Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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Department of Methodology MRS. HATTIE MOO RE-MITCH EEL, DEAN OF WOMEN’ The office of Dean for Women is, in truth, a general utility depart- ment. In the person of the Dean’s Secretary, Miss Cunningham, every student finds a genuine friend any hour of the day. The enrichment of the courses offered by the Methodology Depart- ment the past year has enabled Senior College students to take work preparatory to Normal Training courses carried in accredited High Schools of Kansas.

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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.

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Department of Education I). M. BOWEN, B. A. The Department of Education has for its purpose the development and extension of professional knowledge and professional spirit among those preparing for the teaching profession. In the new progressive teacher training institutions of today from twenty to twenty-five percent of the student's time is devoted to the study of subjects distinctively professional in their nature. The school catalogue outlines at least thirty courses in the various phases of Education to which the Department in- vites careful inspection by the prospective student. In addition to the theoretical courses offered, the institution furnishes a well equipped training school under the direction of expert supervisors and critic teachers in which practice teaching i offered in all types of schools; kindergarten, primary, intermediate, Junior and Senior High School. The training school also affords an excellent opportunity for practice, to supervisors and directors of special subjects and special school activities.