Southwestern Oklahoma State University - Bulldog Yearbook (Weatherford, OK)

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS CLaRENcCE E. McCormick, A. B., A. M. A. B. University of Kansas A. M. Clark University The Department of Mathematics has for its aim the development of the habit of mathematical thought and the training of students to become teachers of this subject. We believe that no amount of training will make a successful teacher of the person who does not know the sub- ject he is teaching. For this reason, the majority of the courses offered by the department are in pure mathematics. The grade teacher must teach a variety of subjects and hence can- not specialize in the different subjects to be taught. To help meet the needs of this teacher, a Teachers’ Course in Arithmetic is offered. This course is proving to be one of the most popular in the depart- ment. For the high school teacher, a Teachers’ Course in Algebra and Geometry is offered, but students are required to complete Freshman mathematics before enrolling in this course. This is because we believe the high school teacher should specialize in the subjects he wishes to teach. Students who do not intend to become teachers will find in South- western sufficient work in pure mathematics for a major in this depart- ment. In these courses are included nearly every requirement in mathe- matics for an engineering degree. Courses in applied mathemati¢s are given whenever there is a sufficient demand for such work. twenty-nine

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Grace EvizABETH JENCKE, A. B., A. M. A. B. Washington University A, M. Washington University Civilization depends upon communication, chiefly communication through language. The Department of English of Southwestern re- cognizes the responisibility and the privilege placed upon it by this fact. Through the required and elective courses in composition an organized effort is made to help the student aquire such ability in the use of the spoken and the written word as will enable him to give the best servic: of which he is capable to his community. Courses in public speaking and in journalism give practical, stimulating assistance in this training. Recognizing literature as a storehouse of the civilization of the past, the department tries to give an equal amount of attention to afford- ing students the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the finest works in the field, thereby increasing their powers of literary enjovment and appreciation, and helping to solve, in part, for them, and perhaps for many of those who will some day be their pupils, the important problem of wholesome employment of leisure time. Work in literature, however, is by no means confined to the pro- ductions of the past. It is but natural thaf an individual’s chief interest should lie in persons and situations of his own time, and so courses in recent novel, contemporary poetry, and modern drama are offered. Although the specific aims of this department are many and diverse those two broad, general ones underlie and give direction to each of the courses in college English. twenty-eight

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DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES James ArcyLe McLaucuuin, A. B., M. S., M. A., Litt. D., Ph. D. Davidson College, King College, Yale University (M. A.) Courses in five languages are offered,—Latin, Greek, French, (rer- nan and Spanish. An earnest effort is made—at all times—to give a practical turn to foreign language study, and the students are constantly drilled in the correct pronunciation and correct accent of the words of each language. The foreign words and words of foreign derivation in the English are located as to origin and meaning, and attention is direct- ed to their relations to other Knelish words which have the same root. That is, philology, or the interrelation of languages, is carried on in connection with the study of each tongue. How each language aids in the study of English grammar, composition, spelling, and defining, and in gaining a real appreciation of literature and art, is pointed out from day to day. Teachers’ courses are offered in Latin, French, and Spanish. Those who have taken these courses are heartily commending them not only to students who expect to teach these foreign languages, but to all teach- ers Who have studied them in high school, or college. The methods, teach- ing plans and word studies are found to be helpful in presenting any subject to pupils in the class room. ) Conversations are carried on in the modern languages; and plays and games are used to gain a more intimate knowledge of each foreign tongue. thirty