Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Acting Dean Walter C. Weiiildr COLLEGE OF COMMERCE i HE College of Commerce and Administra- I ' I tion, organized in 1916, has grown until it now has an instructional staff of 77 ■md a student body of approximately hSOO. Particularly significant recent college develop- ments include the establishment of a Bureau of Business Research and the organisation of a de- partment of Commerce Extension . The Bureau of Business Research is cooperating in a research program with a wide variety of Ohio interests, and has done much to increase the effectiveness of residence teaching, in addition to its more direct services to Ohio commerce and industry. The department of Commerce Extension has an instructional stalf of six, oftcnng courses in a considerable number of cities. Student enroll- ment in this department is drawn largely from the executive group in business. [24]

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Acting Dean Wilbur H. Siebert COLLEGE OF ARTS Hf: College of Liberal Arts has an enroU- I ment this year of nearly twenty-four V- ' hundred students, of whom about eleven hundred are Freshmen, about six hundred are Sophomores, four hundred and thirty-five are Juniors and two hundred forty are Seniors. The men number approximately seventeen hundred and the women, seven hundred. Our Freshmen, like the Freshmen of the other colleges, profited by Freshman Week. The exer- cises of that week will be somewhat modified next year in the light of our experience and even greater benefit will be thus secured. Special efforts have been made by the Administration and various Departments to prevent the closing of first year courses in required subjects. In the past the necessity of closing such courses has caused much inconvenience and disappointment to stu- dents, but this year it has been possible to provide additional instructors and sections, thus enabling the Departments to reduce the si:e of sections and to do more effective teaching. The Arts College has considerably enlarged its course offerings during the past year by adopting a number of courses in Music, Painting, Cera- mics and Land.scape Architecture. [23]

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Dean George F. Arfi.s COLLEGE OF EDUCATION f ' I ' he primary function of the College of I Education, as originally conceived, was to - prepare teachers for the public school service of the State. The rapid growth of the College, now third in si::e in the country, is in- dicative of the extent to which the University has discharged its obligation. In addition to its undergraduate service, the University by reason of its foremost educational position, is under special obligation to assume re- sponsibility for the development of graduate work. No other institution within the State is at present under equal obligation. Progress in this direction has been unusually gratifying and it is not unlikely that in the near future the Univer- sity may tind it necessary to reduce its teacher- training program for undergraduates in the in- terest of advanced graduates. This reduction can best be avoided by a marked increase in liberality on the part of the State. [25]