Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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Department of Biology “To make right action possible and prevalent is the function of Sci- ence.” President Elliott of Harvard University said, “Culture is not so much any degree of attainment as it is an attitude of mind.” Cultured people not only comprehend the facts of science that have been found to be true, but they have the attitude of mind of the science. The depart- ment of biology through its varied courses attempts to give the student both a comprehension of the principles of Biology and the attitude of mind of the science. The department still continues to do much extension and correspond- ence work along with extensive and varied residence courses. Three new instructors are in the department: Mr. Harry Hall coming to S. M. T. N. from the Joplin Schools, Miss Elizabeth Moulton coming from the instructing staff of Iowa State Teachers College and Miss Eliza- beth Fleeson from Kansas University and the University of Minnesota.

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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.

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Department of History and Social Sciences G. TROUT. A. B., A. M. The Department of History and Social Sciences comes to you with their annual message of greetings and good cheer. The past year has been one of the busiest and happiest of all our experience. We have had the largest enrollment in this Department in our history. We have also carried on very extensive extension work, and are glad that we were able to render this large service. A few new classes have been added to the work offered in this Depart- ment, but we have striven to develop and present in a more efficient way our old courses, rather than attempting with our limited faculty to offer additional courses. This is the day when it will be impossible for a person to regard himself as liberally educated without going pretty largely into the fielcT of History and the Social Sciences. Recognizing this fact, we are endeavoring to furnish those who enter this Institution such live, up-to- date History, Economics, Political Sciences and Sociology as will fully equip them to meet the tremendous social problems of the present hour, and also to qualify them to become a real efficient social force in the com- munity in which their lives are to be spent.