DEPARTMENT REPORTS 145 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL 



SCIENCE. 



Sir: — In conformity with the custom, I hereby present to you a brief 

 report of the Department of History and Political Science for the 

 academic year 1922-1923. 



For the most part the work of the Department has been the same as 

 for the several preceding years. We have continued giving to our stu- 

 dents the elementary courses in History and Government which have 

 long been used in this College. In conducting this work the full time 

 of Mrs. Hendrick and myself has been required ; in fact, we have found 

 more hours of teaching than is normally possible for one to do thorough- 

 ly. This was due partly to the demands of the aforesaid subjects, and 

 in part was due to the fact that we have offered some advanced cou*rses 

 for the tirst time in the past year. This aspect of the work found ex- 

 pression in a course in English History to the students of the Home 

 Economics, Agriculture and Applied Science Divisions ; also a course in 

 the study of special periods. This year the class studied the administra- 

 tion of Theodore Roosevelt. The object of this course is to make an 

 intensive study of a brief period of time with the view of becoming 

 thoroughly acquainted with all of the forces, political, economic and 

 social, that may be found working in a period of exceptional interest. 



In the field of Government we have offered two new courses; one 

 in the winter term in the study of "AVorld Organization" in which we 

 sought to acquaint the student with some exact information as to the 

 procedure and accomplishment thus far, in the way of international 

 organization and control. In the spring term a second new course was 

 given in the form of Municipal Government — thus for the first time 

 has a course of this kind been attempted at M. A. C. Finally, I would 

 draw" attention to the fact that two sections of students were enrolled 

 in the course of Industrial History under the direction of Assistant 

 Professor R. S. Steiner. In this course we seek to acquaint the student 

 with some account of the development of industry during the centuries 

 of the past, starting our intensive study with the development of English 

 Industry in the 18th century and tracing the course of industrial 

 progress from that date throughout our American History with the 

 view of laying a great deal of emphasis upon the Industrial Revolution 

 and its effect upon human progress. It is our hope that an acquaintance 

 with the various aspects of industrial development may be of real value 

 to students in the pursuit of other lines of work in the College. We 

 persist in our contention that students need a greater degree of familiar- 

 ity with the facts of the past in order to be more efficient students of 

 the present. One obvious fallacy on the part of so many students is 

 that they think because they pursue certain fields of History in High 

 School they have exhausted the value of such study, whereas they 

 have in reality simply acquired the tools whereby to do some real 

 effective study in connection with the training in thinking which the 

 College period of education provides them. It is a matter of satisfac- 



