East Texas State University - Locust Yearbook (Commerce, TX)

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BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT In looking over the field of biology we find that it is given to a study of several phases such as the biology of animals and plants, personal hygiene, human phys- iology, home nursing, household bacteriology, invertebrate and vertebrate Zoology, botany and several others. From this we can readily see that it is not only given to the study of hovv to care for our animals and Plants but to the care of the human body also. A knowledge of how to care for one's own body should be desired by everyone. Biology is required of the pre-medical students in order that they will be able to make a further study. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT In preparing embryo teachers the Department of Education keeps abreast with the times in imparting to the students the latest developments and trends in the held of education. It embraces the practical as well as the theoretical and offers courses in curriculum orientation, administration and other subjects that are per- tinent in the revolutionizing of our educational system. Certainly it is an invaluable contributor to the advancement and furtherance of the education of the youth of our nation. Miss GRACE DENNY H. I-I. FLING .1 J

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS The mathematics department of the East Texas State Teachers College aims to accomplish the following ends for the students who do their major work in mathe- matics: 1. To assist the students in gaining a thorough knowledge of subject matter suf- ficient to develop in them a genuine appreciation of its Values, and the ability to make ready and effective applications of its facts and principles in the proper solu- tion of problems involved in the functions of intelligent citizenship. 1. To familiarize the students with some of the best and most approved methods of presenting the subject to public school pupils. 3. In brief, to instruct the students in what to teach and how to teach it. PHYSICS DEPARTMENT A knowledge of the workings and theories of present day inventions and machines is desirable for any person. A thorough knowledge of these things is essential to any person who intends to follow the mechanical or engineering line as his life's work. The physics department attempts to achieve both these ends by means of varied courses. Work in the general fields of mechanics, heat, magnetism, light, electricity, and sound is available in the physics department. All these subjects are of prime importance in modern life and the modern mechanical age. J. M. BLEDSOE T. H. BRADY

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT The English department attempts: to train the students to acquire a knowledge of words and phrases that he may understand what he reads and to use these words and phrases effectively in the expression of his own thoughts, to understand gram- mar that he may be able to find his own way through the intricacies of the most dif- ficult sentence, to help him train his ear to the music of the vowels and consonants, in which words abound, to recognize and be responsive to the flow of rhythm in literature, to recognize the meaning and beauty in figurative language so universally employed by the cultured men and women to express their finer thoughts and feelings, and to acquire both the power and habit of reading books for enjoyment as well as for utility. FRENCH DEPARTMENT A student may gain from any language an insight into his own language. The study of French is an excellent complement to English. The two languages have many parallels in idiom and grammar, and, of course, we have inherited countless words from the French. Some of the world's greatest literature has been written in French. The importance of this language in international contacts is unquestioned. Besides being the language of diplomacy, it is the language of art, of fashion, of good living. A knowledge of French is not indispensable to the student. It is, how- ever, one of the essentials of that wider culture that is the farther aim of an under- standing of life. E. H. WRAY E. LUTZ s