hurray! for the movies. But in Kent, the movies have just been branded as an illegitimate pastime for Normal students by Ruby La Verne Downey in her prize-winning essay, Normal Students Should Not Habitually Attend the Movies. It appears in the Kentonian, the college weekly. Any- how, so much for fun. Suddenly there ' s another first, a tragic one. An open-air theater on the front campus hosts the first cultural programs. President McGilvrey thinks there should be an open house once a year and so the tradition of Campus Day begins. During War I, faculty and students make a large flag for background at assemblies.