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

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The aim of manual training is to develop thru actual participation in handwork, me- chanical intelligence in all pupils, irrespec- tive of their future vocations. The above statement of the aim of man- ual training is the guide for this department. All grade room and rural teachers should take work in this department. They are the ones who should give an increasing amount of this work in the schools of the state and they should be prepared to use it in motivating other lines of school work. The demand still exceeds the supply for men who can teach mechanical drawing, woodwork, metalwork, printing, simple me- chanics, fiber cord work, etc., and the de- partment aims to give a good preparation for such positions. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE J. T. Johnson, A. B. In the long period of time covering social development agriculture was among the earl- iest vocations which was clearly defined. The intimate relation between continued exist- ence and the food supply of people establish- es a permanent and basic interest. While the food getting activities are es- sential to satisfy human needs the vocation provides abundant opportunities to grow and mature in the higher levels of social and spi- ritual attainment. Agriculture is more than a vocation dealing with materials, it is a way of living. Agriculture as a vocation because the daily activities are clearly associated with nature provides a body of experience of sound edu- cational value. In viewing the subject of agriculture as a study of a mode of life economic values would obscure educational values. Since human aspirations transcend human needs the subject of agriculture is emphasized as means of education.

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The history of mathematics shows an in- teresting series of changes from the time it was strictly utiUtarian through the period when it was chiefly, A handmaiden of Theology , to its present return to untili- tarian uses. Living, as we do, in an age of machines we find an increasing demand for courses stressing fact information and study of cer- tain and logical conclusions from accepted assumptions. It is reasonable to find, there- fore, that in our modern educational system mathematics holds an important place. At present we offer a wide variey of courses to meet the needs of those majoring in our various departments. These range from methods for presenting fundamental number ideas to children in the Kindergarten to the highly technical courses for those looking forward to the scientific vocations. DEAN OF WOMEN Blanche A. Verder Graduates of 193 - For you we trust college has been no finishing school , but a place of real beginings. If the opening of college meant the opening of your mind, if you have continued to welcome new truth, and ever to open your heart wider to friend- ship and your soul to the inflowing spirit, if the horizon of your entire being has widen- ed, then for you college has been a success- ful adventure. Now as you leave the cam- pus to enter into the unknown future, may you accept Robert Browning ' s challenge to greet the unseen with a cheer. Now leaving all behind, facing to the dawninj;, Sons of dear Kent State, welcoming the morning. Seekers of Light, go forth! Heirs to the wisdom treasured through the ages, E ' er scanning wisdom ' s book, searching thru the pages. Seekers of Truth, go forth! So college days well done, moved by noble vision, Our commonwealth to serve, this shall be your Seekers of Light and Truth,

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The Department of History and Social Science has a two-fold aim. On the one hand it attempts to give to the prospective history teacher that sound and thorough grasp of the subject matter involved without which success as a history teacher is impos- sible. But on the other hand the department aims to help the general student to the cul- tural 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, Aris- totle and Descartes, and to watch the growth of science from Archimedes through Roger Bacon to the wonders of the present. Thru history and its sister sciences, government, sociology and economics, the student watch- es 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. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Edgar Packard, A.B. The Department of English has added an- other year to its history. Professor Satter- field, who returned to us from Columbia University last year, has charge of the Fresh- men - their entrance examinations and their first year of English work. He has been as- sisted by Professor Davey, who has had to spend most of his time in the History and in the Latin departments. Prof. Edward Pake, formerly superintendent of the Dal- ton (Ohio) schools, has had charge of the Public Speaking and Debating. Prof. E. T. Griebling, formerly an instructor in Capital University, has had charge of the Dramatics and of the Journalism. He has been assisted on the Kent Stater by Alfred O. Hill. Miss Hyatt continues in charge of the Ele- mentary Methods in Reading and in Lan- guage, and Miss Tope continues in the Ex- tension work throughout the state.