Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Many Languages Offered at OSU With more and more students studying and ' a- cationing during the summer in Europe and dur- ing the winter in Mexico, getting there is no longer half the fun. It ' s knowing what ' s going on once vou ' re there. So understanding the language can make a big difference. If a student is choosing his study or acation spot by the language he knows, Ohio State can offer him most of the world. Classes are held here in French. Spanish, Portu- guese, Greek. German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, and Latin, al- though at last check there were no countries, or empires as the case may be, in which Latin is still the language of the people. Language barriers between Ohio State and Slavic nations are not only falling, they ' re being trampled. A few years ago the University had no Sla ic Languages Department, and as recently as 1960 th ere was only one instructor teaching a handful of courses in Russian. There are no N- several staff members and a Slavic languages pro- gram that goes all the way through the Ph.D level. The instructor often proves helpful to the student by encountered in board work. ng proble The listening center language. ery helpful to students learning to speak □ for

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Goal Is Mature Intellectual Life The aim of the College of Arts and Sciences is to assist in developing thinking men and women capable of understanding themselves and the world around them, aware of the problems of their society, and qualified to help in solvin g these problems. The achievement of this three- fold aim of increasing the individual ' s knowledge, developing his awareness and enhancing his com- petence, should provide a continuing source of service and leadership. The development of the student ' s knowledge requires not only introducing him to a wide range of facts about man and the universe, but stimu- lating him to search for relationships and human significance in these facts, to the end that he acquire the definite interests which are necessary for continuous intellectual growth and the enjoy- ment of the intellectual life. At the same time it involves not only teaching him how to recognize a problem, its elements, its relationships and im- plications, and how to bring the whole into clear perspective, but also encouraging him to re-ex- amine problems in the light of new conditions. — College of Arts and Sciences Bulletin

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Cold weather fails to keep the language student oway from the listening laboratory. With the coming of spring the arts student moves from the classroom to the banks of Mirror Lake.