University of North Texas - Yucca Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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Executives '-- X -'--I Department of Geography JOIIN ROBERT SWENSON, M. A. MARY jo COWLING, M. A. CIIAUNCEY LLOYD POLLOCK, M. A. Geography portrays the background of human ex- perience in space as history does in time. Both cor- relatives are necessary if men shall understand their environment and inheritance to the end that they may live abundantly and happily on the earth. The good life can come only When men have learned to respect one another and to co-operate with their combined inheritance to master their universal environment. For this reason Man and Nature and their mutual reactions are the sub- ject-matter of Geography. J. R. SWIENSON Director Department of Geography Department of History LEWIS WILLIAM NEWTON, ANNA IRION POWELL, Ph. D. Ph. D. CORA WILSON, M. A. JOSEPH LYMAN KINGSBURY, CLARENCE ALLAN BRIDGES, Ph. D. M. A. ' In a World Where material things and materialistic ideas very largely engage one's attention, the study of A history in only its romantic and colorful aspects would probably be justified. The faculty of this department Works with the con viction that a knowledge of the history of the more im portant social groups now existing in this World Will L- VZQSEXTON furnish an excellent, if not a necessary, background for Department of History the pLlI'Sll1t of any of the other school subjects. More than any other subject, perhaps, history cuts across and alds in the broader interpretation of other subjects in the curriculum. l 17

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EXCCIIHVCS Runv CUMBV SMITH Director Department of Foreign Languages Department of Government JOSEPH WILLIAM PENDER, M. A. SAMUEL B. MCALISTER, Ph. D. The Government Department is characterized by a hearty co-operation between the staff. Free and timely discussions are held and curricula and methods are mutually agreed upon. The work of the adviser is as- sumedby the head, the task being by no means burden- some. The members of the staff feel that, to the thought- l .. Department of Foreign Languages RUBY CUMEY SMITH, Ph. D. GEORGE R. HAMLETT, M. A. PERCY ERNEST MCDONALD, AUGUST GEORGE KOENIG, M. S. M. A. JOHN NEWMAN BROWN, M. A. VIRGINIA CALLOWAY, M. A. HENRY DANNELLEY, I-'I-I. D. He who has another language has another life. The Foreign Language Department Offers training in four languages, French, German, Latin, and Spanish. This training is both practical and cultural: practical, be- cause it prepares for teaching and for higher degrees, cultural, because it intensifies interest in one of the great- est instruments of education, widens one's mental horizon, and by contact with various peoples and litera- tures of various times, enables the student to form more intelligent opinions of our own civilization. ful, the necessity for an 'outstanding government de- J- W-,FENDER partment In a teacher-tralning institution is evident and Dmclor unquestioned. Department of Government Page 1 6

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EX6CUflVCS 2 . RUTII T. LEIIMAN Director Department of Home Economics Ilepartment of Home Economics RUTII TOWNSEND LEI-IMAN, EDITH LUECKE, M. A. M. A. JESSIE ELIZAEETII ACKER, LoIs ASHLEY PEARMAN, M. A. M. A. REBECCA MAE JoIINsToN, MURIEL E. WILLIAMS, M. A. M. A. Someone has said, I must know fifty-seven trades in order to run my home. The Home Economics Depart- ment does not pretend to offer instruction in all these trades, but it does recognize the fact that home-1nak- ing is far from being simply cooking and sewing, and that teachers of home-making need broad training. The work of the department therefore ranges from the de- velopment of specific techniques to the application of science, art, and economics in the solution of home prob- lems, and finally to the consideration of the very human problems represented by the nursery school, and the study of family relationships. Department of Industrial Education HUGO JOHN PETER VITZ, M. A. SAMUEL ALFRED BLACKB URN, Ph. D. JESSE DARNVIN HAI.I,, JR., B. A. The quality of all civilizations depends upon intelli- gence and character, or morality, in the order stated, for morality springs from intelligence, not intelligence from morality. Nor would it be difficult to prove thatpractical intelligence is more conducive to a high development of morals than upon mere theoretical intelligence. Industrial Education stimulates and quickens the in- tellect by the use of mechanical tools. The skilled hand confers benehts upon man, and each benefit so conferred exerts the natural moral influence of a good act upon the mind of the benefactor. The Work in Industrial Education prepares teachers of power to guide young people in their manual activities so as to develop to the fullest extent those moral, in- tellectual, and social- values so desirable in citizenship. H. J. P. VITZ Director Department of Industrial Education