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

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— B — THE QUIVER Fine Arts May B. Moulton Pratt Institute Art Institute Nellie Adams Smith Chicago Academy of Fine Arts The Oshkosh Normal cannot be said to lack the finer things of life when it has such a splendid corps of workers in the Fine Arts Department. Miss Moulton, Miss Smith, and Miss Cundiff have been with us long enough to know our peculiar needs, and Miss Williams, even though this is only her second year, is rapidly becoming acquainted with them. Miss Moulton, as director of the art work of the training school, and Miss Smith, who teaches drawing to prospective schoolma'ams, as well as design to school-misters, uphold the artistic traditions of the Normal. We arc most familiar with Miss Cundiff as leader of choral singing in general exercises and of the Glee Club, and probably appreciate her most in that capacity. However, she has charge of the academic work also. It is in this part of the work that Miss Williams assists her. Indeed, les beaux arts are well defended by this force of teachers. Who shall say which is mightier—the paint brush or the light-swinging baton ? Hannah M. Cundiff I etroit Conservatory of Music St. Joseph. Mo.. Conservatory of Music Thomas Normal Training School S| ecial Music Work in New York City. Chicago. London. Ont. Helen Glenn Williams Milwaukee State Normal School of Music Page 23

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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

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— Q — THE QUIVER Industrial Arts This department has lately passed its fifth birthday anniversary. Though its life has been quiet and uneventful so far. nevertheless it has been a busy one. One does not have to be an “old grad.” to remember the establishment of the department on a firm basis in 1912, the outgrowth of the older manual training course. In the fall of 1913 the department was installed in its new quarters. From that date on its prosperity began. Even this year, when the draft and the industrial demands have made heavy inroads on the enrollment of all educational institutions, the department has nearly held its own. Up to January, 1918, it has graduated one hundred and nine students. Many are filling high positions in the teaching profession and also in commercial lines. Its graduates are to be found in sixteen states of the Union and in Porto Rico. When the department celebrates its tenth anniversary, may its record be as excellent a one and its growth as healthy as during the past five years. l Hans W. Schmidt Frank M. Karnes A.R. University of Minnesota State Normal School. Oshkosh University of Berlin. (Icrmany Stout Institute University of Chicago R. E. Gkuknhagkn University of Wisconsin Page -4