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

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A. O. DeWeese, iM.D. Bektiia L. NixsoN, M.A, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND PllNSICAL EDUCATION The Student Health Service of Kent State College is organized upon the three follow- ing assumptions: 1. That educationalls ' it is now generally recognized that Health is a fundamental fac- tor in training and preparation for citizen- ship since the health of the bo ' and girl materiall ' determines endurance, disposition and attitude, and endurance, disposition and attitude itally alTect happiness and effi- ciency. 2. That in the training and preparation for citizenship the school is as much respon- sible for the preser ation and protection of the child ' s health and de elopment of his ph ' sical efiicienc ' and well-being as it is in the guidance and training of his mental attainments. 3. That an abundance of radiating health and physical well-being is of more import- ance to the class room teacher than in an intlividual in any other profession, since an example in well-being is an incentive of greatest importance in Health Education, anil an unhealth ' teacher cannot be in com- plete sympathy with the attitude and dis- position of live, healthy, out-door-minded bo s and girls. DEPARTMENT OV- IIO.ME ECONOMICS The students welcomed the return of Bertha L. Nixson last year, head of the de- partment, who had been absent on a ear ' s leave which included study at Columbia and a summer ' s travel and study in Europe. .Miss Nona Isabel Jordan is the clothing specialist. She is a graduate of Drake Uni- ersity and Columbia. While the primar ' purpose of the depart- ment is the training of teachers of home economics we are anxious to serve the ever increasing numbers of general students who are becoming more and more interested in the various phases of home economics. Sev- eral new courses have been introduced and a new minor for the general students has been added to the curriculum. Through the efforts of the students in the department the administration has sponsor- ed a practice house for the major and minor students of home economics. Six students ami a faculty representative enjo ' the com- forts of home along with its responsibilities. 25

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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

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Florence M. Sublette, B.S., A.M. A. L. Heer, a. M. A., Ph.D. DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC EDUCATION Since September, 1927, there has been much expansion in this department. Two full- time instructors, one in the College and one in the Training School, aided by part-time instructors in piano and voice, formed the staff of 1927. September, 1928, saw the ad- dition of one instructor, Mr. Steere; and with September, 1929, came two more. Miss Littlejohn and Mr. Metcalf. The present staff is composed of five full-time instructors and a part-time instructor in voice. One room was used by the department in 1927. Since then we have grown until four rooms are necessary to provide for our activities. With new teachers and new equipment has come the opportunity to offer not oni a major and a minor in the department but to take our places alongside some of our sister colleges in offering a four-year degree course in Music Education. In this one year more than a dozen students have enrolled in the department for these advanced courses. We realize that with this growth come new responsibilities. May we ever do more to make music a vital part in the life of this community, and through teachers who are keenly alive, may reach the hearts of chil- dren and thus have a widespread influence throughout all of north-eastern Ohio. TRAINING SCHOOL The training department at present is re- sponsible for the courses in observation and in practice teaching. It is the purpose of the course in observation to integrate the various principles taught in psychology, classroom-management, and methods, and give them meaning by observing teaching and learning. It also aims to give the pros- pective teacher an opportunity to use these principles in analyzing teaching and learn- ing in the class room as a prsparation for actual teaching. It is here that the prospec- tive teacher attempts to apply principles in actual teaching and learning situations. Here the teacher is directed in acquiring those class room procedures which are ef- fective in teaching. Not all of the practice teaching is being done in the campus training school. At present the elementary schools in the City of Kent and the Franklin Township schools are being used for practice teaching. This year a supervisor has been added to the training school faculty who supervises the practice teaching done in off campus schools. 26