University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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— a — THE QUIVER Science Our Science Department comprises courses in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Geography, all of which claim a foremost place in the Normal school departments, because of their practicality, their functional value in the world at large. At the present time there is a tremendous demand for teachers of chemistry and technical chemists in every line of industry. Each year a large number of men leave to carry on successful work in the industrial concerns or as teachers in high schools. That they arc able to do so is due largely to the efforts of Mr. Frank, who gives our students a thorough training in the fundamental principles of chemistry. Mr. Fling has charge of the Biology Department. With the splendid new equipment with which this department is well supplied, he helps his students to a knowledge of all living things. Mr. CIcmans makes us aware of and teaches us how to apply many principles of physics and agriculture. As Wisconsin is an agricultural state, these things are very necessary in the education of its teachers. Since communication has become so extended, the science of distribution becomes of vital, growing importance. Mr. Mitchell gives us a new sense of our manifold relations to all parts of the world. F. E. Mitchell Indiana State Normal School A.B. University of Indiana H. R. Fling A.B. Bowdnin College University of Minnesota University of Chicago E. A. Clemans A.B. University of Michigan J. O. Frank A.B., A.M. Indiana University

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j—B== J THE QUIVER History and Political Science L. W. Brigcs F. R. Clow A.H. Carlcton College Ph.IX Harvard When a student of our school places the subject .of History or Political Science upon his program, he is assured of gaining much knowledge and practical information. Especially at the present time, when history is in the making and new problems of government are arising every day, he cannot escape seeing the high need these subjects meet. They familiarize him with many phases of the development of the world and its people. Modern, European, and Ancient History, together with the development of the state and the causes of change, political and otherwise, knit into one great whole the past and the present. Miss Pieters and Mr. Clow have charge of the History Department, and Mr. Hewitt and Mr. Briggs the Civics and Political Science. These four instructors, who have these vital subjects in hand, are noted for their judicial turn of mind. Page 20 Aleida J. Pieters A.H. University of Michigan W. C. Hewitt It. Pd.. M.Pd. Michigan Normal College

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— o — THE QUIVER Mathematics Mr. Manchester -f Miss Webster = number of instructors in the Department of Mathematics. The Primary -f- the Grammar Grade -}- the Country School Course students make up the sum of those taught by Miss Webster. The many surprising new values which she gives to the antiquated rules of Arithmetic will help the prospective teachers to pass on what they have learned. There have never been X when she has not been = to the occasion. in importance to Miss Webster is Mr. Manchester. Advanced Algebra -f- Trigonometry and Analytical Geometry -f Calculus -f State Graded Arithmetic = sum of Emily F. Webster subjects taught by him. It has R. E. Manchester State Normal School. Oshkosh been his accomplishment tO A B-A M-Univer i, r of Michi an explain the Euclidean propositions and Newtonic equations to a class un-r- in attention. His knowledge = (if it is not ) the knowledge of Pythagoras, who solved to the salvation of some and the damnation of others, the tangling theorem now bearing his name. The course in Mathematics is a popular one and .•. has at all times a large enrollment. Both teachers have “heads for figures, but neither is a figure-head in the Oshkosh Normal School. Our New Library It would be difficult to find a more attractive and spacious library in any school or college than the one just completed in the Oshkosh Normal School. Its dimensions are one hundred and twenty feet in length and sixty feet in width. The main entrance opens into the delivery space. This gives access on the south to the main reading room, which occupies the center of the building and runs up through two stories. It is lighted by a large skylight and great windows. On the south and east of the main reading room is the stack, and on the west the rooms designed for cataloging and bibliography and the Librarian’s office. To the north of the delivery space is a room containing all juvenile books, properly graded for children. The walls of this room r • are lined to the height of eight feet with bookcases and oak paneling. The entire library is finished in quarter-sawed oak of a grayish brown finish. The walls and equipment harmonize in tone. The main room will be able to accommodate three hundred readers. One side of the room will be devoted to magazines, and the other side will contain standard authors for “browsing.” simply following the lead of other recent college libraries , in supplying a place where reading for its own sake may • be encouraged and stimulated. The stack room will have a capacity of 30,000 volumes. Louise F. Encking Pratt Institute, School of Library Science University of Chicago Bernice Reid R.S. Northwestern University Page 22