. .{)// rQ2 lQ) .. o@@ if[Fu@ o [TI) cd] 0 [TI) ~ cc: @ cd] ~ [p miCHIGAn STATE !e 0 L LEG E a Alma Mater Close beside the winding Cedar's Sloping banks of green, Spreads thy campus, Alma Mater. Fairest ever seen. Chorus Swell the chorus; let it echo Over hill and vale; Hail to thee, our loving Mother, M.S.C.- all hail! First of all thy race, fond Mother, Thus we greet thee now; While with loving hands the laurel Twine we o'er thy brow. -A. M. Brown. "Beside the Winding Cedar" Michigan State College Bulletin VoluJDe 34 March,1940 NUJDber 5 Published JDonthly ·by the MiclUgan State College DC Agriculture and Applied Science. Entered at the post office at East Lansing, Michigan, as second-class JDatter under the Act DC AUlluat 24, 1912. INTRODUCTION TO MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE • UNDERGRADUATE LIFE • COURSES OF STUDY • COSTS AND EMPLOYMENT HOUSING-FOR MEN • HOUSING-FOR WOMEN • ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS • Prof. Joseph Stack, Advjsory PrograJIl ChairJIlan, confers with a student. ONE OF the reasons for the low percentage of student failures in Michigan State College is the Advisory PrograJIl. Each student, throughout each year of his enrollJIlent, has counsel in planning his prograJIl and guidance on outside work and extra-curricular activities. About 175 faculty JIlem.bers assist with the Advisory Program.. New students m.oet their advisers the first day of FreshJIlan Week to plan the first year's work. Each adviser acquaints his group with the cam.pus, the Library, College traditions, and helps to solve problem.s the new student m.ay have. Students ordinarily continue with their first-year advisers until the Junior year, when they transfer to advisers in the departJIlent of their m.ajor study • • The Union Building (left) is the center of student and aluJIlni activities. WHAT WILL IT COST AT M. S. C.? HOW lD.uch 1D.0ney will I need for the three terlD.s of lD.y FreshlD.an year at Michigan State College? Answers to this ilD.portant question lD.ay he found in the following tables of estilD.ated expenses: MEN WOMEN Fir"t Term Matriculation ... .. ... .. College fee . ... . .... . . . . $5.00 40.00* Room .... ... .. . .. . .... . 15 to 48 Board . . ........ ... .. ... 60 to 75 Booka and Supplie" .. . .. 15 t o 20 Year $5.00 120.00* 45 to 144 180 to 225 45 to 60 Physical Education .. .. . 5.35 to 7.60 7.35 to 9.60 Deposit" . . . ... . . . .. .... 20.00 20.00 Total for residents of the Firat Term $5.00 40.00* 36 to 60 66 to 72 15 to 20 3 to 4 20.00 Year $5.00 120.00* 108 to 180 198 to 216 45 to 60 3 to 4 20.00 State . .. . .. . ..... . . .. . $160.35-$215.60 $422.35-$583.60 $185.00-$221.00 $499.00-$605.00 *Out-of-atate atudents matriculating after September 1, 1940, will pay an additional $20 per term or $60 per year. A fee of 50 cenu or Ie"" per term al"o may be aase"s.,..! from all studenta for the atudent newapaper. Although necessary expenses are kept to a lD.inilD.ulD., the prospective student is urged to prepare a budget and arrange to lD.eet expenses of the first terlD., preferably of the first year, before cOlD.ing to East Lansing. The College, of course, cannot guar antee elD.ploYlD.ent to all who apply for it, although the offices of the Dean of Men and the Dean of WOlD.en place sOlD.e students in part-tilD.e jobs. T HE Federal GovernlD.ent, through its National Youth AdlD.inistration progralD., for several years, has provided funds for the College to elD.ploy a few hundred students each terlD.. This progralD. will be continued in the 1940-41 school year, but one-third fewer students will be elD.ployed. Students desiring to apply for NY A assistance lD.ay write to Glen O. Stewart, AlulD.ni Secretary and Director of NY A Work, Union Building, East Lansing, Michigan. Throughout student activities at Michigan State College, a delD.ocratic atlD.os phere prevails, and the student with IilD.ited funds finds hilD.self at no social dis advantage. In its student relationships and in its classroolD.s, Michigan State deserves its reputation as a "friendly college." • The new Music Building (upper right) was de signed for use by students and faculty of the DepartlD.ent of Music. A band practice roolD. and recital auditoriulD. are included. The 100-piece Marching Band (lower right) spells "M.S.C." at a football galD.e. /; ;/ • The newspaper reading roolTI in the Union (above) provides students with hOlTIe-town contacts, and is a popular student lTIeeting place. Daily and weekly news papers frolTI all sections of the State and nation are available • • • Self-governlTIent in lTIen's and wOlTIen's residence halls, as in all calTIpus organizations, teaches responsibility and citizenship. This lTIen's hall group (top left) considers a suggestion presented by a student resident. • Meals in residence halls and the Cafeteria are prepared in clean, lTIodern kitchens (center left) under supervision of staff dietitians. • Stevens T. Mason Hall (lower left) and T. C. Abbot Hall provide rOOIllS for nearly 1,000 Illen. Residents forlTI the Mason-Abbot Club, which lTIaintains an active prograIll of self-governlTIent, sports, and social activities. ,lLL FRESHMAN women, except those who live with their 1'- parents, are expected to live in one of the donnitories Illain tained by the College and operated under the supervision of the Dean of WOIllen. ROOIllS for 990 WOIIlen students are provided in Louise H. CaIIlpbell, Sarah Langdon WilliaIlls, Mary Mayo, and North Halls, and in six co-operative houses. ROOIllS range in price froln $36 to $60 a terIll for each student, and average froIll $3 to $5 a week. Board usually is between $5 and $6 a week. Undergraduate WOIllen not living in dorIllitories are expected to live in houses approved by the Dean of W OIllen. WOIllen wishing full inforIllation concerning rooms in dormi tories, reservations, and rooms in private homes Illay write to the Director of WOIllen's Housing, Office of the Dean of WOIllen, AdIllinistration Building, East Lansing, Michigan. • A pleasant atIllosphere and desirable study con ditions are found in wOIllen's residence halls (right) . ( j ELISABETH CONRAD Dean of Women • • Students find the Library (left) a conven ient place to study . • Michigan State Col1ege is known through out the country for its beautiful caJDPus. This scene (right) of the Red Cedar is typical. • On the opposite page lDay be seen part of the Agricultural Building. • New students meet President R. S. Shaw during Freshman Week (above) at a President's Convocation. • Practical experience in dramatic techniques (inset) , including acting, make up, and dramatic production, is provided in the Department of Speech and Dra matics. Student plays are presented each term . • • Faculty and students meet informally at Coffee Hours (top), and at other student or College- sponsored social programs. • Learnjng by doing, the student (lowe r l eft) is at work in a chemistry l abora lory. • A new, modern hospital, the Olin Memorial Health Center (lower right) , is available to all students. • The new $1,705,000 Auditorium and Theater-center f(] BUILT for use of all Michigan State College students and faculty members, student organiza tions, faculty groups, and many other orga~izations, the $1,075,000 Auditorium will be com pletely finished and in regular use in the 1940-41 school year. The main auditorium hall seats 5,000 persons and will be used by students for convocations, Lecture Series programs, Music Series concerts and recitals, all-College parties, and many other events. A smaller auditorium, which seats 700, is located to the rear of the main stage, and will be used as a theater for student dramatic productions. · Organization meeting rooms are located along corridors on either side of the main hall, and a large room in the basement will pro~ide facilities for exhibits and displays. New and modern studios of the College's radio station, WKAR, are located above the entrance hall. Programs also will originate from the main stage and from other rooms in the building. Offices, classrooms, and laboratories of the Department of Speech and Dramatics are found in the Theater portion of the building. Built to serve a variety of uses and to provide modern facilities for Michigan State College's large student body, the Auditorium is ont! of the largest in Michigan. The Lecture Series and the Concert Series, designed to supplement classroom training and to provide students with a broad social and cultural background, are two of the many student programs scheduled to be held in the new Auditorium in the 1940-41 school year. .r meetings, lectures, concerts, and dramatic productions. , ) STUDENTS attending Michigan State College in the 1940-41 school year will use all of the eight new buildings recently cOlnpleted. Besides dorIIlitories, the building prograIIl included the AuditoriuIIl, Olin MeIIlorial Health Center, Livestock Pavilion, Music Building, Veterinary Science Clinic, and Frederick Cowles Jenison Men's GYIIlnasiuIIl and Fieldhouse. Total cost of the self-financed building and iIIlproveIIlent prograIIl was $5,435,288. It was IIlade possible by PWA grants which totaled $1,735,546, and self-liquidating bond issues which are to be retired froIIl building inCOIIle and student fees. DorIIlitories cOIIlpleted in recent years include Mary Mayo, Sarah Langdon WilliaIIls, and Louise H. CaIIlpbeli Halls for WOIIlen, and Stevens T. M~son and T. C. Abbot Halls for IIlen. Clinic and hospital facilities for the entire studept body are provided in the Olin MeIIlorial Health Center. Students in Agriculture use the Livestock Pavilion for classes and exhibits, and the Veterinary Science Clinic reHeves crowded conditions in that division. The GYIIlnasiuIIl-Fieldhouse is one of the country's largest and best-equipped. The Music Building is considered one of the finest buildings for IIlusic use in any college or university. COIIlpletion of the building prograIIl increases to 68 the nUIIlber of IIlajor buildings on the Michigan State College caIIlpus. AGRICULTURE MODERN training in agriculture is based upon an understanding of the sciences and knowledge of effective farID practices and marketing. To acquaint students with modern, scientific farID IDethods, and to give them necessary background in basic sciences and arts, the Division of Agriculture offers four general series of courses: (1.) The General Agricultural Series, which includes majors in Agricultural Eco nOIDics, Agricultural Engineering, AniIDal Husbandry, Dairy Husbandry, FarID Crops, FarID ManageIllent, Poultry Husbandry, and Soils. (2 .) The Horticultural Series, with IDajors in POIDology, Vegetable Gardening, and Floriculture. (3.) The Landscape Architecture Series, with IDajors in Landscape Design, Munic ipal Park, and Estate Landscape. Students who prepare to teach agriculture IDay choose one of the IDajors in the General Agricultural Series. With its Livestock Pavilion, Illodern barns, and carefully selected herds and flocks, the Division is well equipped for the study of the IDOSt effective IDethods of housing, feeding, and breeding of livestock. The College farIDs of Illore than 2,500 acres provide excellent opportunity for the study of scientific agricultural Illethods. FORESTRY F OR YOUNG IDen interested in the out-of-doors and who have some practical knowledge of state and national resources, the Division offers the course in Forestry. Opportunities for application of forestry are provided for students in a required 10-weeks' SUIDIller caIDp and in extended field trips and field laboratories. SHORT COURSES The Division of Agriculture offers a series of Short Courses, Special Courses, and Conferences, varying froID one to 32 weeks. These courses provide an intensi fied and highly practical training. The courses are open without entrance re quireIDents or exaIDination to anyone IDore than 16 years of age . More than 30 Short Courses, Special Courses, and Conferences are held during each school year. ERNEST L. ANTHONY Dean of Agriculture • Students in Agriculture are pictured on the oppo site page at work in farID crops, forestry, and dairy hus bandry. The new Livestock Pavilion (lower) is used by students for classes and livestock shows. \ ., APPLIED SCIENCE THE DIVISION of Applied Science offers courses for students who want thorough training in a funda IDental science, training in Physical Education (IDen and wOIDen), or Police AdIDinis tra tion. Four series are offered, leading to the Bachelor of Science degree: (1.) The Applied Science Course, in which the studcnt .IDay IDajor in Bac teriology, Botany, CheIDistry, EntoIDol ogy, Geography, Geology, MatheIDatics, Physics, Physiology, or Zoology. RALPH C. HUSTON Dean of Applied Science (2.) Physical Education for Men (for coaches and teachers of health and physical education). (3.) Physical Education for WOIDen (for teachers and supervisors of health and physical education). (4.) Police AdIDinistration (for police officers, executives, and specialists). A student in the Applied Science Course IDay so plan his work that he will he prepared to enter a IDedical or dental school after graduation. A Wildlife Manage IDent Series, designed to train young IDen to fill adIDinistrative and technical posi tions in the field of wildlife IDanageIDent, also is offered. ClassrooIDs and lahoratories in the Division of Applied Science are housed in several buildings, including Kedzie CheIDical Laboratory, Physics Building, Morrill Hall, and the gymnasiums. PHYSICAL EDUCATION pURPOSE of courses in Physical Education is to train men as directors of physical education and athletics and as coaches in high schools and colleges; and to train WOIDen as teachers and supervisors of physical education in public schools and as directors of playgrounds. THE COURSE in Police Administration is offered in co-operation with the Michi POLICE ADMINISTRATION gan State Police to IDeet a growing demand for trained police executives. The work cOIDbines a study of the basic sciences with modern IDethods of crime pre vention and detection • • Tbe Police Administration Course includes train ing in the Michigan State Police headquarters (top left)~ Women students (lower left) are enrolled in golf classes in the Department of Physical Education for Women. ENGINEERING COURSES in the Division of Engineer- ing are designed to trRin the student in the fundalllental principles of the sciences which are the basis of engineer ing practice. There is also training in accurate habits of observation, and the student is acquainted with approved Illethods of drafting and cOlllputing and with the use and limitations of i nstruments. The curriculum permi ts students, frolll the Sophomore year on, to follow HENR Y B. DIRKS Dean of Engineering individual inclinations towards s pecialization in the following courses: (1.) Chemical. (2.) Civil (including Sanitary) . (3.) Electrical. (4.) Mechanical (including Metallurgical). In the Senior year the Engineering student has a rather wide choice in both non techn ical and technical courses . In the nonl-technical field, Illany courses in the Divis ion of Liberal Arts a .re available while in Engineering such choices as Electro plating, Chemical Enginee ring Des ign, Advanced Concrete Design, Hydraulic Power Plants, Radio Conlmunication, Autolllotive Engineering, Stearn Power Plants, and Industrial lUanagelllent are offered as optional courses. There also is offered the Engineering Adlllinistration Course, designed to Illeet the requirements of the student who has a natural aptitude and liking for engineer ing and to whom the business side of engineering industries has a stronger appeal than does the technical. Students who complete one of the series ill the Division of Engineering are granted the degree Bachelor of Science. Graduates Illay, under certain conditions, apply for aud receive professional degrees. The Division of Engineering is hou sed in R. E. Olds Hall. Equipment includes laboratories for each of the four courses which the student may elect, and laboratory training is an essential part of engineering instruction . • In w ell-e quipped laboratories, Engineering stud ents (right) make practical application of classroolll theory. Students have opportunity for individual work. HOME ECONOMICS . . . A s A STUDY of the problem.s of the hom.e and of the fam.ily, hom.e econom.ics is a broad field, touching m.any phases of hum.an activity. By utilizing results of research in the social, biological, and physical sciences, and by drawing on elective Liberal Arts courses, the Division of Hom.e Econom.ics offers a cultural education for wom.en, particularly suited to their needs. This type of education trains wom.en students for the various tasks of hom.e Illaking, such as care and training of children, the Illaintaining of the security of the hom.e, and the wise feeding and clothing of the fam.ily. MARIE DYE Dean of Home Economics In addition to this general training, courses in Hom.e Econolllics prepare women for positions as extension workers, lllanagers of cafeterias and tea room.s, dietitians, stylists, directors of experim.ental kitchens for food or equipIllent companies, or as teachers of the various phases of hom.e econom.ics. For specialization in the Junior and Senior years, students may choose one of the following fields: (1.) Foods and Nutrition (including Dietetics). (2.) Institution AdIllinistration (including Tea Room. and Cafeteria Managem.ent) (3.) Clothing (including Costume Design and Merchandising). (4.) Related Arts (including Interior Decoration). (5.) Teaching. (6.) Hom.e Econolllics and Nursing (five-year course). (7.) General Hom.e Econom.ics (including Child Development). T WELVE seniors, chosen each year by the Faculty for special distinction, have the privilege of substituting one term. at Merrill-Palmer School, Detroit, for one term. at Michigan State College. Practical application of work in home management is made possible in Home Managem.ent Houses. Experience in a Home Management House is required of all students in the Division. Classroom.s, laboratories. and offices of the Home Econom.ics Division are housed in a large, modern building devoted to the work of t.he Division. Laboratory training also is provided in Home Managem.ent Houses, the Union, and the Nursery School . • Women students in the Division of Hom.e Eco nomics (opposite page) have opportunity for practica1 training and application of classroom. teaching in the Division's laboratories. LIBERAL ARTS STUDENTS in the Division of Liberal Arts Inay take work leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree in anyone of the following five curricula: (1.) Liberal Arts (a Inajor subject Inay be selected froIn Art, Social Studies [Eco nOInics, History and Political Science, Philosophy and Psychology, Sociology, Geography], English Literature, ]ourn ali SIn and CoIn posi tion, Ma theIna tics, Music, Speech, and Modern Language). (2.) Business AdIninistration (a cur riculuIn designed to provide a basic LLOYD C. EMMONS Dean of Liberal Art. training for students who plan to enter industry, COInInerce, and finance). (3.) Music (Public School Music to prepare teachers and supervisors, and Applied Music in which students Inay elect one of the following branches in which to do Inajor work: Voice, Piano, Organ, Stringed InstruInents. Brass and Woodwind InstruInents). (4.) Hotel AdIninistration (a curriculuIn offered to Ineet a special deInand for per sonnel adequately trained in present-day hotel Inethods). (5.) Public AdIninistration (a sequence of courses to Ineet the needs of three classes of students: Those Inajoring in special vocational fields who plan to enter governInental service; those Inajoring in such forIns of governInental service as per sonnel, research and statistics, governInental accounting, etc.; and those persons now eInployed in governInental service who feel a need for additional training). The curriculuIn in Liberal Arts is elastic. Courses are designed to provide cultural background for students in the technical divisions, as well as to provide curricula for Inajors in the division. OFFICES, classrooIns, and laboratories of the Liberal Arts Division are centered in Morrill Hall, a building which recently was reInodeled to fit the needs of the Division, and SOIne departInents in the Division are housed in other College building·s. The new Music Building was designed to fit the needs of the faculty and students of the DepartInent of Music. Applied Music (top right) is one of the courses in the DepartInent of Music. Individual instruction and close faculty-student relationships help to personalize teaching (lower right) in Michigan State College classes. VETERINARY SCiENCE .... THE DIVISION of Veterinary Science offers two courses, the Veterinary Course leading to the degree Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, and the Medical Biology Course leading to the degree Bachelor of Science in Medical Biology. Departments, both within and without the Division, ~re well equipped to give full instruction in the phases of science that deal directly with the training of a veterinarian, and in related subjects. The four-year Veterinary curriculum is open to a student only after he has WARD GILTNER Dean of Veterinary Science completed one year of college work. In addition to considering diseases of do mesticated animals, the student is familiarized with diseases of pet stock and of fur-bearing animals in captivity. Special attention is given problems arising from the modern industry of fox farms and other establishments devoted to care of fur bearing animals. Graduates of this course are eligible to take the competitive examinations for inspection work in the Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture; for the U. S. Army Veterinary Service; and for state and municipal veterinary control work. Equipment of the Division of Veterinary Science includes laboratories in the new Veterinary Science Clinic Addition, as well as laboratories, offices, and classrooms in other buildings. MEDICAL BIOLOGY THIS course is designed to prepare men and women for positions in hospital labor atories, physicians' and surgeons' clinics, and in federal, state, and municipal health laboratores. A four-year course, it °also fits the especially-adapted student for either commercial or research laboratory work • • New laboratories in the Veterinary Science Clinic Addition (left) have increased facilities for students in this Division. • The Gymnas ium-Fie ldhous e a s it n e ared comple tion. HIGHLIGHT of Michi g an State Colle ge athletics in r ecent year s is the c ompl e tion of the Frede rick Cowles Jenis on l\'le n 's Gymnas ium and Fie ldhouse, whic h pro vides the Department of Phys ical Education for M e n with faciliti es for 13 inte r colle giate s ports . An intra-mural s ports program gives e very male s tudent opportunity for r e creation and phys ical development. Spartan athle tes compete in major and minor s ports from coas t to coas t, and the r e cords and s portsman s hip of Spartan t e ams are a source of pride to both s tude nts and alumni. Inter-colle giate competition is offered in football , bas k e tball, baseball, trac k, cross coun try , swimming, wres lling, boxing, fencing , tenni s , riOe, polo, and golf. In the n e w Fieldhou se is room for indoor prac tice for football , baseball, and othe r outdoor s ports, as well as an indoor track and a bas ketball court. Seating capacity for bas kethal1 is 9,000. The Gymnas ium ha s offices , classroom s . and practice room s fur the D e partme n t of Phy s ical Education. The s wimming pool is Olympic s ize. With e xce lle nt facilities and equipme nt and a we ll-planne d inte r-colleg iate and intra-mural program , Michigan S tate Colle g e affords opportunities for ever y stude nt to participate in the s ports h e des ires . HOW TO ENTER MICHIGAN STATE IF YOU are a graduate of a four-year accredited high school, or if you will graduate this spring, and wish to apply for adrnission to Michigan State College, attention to the following steps will avoid confusion: 1. Get an application blank frorn your high school principal. If he has none, ask the College Registrar to send hirn one. 2. Fill out the first three pages of the application forrn. Do this yourself. 3. Ask your principal to cornplete this forrn and to send it directly to THE REGIS TRAR, Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan. 4. When application is rnade, it is advisable for the applicant also to rnake tenta tive arrangernents for roorn accornrnodations through the Offices of the Dean of Men or Dean of W ornen. 5. When your application is accepted, you will receive a card certifying adrnission. BRING THIS CARD WITH YOU WHEN YOU COME TO MICHIGAN STATE COL LEGE IN SEPTEMBER. A PPLICATIONS should be sent to the College as soon as possible after the close of the first semester of the Senior year. A $5 late fee will be charged for applica tions for adrnission to the 1940 fall term received after September 16, 1940. A complete College catalog listing all the courses, describing them, and giving additional information about Michigan State College, will be sent by the Registrar to persons seriously considering the possibilities of entering Michigan State College. Inquiry concerning any phase of the work offered or any question about a particu lar educational problern will receive prompt attention if addressed to: THE REGISTRAR, Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan • • The campus in winter (opposite page left), as in Slllnmer, is distinctively beautiful. The Governor of Michigan (top) reviews a Military parade. Field trips (lower) further supplement classroom study and give students opportunity for individual research. COLLEGE CALENDAR Fall Term, 1940 Wednesday, Sept. 18, Entrance Examinations. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sept. 19, 20, 21, Auditions in App lied Music by appo intm.e nt with Music Department Secretary. Saturday, Sept. 21, Seashore test for musical talent. Required of a ll new students in Music curricula. Monday, Sept. 23, to Saturday, Sept. 28, Freshm.an Week. Monday, Sept. 30, C lasses begin at 8 a. m. Monday, Dec. 16, to Friday, Dec. 20, Final examination s . Friday, Dec. 20, Fall Term closes.