Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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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

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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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WALTER WEIDLER Dean CHARLES REEDER Junior Dean | Qucies known as the College of Commerce and Journalism, the present College of Commerce and Administration came into ex- istence in 1915. It has under its administration the Schools of Journalism and Social Administration, the departments of accounting, business organization, economics, geography, and sociology. Work in these various subjects had been given previously in the College of Arts, Philosophy, and Science, but with constant expansion in com- merce and related fields the need was seen for a separate college. A part of this college is the Bureau of Business Research, es- tablished in 1923. For 10 years the college maintained commerce extension classes in a score of Ohio cities each year, this work having been temporarily abandoned in 1935. This college now enjoys the distinction of being the largest of its kind in the United States, with 2455 students for the autumn quarter this year. This enrollment included 514 women. Journalism made its appearance in the University curriculum as early as 1893 when a two years’ course in that subject was offered. In the earlier years journalism was given in the department of Eng- lish, but a separate department was established in 1914. The Lan- tern, student newspaper, was made a daily at that time and has since been conducted as a laboratory for journalism students. The depart- ment of economics and sociology was organized in 1898, also in the arts college.