Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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This extra year would give further training in physics and chemistry. It would also go more deeply into public speaking and English and the study of political history. The Secretarial Course will be strengthened, extending the work in business efh- ciency and in personal elliciency, so that business administration and salesmanship will be decidedly more highly developed. A missionary department will be organized and placed in the curriculum, and will be particularly applicable to foreign students. The department will be headed by an expert along missionary lines. At present we are fortunate in having twenty men in the school who are from countries outside of the United States and Canada. Such an expert could not only instruct these men in Foreign Mission work, but he could also find them positions in American Associations where they could get one or more years' experience before returning to their respective helds. Such would greatly facilitate the efhciency of the work now prevalent abroad. We look forward to a stronger course in our Boys' Work De- partment. For that, too, an expert's services will be procured and students will be instructed more thoroughly in the nature study and related branches. In connection with the Nature Study such sciences as astronomy, biology, botany, geology, etc., will be given with the view that they will be of great value in interesting the boy while in camps, hikes, etc. Mr. Walter J. Campbell, an expert on Rural Work, is now doing excellently in the development of men for that field. When the four years, course is established, one year will be spent at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, at Amherst, where the County Work students will study soils, kinds of vegetation, and plant life, and all with the view of making them more efiicient in their deal- ings with inhabitants of rural districts. The Physical Department is aiming to meet all the needs for Physical Directors in the various helds. For quite a span of years this department has trained men for the Association, school, and college physical directorship. Now the demand is coming in for men in County Work to teach the boys in the country how to play and what to play, and also to be of service in the administration or reconstruction of hygienic and sanitary conditions in accordance with modern times. Another demand is for Physical Directors in various Nlunicipal Recreation centers. The department is now 17

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doing something towards coping with this problem, but in the future the Physical Department anticipates turning out the most eflicicnt men as directors in social centers, playgrounds, and men for the directorship in the utilization of school buildings. Special apparatus rooms are to be Htted out and the students given special training in medical gymnastics. This need is accen- tuated when we realize what the value of good posture is to the growing child. The Physical Department has done much along the lines of dict, blood pressure, physiology of exercise, and the study of sport. Special work has been done along the lines of ventilation, gymna- sium lighting, and swimming pools. It is hoped that the time will come when the Physical Department will have a staff of well- inlormed men to assist students in doing research work and to do and make contributions themselves. There is yet much room in the field of Physical Education for scientihc discovery and such a group ol men would do much to aid this discovery. The needs of the College are many and they involve every phase of the College life. The table of growth has made plain some of the ways in which our needs are met and along just what lines the needs have been. A college like this one needing land for athletic work of various sorts should have at least loo acres of land. We have at present 65 acres of land, with 25 on the opposite side of the lake. So our first need is at least 35 acres of land to help carry on our growing work. ' The beautiful lake which separates our property and which adds so much to the life ol' the institution is not under our control and we feel the great need of this. Our campus should be greatly improved, trees should be planted, the grounds made beautiful, drive-ways built, and the lawns cared for. A fence should separate our grounds from other territory, an arch-way should be the hrst welcome to visitors, and upon the campus there should be statu- ary to symbolize the ideals of the College. Two more athletic lields, and a playground, of which we should have exclusive con- trol should be added to our equipment and these would add more to the experience of the Physical Department student in doing nor- mal practicc work. Plans have been nearly completed for a 35,200,000 dormitory buildingg a picture of which may be seen on opposite page. That I9 V HI ' I J ' 1 A plz- H1 jx Wi ., , A --- Q ' x