University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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Crawford, Dean Lutes. Chadhouriie. Jackman School of Education T HE School of Education was established in 1930 as an outgrowth from the College of Arts and Sciences. The primary purpose is to furnish professional training for secondary school teachers. Since 1930. a total of 201 bachelors’ degrees in Education have been conferred. Much of the work of the School of Education consists of training for teachers in service. This is carried on through the education extension service and Summer Session. To meet the needs of experienced teachers, a new graduate degree of Master of Education was authorized by the Trustees last year. This is entirely a professional degree, and was conceived csjxxiallv for the bene- fit of the summer students. The School of Education also confers de- grees of Bachelor of Science in Commercial Edu- cation, Fine Arts, and Music Education. The faculty comprises four professors and eight critic teachers. The latter are regular teach- ers in secondary schools, who make possible care- fully supervised practice teaching in various sec- ondary-school subjects. I here are forty-one men and twenty-nine women, or a total of seventy students, enrolled in the School of Education. 2.»

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College of Technology 'TMIK College of Technology lias expanded ■ - Irom iis small beginning until it includes six departments, each covering a different field of engineering. It took the lead among the de- partments ol Maine State College soon aftei the founding ol the latter, and in the period from 1890 to 1910 was relatively the most important. Ibis branch ol the University expanded very rapidly and is now rated with the leading tech- nological schools in the east, on the basis of equipment and instruction. In i8 8. the value of the physical equipment for the teaching ol science was $141. Today, the equipment of the College of Technology is valued at over $200,000. Ci il Engineering, once taught in one small room with only a transit and level as equipment, now occupies Wingate Hall and lias equipment valued at $50,000. The soil mechanics laboratory of this department cannot be equaled in the east. The Chemical Engineering division has mod- ern. well-equipped laboratories, containing much original apparatus. The Pulp and Paper division is in reality a small paper mill, containing com- plete apparatus for the study and manufacture of pulp and paper. Crosby Laboratory, serving the Mechanical Engineering Department, contains a 15,000 gal- lon water-power layout, including a working model ol Ripogenus Dam. It also contains a solid injection Diesel engine and equipment for the testing ol gasolines and Diesel fuels. The Electrical Engineering Department has equipment valued at $73,000, housed in Lord Hall. Worthy of note are the department’s 150.000 volt transformer, and its complete broad- casting and receiving system. There arc 617 men and one woman, or a total of G18 candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science, enrolled in the College of Technology. The teaching faculty consists of thirty-six instruc- tors and professors and nine graduate fellows and graduate assistants. Fourth row—Davcc, McNeary. Crabtree, Hogan. Trcfcthen. Martin, Tomlin. Jcnness. Creamer Third row—Sawyer. Otto. K. F. Heimett. KIim. Hill. Robert». Brann, Caulfield, Nolan Second row—Osgood. Stephenson, Taylor. Sparrow, I’lagcman. Lekherg, Sprague. I.yon. Brautlfcht. I.cavitt First row—Bray, Weston. Barrows. Cloke. Bradt. Kent. Evans. Watson. C. E Bennett

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Cooper, Haw, Alcott, llcnkle, Loupret High» Shoulder Arm»' Military TWO years of military training are required of all physically fit male students in the Uni- versity. After these two years of basic training, several men are allowed to enroll in advanced military courses as cadet officers. Cadet officers are paid by the hour for their services, but must buy their own tailor-made uniforms. Supervised by Colonel Robert K. Alcott. the five army officers who serve as professors of Mili- tary Science give instruction in Coast Artillery to men from the College of Technology and in- struction in Infantry to men from the rest of the University. There are 318 coast artillery students. 381 infantrymen, and 101 cadet officers, a total of 800 men from the four classes. In their study of the science of modern war- fare, the students are aided by $120,000 worth of equipment, including .22 caliber and .30 caliber rifles, automatic rifles, one pounders, infantry mortars, machine guns, a three-inch anti-aircraft gun with plotting room and range finders, and a 155 mm. howitzer. In the course of a year, the department uses about 90.000 rounds of .22 cali- ber ammunition and 5.0(H) rounds of machine- gun ammunition.