Southeastern Oklahoma State University - Savage Yearbook (Durant, OK)

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and understanding more than one language. The classes are,.gaining in number and the interest is fast spreading. The classes in Latin and German are doing good work and the Spanish classes are increasing in enrollment. This being due largely to the increased demand in some parts of the state where the growing commercial and social in- tercourse with speaking countries making it necessary to have experienced in- terpretei's. French Which has been added to the course during the last school year has received due consideration from the students who have responded to the course very enthusiastically and much progress has been made. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Mr. E. B. Robbins The course offered in agriculture is designed to give the students training in the sciences of agriculture and the practical application of the scientific prin. ciples to the business of farming. Agriculture must be followed primarily for the gaining of a. livelihood, and therefore it becomes necessary not only to those who expect to teach but to those who engage in active farming to have a com- prehensive understanding of the business aspects as well as the scientific prin- ciples of agi'it-ullure The instruction in agriculture and geography is given by excursions, lectures, text and laboratory work. Emphasis is placed especially on practical work. With the existing war conditions it is imperative that teachers agitate the betterment of production. There has been much done toward the improvement of the campus and the children are displnyiig much interest in gardening this term. DEPAH'ITMENT OF ART Miss Forbes The department of art is for the purpose of directing and exercising the grit- ical powers, judgment, and skill, 01' its students in a manner that will deveIOp their power to appreciate the beautiful as well as their efficiency in teaching. In order to gait. this end our aim is above the mere training in drawing and painting and above the practical applications. The work is so organized that there may be steady growth in good judgment as to form, tone and 001mg through the various grades of the public schools. There are many interesting walks and sketching of different nature scenes all of which tend to increase the interest and arouse more initiative in the students regarding the course. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Mia's Markol The addition of this department in the Spring Terni inai'ks again the rapid progress of S. E. N. A thorough course is offered in bookkeeping, typewriting and shorthand, The room for this department is well furnished with every convenience for the work containing 10 new Smith Premier typewriters. tables and easy chairs, , The enrollment in this department is exceedingly large. Many new pupils were enrolled. taking the greater part of theit work in this department. This is just one of the many features of the school that links business and school life closer together, making a wider selection of elective courses and giving the pupils business opportunities at a minimum cost.

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SOME OF OUR FACULTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Mr. Odam Every student before graduating must do work in this department equivalent to one hour a day for fem years. This includes work in Psychology, Pedagogy, History of Education, Philosophy of Education, Special Methods, and Practice. In addition to this elective course are offeied in Rural School Problems, Rural Sociology, School Administration. Child study and other special phases 01' education. Mr. Odam is the supervisor of this department with Mr Echols as assistant and Mrs. Hattie Rainey and Misses Edna George, Clara Tuiner and Norene Hunt as critic teachers in the training school. At the beginning of their senior year, students are assigned to teach or observe in the training school for one hour each day. The first days are spent in observ- ing the work of the critic teacher and becoming familiar with the work after which they are required to teach the classes themselves, For the use of the training school there is a collection of about 1,000 juvenile books anti pamphlets. Supplementary reading for all the grades is found in this wide collection. DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES Mr. Krnmtum-Mr. Romigz; The department of Foreign Languages has grown and developed in interest with the school. The students are beginring to realize great need for speaking

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Miss Ritohx-y The library has about 4,000 volumes accessioned up to this time in addition ,. -. , t to bulletins and periodicals for reference mmg: e 3 use. A very good collection 01' magazines gimtitt is kept on the shelves which are both :' popuizn- and technical in nature. A few new volumes have been accessioned this year besides the duplication of about one hundred and twenty The magazines on current history and items on Food Conservation are the most popular ones for readers now. it In: The Training School Library has been removed to the main reading room where each Class meets twice a week for reading hours. Considerable more retererce walk has been done this year than previously Following the plan of the library movement over the country the United States Food Conservation Campaign has been carried on here. Posters furnished by the U. S. Food Administration have been used, followed up by facts and lists of Government material and books on the library shelves. DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY Mr. tVickham Southeastern boasts one of the nest departments dealing with the natural sciences to be found in the southwest. It has grown from year to year until it IS crowded, both in pupils and in space. The laboratories are furnished with modern biology tables provided with individual lockers, counipound 111i- crostcopes, dissecting sets, stains fixing baths, imported charts, human models, skeletons, camera, field glasses and many Other essentials. New features in the way of modern equipment will be intalled during the current year, looking to the organization of advanced classes of work in field geoglogy. In connection with the work many field trips are conducted by the head of the department, establishing in the minds of the students a more intimate acquaintance with natural aspects of the sciences The Natural History Museum has grown considerably the past year. Various specin ens are among the collection. The Walking Club is an outgrowth of this department, boasting 01' some sixty members, making it the largest club in the schooi. Many interestmg hikes characterize the features 01' this year, establishing more firmly the name of the club. DEPARTRIENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION Mr. H. 0. Tudor It is the purpose of this department to encourage wholesome out of door sports, to provide an opportuiiity for the systematic and correctional exercises of the gymnasium, and to fit those who go out from the institution to teach to assume direction and lendethip in the various fro-ms of athletiCS commonly une dertaken in the public schools of the state. All kinds of athletics, gynmastics, fo!k games. and organization and Supervision of p'ayground activities are offered.