Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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I T seemed that the snow had barely begun to melt from the campus walks when the R.O.T.C. students began their annual daily trek to the drill fields and the shouted cadances could be heard echoing across the river. The girls standing on the front porch of Lindley Hall could see the Cadets walking in a long stream of color past their doors and across the Hocking; khaki and Air Force blue added a touch of military color to the blossoming ca mpus, and finally the Cadet Corps paraded proudly down Court Street on Armed Forces Day. Learning the manual of arms, marching and military procedure seemed a little remote from quiet Athens, Ohio, perhaps even a little absurd, but no one said anything . . . For already some of last year ' s graduates were coming back to visit the campus in uni- form, looking foreign and official and im- portant, and perhaps as if they were doing something really pretty important . . .

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I F the Reverend Cutler and General Putnam were to see Ohio Uni ' versity today, they, in all probability, would be astounded by its present size and scope. From a University of one professor and two students, Ohio University has grown to an educational unit ot over 4500 teacher-student members. Its physical plant has grown from a single Academy Building to 33 principal buildings and 43 auxiliary units valued at $12,500,000, not including a 96-acre airport, and a 391 -acre farm. The library has grown from a single shelf in a room of three hun- dred books to a separate building housing over 200,000 volumes, plus periodicals and bulletins. But there is one quality that would not sur- prise the founders of the University, and that would be the continued insistence on a high level of scholarship such as has been the aim of the University since its inception in 1804. The curriculum has changed; the classic and the philosophical courses have been largely replaced by those of a more technical nature, and personal and academic freedom have be- come tremendously liberalized since the days when all students went to daily Chapel. But still the end purposes are the same: To make the graduate a working and think- ing unit of the American system of govern- ment. The stark pridi li .m ice covered tree.