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

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Kent State ' s First Liberal Arts College Student Group.

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The Chat nut Burr of 19 0 is here dedicated to tJje new KENT STATE COLLEGE which was established by the Legislature of Ohio ill 1929. It has been said of Ohio that it was the last state in the Union to provide itself with state normal schools, as it was not until 1910 that our Legislature made the first move of this sort by voting such schools for Kent and for Bowling Green. It can now be said of Ohio that it was the first state in the Union to substitute state colleges for its state normal schools, that students who wished to be trained in the Arts and in the Sciences might receive such training in the same school with those students who are being trained to be teach- ers. This new college experiment is just fin- ishing its first year; and since it has brought us an increased enrollment of students, and enriched our courses of study, and broadened our outlook on life, we are dedicating this 1930 Number of the Chestnut Burr to the new KENT STATE COLLEGE

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KENT STATE Kent State College is set on a hill — To win to her door you must climb with a will, And Kent State hill is weariful long — But we trudge on together, a glad-hearted throng. Climbing the hill at Kent. Kent State portal is open wide; You ' ve made the grade and you ' re safe inside — There ' s a clarion call to maiden and youth, For now is the time we begin, in truth. Climbing the hill at Kent. For, hills of the earth or hills of the soul. It is all the same, for they take their toll. One of the body and one of the mind. And the summit is hard to gain, we find. Climbing the hill at Kent. But keep a-stepping, and first you know, You are up on top where the cool winds blow, Below, farstretched, lies a wonderful view And glad are the eyes and the heart of you That you climbed the hill at Kent.