Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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A T H E Department of Classical Languages Victor Dwight Hill. Professor of Greek A. B., William Jewell A. B. College. 10 15 Henry Fletcher Scott Illinois College. 1896 University of Chicago, 1904 HE Department of Classical Languages and Literatures was formed in 1921 by a combination of the Department of Greek and Latin which had previously been maintained separately. Pro- fessor Hill came to the University in 1920 as Professor of Greek. The combination of the two departments was effected during the follow- ing year and Professor Scott was added to the teaching staff. The Dafydd J. Evans Prize is awarded annually for merit in this Department. Department of Drawing and Painting Marie Louise Stahl RT is self expression; writing is self expression: music is self expression. Anyone wishing to express himself by any of these mediums must learn that language. A teacher can teach the language and inspire the student, but only God can make an artist, a poet, a musician. This Department seeks to teach the language of art. and to teach appreciation of works of art by the use of numerous reproductions. Also it has each year a loan exhibition of original works by noted artists. Art has arrived in America. An amazing number of artists are producing interesting works. Men of wealth are giving their millions to buy these, works and to build museums: colleges are requiring the study, since those who are not wise enough to choose must have it thrust upon them for their own food. Elie Faure. a noted French art historian, says: If I wish to know anything about a people, past or present. I study their art. We study it then from the historical point of view. This involves not only the effect but the cause. We study it from the aesthetic, that we may appre- ciate and enjoy: from the practical, that we may have the trained eye and hand to express ourselves. Art is involved with every phase of the life of men — with his religion, not merely because the artist chooses a subject from the Bible or story, but because art expresses the spiritual state of man. It is involved with his everyday life and with his love of nature. If you are not in the procession you arc behind the times. Art has arrived in America. 26 3s TWENT

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THE ATHETsI Department of Chemistry Wll I l M Bl li €LL1 BENTLEY, I ' ll D Professoi ol i A. B Harvard 1889 A M 189 I ' h D 1898 Prank iuumim; Gulli m m s losm Romini Morton m S Associate Professoi ol I hem date Professot ol Chen Ohio University 1902 . Ohio State Universit) 1923 B s Ohio University, M S Ohio University, 1905 I ' m: I Mil NJ B S Instructoi t ' n i B. S Massachusetts Institute of I e I in ilogy 1 ' ' 25 HE Department ol Chemistry became a separate organization in 1 894 when Dr. Walker Bowman became professor of Chemistry. He served until November. 1896. when he was succeeded by Dr. Irving W. Fay. who resigned at the end of the college year Dr. W. E. Henderson filled the chair for two years and Dr J. P. Sylvester for one. W. B. Bentley has had charge of the department since the fall of 1900. E. L. Bailes and C. R. Cooper are serving their second vear as assistants. They received the degree of A B in [926 Department of Civil Engineering V II Pi N A Thomas, b. S. Assistant Professor t Civil Engini B S Ohio University 1922 LEWIS James Addicott. C. E. Professor of Civil Engineering B. S., Case School ot Applied Science. 1904 C. E.. Case School of Applied Science. 1909 III Department of Civil Engineering was organized al Ohio University by its present head, in the fall of I ' Hia For the greater part of the time, since then, it occupied the rooms in East Wing. In January of 1925, it was moved to its present commodious quarters in Super Hall, the new I nginccring Building The Department has always attempted to oiler such courses .is will best fit men lor the practical field of engineering, anil has kept the equip ment up to date, and complete lor all courses offered Such additional courses and equipment will be added from time to time as the needs ol the Department may require 25 M NINETEEN TWENT ITM 22§e

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THE Department of English Edwin Watts Cm i i I in D Detm of the College ol Liberal Vrts. Professor ol English Literature A. B.. Lafayette, 1887 A. M.. University of Berlin, 1890 Litt. D.. Lafayette, 1896 Clinton N. Mackinnon, A M Professor ol English A. B., Clark Universal, 1909 A. M., Yale, I ' M 1 ' .I RNARD I III II RSON, Ph. Professor of English A. B.. Kenyon. 1908 Ph, D.. Princeton. 1904 M. A.. Princeton. 1912 D. Hah i ' i Hoi sti in Pi i kham a M ' . ' .i H iate Pi ifessi ii 1 1 English A R Hiram. 1906 A. M.. University ol I hicago 1910 RAYM1 1. Mi Ql 1ST IN A M Assi iciate Pr tft i jhsh B Universit) ol Kansas, 1916 1 A Universit) I Kansas 1920 l A Harvard I niversit) I Ri ii ,ii. ■ I Bl ' ii M (nstrui ti n in I nglish B Oh,o Wesleyan 1925 l Ohio State 19 !6 OM] HOW that amazing creature. The Public, has the belief that a college graduate ought to know bow to speak and write his [ Q native language, since that ' s the language he is likely to use more than any other, and that by taking a course in English Composition he ' ll attain clearness and fluency in his mother tongue — Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. So all Freshmen take English Composition, and all instructors in English groan and sweat. — falling back again on Mr. Shakespeare. — as they patiently red ink the disjecta, membra. the mangled fragments, strewn thick as the old-named leaves of Yallombrosa on the pages of Freshmen themes. So when the sad instructor is the saddest and the maddest and falls into his most pessimistic mood, he cries with Omar: With them the seed ol wisdom did 1 sow And with my own hands wrought to make it gi And this was all the Harvest that 1 reaped, — 1 ain ' t learned nothing what Id ought to know But that ' s when our instructor is dyspeptic. In his gayer hours he rejoices in the choice spirits who choose his electives, — those sweet- scented, light-giving courses that exhale sweetness and radiate light: courses that are as attractive to the saving remnant as the honeysuckle is to the bee and the flame to the moth These courses range from Chaucer to Robert Frost, from Shakespeare to Shaw, from Fielding to Galsworthy. Those courses are given by the dignitaries whose sonorous names em- bellish the top of this page. They ' re more human than those ponderous degrees would indicate 27