Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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mg illf i Education Building — where future teachers are taug it EDUCATION THE ti dining of Ohio ' s youth tor effective and efficient pubHc service in secondary schools, colleges and universities is, in general, the function of the College of Education. An enroll- ment of over two thousand graduates and undergraduates places the College first in si;e among similar colleges in state supported univer- sities and second only to Teachers ' College, Columbia University. The quantitative service which the college renders to the state is thus readily understood. The qualitative service, however, is not so easily penetrated since it does not lend itself readily to statistic al formula- tion. But statistical realities are, after all, little more than symbols or outward data, which may or may not lead to significant meanings. The prevailing scientific and philosophic approach to the problems of training teachers for public scr -ice taps the hidden realities, the sig- nificant meanings, with which the College must concern itself. In such an approach there is no room for the vendor of stereo- typed information, for the mere peddler of microscopic and irrelevant details, for the worshiper of conformity, tradition and the dead past. In such an approach there is abundant room for the explorer of new ideas, for the prophet of a new day, for the adventurer in thinking, for the liberator of the mind, for the discoverer and utilizer rather than the collector of knowledge, for the creative mind untrammeled and unencumbered. In so far as these conditions are made to prevail, in so far does the College of Education render significant service to the commonwealth of Ohio. Dearx George F. Arps George Arps has served as dean of tfic College of Education since his appointment to that position in 1920. He was graduated from Lcland Stanford University in 1904 with a B. A. degree. The following year he received his M. A. from the University of Indi- ana. He studied abroad at the University of Lcipsic until 1908, where he was given his Ph. D. In 1912 he came to Ohio State as professor of ps chology. Dean Arps is a member of Sig- ma Xi, Phi Delta Kappa, the Na- tional Education Association, and the American Psychology Associ- ation. [25]

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B ? commerce BiiiMini; — new and biumcss-li e. i( aUIMERCE AND ADMINISTRATION Qydc RukkIo c»n c to Ohio State in 191} and rrvrd a pro- (cMur in the drpartmrni of Hum- ncM cHriniialHin (-olluwin)! (he ■T l c vacant pi.»t and .:. iut more than a yrar Ir - ■• I ' coil dcv rr ' « ' thu with an M A the I ' nivriMty of liiwa He com- rietrd hi« «n rk (..r a Ph D from Hatvard the ume year that he came to Uhio S«alc ex- i. A . Slate Teach- and (i lliiwed in IV07 from r N tiRDER t I nj Busil . I ■ nsiJcrai tiRDER to understand the functions of a College of Commerce business Administration to the state, it is necessary ' to give •ation to the changes which have taken place in industry and husine s during the past generation. These recent changes can he understood only through considera- tion of the fundamental conditions which were brought about hy the industrial revolution. Following the great inventions which ushered in the indu.strial revolution about the middle of the 18th century, there has K ' en in general a constant increase in the size of the indus- trial unit. The world placed much emphasis upon increasing its effi- ciency in the technical processes of prtnluction. All over the world great strides were made in the application of power to manufacturing. Through m.iss production of standardized and interchangeable parts, the capacity of the world to prixluce was multiplied many times. But this ver ' success which was attained along these lines stxin created some ditficulties. The mere size of the industrial unit made it necessary for business men to utilize the science of accounting. Diffi- cult problems arusc in organization and administration of large con- cerns. Personnel problems and their relation to management stxin de- manded con.sideration To these and many other issues of internal concern were added many external problems. Our earlier Universities established, after the Schtiols of Divinity, Medicine and Liw, .Schixils of Technology and Engineering. This was a normal development. At that stage of the world ' s history, it was nccessar ' to place emphasis upon the technical processes of produc- tion, but with the changes which have K en briefly described. Schools of 0 mmerce and Business Administration were destined to come into existence. It is interesting to obserw that within the l.i.st genera- tion. Kith in Europe and in America, these Schools have been added to all of our im|virtant LIniversities. Colleges of Gimmerce and Busi- ncM Administration must make a contribution in such fields as ac- counting, finance, organization, personnel admini.stration, management and marketing if ue arc to benefit by our skill in the technical pro- ccMcs of production All of our ability in the fields of technology and engineering will count for little if it is to K- neutralized by our in- efficiency in all of the fields which are represented by these new CtJIcgM. wO :: , ¥: r «?=? i [2M

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I 1 Dean Embury A. Httchcoc Embury Hitchcock came to Ohm ■ ■ ■ I in •tcr ijii.ii i: 4 it .»| i. urfc;lrc it yean previuut. )«■ ha« %lcadily r.t After 611- tiir f f the en- rtperiment station fur a Hr wa« appointed dean 1 : iv:o. (xirnell three ri»er 11. »; • 1 ' tiiKiiiccit ck II a member of . Beta Pi and the tty iif Mechanical Lord Hdll - engineers are made u i ENGINEERING EsciN BERING scrvicc was rendered to the Sute of Ohio long hefore the formal organization of the College of Engineering and that service hits been continued uninterruptedly for over 4 years. As early as ISSn, S. W. Rohins in, the first professtir of mechanical engineering, ser ' ed as a member of the Railroad Com- mission of Ohio. He also was the first person to devise a method for the measurement of natural gas flow, made necessary by the discovery f natural g;ts in Ohio. C. N. Brown, for whom Brown Hall is named, served the W ' .ir department in a mineral investigation in Kentucky, was ch.iirm.m nt the Sewer Commission of Qilumbus in 1900, and represented the Governor of Ohio in directing the State Topographic Survey in co- operation with the United States Geological Survey in 1901. N. W. Lord, director of the Schtxjl of Mines and first dean of the Qillege, was the pioneer in the investigation of Ohio coals. He also took an active part in the Geological Survey of Ohio fmm 1SS6 to 1910. The important position now held by the ceramic industries of the State IS due largely to General Edward Orton, who was responsible for the beginning, in 1894, of ceramic engineering education. While super ' ising the work of the Ceramic Department, he also directed the State Geological Survey. These four men were the leaders in making contacts for service to enterprises of the State. The Q)llege now ser ' es the State through its Engineering E.xperi- mcnt Station and its faculty. Members are now serving on State boards and civic committees. They are cooperating with the Federal Bureau of CJood Roads, the 0 m Gixxl Roads Federation, the State Highway Department, the United States Geological Survey, the United States Bureau of Standards, the United States Weather Bureau, the State Welfare Department, the Ohio Ceramic Industries AssiKiation. the Southern t hio Coal Assfviation, the Ohio Bell Tele- phone Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and other Stdte and private enterprises. In fact, in every way the service work of the pioneers of the College of Engineering is being continued % 1 [26]