Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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HE College of Engineering came into existence in 1895, although engineering subjects had been included in the curriculum since the opening of the University. This y ear it is fourth in the nation in student enrollment. Shortly after the University opened, many important electrical inventions such as the incandescent light and the telephone mad their appearance. The first telephone conversation in Ohio occurred on the campus. Here the first commercial tests of are and incan- descent lighting systems in Ohio were made. Ohio State was the first university to offer college courses in ceramic engineering. For many years the College of Engineering has been active in research as well as in instruction. It has maintained an Engineering Experiment Station since 1915. Last year the Industrial Researrh been 10 women. WILLIAM TURNBULL Acting Dean Foundation came into existence. In addition, most of the depart- ments in this college have been carrying forward research programs. Numbered among the 1720 students in the colleg e this year have In those “colleges” Engineering at Ohio State is as old as the University. days, when the old student body was so small. separate 5 a; were unnecessary, so engineering training was given by departments. Acting Junior Dean JOHN WEED The pioneers of the College of Engineering were ingenious men who combined technical training with a born talent for teaching and research. The names of three of the most famous of these professors are perpetuated on the campus: Robinson Laboratory, named for Stillman W. Robinson, founder of the mechanical engineering depart- ment; Brown Hall for Christopher N. Brown, head of the civil engineering department and the first dean of the College: Lord Hall for Nathaniel W. Lord, metallurgist and fuel engineer, who also served as dean. Another pioneer professor was Edward Orton, Jr.. founder of the ceramic engineering department; he rounded out his career at the University by service in the deanship. Graduates of the College now number six thousand. They are represented in every kind of technical and administrative position, all over the world. Besides the graduates, fifteen to twenty thousand former students, though they did not receive degrees, were sufficiently trained by the College to take places of usefulness in professional and business capacities.

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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

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FRAvE of the Veterinary Medicine College has spread to an extent where scores of prospective students must be turned away each year, for lack of facilities to give them the necessary instruction and laboratory work. Within a dozen years after the University opened in 1873, instruc- tion in veterinary medicine was offered here. In 1885 Ohio State offered the first professional and technical work in veterinary medi- cine ever taught in Ohio. Three years later a school of veterinary medicine was established with Dr. J. H. Detmers as its head. It then had only a dozen students, but it grew rapidly in the succeeding years. OSCAR BRUMLEY Dean Today this college with its 309 students—four of them women—is the largest in the United States. The College of Veterinary Medicine has had only two deans since 1895—David S. White and Oscar V. Brumley. Dean Brumley has held this office since 1929. Named for the dean is the Brumley club, only organization of its kind in the United States. It is composed of women students of veterinary medicine. Familiar is the work of the doctor of veterinary medicine in general practice, not so familiar, per- haps, the work in other fields. In addition to those engaged in practice, hundreds of veterinary alumni are working in public health activities, in teaching, in research, and in the army. Because its alumni engage in many activities beyond the original scope of the profession, the college requires a year of cultural studies for its students, in addition to studies of a professional and specialized nature.