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

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C. F. RuMOLD. A.B., LL.B. G. I Iazei. Swan, B.S. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES The Department of Physical Sciences at Kent State College offers in regular courses 102 term hours in Chemistry and 3U term hours in Ph. sics. In addition special courses are arranged for students who have the necessary preparation for profitably pur- suing the work. Students who are working off pre-medical or engineering requirements here find exactly the work they need. The earlier courses are presented with emphasis on the method of teaching these fundamen- tal sciences. It is intended to gi e in these courses the training in the presentation of the facts and principles which will equip one for successfull ' teaching these sciences in the high schools. Those students who are looking forward to careers in the applied sciences will find in the more advanced courses work tqui alent to similar courses in the colleges and universities. Eaboratory facilities are unexcelled and much emphasis is given to individual laboratory work. KINDERGARTEN-PR I. 1AR DEPARTMENT It is ery gratifying to announce that the Kindergarten-Primar ' Department now has twenty-two students registered for three and four year work. All of these students are acti ' e members of the Kindergarten-Primary Club which was organized in February, 192 ' ). Ihe aim of this group is to help in ever ' a pos- sible the Nurser - - Kindergarten - Primary causes or the work with oung children. The club has a number of interesting plans for the ' ear to render ser ice. This student club is a branch of Ihe In- te ' lational Kindergarten I nion and is one ol ' few student branches belonging to the international body. Last May the club sent two delegates to the international meetings at Rochester, New ' ork. This year it is sending one to Memphis, Tennessee. It is the hope of the department that an- other instructor ma - be added soon so that all the courses of the department nia ' be given to keep this fine, earnest group of twenty-two young women. 27

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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

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Margaret Dunbar, B.L. H. A. Cunningham, B.S., M.A. THE LIBRARY- 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 buildmg 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 everyone 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 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 adjusting 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 upon fundamental laws and principles of biology. 28