Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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And at the beginning, the middle, .md the end: studying.

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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.

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F reshman Week: an abrupt introduction to OU,