Oglethorpe University - Yamacraw Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Davis Anderson Leskosky, Hunt, Patrick PHISICU EDUCATION THE TASK of the School of Physical Education, under Dean John William Patrick, is the training of the students enrolled in this school for positions as physical directors and coaches in other schools, colleges and universities, in Y. M. C. A ' s, and the Army; and the development of the bodies of all stu- dents of the University. With his associates, Professors Harding Hunt, David W. Davis, and Louis Leskosky, Dean Patrick directs his students through three groups of studies : exhaustive anatomical re- search and investigation, teaching methods, and the theory and practice of athletic games. In order to extend the benefits of organized athletic competition to all students of Oglethorpe University, instead of only to those who take part in intercollegiate competition, the Department of Physical Education sponsors the program of Intramural Athletics. The purpose of the intramural department is to encour- age every student to participate in some or all intramural sports, to provide facilities for this partici- pation, to organize and promote intramural competition, and to stand for fair play and true sports- manship. This program includes competive sports for every student on the campus — volleyball, basketball, baseball, badminton, tennis, fencing, shuffleboard, and archery. FIO UTS THE RESPONSIBILITY for the entire Art Department rests upon Professor James M. Springer, acting dean. The curriculum of the department has been divided into two classifications. One of these is designed to train students who intend to follow Commer- cial Art, and the other to give instructions in the fundamentals of the various fields of arts with an ultimate specialization in one particular field. Professor Springer, a graduate of the LTniversity of Tennessee and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, is widely known throughout Atlanta in art circles, and is President of the Artist Guild of Atlanta. Springer

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Wallace, Mosteller LITERATURE kU JflllRyLISM THE WORK in the School of Literature and Journalism is based upon two groups of courses, English major and Journalism major. The group of courses which centers in the study of English has the two-fold purpose of giving students command over the use of their own tongue in both speaking and writing, and of familiar- izing them with those aspects of English literature which are usually treated in undergraduate courses. Dean Leonard DeLong Wallace, Professor Pierre S. Porohovshikov, and Professor J. D. Mosteller teach the subjects in this group. The journalism group has been designed as a professional course for students of journalism who are expected to follow basic courses in literature, history, economics, political science, and sociology. Mr. Hines, of the Atlanta Constitutio i editorial staff, is the instructor in the Technique of Journalism. At- tached to the School of Literature and Journalism are courses in Bible and Mythology, taught by Dr. Nic- olassen; public speaking by Professor Mosteller, and radio and stage production by Professor Paul Carpenter, Jr. SflEiCE THE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE, under the direction of Dean J. A. Aldrich, is organ- ized to build a solid foundation for future work in such professions as agriculture, engineering, medicine and dentistry, and to prepare for industrial occupations not yet organized into professional groups. Besides giving their students practical work in the natural sciences, the professors of this school have done much to build a true pros- pective and its corollary, a sane judge- ment of relative values — attainments which are basic in any liberal culture. Dean Aid- rich is the professor of astronomy, mathe- matics, and physics; Professors Harding Hunt and David W. Davis, of biology; and Professor Harold L. Jones, of chemistry and geology. Hunt, Jones, Aldrich

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Mrs. SAN ' DiiRs, Anderson, Eason COMMERCE THE COMMERCE department of Oglethorpe University em- braces two schools, the School of Banking and Commerce and the School of Secretarial Prepara- tion. Dr. Mark Burrows is the dean of both schools. The Lowry School of Banking and Commerce furnishes the student with a general basis of business facts, standards and theory and stresses particularly accounting, finance, economics, and business law. The secretarial course has been designed for those persons who wish to enter the business world in the capacity of skilled assistants to tnose in execu- tive positions, teachers of com- mercial subjects in schools, of- fice managers, and those per- sons who desire positions as social secretaries. Members of the faculty includ- ed within these schools arc Professors Mark Burrows, S. B. Fenster, Charles M. Ander- son, W. N. Eason, Hugh A. Woodward, and Mrs. Ruth Wells Sanders. Burrows Mrs. Carper LIB RARY The Oglethorpe Library, under the supei-vision of Mrs. Myr- ta Thomas Carper, librarian, is a popular retreat for both the studious and those seeking entertainment in books. Its 60,000 volumes include many rare books, Scuch as the Book of the Dead, book autographed by well-known persons, and foreign books, as well as those for research and general reading. The Family Tree of Man, prepared by the Ameri- can Museum of Natural History, is the only one of its kind in the South and one of several in the United States. It is a tree of skulls giving a picture of the whole story of the evolution of man. On the walls are original oil paintings of General and Oglethorpe, Sidney Lanier, John Thomas Lup- ton, and many others.