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

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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

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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 REGISTRAR John Lewis Blair, A. B., M. A. The office of the Registrar has in the past been thought of simply as a sort of academic bool .keeping department, con- cerned only with the grades and hours of credit of each student balanced against the formal requirements for graduation. Col- leges are beginning to outgrow this con- ception, substituting for it the idea that the Registar ' s office should be a clearing house and reference department for a large varie- ty of information about the student. In order to fulfill this enlarged function we plan a complete reorganization of the system of student records at Kent State. We will use new record cards containing important information about the student ' s personal history, his previous school record, his scholastic and his extra-curricular act- ivities while in college, and his vocational record; assembled so as to make possible quick analysis and classification. With such a fund of information available to administrative officers and faculty memb- ers it is believed that the relationship between the school and the individual will be placed on a more human, personal, and therefore more efficient basis. TRAINING DEPARTMENT A. L. Heer, a. B., M. A., Ph. D. The training department of a teachers ' college is the testing ground of the products of the college. Here theory courses are given meaning through demonstration les- sons; here the proopective teacher trans- lates theory into practice; here the prospec- tive teacher acquires some of those atti- tudes, abilities, and skills which it is hoped will help make a successful teacher; here an attempt is made to co-ordinate practice with the various theory courses in the col- lege proper. It has been transferred to its new home in the William A. Cluff Training School Building. The school is much more adequately housed and equipped than it has been in its old quarters. Yet all of this will mean nothing unless it will result in better educational opportunities for the boys and girls enrolled therein and unless it will provide better opportunities for the training of the teachers enrolled in the college. Toward these ends the faculty is ending every effort. tj Page thirty