Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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1 . IN TITUTE of MU IC A more than satisfactory increase in enroll- ment has been made in the music department of the college, many of the sub-departments show- ing a total at the close of the fall term greater than that of the entire preceding year. Interest in public school music courses has doubled. Fortunately the service of Miss Jo- sephine Kackley had been loaned to the depart- ment by the National Recreation and Play- ground Association of New York City, and a plan was immediately made to do extension work in rural districts, students to get their practice teaching under the direction of Miss Kackley. Alexander Schuster, noted Russian cellist, came from Berlin to act as head of the cello de- partment and Zinovy Kogan, Russian violinist and conductor who is acting as assistant to Michael Press and director of the college chorus was another important addition to the faculty. In recent months Mr. Press, Mr. Schuster, Mr. Kogan and Izier Solomon, formed a string quartette which will carry the name of the college to the far corners of the music world. Two pianos in the director ' s office and every other room of the old weather bureau building in constant use testify to the growing popularity of music study at the college. Hence the concern for the future is studio room in a building where the wail of the violin on the second floor does not mingle with trombone tones coming from the basement to the great distraction of piano and cello students on the floor between. A DIRECTOR h J -

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y.t mik ' e VETERINARY MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Medicine has always had its roots in science. It has not always been well nourished since science has had a marked development only recently. Michigan State College was founded with a view to presenting the sciences as a foundation for agriculture. Naturally, veterinary medicine, which has to do with the relation of medicine to the lower animals, has always been given a prominent place in the curriculum and in the experimental work of the College. Veterinary medicine makes the same demand on the sciences as does human medicine. Michi- gan State College does not offer a course in human medicine, but it does give premedical work to both prospective medical and dental students. In addition, there is offered a full four- year course in veterinary medicine. The graduates from this course are making a success in practice and are tilling positions of responsibility all over the world. The opportunities in this field are not surpassed in any field for which college furnishes training. Michigan State College also offers a full four-year course in medical biology or technology. Men and women are trained in this course in chemistry, bacteriology and pathology, so that they bring these sciences to the aid of the medical profession in its effort to prevent and cure diseases of man. This course is the only one of its kind offered in the United States. It is proving to be popular and meets an urgent need. We are especially well located with reference to the State Health laboratories and large hospitals m Lansing to give instruction in medical biology. 41-Oku. ife-.

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Q V C ■- V PHYSICAL EDUCATION Michigan State College was one of the first institutions to grant faculty rating to the mem- bers of the Athletic staff, and the interests and support of the college authorities in the pro- motion of athletics and physical education have always been given with the fullest co-operation. The Physical Education department may be subdivided into the following divisions: Intercollegiate athletics, embracing varsity and freshman teams in all the minor and major sports. Intramural athletics, embracing competition for the fraternities, classes, and faculty. Required Physical Education, embracing phy- sical education work required of all freshmen and sophomores in college. Women ' s de partment of Physical Education, embracing the required physical education work for freshmen and sophomores, the intramural athletics, and the four-year course in Physical Education for women. The four-year course m Physical Education for men aims to prepare the men to serve as Directors of Physical Education and Athletics in high schools, colleges, as coaches of the major and minor sports, and as conductors of classes m calisthenics, gymnastics, and games. The athletic and physical education equipment of the college at present consists of the following: gymnasium, gymnasium annex, a sectional basketball floor in Demonstration hall, stadium with running tracks, freshmen football and baseball fields, intramural fields, physical education class fields, and tennis courts. DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS 28 ' ' ■ 5j. 03 €