Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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DEPARTMENT OF MANUAL TRAINING Clinton S. Van Deusen, M. E. The aim of manual training is to develop in all children, irrespective of their future occupations, mainly throug ' h handwork; de- sirable attitudes toward materials, proces- ses, values and workers and elementary abilities along many lines of manual acti- vity. It is essentially learning by doing. It should be started in the kindergarten and continued through all grades into the high school. The manual abilities acquired in manual training should be used to express by doing, in motivating many other lines of school activity. The department, having been largely crowded out of the power house on account of the expansion of the heating plant and finding but scant space in the basement of Merrill Hall on account of the delayed occu- pation of the new training school, has been working this year under difficulties. It has however been striving to prepare prospective teachers to carry to the children of Ohio the best possible in manual training. DEPARTMENT OF .MATHEMATICS Raymond E. Manchester, A. B., M. A. The Department of Mathematics at Kent State has been steadily growing not only in size but also in strength. A complete range of courses is now open to a student wishing to specialize in the subject with a guarantee that the work offered will be ac- cepted at any other college or university. At present the spotlight is centered on the creation of a mathematics laboratory. This will provide added opportunity for research and individual study. Another dream we have is the establishment of a summer sur- veying camp. If this camp idea materia- lizes it will make possible an opportunity for study under interesting conditions, and at the same time it will provide sufficient change of procedure to appeal to all those who enjoy outdoor life. During the coming year it is the plan to present a much more comprehensive course in statistical methods and to organize outfield discussion club made up of those teaching mathematics in this section Ohio. Page twenty-eight

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THE DEPARTMENT OF KINDERGARTEN-PRIMARY G. Hazel Swan, B. S. The new curricula, both three year and four year, for this department, were com- pleted during- the year of 1926 and 1927. In September, students were able to register in them. Thirteen courses are offered, eight of which have already been given. The department will move to a new suite before the summer session. Students specializing in this department will soon have the opportunity to join a Kindergarten-Primary Club. Membership in the club will enable the students to have many and varied experiences connected with the Kindergarten-Primary field and thus further enrich their college work. Some of the activities possible are social meetings for acquaintance; out of town visiting, as to the Nursery Schoo ' s of Cleveland; shar- ing of experiences among the various classes; attendance of a group at the Inter- national Kindergarten Meetings by invitation, a custom recently established by that organization; bringing speakers of reputation to us and sharing them at meetings with guests. THE LIBRARY Margaret Dunbar, B. L., B. L. S. Just as All roads lead to Rome so all courses in the curriculum at Kent Stale College lead to the library. Every hour of the day students are in the library read- ing; enriching the textbook and classroom work by reading from authorities in the subjects they are studying. Not only are they reading on certain specified subjects but they are reading or selecting for home reading, books written by artist-authors; enriching their lives by using their leisure, for reading; their leisure, the most precious hours of life. Although we are still in an outgrown room, new books have been added, upon recommendation of heads of various de- partments, until now we have a library of about thirty five thousand volumes, selected for our special needs. We look forward to housing the library in the new David Ladd Rockwell building, with its adequate space and its beauty, but this old library room with its informality, its associations, its easy access from other buildings, will long be remembered by many students and faculty. Page twenty-seven

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DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Florence Sublette, B. S., M. A. Music has never been so popular at Kent State as it is today. Gradually our aims are being realized in that there are now six distinct divisions in the department. Be- sides the regular classes in Music Apprecia- tino, Harmony, and Teaching of Music, there are courses in piano and organ, two Choruses, and Orchestra, a Male Quartette, and a Band. The ou ' standing feature of the year — Gilbert Sullivan ' s comic opera. The Pirates of Penzance, was succesfully carried through under the direction of Mis.s Sublette. Proceeds are used for furthering interests of the department and for pur- chasing needed equipment and Band instru- ments. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES C. F. RuMOLD, A. B., LL. D. The Department of Physical Sciences at Kent State Normal College offers in regular courses 102 term hours of work in Chem- istry and 30 term hours in Physics. In ad- dition, special courses are arranged for students who have the necessary prepara- tino for profitably pursuing the work. Students who are working off pre-medical or engineering requirements here find exactly the work they need. The earlier courses are presented with emphasis on the method of teaching these fundamental sci- ences. It, Is intended to give in these courses the training in the presentation of the facts and principles which will equip one for successfully teaching these sciences in the high schools. Those students who are looking forward to careers in the ap- plied sciences will find in the more advanced courses work equivalent to similar courses in the Colleges and the Universities. The laboratory facilities are unexcelled and much emphasis is given to individual laboratory work. f Page twenty-nine