Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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The School of Arts and Sciences offers curricula in IS different subjects. Degrees of Bachelor of Science are granted in eight of these — industrial chemistry, industrial journalism, music education, ap- plied music, physical education, business administra- tion, business administration and accounting and physical science. This summer the School directed a program of refresher courses for high school teachers. The sub- jects taught were primarily education subjects. Mem- bers of the regular Arts and Science faculty taught the refresher courses, which were attended by about 100 teachers With the advent of military students on the campus, the School of Arts and Sciences has taken on in- creased duties. Except for civil air regulations, the entire academic program of the approximately 600 Army Air Forces students is taught by departments in the School of Arts and Sciences. Except for one subject per trainee, all the academic work of the basic Army Specialized Training stu- dents falls to this School. The basic trainees average from 400 to 650 in number. Of the courses for the 100 advanced engineering trainees on the campus, all those in mathematics and physical education are taught by members of the Arts and Science staff. When the former ROTC boys returned this fall to continue with their previous academic training, about 25 of them re-enrolled in Arts and Sciences. Early this year the history curriculum was re- organized and modernized to meet the needs of stu- dents in war time. At the same time the mathe- matics department offered additional work in prob- ability and statistics, and synoptic meteorology was added to the physics program. Departments in the School of Arts and Sciences are cooperating to an increasing degree so that the Arts and Sciences J

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COORDINATING the widely diversified curricula of the School of Arts and Sciences, is the job of Dean Rodney W. Babcock. He is assisted in his guid- ance of students by L. E. Hudiburg, associate pro- fessor of physics. Until this fall the School of Arts and Sciences has led all other schools on the campus in enrolment. War service, war work and marriage caused a de- crease in the number of students from the usual total of more than 1000 to 400 for the first semester. This enrolment made Arts and Sciences take second place when the School of Home Economics en- rolled 542 students. The spring semester brought a further reduction leaving a total of 406 students in January after several withdrawals. The drop in men students leaves the School virtually a women ' s school. RODNEY W. BABCOCK (left) supervises more than Kill sliiili-nl in his role as dean of the Sthool of Arts urnl S,i.n,es. Prof. L. E. Hudiburg (below) is his assislaiit. Education Hall, where hundreds of mili- tary and fivilian students study speech, psychology and other education subjects, is shown on the op- School of

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II. Col. J. K. Campbell. I)r. A. B. Car.hvell, School can better train students to take their places tary department, a job which becomes more in- in the world at war. Prof. M. F. Ahearn, better known as Mike , is volved each day. Another department head to whom additional director of athletics of the College. His teams have work has fallen since the arrival of military stu- taken many jolts this year due to limited squads. dents is Dr. A. B. Cardwell of the physics depart- An international expert in this field. Dr. L. D. ment Bushnell, heads the bacteriology department. Col. English instruction is under the direction of popular J. K. Campbell commands the program of the mili- Prof. H. W. Davis. MILITARY STUDENTS Icani lo run impulse tests in the completely equipped pliysiis laboratories in Willard hall.