/MONTANA STATE COLLEGE OFAORICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS I «’» lAf r W' \ ■ - V •■• H; ■ Education for Efficiency Montana State College 0/ Agriculture and Mechanic Arts Bozeman, Montana lU-LLETIN No. 4, VOL. 8. MaY I, 1911. ENTERED SEPTEMBER 7, 19(16, AT BoZEMAN, MONTANA, AS Under Act of Congress of ,Jmi,y 16, 1894, Second Class Matter Education for Efficiency VIEW OF THE CAMPUS AND BUILDINGS FROM IN FRONT OF HAMILTON HALL Page Two Education for Efficiency FOREWORD HE purpose of this volume is to ex- plain the kind of education that the state of Montana offers at the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Education for efficiency — for practical usefulness— is the purpose of the College, and the motto of this book. An education that will enable young men and young women to take hold somewhere — that will give them the knowledge and skill that will fit them for a definite kind of task— this is the aim of the College; and the explanation of this kind of education is the aim of this book. If you have read so far and are interested in this kind of education, take a few minutes longer and read through these pages and study the pictures; but if time does not allow you to do this, please at least remember the motto of the book and the aim of Montana’s State College, ‘ 'Education for Efficievcy. ” MILLING MACHINE IN MECHANICAL LABORATORY Pnqp Threp Education for Efficiency Page Four Education for Efficiency THE NEW MONTANA I N the ten years just closed the State of Montana has increased in population more than fifty per cent. With no danger of being accused of exaggeration, we may conservatively conclude from population conditions in older states, that a growth something like this, Montana will share with many western states for some years to come. A great industrial commonwealth is to be built up within the life-time of young men now living. The state is to receive hundreds of thousands of the most active and enterprising farmers and business men, who are coming from the eastern United States. Great systems of agriculture, irrigation and waterpower are to be planned and put into operation. Homes are to be constructed, schools built up, manufactures and arts to be intro- duced. Ideas, methods, systems of thought and action are to be adapt- ed to the special conditions which our environment and history im- pose. No more attractive program of constructive work was ever more surely offered to an ambitious peo- ple; and it is with an outlook toward the future, toward the New Mon- tana, that the work of the Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts is being planned. It is to prepare men and women to do the constructive work of the HOME SCIENCE LABORATORY— A CLASS IN COOKING Page Five Education for Efficiency THE COLLEGE BAND GIVES AN ANNUAL CONCERT IN THE OPERA HOUSE future that the College aims. You believe in the growth of the state and wish the younger gen- eration to be prepared for the tasks which this growth will impose upon thoughtful and well prepared citizens in the years just ahead of us. Look over the work, the methods, and the ideas that are represented in the courses, the equipment, and the faculty of the State College of Agri- culture and Mechanic Arts. The state demands efficiency for her coming citizens. Education for efficiency the College offers. Page Six Education for Efficiency EAST HALF OF CAMPUS, LOOKING SOUTH ON EIGHTH AVENUE WHAT THE COLLEGE OFFERS A. The following four year college courses, each B. leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science, are offered: 1. Division of Agriculture 1, Agronomy; 2, Animal Industry and Dairying; 3, Horticulture. 2. Division of Engineering 1, Civil Engineering; 2, Electrical Engineering; 3, Mechanical Engineering. 3. Division of Science 1, Biology; 2, Chemistry; 3, Home Science; 4, His- tory — Literature; 5, Mathematics — Physics; 6, Secretarial. The following courses, not leading to a bach- elor’s degree, are offered: 1. Preparatory School 2. School of Agriculture 3. School of Pharmacy (Degree of Ph. c.) 4. Art School 5. Music School C. The following special courses are offered: 1. One Year Course in Household Economy 2. Dairying 3. Livestock 4. Poultry 5. Women’s Course for One Week Page Education for Efficiency ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY PHYSICS LABORATORY VETERINARY LABORATORY Page Eight Education for Efficiency T he college, it has been stated in a form- er paragraph, is prepared to offer an edu- cation that will give men and women efficiency for the alluring task of building up a great commonwealth. Specifically what this means, is set forth in the outline just given. Atten- tion is called to the variety of the work out- lined. The college does train men for all kinds of agriculture that Montana conditions admit, including every kind of animal industry and the production of every kind of crop. But this, though perhaps the best known phase of the college work, is only one of the kinds provided for in its curriculum and authorized equally by the state and federal laws under which it is organ- ized. The teaching of “Mechanic Arts”— legally interpreted to mean engineering— is by law made its leading object equally with the teaching of agriculture. In the completeness of its teaching equipment for engineering and in the number and professional standing of its engineering faculty, the college asserts its superiority to any other institution in the state, and its equality with any other institution in the Northwest. No student in any Northwestern state, from the Mississippi to the Coast, has access to better equipped laboratories. But “other scientific studies” are also provided for by the law, and courses are organized, as has been shown, in chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics, pharmacy; and for students who do not wish to specialize in any one science, a course, which with considerable science also includes a good deal of work in history and literature. These courses lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science and offer among other things the best training available in the state for teachers of ENGINEERING BUILDING PROVIDED FOR BY THE TWELFTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Page Nine Education for Efficiency Page Ten science in the high schools. They also give a tech- nical equipment for a variety of positions in the industrial world and in government service. Other work in the outline above is planned to give (what the Morrill law, under which the col- lege is founded, clearly intended) an opportunity for the young women, equally with the young men, to secure a training for definite and efficient ser- vice. The course in home science which provides teachers of the subject, as well as experts in prac- tical work, the secretarial course, the courses in art, handicrafts and music provide each a training which looks toward a definite kind of efficiency; an ability to render good service in the New Montana. The college can now offer the young women of the state the best dormitory home in Montana, in the recently built “Hamilton Hall” for young women. The type of education offered to them, “Education for Efficiency,” will now have, it is believed, the same attraction that it has had for the young men. The state has need of their ser- vices. The kinds of positions for which the col- lege prepares young men and women may be seen in the Alumni list on page 13. Page Eleven Education for Efficiency GIRLS’ ROOMS IN HAMILTON HALL Education for Efficiency Page Twelve Education for Efficiency SOME POSITIONS HELD BY ALUMNI H. C. Gardiner, 1903, Veterinarian and Agri- cultural Expert, Anaconda Copper Co. C. T. Sacket, 1904 (E. E. 1907), County Engin- eer, Park County; Assistant State Engineer and Major of Engineers of Montana Nation- al Guard. Reno H. Sales, 1898, Chief Geologist, Ana- conda Copper Company. W. F. Sloan, 1903, Electrical Investigator for the Committee on Gas, Oil and Electric Light of the City Council of the city of Chicago. W. B. Freeman, 1903, District Engineer U. S. Geological Survey, in charge of Denver District Water Resources Branch. Lois K. Hartman, 1907, Instructor in Home Science, University of Utah. Ruth Flager, 1911, Instructor in Sewing, Butte High School. Edna Lewis, 1907, Instructor in Mathematics, Gallatin County High School, and member of County Board of Examiners. Edna Bull, 1909, Instructor in Home Science, Bozeman Public Schools. Frieda Bull, 1907, Instructor in Mathematics, Montana State College of Agriculiure and Mechanic Arts. Homer C. Thompson, 1902, Superintendent of Public Schools, Choteau, Montana. David R. DeMuth, 1910, 1st Assistant Engin- eer Hebgen Dam, Norris, Mont. W. V. King, 1911, Entomological Assistant, Bureau of Entomology, Investigating Spot- ted Fever Tick. O. S. Peters, 1909, Assistant Physicist, Bur- eau of Standards, Washington, D. C. Will Hartman, 1905, City Engineer, Boze- man, Montana. J. G. Locke, 1908, (C. E. 1910), Special Agent in charge U. S. Census of Irrigation, Mon- tana and North Dakota. Bert Hind, 1909, Superintendent of Power Plant, Madison River Power Company, Nor- ris, Montana. Ralph Benton, 1906, Instructor in Entomol- ogy, University of California; and Assistant Entomologist, California Experiment Sta- tion. Ermine Potter, 1906, Instructor in Animal Husbandry, Oregon Agricultural College. W. W. Spain, 1909, Superintendent of Baulch Publishing Company's Farm, Deer Lodge, Montana. Irvine Mountjoy, 1908, Electrical Engineer, General Electric Co., West Lynn, Mass. Harold Baker, 1907, Assistant Superintend- ent, Butte Sub-Station, Missouri River Power Co. Frank Spragg, 1902, Assistant Agronomist, Michigan Experiment Station. Edna B. Tracy, 1908, Instructor in Latin and English, Virginia City High School. Mary L. Alward, 1908, Instructor in Science, Pony High School. Elers Koch, 1901, Forest Supervisor, Mis- soula, Montana. Anne Breneman,1907, Teacher Eighth Grade, Bozeman Public Schools. C. Sarah Chaffee, 1906, Instructor in Mathe- matics and History, Rathdrum High School, Rathdrum, Idaho. W. W. Jones, 1901, Investigating the Effects of Smelter Smoke on Vegetation, Redding, California. Burle Jones, 1904, Manager Orangewood Nursery Company, Phoenix, Arizona. M. A. Lamme, 1903, Instructor in Mineralogy, Columbia University. Floyd Lorentz, 1907, Electrical Engineer, United Missouri River Power Company. Guy Kirscher, 1909, County Surveyor, Broad- water County. Lee Williams, 1902, County Surveyor, Powell County. C. D. Flaherty, 1904, Civil Engineer, Firm of Sacket & Flaherty, Livingston, Montana. Lisle Henderson, 1909, Assistant Engineer, Missouri River Power Company. Edward Kinney, 1907, Special Agent United States Irrigation Census. Effie Carmichael, 1910, Instructor in Do- mestic Science, Lewistown Public Schools. Hazel Fox, 1910, Instructor in Mathematics and Latin, Elgin, Oregon. C. W. Penwell, 1909, General Manager Lam- ed Telephone Co., Lamed, Kansas. R. B. Barnard, Westinghouse Electric Com- pany, Pittsburg, Pa. Archie Brown, 1910, Seattle Electric Com- pany, Seattle, Washington. Charles Henderson, 1910, We«tinghouse Electric Company, Pittsburg, Pa. C. C. Penwell, 1907, Westinghouse Electric Company, Pittsburg, Pa. L. R. King, 1904, Assistant Engineer, B. & B. Department, C M. & P. S. R. R. C. M. Fisher, 1908, Electrical Engineer, Wash- ington Water Power Co., Spokane, Wash. Lucile Brewer, 1909, Matron of Women's Hall, University of Montana, Missoula. Edna Vreeland, 1909, Manager of Y W C A Cafeteria, Spokane, Washington. Paul L. Mitchell, (Ph.C.) 1909, Pharmacist, Phillips Drug Co., Lewistown, Montana. Edgar W. Allen, (Ph. C.) 1910, Part Owner, Red Lodge Drug Co., Red Lodge, Montana. Page Thirteen Education for Efficiency Page Fourteen HOW THE COLLEGE IS SUPPORTED T he Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts is the specially favored educa- tional institution of the state. It enjoys a cash appropriation from the United States treasury, of $50,000 per annum. The land endowment, given also by the federal government, the largest pos- sessed by any Montana institution, is now bringing in half the funds necessary for the running ex- penses, in addition to the federal cash grant just mentioned, for this land income is included in the biennial appropriation of the legislature for the maintenance of the college. Last year three-fourths of the legislative appropriation came not from the taxpayers’ money, but from the income of the land endowment. The largest of the state institutions, the college .costs the taxpayers of Montana less than any other. The one thing the taxpayers must furnish is the buildings. The income of the fed- eral land grant and from the federal treasury can- not, by law, be used for the buildings. But though the citizens must furnish the buildings, the federal government does nearly all the rest. The annual income of the college proper aside from that used in buildings is now over $100,000. Page Education for Efficiency AT WORK IN THE BOTANICAL LABORATORY Education for Efficiency Page Sixteen Education for Efficiency THE FACULTY James M. Hamilton, M. S. (Union Christian College) President Professor of Philosophy and Economics Mrs. F. E. Marshall Professor of Art William F. Brewer, A. M. (Harvard University) Professor of English Aaron H. Currier, A. M. (Oberlin College) Professor of Modern Languages Miss Lilla A. Harkins, M. S. (South Dakota Agr’l Col.) Professor of Domestic Science Robert A. Cooley, B. S. ( Mass. Agricultural College) Professor of Zoology and Entomology William D. Tallman, B. S. (University of Wisconsin) Professor of Mathematics Frederick B. Linfield, B.S. A. (Ontario Agr’l College) Professor of Agriculture William M. Cobleigh, A. M. (Columbia University) Professor of Chemistry Joseph A. Thaler, E. E. (University of Minnesota) Professor of Electrical Engineering Alfred Atkinson, B. S. A. (Iowa State College) Professor of Agronomy Robert W. Clark, B. S. A. (University of Minnesota) Professor of Animal Industry Charles S. Dearborn, B. S. (Kansas State Agr’l Col.) Professor of Mechanical Engineering Deane B. Swingle, M. S. (University of Wisconsin) Professor of Botany and Bacteriology Robert D. Kneale, C. E. (Purdue University) Professor of Civil Engineering Orville B. Whipple, B. S. (Kansas State Agr’l Col. ) Professor of Horticulture Walter J. Taylor, D. V. M. (Cornell University) Professor of Veterinary Science M. Herrick Spaulding, A. M. ( Leland Stanford, Jr., University) Assistant Professor of Zoology Miss Helen R. Brewer, A. B. (Grinned College) Assistant Professor of History and Latin Miss Mary A. Cantwell Principal of the Preparatory School and Assistant Professor of English Frank W. Ham, M. S. ( Montana Agricultural College) Assistant Professor of Physics Charles E. Mollet, Ph. C. (University of Kansas) Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Frank C. Snow, C. E. (Ohio State University) Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Howard F. Patterson, B. S. A. ( Iowa State College ) Assistant Professor of Agronomy and Principal of the School of Agriculture Page Seventeen Education for Efficiency Page Eighteen Education for Efficiency THE FACULTY- Continued Edward A. Buddy, A. M. (Harvard University) Assistant Professor of English Roy C. Jones, B. S. (University of Vermont) Assistant Professor of Dairying J. Wallace Marshall, M. E. (Cornell University) Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering John H. McIntosh, B. L. (University of Georgia) Director of Athletics and Physical Training Mrs. Una B. Herrick Dean of Women and Instructor in Physical Education for. Women. Miss Florence Ballinger Instructor in Domestic Art William F. Schoppe, B. S. (University of Maine) Instructor in Poultry Management Miss Frieda Bull, M. S. (Montana Agr’l College) Instructor in Mathematics Harvey P. Griffin, B. S. A. (University of Missouri) Instructor in Animal Irid>‘Stry Ralph T. Challender, B. S. (Kansas State Agr’l Col.) Instructor in Mechanical Engineering Miss Lana A. Baldwin, (Women’s Art School, Cooper Union) Instructor in Art Rufus A. Barnes, B. S. (University of Wisconsin) Instructor in Chemistry Miss Abigail M. Hess, A. B. (University of Illinois) Instructor in Home Science Lyman G. Schermerhorn, B. S. (Mass. Agr’l College) Instructor in Horticulture Arthur A Perrine, B. S. (Armour Institute) Instructor in Electrical Engineering and German Herbert B. Bonebright, B. S A. (Iowa State College) Instructor in Agricultural Engineering Fred Kateley Assistant in Mechanical Engineering Miss Mary E. Kountz Assistant in Art Earle B. Oliver (Toronto Conservatory) Director School of Music and Instructor in Vocal Music Paul P. McNeeley, Mus. B. (Washburn College), A. M. (Kansas State University) Instructor in Piano and Musical Theory Miss Regina Barnes (Wooster Conservatory) Instructor in Piano Louis L. Howard Band Instructor Mrs. Mary K. Winter Librarian George R. Callaway Secretary of the College Page Nineteen Education for Efficiency THE GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM THE EXPERIMENT STATION C LOSELY allied with the college, but giving no direct collegiate instruc- tion to the students, is the Montana Experiment Station. This is an organ- ization of experts to investigate problems of agriculture in the most comprehensive sense, and to publish reports for the benefit of the people. It is supported by an annual cash appropriation from the federal government of $30,000 and by a somewhat larger appropriation from the state treasury. The station is not a part of the college proper and could do its work equally well if there were no col- lege here; but its presence is a great advantage to the college for many of its investigators give part time to instruc- Page Twtnty Education for Efficiency tion in the college (receiving pay pro- portionately therefor). This secures more expert instructional force for the work of teaching, keeps the teaching in close touch with the economic and in- dustrial applications of science, thus making for efficiency, and affords ad- vanced students association and partic- SOIL PHYSICS LABORATORY ipation with advanced investigators in science. While the Experiment Station then, is supported by its own appropriation and is justified by its immediate aid to the industrial ad- vancement of the state, its presence is a great advantage, though no ex- pense, to the college itself. CIVIL ENGINEERING DRAFTING ROOM Page Twenty-one Education for Efficiency Page Twenty-two Education for Efficiency VIEW FROM THE FOOT HILLS OF THE BRIDGER RANGE SHOWING THE COLLEGE IN THE DISTANCE THE COLLEGE IN ITS HOME COME idea of the City of Bozeman, of the surrounding country, of the college campus and ^ buildings, it has been the purpose of the pictures in this book to convey. The presentation is fragmentary, but it is fair representation; for a detailed account of these things there is not space available here, but the pictures are planned to tell an important story and you are asked to examine them with care. One thing may be noted here, which the pictures cannot bring out clearly; the city of Bozeman is the cleanest city morally and the most healthful city in the state. THE MONTANA FARMERS’ INSTITUTES The Montana Farmers’ Institute Board is made up of the governor of the state, the president of the college, and the director of the experiment station, who direct the work in the state. The headquarters of the work is at the college, and in this work many of the college faculty and station staff co-operate. This, too, is supported by its own appropriation, but its presence, like that of the experiment station, in many ways broadens the work of the college. Page Twenty-three Education for Efficiency ELECTRICAL LABORATORY Page Twenty-four Education for Efficiency A COLLEGE DEMOCRACY S TUDENT life in this college is less organized, less crystalized, than in older institutions. Traditions are in the making. This means that the newer western college life, like the newer western life in general, is thoroughly democratic. A large proportion of the young men who attend the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, are earning their own way, in full or in part. There are many opportunities about the College and Experiment Station for securing semi-technical work which has an educational value as well as a pecuniary reward. A young man who is in earnest, finds a cordial welcome. The college has won a reputation for its hospitality to new comers. There are the usual college organizations; and a college paper. The Exponent, of which the college is justly proud. The Christian associations of the young men and young women are notable for the help they give new students. The college band is well known throughout the state and also the college choristers, a mixed glee club. There are special clubs for the stu- dents: a civil engineering society which pub- lishes an engineering annual; a branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; agriculture, home science, pharmacy and art; a literary society, the Arena, the oldest college literary society in the state; a fair and grow- ing interest in intercollegiate debating and public speaking. College loyalty finds expres- sion in the “College Boosters” and their fem- inine counterpai't the “Boosterines.” FORGE ROOM, MECHANICAL LABORATORY Page Twenty-five Education for Efficiency SHEEP BARN COW BARN— JUDGING CATTLE HORSE BARN— HORSE JUDGING CONTEST Page Twenty-six Education for Efficiency ATHLETICS A THLETics form here an important part of the CO 1 1 ege life. Sports which are well organized are foot ball, base ball, basket ball, field and track athlet- ics and tennis. College fees and gate receipts of games have been sufficient to keep the teams well equipped and to pay necessary expenses. A new ath- letic field with a quar- ter mile cinder track is ready for use. The col- lege has an excellent basket ball floor. The basketball tournament inaugurated in March, 1911, for the high schools of the state, proved a most interesting event and will be repeated an- nually. Systematic physical education is offered to girls under the direction of the Dean of Women. Page Twenty-set'en Education for Efficiency Page Twenty-eight STANDARDS T he Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts chal- lenges comparison of its standards for admission and graduation with any other college or university in its own or any other states. Its collegiate courses are based upon a four years’ secondary course, the standard for first class colleges and universities the country over. It has the largest body of strict- ly collegiate students, judged by this standard, in the state of Montana. It is equipped for the work which it offers to do. It has an adequate instruc- tional force. Its work is accepted at its face value Page Twenty-nine Education for Efficiency AT THE LOOM— HOME SCIENCE SEWING ROOM Education for Efficiency HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT PARADE, MARCH, 1911 Page Thirty Education for Efficiency in the best graduate and technical schools in the United States. But while holding its standards high, it is still prepared to serve through several subcollegiate courses, the people of the state who for good reasons cannot utilize the opportunity fora full collegiate course. The subcollegiate courses deal chiefly with agriculture in its various branches, the mechanic arts, and domestic THE BIOLOGY BUILDING AND LOWER HEATING PLANT PLANT PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY Fage Thirty-one Education for Efficiency THE ART DEPARTMENT Page Thirty-two Education for Efficiency science, subjects as yet rarely taught in the high schools of Montana. For providing voca- tional training for students of high school grades the College has been doing pioneer work in this state, the effect of which is being widely felt. APPARATUS FOR WATER ANALYSIS Page Thirtg-three PHARMACY LABORATORY Education for Efficiency DINING ROOM AT HAMILTON HALL Prige Thirty-fovr Education for Efficiency WHY NOT COME to the Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts ? UPHE State of Montana and the Government of the United States are supporting this College for the citizens of Montana. Money in large amounts is being expended here. If the Col- lege can help you and you do not take its help, you are throwing money away. If you are able to render good service to the state, but fail to do your best because you are not trained to your high- est efficiency, you have fallen short in your duty to your community, which has a right to the best service that you can render. Perhaps the days for you to go to college have gone by. Perhaps you have the cares and responsibility of a family, and a business to maintain. How about your children? Are they to be trained to their highest efficiency? How? Where? Would the kind of education which this book describes, have helped you? Then give them a chance. If it is a question of expense, write to the College, tell them what schooling your children have had, what they want, what you can do for them, and what they can do for themselves. Per- haps a way could be found. If you can afford to send them at your expense, what better thing can you do for them? Please think it over. oscn...<.GRAPH .n k,.k