Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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gv; COMMERCE Business is a pecuniarily organized scheme of gratifying human wants, falling little short of being as broad, as inclusive, as life itself in its motives, aspirations, and social obligations. It falls little short of being as broad as all science in its technique. Training for the task of business must have breadth and depth comparable with that of the task. A study of business is a study of business theory and its application. The department of commerce includes in its curricula not only courses which are of a technical nature but those aiming to train the student to analyze business problems as they present themselves in actual business life. The present eco- nomic depression calls to mind the possibility that too few business men have learned well to analyze such problems and to find a remedy which will cure business ills. The department aims to prepare the student along two slightly different lines of service. The training of commercial teachers has always been the major task of the department and hundreds of its graduates are teaching in the schools of the mid-west- ern states-. The second line of training is that offered along the line of Business Admin- istration, which has just been added to that of teacher training. The teaching staff of the department consists of six members—W. S. Lyerla, A. M.; Head of the department; J. U. Massey, M. S.; Willa M. Dush, A. M.; Lillian I. Miller, A. M.; L. G. Guffey, B. S.; and Hallie Bennington, B. S. To the student body and alumni we extend greetings and sincerely hope that whenever you need any service that we can render, you will not hesitate to call on us. PAG£ IS

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Co. RUSS HALL

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ENGLISH The plan of the department is to keep abreast of the times without going to the radical. We want to prepare teachers for the best high school posi- tions, and we want them to make good. We want our teachers to know the fundamentals in spelling, in punctuation, in pronunciation, and the right use of words. So far the output has been about equal to the demand, for teachers so prepared. The faculty this year is nearly the same as last: I. G. Wilson, A. M., Tyson Wyc- koff, Ph. D., J. Gordon Eaker, Ph. D., Ernest Bennett, A. M., Elmina Graham, A. M., Margaret Haughawout, A. M., Dora Robertson, A. M., Edna Hays, A. M., Edna Powell, A. M., and Adele M. Burnett, A. M. The English faculty have contributed several books on English: “Pittsburg Col- lege Verse;” “Sheep's Clothing;” “Words, Words, Words;” “Grammar by Example and Exercise;” “A Handbook of Grammar;” and two more are in manuscript ready for the printer, “Punctuation for Writers,” and “Letters of a Self made Busness Man to the Professor of his Daughter, Mary Ann.” PAGE 10