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

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LATIN DEPARTMENT The Latin Department attempts to develop and increase ability to read Latin as Latin and to develop power to read Latin for comprehension and appreciation. Selections from Cicero, Nepos, Livy, Vergil, Horace, and various other Roman writers are used. The materials are chosen to meet the particular needs of the class. The beginning student is drilled in the elements of high school vocabulary and syntax and in use of oral Latin in anticipation of teaching Latin in a living language. Then comes oral reading with proper phrasing and intensive and extensive readings from the various authors. GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT The geography department includes in its courses of study the elementary phe- nomena of the atmosphere, climate, water and land forms with seasonal behavior of the earth and sun. The three chief objectives of this department are: 1. To guide students in the study of man and his environment. 1. To familiarize students with the value and use of the best textbooks, globes, maps, and other geographic ma- terial. 3. To develop group organization and teaching technique. The study in- cludes all the nations and continents of the world. W. W. FREEMAN T. T. BROWN V QS

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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

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INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Various attempts at curriculum revision in recent years have tended toward the practical side of the subject. Industrial Education, though not entirely a recent innovation, is, comparatively speaking, a new course resulting from recent educa- tional trends. It is the aim of this department to prepare teachers properly to go forth into the fields of youth to teach subject matter that will enable them to be self-reliant. Realizing that a large percentage of high school graduates never reach college, this department attempts to furnish teachers that will equip these unfor- tunate people to properly maintain a decent standard of living. ART DEPARTMENT It has been said that an educated man is he who excels in only one subject, and who has an appreciative sense of the beautiful, cultural, and practical. The de- partment of Art is without doubt an unequalled contributor to one's cultural ad- vancement, and it quickens an inward feeling into a love of the beautiful. It in- stills the love of the esthetic, provides amply for those who wish to specialize, and gives one a conversant knowledge of the noted artists, art epochs, and of the un- rivalled art of the past and present. J. G. GROVE STELLA LAMOND