Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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BOTANY A SURVEY just completed shows former students of the Botany De¬ partment filling positions as missionaries, government employees, sci¬ entific technicians, health officers, explorers, teachers and home¬ makers. From Washington State to Washington, D. C., they have left their marks in colleges, universities, experiment stations and scientific lab¬ oratories, and the trail of their progress leads to Africa, Hawaii, Siam and the Philippines. From the rooms of Science Hall they pass, and the world becomes their laboratory. T HE Department of Zoology offers major courses leading in three directions. First, where the work is a more general survey of va¬ rious animals the Department offers the degree of B. S. in Zoology. Second, where special attention is given to insects, the curriculum leads to a degree in Entomology. Third, an arrangement of courses combines the essentials of zoology and botany into the option of Economic Biology. Besides the training of teachers and investigators, this department largely serves the College in affording foundation science courses to stu¬ dents in departments of applied science and elsewhere. Its workshops are the laboratory and field. “Know thyself first,” is the laboratory motto; the field classes, “Study Nature before books.”

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ENGLISH T O give to students a broad and clear vision of the problems of the world; to enable them to understand, appreciate and employ their mother tongue; to teach them to live for the world the ideals of a true democracy—such is the purpose of the Department of English. With this in view, the courses in English have been chosen and grouped in the various years in order to better develop the minds of the stu¬ dents in these channels. Shakespeare, Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Bacon are studied. Public speaking and the fundamentals of the English language are taken up from all angles. Newspaper methods, writing of editorials, fea¬ ture stories and magazine articles are the different phases studied in Journalism. f f ! l » ! l f M 6 i u ! l ' .» ( r !) l { l »5 i ♦ u i i i u 6 i t s5 |5 Z f i l $ i ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND HISTORY T HE expansion of Washington State College is perhaps the one thing of most vital interest to all the campus this year, and the Depart¬ ment of Economics and History is in the first rank in the endeavor to make the standard of the college broader. The growing need for a better understanding of the conditions in our rural districts has been felt by the faculty, and to meet this, new courses in rural social problems are being added. The department is making extensive plans for cooperation with the Red Cross and other rural organizations for the promotion of improved conditions and the training of leaders for these fields. A two-year secretarial course will also be added next year. This will embrace some of the work that is now being done in the Department of Elementary Science with some additions and changes, and will be consid¬ ered regular college work. l ■r i i t f i i i » i i » t IQ i t o ! c t ♦ i i d i i i f i j l t ! » ! f r Twenty-three