Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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Department of Home Economics ’ F AGNES SAl'XDEKS, A. B. Seven instructors make up the faculty. In addition to this number, are student assistants and the special assistants of the summer session. Several courses have been offered by extension this year. A large class of nurses from Mt. Carmel Hospital has been given instruction in Food and Nutrition and classes composed of public school teachers have elected courses in Food Hygiene and Household Management. Especial attention is being given to evening classes in Vocational Edu- . cation. Large classes have been organized in Dressmaking, Millinery and Cooking. They are made up largely of home makers, teachers, clerks and steongraphers. The department as a whole is making progress and is keeping abreast with all that is best in the field of Home Economics.

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Department of Home Economics ADELA ZOE WOLCOTT, Ph. B.. A. M. The Department of Home Economics is now located in Carney Hall with splendid facilities for work. One-half of the new building is devoted to this department. The office and lecture rooms occupy the first floor. On the second floor are found the departments of Textiles and Clothing and Related Art, and on the third floor the departments of Food and Nutrition and Institution Management. The Normal Cafeteria comes under the direction of this department and is used as a practice field for students taking courses in Institution Management. The Nutrition department with the cooperation of the de- partments of Education and Physical Education has done valuable work along the line of food hygiene in all the grades of the training school from the kindergarten up.

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Department of English ERMINE OWEN. A. M. Matthew Arnold defines culture as “knowing and appreciating the best that has been said and done by the master spirits of the ages.” Bulwer Lytton speaks of culture as “the fruitage, the flower, the perfume, of knowledge.” Dr. Charles W. Eliot declares the highest evidence of a man’s culture to be an “accurate and skil ful use of language—his mother tongue.” These are sayings that strike at the heart of every department of English in every school in the land—its purpose—its efficiency. In these days of haste, there is a manifest tendency to under rate the practical value of a wide acquaintance with world literature, many speci- mens of which bring the student into intimate association with a group of noble people, and give, at the same time, a thrilling sense of the breadth, the complexity, the raciness, the mingled humor and pathos, joy and sorrow, of the great world of men in which he lives. The Department of English has to do with the great books—Homer and Browning, Cervantes and Burns, Sophocles and Shakespeare—which brace and hearten the spirit, which leave with the reader a sense of the beauty and value of the great virtues.