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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BGSU Key Yearbooks University Publications 1934 The Key 1934 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/yearbooks Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The Key 1934" (1934). BGSU Key Yearbooks. 9. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/yearbooks/9 Key Yearbook by Bowling Green State University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. 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And who's vision and untiring efforts so materially assisted in the establishment of the Liberal Arts College at Bowling Green, We dedicate this Book. The old-time Cavalier challenged a wide-spread and persistent belief in the sufficiency of the amateur, the untrained and the unprepared. Everyday expres¬ sions of our campus ideals provide us with a key which will easily reveal the spirit of the Cavalier in our college life through¬ out the year. Faculty Advisor Dr. Leon B. Slater Editor Mason Thompson Assistant Editor Wallace Pisel Business Manager Arthur Wohlers Assistant Business Manager . Janet Wright Assistant Business Manager . Sally Gerding Circulation Manager .... Howard Braithwaite Assistant Circulation Manager . Erwin Hagedorn Activities Editor Mary McMahon Assistant Athletic Editor Earl Brooks Assistant Activities Editor .... Bernice Fisher Features Editor Linda Dill Literary Editor Hulda Doyle Typists . Lucille Leidy; Naomi Curtis: Evelyn Baker Assistant Literary Editor .... Ruth Steckle The Key Staff acknowledges its indebtedness to Assistant Literary Editor Mary Vogel Professors Crowley and Biery for technical Athletic Editor Harold Seibert assistance. ]armnis SCHOOL FEATURES ACTIVITIES ATHLETICS r i 3! ■i$i> ADMINISTRATION DR. H. B. WILLIAMS President THE MEANING OF EDUCATION I have been asked by the Key Staff the concept itself. If I were required to write a paragraph on the above to define education in one word, the topic; otherwise, I would not be pre¬ word I should select is happiness. sumptuous enough to attempt a defini¬ To the understanding mind happiness tion of a term which Herbert Spencer presupposes a knowledge of the and many thinkers since his time have achievements of the race. This means tried to define. Education may be scholarship. Happiness also implies a considered as a process or as a result. progressive approach toward perfec¬ As a process it has to do with prin¬ tion and at the same time recognizes ciples and technique. As a result it that perfection is a goal susceptible it concerned with the ends to be of endless striving. In this sense edu¬ realized from its theory and practice. cation means progress both individual In this paragraph we are thinking of and social. Again happiness to be the achievement rather than the pro¬ complete recognizes a power in all cedure. The history of education is things not our own. Scholarship, duty, replete with definitions in terms of faith—these three, in proper balance, life enrichment, social efficiency, the are necessary criteria of the truly good life, etc., but these condensed educated person. statements are often no clearer than H. B. WILLIAMS 11 ADMINISTRATION Myerholtz Stallbohm Jordan Brod The administrative Functions of Bowling Green State College are divided into four parts. The clerical work is done by the Business and Registrar's Offices, under the direction of Mr. Jordan and Mr. Perry, respectively. No student will forget the penciled signature, "Gertrude Brod" on his registration receipt, nor will he forget the charming courtesy of Mr. Perry as he turns to your problem of schedule or chapel assignment; nor does anyone leave the registrar's office without an increased measure of good will inspired by the ^iendly cheerfulness of Miss Leedom who is ever ready to go an extra mile to find that mislaid blank or last semester's registration card. The courtesy and ease that characterize these two offices, together with the efficiency of their work, leave a decidedly pleasing and refresh¬ ing impression upon those who come in contact with them. The second administrative division is that of the two colleges. The College of Edu¬ cation is conducted under the able supervision and personal enthusiasm of Dean Clyde W. C. Jordan Hissong, to whom no small measure of credit is due for the character and ability of the graduates from Bowling Green. The College of Liberal Arts, created by legislative act in 1930 offers to Bowling Green students the advantages of a broad liberal training intended to make their lives richer and fuller in meaning and values; this college is under the leadership of Dean James R. Overman. The third administrative division, that of personal supervision and social planning, is constructively carried on by Dr. James R. Overman, Dean of Men, and Mrs. Maude F. Sharpe, Dean of Women. Dean Sharpe had the misfortune to suffer ill health during the eaHy part of the second semester, but her guiding function was assumed and well performed by the self-governing Women's League. Dean Sharpe builds the social calendar and directs the social activities of the college, and here again, she leaves much to the student Social Committee, thus fostering self-dependence and self-direction on the part of the student body so far as possible. Dean Overman also is well fitted to his office of personal guidance. C. D. Per ry Registrar 12 ADMINISTRATION Training, Administration and Science buildings as seen from East Wooster. •% He brings to his task a keen analytical mind, ever quick to see implications and solutions to the problems brought before him; and to this keenness there is added a deep sympathy and understanding of young people and their interests. President H. B. Williams, in his capacity as president, supervises and coordinates the functions of these three administrative divisions into one harmonious whole, and to his deep interest in young people and his enthusiasm for educational opportunities for them, is due, again, in no small measure, the fine reputation and vigorous progress which this college enjoys. Dr. J. R. Overman Dean of Men Mrs. Maude F. Sharp Dean of Women 13 "Read not to contradict and confute, nor believe and take for granted,—but to weigh and consider", deeply graven across the front of our Library, expresses the fundamental meaning of the College of Liberal Arts. Written by the Renais¬ sance philosopher, Francis Bacon, this quotation embodies the spirit of the re-awakened intellectual freedom which liberated men from the blind surrender to superstitions and destructive customs to which they had been subjected. The function of a liberal education, as restated through the centuries has been to develop within the individual the ability to weigh and consider that which surrounds him, that he may establish a point of view about which to correlate the many phenomena of his life. In this sense, he acquires a measure of personal power and mastery as he becomes oriented with respect to the forces and relationships composing his environment; and as his conduct grows more meaningful, he becomes in a truer sense an intelligently moral and social being. The era of narrow specialization is waning and THE college students are again commencing to appreciate VALUE OF A the value of a liberal education. Several reasons LIBERAL account for this change. A recent study of engineering EDUCATION graduates shows that sixty per cent are doing admini¬ strative work by the time they are forty, and that they complain that their technical training does not fit them to meet the larger problems of executive work. Leaders in other professions are also urging the necessity of a broader study of the psychological, social, scientific and economic factors underlying the technical work, so that the individual may be equipped to grow in his profession and to meet the changing problems which it presents. Another reason for the increasing interest in liberal education is the growing complexity of our society. For years we have been improving the physical con¬ ditions under which we live, and our success in this has resulted in a world with new and rapidly changing problems. Since these problems are economic, social, psychological and scientific, the wise student seeks an understanding of the fundamental principles in each of these fields, and the ability to apply them to new and unforeseen conditions. Finally the modern student desires a liberal educa¬ tion because he wants a richer life. Since he will probably have considerable leisure in the world in which he will live, he is taking courses in literature, music, art, drama and other subjects which will help him to get more happiness out of living, and prevent his becoming a bore to himself end others. DR. J. R. OVERMAN Dean of the College of Liberal Arts is FACULTY Sophomore Chemistry Loratory. Our fullest measure of self-control is secured only by so conditioning the forces and relationships of our environ¬ ment that we may achieve a greater and more harmonious degree of fruit¬ ful living.