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

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DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER-PLACEMENT AND EXTRA-MURAL ACTIVITIES Emmet Stopher, A.B., A.M. The activities of this department may be classed as: 1. Teacher-Placement 2. Supervision of recent graduates in the field 3. Directing home study department 4. Arranging for extension class centers 5. Alumni activities 6. Field relations During the spring and summer terms, a very large part of the time is given to a sur- vey of teaching needs and a study of the qualifications of candidates. All members of the present graduating class are urged to enroll with the Teacher-Placement Bureau. Its advice and help is available also to for- mer graduates and undergraduates. An effort is made to make a continuous check-up on graduates. It is hoped that the college will be able to publish a directory of all graduates some time next year. THE REGISTRAR John L. Blair, A.B., M.A. To reduce as much as possible of adminis- trative activity to routine is to raise to a maximum the availability of the administra- tion for those activities which cannot prop- erly be carried on in routine manner. Applied to the Office of the Registrar, this is to say that the particular problems of individual students can be given fullest attention when the problems and activities common to the whole school are carried for- ward according to habitual, established pro- cedures. The student body therefore op- erates in its own interest when it is care- ful to follow the established plan in all pos- sible situations, and to raise the question of special need only after discovering that no regular procedure is available. Under such conditions are the objectives of the school and the stvident body best attained.

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Margaret Dunbar, B.L. During the last week of August 1929 the library of Kent State College was moved from the Administration Building where it had had its home for twelve years to the new David Ladd Rockwell Building which had been especially designed and built to house it and to provide a pleasant place in which it might be used. The building has proved well fitted to the purpose for which it was planned and dedicated; its beauty is a joy to every stu- dent; its proportions, colors, ample light, heat, ventilation, and noiseless floors unob- trusively give comfort and pleasure to every- one who uses it. The library, now numbering over forty thousand volumes, is growing to meet the new requirements of the College and with adequate appropriations which will be made from time to time will be able to meet the needs of students in all courses and to sup- ply also recreational reading. DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY H. A. Cunningham, B.S., M.A. There are many big themes in biology; one of which is the Behavior of Organ- isms . Human education, since it deals with ways and means of modifying the be- havior of conscious human beings, is really one subdivision of biology. Every one should be interested in making a superior adjust- ment to his environment; in adjustmg his environment to himself; and in understand- ing, and influencing, at times the behavior of others. The prospective teacher is immediately in- terested in biology as a fundamental aid in the solution of classroom behavior problems and as an introduction to such subjects as hygiene, nature study, physical education, psychology, and child study. Biology is prevocational to such other occupations as agriculture, dentistry, medicine, forestry, etc., because these occupations are based up- on fundamental laws and principles of bio- logy.

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MERLE WAGONER, B.S. in Agr. Head Coach I believe that the year 193 will go down in the athletic history of Kent State College as the one of greatest achievement. While our teams have made a creditable showing in compet ition, our greatest achievement has undoubtedly come through the efforts of the Athletic Committee in obtaining a mem- bership in the Ohio Athletic Conference of Colleges. Early in October, Dr. De Weese and Mr. Davey attended a meeting of this conference and presented our case, with the result that we as a College were granted the customary probationary membership of one year, after which we will automatically be- come a member in full standing. This Conference is composed of a group of Col- leges such as Akron, Mt. Union, Hiram, Oberlin, and other leading Colleges of the state, which have organized for the advance- ment of the type and quality of intercolleg- iate athletics in the State of Ohio. This means that for the first time in its history Kent State College will have an athletic eli- gibility rule, the one year residence rule, and, above all, will compete with other Col- leges in this district and state on an equal footing. The modern business world is based upon a money economy. As our country becomes more industrialized, business forges ahead more and more as a distinctive field. In fact business is showing signs of becoming a profession. To meet these new conditions scientific training is mandatory. The old apprenticeship system required too much. It was inefficient in that it lacked standard- ization which is necessary in modern mass production. Again, the old education was largely cul- tural. It was for the gentleman. Today one must commercialize his education. In other words it must make him a living. Then it is imperative that one be specifically qualified to do something well. For these reasons a commercial education should receive the serious attention of every young man and young woman in choosing their life work. It may be used in the pro- fession of teaching or in a business career. In either case a college training in business is a gilt-edge investment and opens up limit- less opportunities professionally and finan- cially.