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

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Nina S. Humphrey D. W. PhARCb. A.M. DEPARTMENT OP ART The art needs of the Child, the Communit ' and the State as given by the .Art Director of a neighboring state offers us a clear ob- jective for the work of the .Art Department. First — .-Xll need sense training and a fine discrimination in the selection, the purchase, and the use of manufactured articles for the person and the home. These may be de- scribed as 10IJ% needs. Second — The community needs citizens who desire attracti e homes, beautiful ards, parks, plasgrounds, school buildings, mu- seums, monuments, and all that contributes to civic beauty and civic pride. Third — The merchant needs salespeople with fine taste and sound aesthetic judgment, beautiful show windows, and attractive ad- vertising, for these will sell the goods . Fourth — The manufacturer of te.xtiles, wall paper, carpets, rugs, furniture, potter ' . glass, silverware, jevvelr , lighting fixtures, and art metal products requires designers and artis- tic craftsmen who will make these products ever more beautiful and attractive. Fifth — The printing industrs ' requires il- lustrators, designers of book and magazine covers, artistic magazines and poster adver- tising, and attractive labels for toilet prep- arations, food containers, etc. Sixth — The State requires painters, sculp- tors, architects, and museum directors. It requires teachers and supervisors of art for its elementarv and secondary schools, for its colleges and universities. DEPARTMENT OP EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY The Department of Education and Psy- chology is striving diligentlv to base its psychology firmly upon modern conceptions of biology. If it can succeed reasonably well in this, notable contributions mav be made to the profession of teacning through the discovery and formulation of principles upon which methods of sound teaching pro- cedure may be based. In our basic courses in Principles of Education cognizance is taken of the changing needs of an industrial and economic civilization. The resulting conception of the aim of education is not, therefore, some antiquated view long since discarded, but one fitted to present progress. In our courses in Organization and Man- agement the attempt is made to put our students abreast of the times in motiern theory, yet by no means, to leave them in a wilderness of ologies and isms ' , As far as possible we desire that our students shall go out to their fields of labor with a real- ization of the tasks to be done, and a prac- ticality that shall enable thciii to accom- plish them successfullv. 23

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f f ' 0ftBK m Bh BL ' 1 A. Sellew Roberts, A.B., M.A., Ph.D. Edgar . ' . Packard, M. A. DEPARTMENT OF HiSTOR ■ AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 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 depart- ment aims to help the general student to the cultural background which will enaible 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 ac- quainted 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, sociology and econo- mics, 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. THE ENGLISH DEPARTiMENT The year 1930-1931 has been made out- standing in our English department by the addition of new teachers, new courses and a much larger enrollment. Professor Sat- terfield has been absent on a year ' s leave of absence while working on his doctorate at Columbia. Buryl F. Engleman has substi- tuted for him. Mr. Engleman has also had charge of the Kent Stater. He has been assisted by the Editor, Harold Jones, and they have greatly improved that publica- tion. Professor Stump has been added to take care of the speech subjects. The col- lege, under his tutelage, has been able to place high in inter-collegiate debating. Pro- fessor Bross has been added to assist Pro- fessor Pake with the Freshman work. Dr. Burner of the History department has had one class in English throughout the year and Miss Mays has had charge of the sub- freshman classes. 22

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Edith Belle Rowlen, A.M. David Olson, M.Sc, A.B. FRENCH DEPARTMENT What have been the findings of the Mod- ern Foreign Language Study? To stress greatly the advisability of having the em- phasis in teaching placed upon training stu- dents to read as soon as possible. To ugre this necessity even more in case the language is begun in college. Since the work of the French Department is planned to conform to these principles, it is possible very early in the course for students to begin to appreciate the spirit of France by seeing for themselves how na- tional traits, characteristics and problems are viewed by some of the literary geniuses of that country. Further progress increases the number of these points of interest and comparison. Time honored and modern writings open up new fields and interpreta- tions of history, literature, science, art and travel. So one may dwell at home, but li e be ond the seas. DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY How big is your world? How far does your imagination soar? How deep does your understanding penetrate? To what ex- tent is your mind unshackled from super- stition and prejudice? The answer to these and manv questions like them are functions of your geographic study and reading. Even to know where the places one reads of are, what their climate is and how they are peo- pled, is something: but in its wider mean- ing, as the science which aims at the ex- planation 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 applica- tions of the principles of geographw 24