Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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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.

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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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COPE of the College work is indicated in the fact that a child can enter the kindergarten group of University school at the age of four or five and go continually through the grades and high school there, then through the regular University courses, and on to his doctor of philosophy degree—all under the direction of the College of Education. For a long time prior to 1907, the University had been training young people for work as teachers. But in that year recognition was given to the increasing importance of this activity, and the College of Education was formally established. Through the various activities of its bureaus of special educa- tion and educational research, the college extends its influence and helpfulness throughout Ohio and in other states as well. This college, with 2019 students for the autumn quarter, ranks second only to Columbia in its enrollment. It is the only college at Ohio State in which women students outnumber the men. The en- rollment has grown from less than 200 in 1913 to the present high mark. Enrollment in the College of Education also reaches a high mark in the summer, as hundreds of its graduates and other teachers return to the campus for additional studies. LESTON LOVE Junior Dean GEORGE ARPS Dean