The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-09-12
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Glimpse at the Educational Work
#a Done There.
Some of the New Features as Outlined In
the New CataIoSue-Departmen
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
a voluminous pamphlet of nearly goo
pages. and is probably the most care
fully prepared and comprehensive of
any of the catalogues issued by the in
stitution. Its contents embody much
interesting descriptive matter relative
to the various departments, buildings.
etc, beside the detail AMI explanation
usually found in such publications.
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 women entered either
the arts or the philosophical course.
Their 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 4 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 their senior year. 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 med:-
cine. seventy-eight agriculture, and
there are eleven each in the courses of
mining, claywo-aing, and dairying.
The law department has sixtv-fyc stu
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, but 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 posi-.
ton, into thirty-seven professors, one
associate professor, eight assistant
professors, twerty-eight assistants, |
three lecturers, one curator and one
librarian. Many of these instructors
are men widely known IN the lines ct
their especial study, and some of them
have distinction in both American and
European educational circles.
A number of new departments of in
struction at the university appear for
the first time in the catalogue this
year. Among them are the course
preparatory to the study of medicine,
the course in dairying, the course in
clay working and the course in elocu-
tion and oratorv. Hereafter the course
in dairying will begin each year in the :
first Wednesday following the 1st of
January, and will continue - weeks.
Butter making, as practiced in the
dairy farm, and in the creamery, is
thoroughly 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
ment of dairy farms is taught.
The course in clayworking is de.
signed TO give those who are engaged
in the manufacture of clay products,
an opportunity to learn in the shortest
time possible the rudiments of the
sciences which are most likely to be
useful to them in their work. The
state university is the first and at the
same time the only institution in the
United States offering special facil-
tiles for the study of clays, clay work.
ing and the chemical technology OF the
ceramic art. Chemical work is made
the main feature of the course. 1t is
by elementary physics,
geology and mathematics. The ce-
ramic laboratory work teaches the stu
dents to apply the knowledge gained
from their studies before leaving coll
lege, and thus opens a way to the crea-
ton of n class of trained observers in
the practical problems of industry.
The course in elocution and oratory,
which also appears for the first time in
the catalogue, has been n department
Of the university since last September.
The study of the vocal organs and