Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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) F 19 3 3 THE COLLEGE OE EDV CATION The College of Education was established by legislative action in 1902. Its vigorous growth has enabled it to take its place as one of the major divisions of the Ohio Univer- sity. It is a voca tional school devoted to the preparation of young men and women for the teaching profession. The well - known educator. Dr. . . E. ' inship. shortly be- fore his recent death said, If I could choose my decade for educational work it would be the one which is now begim. The need for maintaining high standards in education, the analysis of difficult social and economic relationships in so- ciety, and the problems of sci- entific study of techniques and materials of education chal- lenge the straight thinking of superior minds. In these studies institutions engaged in teacher preparation must serve. De. x Thom.vs Cooke McCr. ckex The College of Education expects its graduates to become familiar with various fields of basic academic knowledge as well as to make thorough prep- aration in professional studies, . ccurate and careful mastery is stressed by all departments of the College. Without this accuracy in knowledge, thor- oughness in teaching cannot be secured. Several studies indicate that most students have chosen their vocations before entering college. It is advisable when such selection has been made, to direct the college preparation toward the desired life work. This plan the College of Education follows, at the same time building into the student ' s program academic studies which will offer opportunity for appropriate cul- tural as well as vocational dcvelnpnu-nt. Page twenty-one

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THE ATHENA THE COLLEGE OE AETS AND SCIENCES The College of Arts and Sci- ences aims to give the student an acquaintance with the civil- ization of the past and the present, with the sciences that have made man the master of the earth and sky, with the things of nature and the nature of things, with the arts that feed the soul with beauty. A liberal education should free one from herd opinion, super- stition and fear, and should give one self-mastery, the pow- er of self-analysis, suspende d judgment, and urbanity. Thomas Huxley, years ago, gave a remarkably fine defini- tion of the liberally educated man : That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been, so trained in youth that his body is the ready ser- vant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is ca- pable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the an- chors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who. no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience ; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to re- spect others as himself. It may be advisable for the student to defer the selection of his major inter- est until his junior year, for college life may well be a voyage of self-discovery. In this voyage of discovery the student may discover his limitations as well as his aptitudes and powers. The more one knows, the more wisely one may choose. Dean Edwin V. tts Chubii Page twenty

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THE ATHENA FRANK BROWN DILLEY, Registrar, and Chairman of Entrance Board; A.B.. Miami University: A.M.. Columbia University. IRENE LUCILE DEVLIN, Executive Secretary; A.B., Oliio University. GEORGE CRAWFORD PARKS, Secretary, Board of Trustees; Treasurer and Bus- iness Manager; Pli.B., Ohio University. ANNE CLAIRE KEATING, Librarian; A.B., George Washington University. IRMA ELIZABETH VOIGT, Dean of Wom- en; A.B., A.M., Ph.D., University of lUinois. Pac e tweiity-fwo