The Rural Voice, 1978-08, Page 10It so happened that the next shot struck the green and rolled
up a slope some 8 or 10 ft. above the hole.
Since the green was "fast" the other announcer remarked, The
player would have to be very careful of his putt since a very
gentle stroke would cause the ball to "osculate" all the way to
the cup.
1 knew it wasn't the right word and thought he meant
"oscitate" which means to swing back and forth which didn't
seem reasonable to me. 1 was sure he meant "accelerate" which
of course, means to gain speed. Please look up the meaning of
"osculate".
In "the good old days" of no "spares" for teachers and
departmental exams for the students we at least were taught
use words of which we knew the meaning.
Who attends OAC?
One of the most noticeable changes in the student body at
University of Guelph's Ontario Agricultural College is the
steadily increasing number of women students. G.M. Jenkinson,
Assistant to the Dean of OAC recently took a careful look at the
OAC enrolment statistics from 1974 to 1977, and came up with an
interesting profile on the freshman class. Prof. Jenkinson began
with the OAC's Centennial Year 1974 in which the College
experienced what was then an all-time high in student enrolment
with over 2,300 students.
The number of qualified applicants has increased rapidly in
the past four years, notes Prof. Jenkinson, but the number of
students enrolled has grown much more slowly due to restriction
on admission at the freshman level. I n 1977, the last year of
restricted admission, total enrolment was just over 2,600
students.
The character of the OAC freshman class has also changed.
There are many more female students now, increasing from 27
per cent, or 111 of 422 freshmen students in the 1974 enrolment
to37 per cent, or 143 of 389 freshman students, in the 1977 class.
Prof. Jenkinson attributes part of this increase to the growing
number of women who enter the program with hopes of being
accepted into the Ontario Veterinary College, as well as women's
increasing interest in professional programs. (Ontario Veterinary
College applicants are required to have completed at least one
year, or two semesters, of a science degree program.)
The 1977 freshman class had a smaller percentage of students
from outside Ontario than did the 1974 class, partly as a result of
the enrolment restrictions which resulted in a higher proportion
of Ontario students' being accepted. These restrictions, notes
Prof. Jenkinson, also had some influence on increasing the
number of freshmen who are current Grade 13 graduates. In
1977, 364 freshmen were from Ontario, 17 from other provinces
and eight from foreign countries. In 1974, 386 freshmen were
from Ontario, 29 from other provinces, and seven from foreign
countries.
The statistics reveal that the metropolitan areas of Toronto,
Durham, Halton, Niagara, Hamilton -Wentworth and the County
d Middlesex send the largest number of students to the Ontario
Agricultural College, yet it is significant that over 60 per cent of
all OAC students have had some farm experience.
A break -down of the geographic origin of 1977 freshmen from
Ontario enrolled in OAC is attached. Although a few counties are
nd represented in the freshman Blass, every county in Ontario is
represented in the total OAC student body.
Ontario freshmen at OAC, 1977: Algoma 2, Brant 6, Bruce 5,
Cochrane 2, Dufferin 2, Durham -Ontario 21, Elgin 3,Essex 5,
Frontenac 2, Grey 7, Haldimand-Norfolk 4, Halton 20, Hastings
7, Huron 6, Kent 15, Lambton 7, Lanark 1, Leeds and Grenville
7, Middlesex u , Muskoka 4, Niagara 20, Northumberland, 5
.Ottawa -Carleton 20, Oxford 8, Peel 15, Perth 5, Peterborough 6,
Prescott and Russell 1, Prince Edward 4, Renfrew 2, Simcoe 7,
Stormont, Dundas, Glengary 9, Sudbury 7, Thunder Bay 2,
Timiskaming 1, Toronto 55, Victoria 5, Waterloo 8, Wellington
11, Wentworth -Hamilton 19, York 8.
R. 10 THE RURAL VOICE/AUGUST 1978.
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