The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-06-13
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Glimpse at tho Educational Work
Demo There.
eome OF the New Features as Outlined in
the New Catalogue Departments
and Lectures.

some OF the New Features Outlined in
the New Cataio=uc-Dcpartment
and Lectures.
Eighty members of the faculty and
sos students are listed in the annual
catalogue Of the Ohio State university
for the current year. The catalogue is
volumincus pamphlet of nearly oO0
pages, and is probably the most care
fully prepared and comprehe nsive Of
any of the catalogues issued by the liz
stitution. Its contents c.nbody much
interesting descriptive matter rel1tive
To the various departments, buildings,
etc, beside the detail ami explanation
usually found in such pablica iions.
OF the sos students who took actual
class work during the year now clos
ing, lis were Young women, the at
tendance of whom has grown until it
now forms one-seventh of the total
number of students. The records at
The university show that the majority
Of these young wcmen entered either
the arts or the philosophical course.
i heir studies were not all confined to
these lines, however, for five young
women took the scientific course, one
studied engineering and one will be
graduated next June from the course
in pharmacy. The interest which the
advanced woman is taking in practical
affairs is distinctly in evidence at the
university, where the young women
pupils are evincing n decided inclina-
tion to break the environments of Gus
tom and seek larger opportunities of
intellectual training.
Eighty-three of the students of the
university are in thcir senior wear. and
those of them who are successful in
passing the annual examinations will
be graduated in June. Nineteen of the
eighty-three, or nearly one-fourth, are
young women. Seven students are
taking the course preparatory to the
study of medicine, forty-six are study.
ing pharmacy, sixteen veterinary medi-
cine, seventy-eight agriculture, and
there are eleven each in the courses of
mining, clayworking, and dairying.
The law department has sixty7five stn.
dents, twenty-five of whom expect to
be graduated this year. a glance at
the list of students as printed in the
catalogue shows that they come from
almost all parts of the country. Ohio |
naturally furnishes the larger part of
the attendance, out there are pupils
from Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Wyoming, New York, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, California and number
from the two Virginias.
The faculty of eighty members is
divided, in relation to rank and posiz
tion, into thirty-seven professors, one
associate professor, eight assistant
professors, twenty-cight assistants,
three lecturers, one curator and one
librarian. Many of these instructors
are men widely known IN the lines of
their especial study, and some of them
have distinction in both American and
European educational circles.
number of new departments of in
struction at the university appear for
the first time in the catalogue this
preparatory to the study of medicine,
the course in dairying, the course in
clay working and the course in elocu-
tion and oratorr. Hereafter the course
in dairying will begin each year in the
first Wednesday following the lst of
January, and will continue 12 weeks
Butter making, as practiced in the
dairy farm, and in the creamery, is
taught, and the student
performs all the necessary operations
under the guidance of instructors. In
cheese making the principles are taught
with elementary practice. During the
second term the theory and practice Of
the selection and judging Of dairy
stock and the equipment and manage.
nent of dairy farms is taught.
The course in clay-working is de.
signed to give those who are engaged
n the manufacture of clay products,
IN opportunity to learn in the shortest
lime possible the rudiments of the
sciences which are most likely to be
Useful to them in their work. The ,
tate university is the first and at the
anne time the only institution in the
United States offering special facil-
ties for the study of clays, clay work. ,
ng and the chemical technology Of the I
eramic art. Chemical work is made /;
he main feature of the course. It is
by elementary physics,
eology and mathematics. The ce. ,
annie laboratory work teaches the stu {
ents to apply the knowledge gained t
-om their studies before leaving col. s
,ge, and thus opens way to the crea- Q
on of q class Of trained observers in G
le practical problems of industry. e
The course IN elocution and oratory, t
'hich also appears for the first time in I
ne catalogue, has been department
the university since last Scptembe s
he study of the vocal organs and !
luscles, with appropriate exercises, 6
institutes the first part of the instruc- s
on, while as the pupil advances they +
re given wide variety of education I
nd training in all that goes to make n
.ocution and oratory one of the ele- t
ant arts. t
During the year there have been a t
rge number of lectures at the univer.
ty, both by members of the faculty S
nd by educational specialists from ?
.her states. 1t is thought that even q
reater attention will be given to this O
ethod of imparting instruction than P
as been the custom in past years. n
The catalogue of the university for t
le ySars le9i-91 is III reality compen- s
um of useful knowledge and conveys
more nearly accurate conception of v
lie magnitude and Importance of the t
stitution than has any previous pub b
cation of the kind.-The Dispatch. v
The biggest contract for stone work :,
'er awarded was probably that re- =
,rted to have been made for the stone =
r the Hudson river bridge. The sum :.
lmed is above $4,000, 900. =
AT Berwick. Scotland, recently, the G.
ew of Banff boat were favored with +,
view of the sea serpent. 1t had eight 81
is, each asserted TO be as large as the o
ainsail OF fishing boat g
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