University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

Page 19 text:

THE FACULTY.

Page 18 text:

Taculty. R. V. Silvester, President. , Vice-President. Chair of Mathematics. J. H. Mitchell, M. E., Acting; Comd ' t of Cadets. Assistant in Mechanical Engineering. F. B. BOMBEKGER, B. S., MARTIN P. ScOTT, B. S., M. D., Chair of English and Civics. Chair of Natural Science. H. B. McDonnell, B. S., M. D., Chair of Cheniistrv. THOMA.S H. Spence, a. M., V. T. L. Taliaferro, Chair of Language. Chair of Agriculture. C. O. TowNSEND, Ph. D., Chair of Botany and Pathology. W . G. Johnson, B. S., M. S., Harry Gwinner, M. E., Chair of Entomology. Chair of Mechanical Engineering. Samuel S. Buckley, B. S., D. V. S., Chair of Veterinary Science. Henry Lanahan. A. B., James S. Robinson, A. B. Chair of Physics and Civil Engineering. Professor of Horticulture. Grv V. Stewart, B. S., .Assistant in Botanv. H. P. Gould, B. S., J. R. Laughlin, B. S. .Assistant in Entomology. Assistant in Chemistry. J. Bernard Robb, B. S., . ssistant in Chemistry. Thomas R. Gough, B. S., Norris M. Straughn, B. S., Assistant in Chemistry. Assistant in Chemistry. George S. Edelen, B. S., To he appointed. . ssistant in Chemistry. 12

Page 20 text:

8ome Advances in Science Teaching. TyTHILE it is true that chanije does not always ' ' signify advance, yet an impartial examination into the metliods now in vogue in any field of natural science must convince even an unwilling observer that in the main the movement in science teaching has been forward and not backward. It should be understood, however, that method is only a tool and that everything, therefore, depends upon the man behind the method. Hence advance along the line of teaching, just as along all lines of work, implies progress in the man as well as improvement in the tool. Owing to the rapidity with which the borders of natural science are enlarging in these latter daj ' s, the text-l)Ook of yesterday is out of date to-day. New facts have been brought to light, new truths have been discovered and the text-book statement has become misleading or only a half truth. Conse- quently it is no longer an incontestible proof of the truth of a statement to know that it forms a part of a book. Not that the text-l)Ook is of no further use in our schools and colleges; on the other hand, it is an important factor in science teaching, but unless the man behind the desk knows more than is contained within the covers of a text-book it is a case of the blind leading the blind, for both are sure to fall into a ditch. It is therefore essential that the teacher should be a maker of thought as well as an expounder of truth. The old scientists like Priestly, Huxley Darwin, Helmholtz and many others that we love to honor, labored faithfully and builded nobly, but they realized fully the boundless fields in their respective realms of science which remained still unexplored. No factor has contributed more largely to the passing away of the old text-book methods than the broaden- ing of the horizon of knowledge. And with this ex- pansion every first class institution in the land has come to realize that no man can teach successfully all the branches of natural science, but that the times demand a master in each and every field. It is nec- essary, therefor, that every scientist should know the boundary of his subject in some one direction, and to 14