Central Washington University - Hyakem / Kooltuo Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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Department of Biological Science From time to time, in different quarters of the school year, .‘.indents in thiB school have the opportunity to select any of the following courses as they are offered and some¬ times taught, in the laboratory, by lectures, and by corres¬ pondence; Nature study, general biology, cytology, bacter¬ iology, botany, invertebrate zoology, vertebrate anatomy and histology, neurology, physiology, cosmic evolution, or ganic evolution, human evolution, and philosophy or scienti¬ fic education. Students in a normal school, even when raised acad¬ emically to college grade, cannot hope to become specialists in uny or these sciences. But aside from the general Information about the many important Tacts of life, they can get an idea of how much In life lg still unknown to real science; and they can obtain a knowledge oT the meth¬ od by which knowledge is acquired, both by the individual and by the race i e earn how to direct their own education. Why should one who has never learned trii pretend to belong to the teaching profession.” Then. too. the study of these sciences, to mention only a few benefits to b gained, may develop in the student an attitude of mind very conducive to good citizenship. In a word, lie may learn to distinguish between a humbug and a hum¬ ming bird. Thus the degree or familarity with these sciences, and the methods used In acquiring scientific knowledge, afrnrd an automatic test of Intelligence Accom¬ panying the acquisition of these sciences, there is also apt to result that quality of mind properly designate intellectual honesty. This also helps to distinguish he- tween Che and the true, the po«ssible and the impossible. . ' t0 c ' ose eont “ ct with Physical sciences through physiology; and with the mental and moral sciences, through neurology. The biologist can b- neither a soulless mechanistic materialist nor a ghostly transcendental idealist Neurology is not |M yeho|ogy! It is nothing more nor less than physiology and morphology of the nervous system. Morphology, the study of Torm. reveals to us the ract that all life is striving owards a more and more perfect form; and that the most beautiful things in na¬ ture and in human life are formal. The living world is not a chaos of infor mailtv, where things Jostle and conflict in wild disorder; but a wonderful harmony in which the notes of discord are constantly eliminated by nalural selection. . “ cqulre this optimistic view of life, is worth all the labor it costs; for It inspires in us an abiding faith In the ultimate survival of the good the beautiful and .he true; and the final elimination of .hat which is ugly and incom .a.ibie with the best interests of society. Here the scientifically trained social Vedette as vhlrh’b ' llf” hr aCl r ° r ,elu-her ‘ Perform a real social service one which Is dirricult because rarely appreciated us it should be. Some day when this ruuction is belter understood by the public, Biology will be a required study In all normal schools. In all theological seminaries, and In all M ■ ' ■ ■ » a •» “•» « t. «“ JOHN P. Ml ' NSON. PH. D. Pane 10

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Department of Education Education la a term not very well understood by the general run of people. It la a science of Individual and bo- clal development and control, growing out of the findings of all other sciences having to do with human life. That la, after the various scientific Investigators have dissected the world into various parts and have given us their frag¬ mentary truths, it is the problem of education to reassemble these truths into a workable whole for the use and enjoy¬ ment of the race. So you see of necessity, education has to do constantly with change. Some one has said that education is the constant progressive change of the be¬ havior of the learner (learner being either individual or institution). A knowledge of the science of education, or progressive living, is being considered today in all of our leading colleges and universities to Ire an essential par ' of a liberal education. A very large part of the blunders of life is due to a lack of knowledge of and ability to practice, the principles of education. The science of education then is coming more and more to be of public con¬ cern and less and less a secret of the teaching profession We are coming as never before to recognise that individual and social growth and development depend upon a wider understanding of this science by the public in general. The men who make our laws, the men who carry on our industries, the men who conserve our religious life and those who associate with ua and our children in the home and on the streets would be greater assets to society if they only un¬ derstood the science of education. Six or seven years ago our entire nation was committed to the idea of indus¬ trial education. Shops were added to our high schools and colleges all over the country. Courses of studies every where were given a decided industrial bias. In¬ dustrial arts, the project method, and the like dominated our elementary schools even down to the kindergarten. But today every where there is a growing feeling that industrial skill In Itself does not make for individual character and social stability, so we are now beginning to swing back toward liberal education, culture, and in¬ stitutional understanding and appreciation. This awakening is not conrined primarily to our schools and colleges, but everywhere ill the business and industrial wnrld we rind men of means and vision giving freely of their time and money to the investigation of the problems of hu¬ man education. The business and industrial leaders arc not so disturbed today about techni¬ cal efficiency and the output of their shops as they are about the intelligent, co¬ operative morale of their men. They arc fast seeing that Ideals and correct standards of values are quite as important in the world ' s work as in manipulative skill. The statesman is coming to recognise that social and civic Ideals are as im¬ portant in solving the problems of national unrest as are taxes, Jobs, occupations and salaries. We. in the department of education along with other members of our faculty, are aware of the rapid changes which are now taking place and are adding new courses In education and reorganizing old courses in order to better prepare- our teachers to meet the needs of this new world order. WILLIAM T STEPHENS. Page 9

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Department of Social Science Sociology is the youngest of the major sciences. Its technique and methods are still in process of development: its special field Is yet a matter of difference of opinion. As treated by some of its leading writers it seems often to be particularly academic and remote while other writers maka it as human as literature or life itself. It has been the science of human association and insti¬ tutions. It is becoming, as it develops Into an applied sci¬ ence. more the science of cooperation in improving human institutions. It may even become in time what its name implies, the science of comradship, for our work social” conies from the Latin word nodus which means, companion or comrade, A science of comradeship naturally appeals to youth. Probably the social science of the next generation will harmonize and unite the seemingly inconsistent conceptions of the subject that now prevail. It will be at the same time—the science of human institutions and asso¬ ciations. a group of special sciences such as politics, economics, social work etc, and, finally, the science of applying cooperatively the results of all other sciences to the promotion of general human welfare and progress. There are even good reasons for believing that before the end of this century » ' c may see the dawn of an era of social invention which will be as revolutionary in its effects on human life as has been the era of mechanical invention which began with the invention of the steam engine and textile machinery. There are reasons to hope that men will learn to combine social forces in new ways with results as astonishing as followed the new combinations of wheels, bands, cranks, wires, pipes and pistons which have In the last century so transformed man ' s work and play and changed the character of the state itself. Such an era of social in¬ vention when it comes will be far more beneficient than the era of mechanical in¬ vention which created almost as many new problems as it solved. The social sciences in general and sociology, in the narrow sense of the term, constitute, even at present, the real highway to a better understanding of this strange world of men In which we all live, and of that mass of inherited Ideals, superstitions, virtues and faults that we have received from our ancestors and which constitute a large part of our selves. Sociology is the organized knowledge of those things that most concern men as human beings— work, religion, play, art. family life, government, education, and fellowship in all of these. Hecause of what it is now even In its beginnings and because of the still greater means of human betterment which it is becoming, sociology is well worth studying by all who desire a liberal education. It is the science that correlates and Interprets other sciences. 8BLDON SMYSER. -GiLdl v Page 11