Texas State College for Women - Daedalian Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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These English students are enjoying an informal study period in the Sigma Tau Delta Reading Room. Reading comprehension, speed in reading, basic Eng- lish fundamentals, and current English literature are some of the topics they are reviewing. English Magazine editing, publishing, and teaching are but three of the opportunities open to English majors. This department teaches basic skills as well as complex training for the woman interested in gaining a broad cultural foundation. The student in English learns to determine good literature from poor, to express herself in writing, and to speak correctly. The Daedalian Quarterly, a magazine written and compiled by students twice a year, offers English students a chance for publication of their original literature, and gives majors editing experience. Special degree plans for students interested in teaching, writing, foreign service, or business are offered, as well as a plan for the student who wants to earn a Master of Arts degree. DR. CONSTANCE L. BEACH Professor DR. FRANCES DARDEN Assistant Professor DR. ELEANOR JAMES Associate Professor DR. GLADYS MADDOCKS Assistant Professor MRS. EVA HATCH MARK Assistant Professor MISS AGNES TRAMEL Assistant Professor MISS CORNELIA VARNER Assistant Professor MRS. OLIVE WHITTEN Assistant Professor DR. AUTREY NELL WILEY Professor and Director

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Observation and practical experience both in lectures and Professional assistance, as well as laboratory manuals and laboratories, constitutes for the physics students an important chemistry textbooks, enables these students to understand a asset in learning and comprehending. complex experiment. Chemistry and Physics With news of satellites and rockets filling headlines, students of chemistry and physics are finding, through their classwork, an understanding of the everyday advances in space travel and scientific discoveries. 'The chemistry department is accredited by the American Chemical Society. The physics student prepares herself for one of the highest paying and most rewarding fields, with many opportunities for advancement. The students of chemistry and physics will help to I-ill the increasing demand for scientists and teachers. The students study in the three-story science building, which has well-equipped laboratories for work in biology, chemistry, and physics. DR. HAROLD T. BAKER Assistant Professor DR. ROBERT W. HIGGINS Professor and Director l DR. HELEN A. LUDEMAN Associate Professor DR. WILLIAM L. MECAY Assistant Professor wgvs,fff.1'..' mmmgraif.1 as f

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DR. MABEL F. ARBUTHNOT 1' Associate Professor gf' MISS MAURINE FAULKNER Assistant Professor MISS ELIZABETH KEESE Assistant Professor DR. JOSEF E. RYBERG Assistant Professor MISS MARTHA P. SANDERS Associate Professor DR. A. W. WOOLSEY Professor and Director Foreign Language Students of foreign language find a well-equipped departmental laboratory which features listening machines and recorders, a large record collection, and a reading room with books, periodicals, and newspapers in various languages. These students find opportunities to learn the conversational uses of the language they study by conversing with the foreign students on campus, as well as learning it in conversation classes. The foreign language museum contains many costumes and objects from different countries. The Festival of Nations, which is held each spring to acquaint students of Dallas, Fort Worth, and Denton schools with the social and economic customs of the world's peoples, is outlined by the Foreign Language Department and the foreign students, who act as hostesses for the event. The courses of instruction are many and varied in the department, and Bachelor of Arts, and Master of Arts degrees are offered. The theory, Practice makes perfect, is proven by these diligent foreign language students as they repeat the language as it is dictated to them by one of the listening machines in the department's laboratory.