Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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CHAIRMAN O ' LINN. PRESIDENT BAKER Seated: (left to right) Baker, Bibbee, Dodge, Trosset, Doran, Barrett, Tissot, Paltrowitz, O ' Linn. Standing: Mar- ino, Keesey, Humphrey, Leopold, Slack, McDaniel, Ncrris, Quinn. Absent: Atkinson, Swackhammer. With two years of apprenticeship behind them, the junior classmen are continu- ing their duties with ideals and ambitions for future achievements. As freshmen they entered college, fortunately, under the guidance of Dr. E. B. Bryan, and, unfortunately, in the continued grasp of an economic depression. They be- gan their activities under a new campus policy. The Campus Affairs Committee and the Selection Board settled all disputed questions, made all selections of campus officers, and approved all campus literature. There were no political campaigns, no rotten egg fights or Green Goats to influence opinions. With no outstanding opportunties in which to demonstrate their particular abilities, they worked along steadily, ambitiously, and conscientiously. In the second year, having more specific opportunities, they began to show more originality. The Selection Board chose Jack Baker as the junior class president and Patrick O ' Linn as the junior prom chairman. With these two efficient men leading their class, they entered their third year anxious to prove themselves worthy upper class- men. Their apprenticeship this year is under the influence of an energetic new univer- sity president, Dr. H. G. James. The outstanding duty of the class is to sponsor the an- nual Junior Prom, Ohio ' s main social event. With a large committee, they fulfilled their duties in sponsoring a really successful Prom. The success of the junior class remains unseen, but, by the end of another year, still more specific opportunities will be offered and they will definitely know those honors that their classmen can attain. They have already gained a feeling of security and confidence which will lead them on to a triumphant finish of four years at Ohic University. : 3 1

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With confidence inspired by successive achievements realized during the past four years, Ohio University ' s Class of 1936 takes its leave in June. In spite of two severe storms, this class was able to survive. The first of the two storms was well under way when they entered — the depression. Sadness comes with recollection of the second shock — the death of Dr. E. B. Bryan, late president of Ohio University. The class, however, is fortunate in having the opportunity of knowing and working under the new president, Dr. H. G. James. The Class of 1936 is proud of the list of its members who were elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In other honorary organizations, the class is also conspicuous. This class saw the Green Goat , a humor publication below Ohio University standards, re- placed by a more beneficial journal, The Ohioan . They have seen great athletic machines dominated each year by men from their class. In society, away from the academic life, the Class of 1936 perhaps reaches its peak. Last year, under its supervision, the Junior Prom rose to unprecedented heights. The Senior Ball, instituted within the last four years, will assume a place of major importance in the social activities of the senior class. It is not with conceit that the class reflects upon past incidents — incidents which are preparatory to a greater campaign but they have been enough to give them confidence which will be invaluable. This class has been continuing its campus life this year under the guidance of Bert Cameron, President. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES Senior Class President, Cameron. Senior Ball Chairman, Merendino. Invitation Committee: First Row: (left to right) Pace, Furnin, Griifel. Second Row: Rodehaver, Cameron, Kuney. 3 :

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COLLEGE ARTS S C I F AND E N During the Colonial period and for about the first seventy-five years of our na- tional life, when a college or university was founded, it was founded as a College of Arts and Sciences. Such is the history of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and smaller well known New England colleges. Ohio University, founded in 1804, followed the pattern of the New England colleges. For a hundred years there was no need of a distinctive college of Arts and Sciences, for Ohio University and a College of Arts and Sciences were one and the same. The aim of colleges of arts has been to provide opportunity for a broad and lib- eral education. For several centuries the liberal arts colleges have traveled the same main road. When one thinks of the vagaries and fads in certain fields of education that have led wild-eyed experimenters into blind-alleys and trackless marshes, it is inter- esting to note that the colleges of arts today emphasize what was emphasized two hundred years ago. Because of the advance of science in the last years, more em- phasis is placed upon the study of the natural sciences, U P Q but since the days of Aristotle, the study of science has been a part of the program of the colleges and univer- sities. Philosophy, mathematics, language and literature (both ancient and modern); sciences such as astronomy, chemistry, biology, physics, botany, geography; and the social sciences such as history and economics — these studies constitute the material which build the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. With a few exceptions, such has been the material for ages. There are many critics who maintain that the results obtained from our present system of education are lamentably small and inadequate; that it does not train youth to meet the real problems of life. If the critics only could agree on what are the real problems of life we might concentrate upon a united attack upon the problems. We may say that a liberal education should prepare one in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom for effective participation as a responsible adult in the world in which he lives, in ALL ways as an intelligent active member in his community, his nation, and the fellowship of nations. For GOING ON with the task of self-understanding, self- government, and self-development in the life that now is and for the life that is to come. Or to put it as expressed in the Ohio University catalogue: The aim of the Col- lege of Liberal Arts and Sciences is to give the student an acquaintance with the civil- ization of the past and present, with the sciences that have made men the master of the earth and sky, with the things of nature and the nature of things, with the arts that feed the soul with beauty. A liberal education should free one from herd opinion, su- perstition and fear, and should give one self-mastery, the power of self-analysis, sus- pended judgment, and urbanity. Dean Edwin Watts Chubb, was born at Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He received his A.B., A.M., and Litt. D. degrees at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. He had the exper- ience of studying at the University of Berlin for one year (1893-1894). In 1927 he re- ceived his L.L.D. degree at Albright College, Myerstown, Pennsylvania. Dean Chubb has twice faithfully discharged the duties of acting president at Ohio University. The first time (1920-1921) was after the death of Dr. Alston Ellis. All the pres- ent students of Ohio University will remember Dean Chubb when he became acting president at the death of Dr. Elmer Burritt Bryan, October 15, 1934. He then remained acting president until the installation of Dr. Herman G. James. In addition to his heavy duties, Dean Chubb always has had time to give frequent lectures on educational and literary subjects before teachers ' associations in Ohio, In- diana, and Pennsylvania. He has contributed many articles to magazines of wide circu- lation and is the author of four books. Indeed, every minute of his life has been prof- itably spent, and we are all happy to have had the opportunity of knowing him. 3 2 :