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

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I Chestnut Burr of ' 29 I HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT A. Sellew Roberts, A. B., M. A., Ph. D. The History and Social Science Depart- ment has a two-fold aim. On the one hand it attempts to give to the prospective his- tory teacher that sound and thoroug ' h grasp of the subject matter involved with- out which success as a history teacher is impossible. But on the other hand the department aims to help the general stu- dent to the cultural background which will enable him to live a well-rounded life and make him a more useful citizen. Through the medium of history the student learns to know the great writers of the past, to become acquainted with the great thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle and Descartes, and to watch the growth of science from Archimedes through Roger Bacon to the wonders of the present. Through history and its sister sciences, government, soci- ology and economics, the student watches the whole stream of human progress from the pyramids to the present and cannot help being the richer and the better equipped for his life work thereby. DEPARTAIENT OF HOME ECONOMICS Elsie M. Maxwell, B. S., M. A. The year 1928-1929 has been a busy one for the Home Economics Department. At the beginning of tWe year the thirteen upper classwomen extended a cordial wel- come to a new department instructor and to twenty students who (elected the subject as their major interest. Home Economics Majors formed the nucleus of enrollment for most of the courses given throughout the year. How- ever, the interest shown in the various courses by 97 girls from other depart- ments of the college were gratifying. The intelligence and the enthusiasm displayed by these girls in studying problems of home life in thte light of scientific, eco- nomic and sociological principles should give encouragement to those who are skeptical regarding the future welfare of the Am erican home. j WVrw J n n F n . y Paae twentv-nine

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11 Chestnut Burr of ' 29 Jf r3EPART:,IEXT OF GEOGRAPHY AXD GEOLOGY David Olson, M. Sc, A. B. How big- is your world? How far does your imagination soar? How deep does your understanding penetrate? To what extent is your mind unshackled from superstition and pre.nidice? The answer to these and many questions like them are functions of your geographic study and reading. Even to know where the places one reads of are, what is their climate and how they are peopled, is something; but in its wider meaning, as the science, which aims at the explanation of the adjustment of man to his surroundings, there is no problem in past history or of present politics and economics which cannot be elucidated by the applications of the princi- ples of geography. DEPARTMENT OF HF:ALTH AXD PHY SICAL EDUCATIOX A. 0. DeWeese, a. B., M. D. The Department of Health and Physical Education of Kent State College is organ- ized upon the assumption that an abund- ance of radiating health and physical well- being is of more importance to the class- room teacher than to an individual in any other profession. In order to be of the greatest service possible to the prospective teacher in attaining this ideal the department offers the following services: 1. Physical and health examination on entrance with medical advice and con- sultation as to how the student might im- prove liis physical and health condition. 2. Regular and systematic exercise two days a week in the gymnasium and (me (lay in the swimming pool. These exercises insofar as possible are adajjted so as to train the student to not only Ivjlp himself but others v.honi he might teacli in hi.-, professional career. .3. Special courses for teachers in Healtli and Physical Training. y ' tPW tV t v v ' LT I ' ai-f litrvtii-rifihl

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I Chestnut Burr of ' 29 J summer school students with the at South school. THE KIXDERGARTEN-PRIMARY DEPARTMENT G. Hazel Swan, B. S. It has been possible this yeai ' to give several courses not previously given in Kindergarten-Primary. We are looking forward another year to offering the stu- tlents still further help. On the thirteenth of February a Kinder- garten-Primary club was organized with twenty five members. One of the aims of this year is to send two delegates to the International Kindergarten convention, meeting in New York from April twenty- ninth to May third. The privilege of stu- dent attendance at the international meet- ing is a recent move made by that oi-gani- zation. An activity of this year for which much appreciation has been expressed to the ■ department was the co-operation of the city schools in their summer playground work THE LIBRARY Margaret Dunbar, B. L.. B. L. S. On June 14, 1913, the Library of Kent State College began its existence in Merrill Hall in the room now occupied by the Otf- Campus Women ' s club and one room opening off this for the stack. For three years our library remained in this location while the Administration building was under construction, and had grown to be a Library which necessitated four standard size floor stacks. It then moved to the room in the Administration building where the Library has made its home for twelve yeairs. We moved in literally on the ground floor for the build- ing was unfinished. Through all the years of pioneering, this first year was the hardest, but the vision was always before us and the Library grew. It is still before us with the first unit of the David Ladd Rockwell building standing ir symbolic of the place of the Library in the school the center of the campus. V % T