Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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JOHN CUNNINGHAM Dean LYMAN JACKSON Junior Dean HE role of agriculture in the curriculum is evident in the name under which the University started its activities in 1873 —the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College. Through the years, as the University has gradually expanded its program, agriculture has continued to be an important phase of the work, both in classroom and laboratory work on the campus, and in extensicn work covering every county of the State. This year the College of Agriculture ranks second in the United States, in student enrollment. The first professor of agriculture here was Norton S. Townshend, whose name and memory are perpetuated in Townshend Hall and in the Towshend Agriculture Education Society. Influence of this college in bringing improved agriculture practices have been felt literally around the world. Its first graduate was William P. Bentley, who later spent many years in China. In India another alumnus, Sam Higginbotham, has been teaching the natives the better ways of agriculture. In Japan Mitsugi Satow is a leader in the movement to increase the production and use of milk dairy products. The college, both on the University farm of 900 acres, and through its cooperation with the Ohio Agriculture Experiment Station at Wooster, carries on experimental work, the results of which are passed along to farmers of Ohio and cther states. It also includes the school for home economics, thus bringing together the practical arts within the home as well as without.

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Fanning Hayes Pollard Odegard Wittke S much a part of the University as the Long Walk or the Library are certain faculty faces, familiar to the students and rich in memory. With a faculty as large in number as Ohio State’s, it is impossible to present a true cross-section of that important group. Every professor deserves commendation for his effort, and the Makio feels that certain of these Familiar Faculty Faces deserve recognition for their work, habits, or hobbies. Professor Billy Graves, characterized by his likeness to Mr. Esquire and remembered for 430 English and his phonograph records, has remained with the University for many years. Professor Tuttle, while not lecturing in the Law School, is alleged to delight in eating apples. Professor French is known the world over as an authority on etchings. Psychologist, and polo enthusiast, Dr. Burtt, motorcycles his way to school every morning. His colleague, Dr. Toops, has every student’s “number”, as he is the head of the intelligence testing department of the University. From Hamilton Hall we have Dr. Graham, remembered by all Dental students, and Dr. Dodd, whose lectures in the Medical school attract a great deal of attention. Dr. Evans still gives his impressive 8:00 lectures in Freshman chemistry, even after winning the Vivian award in that field. The school of Journalism is directed by Professor Pollard, known to every member of that college, while Professor Fanning confines his time to Hayes Hall teaching art. Political science has an able authority in young Professor Odegard, while Professor Wittke of banjo and folk-song fame successfully remains at the head of the History Department. Dr. Hayes, after having tried his hand at politics has decided that teaching Economics is probably his life work. Professors such as these, give the Ohio State faculty its distinct personality!

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HE College of Arts and Sciences dates back to 1895, but its philosophy of a liberal and liberalizing education has been an important influence in University affairs since the opening day in September, 1873. No formal division of the school into various colleges was needed for the 17 students who appeared at that time, but it was decided long before that the course of study should be much broader than the name, Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, implied. The first faculty included not only instructors in agriculture and the mechani- cal arts, but in modern languages and literature, ancient languages, geology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Five years later, in 1878, the name was changed to The Ohio State University, to more clearly emphasize the broad extent of the work offered here. The College of Arts and Sciences cherishes as its chief purpose a liberal education as a basis for specialization later. Its work under- lies that of most of the professional colleges. It created the first Graduate School, now a separate organization; it offered the first teacher-training, now given in the College of Education; and it pre- sented the first work in commerce and in journalism, now also a separate college. HUNTLEY DUPRE Junior Dean WILBUR SIEBERT Acting Dean