Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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Department of Physical Education G. W. WKEPB, B. S.. L. D. S. It is the aim of the Department of Physical Education for men to direct the play activities of the men at S. M. T. N. and to provide a course of study in coaching which conforms in principle and organization to the other departments of teaching. In the supervision of the athletics the de- partment hopes to impress upon the minds of the men the principles of fair play, honest sacrifice of personal pleasures to a common good, control of the temper and true sportsmanship. A course of study in coaching concerning two years work leads to a Special Life Certificate. It plans in this course to prepare its graduates to fill positions as athletic directors, gymnasium directors and coaches of athletic teams in high schools and colleges. Seventeen states have adopted a program that makes it compulsory that every child in those states re- ceive daily physical educational instruction and there is now pending in congress a bill which provides in general for subsidizing physical education in every state. These facts look towards a greater development of the general scope of physical education in the nation and young men must be trained to meet the demands of the future along this line.

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 % j S3I0 1 1 $ Department of Foreign Language S. J. PEASE, M. A. 100 NJ 2ATT0 N This motto, “Know Thyself,” taken from the entrance to the temple of Apollo at Delphi, is one of the permanent standards of the human race. He who fully knows and fully uses his powers physical, mental, moral, social, religious—will never be at a disadvantage in human society. The specific contribution of the Language department to this knowl- edge is in part an attempt to develop a sympathetic knowledge of other peoples, other times, through a study of their own words, in part an at- tempt to develop such factors of self-expression as clearness and readiness of thinking, accuracy in spelling and diction, and analysis of words and thoughts, and a receptive attitude toward modes of expression different from our owm.

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Department of Mathematics and Applied Mechanics .T. A. G. SHIRK, M. S. The work of this department has become so diversified that specially trained in- structors have become necessary. This has consequently divided the purposes of the courses offered into several distinct aims, which are as follows: 1. Courses in pure and applied mathematics for students preparing to become teachers of mathematics or related branches of science, or who expect to complete degree courses in engineering, 2. Civil Engineering courses. 2. Mechanical Engineering courses. 4. Regular High School courses in Mathematics. 5. Elementary technical courses for students not of college standing. The staff of the department is divided according to the nature of the courses taught. Prof. .1. A. (I. Shirk and Associate Professor C. O. Van Dyke arc conducting niost of the courses in the first group. Associate Prof. L. E. Curfman devotes most of his time to those of group number two. A new instructor is being secured to teach most of the subjects of group three. He will probably have been engaged in this work before the Kanza has gone to press. Misses Car! and Crowe are teaching most of the subjects in group four. The present plans for the department involve two graduate engineers with prac- tical experience to develop the Civil and Mechanical Engineering courses, two teachers of mathematics with post graduate training to conduct the collegiate work in math- ematics, with sufficient other assistants to properly take care of all of the secondary instruction of groups four and five. Supt. .1. F. Barnhill of Parsons has been connected with the department during tiie Summer Session for two years. He has done effective work in presenting the teaching of elementary and secondary mathematics.