Missouri University of Science and Technology - Rollamo Yearbook (Rolla, MO)

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A n leMac e jjJiowa tke . . . Dinectan. To The Student Body: Undoubtedly the engineer’s responsibility and importance are increasing in modern society, and this is as it probably should be, for the things that engineers deal with mean increased comfort, safety, efficiency, and ultimately additional time for enjoying the pleasures of life. In addition, his training has been systematic, logical and rigorous. In making their decision to come to Rolla for en gineering study students may have had this in mind, but it is to be hoped that a realization of it will early lead them to utilize to the fullest their opportunities while in school by contact with their instructors, and after graduation by contact with their fellow engineers in their professional groups. I wish for the outgoing seniors every possible success and pleasure in life, and for the students in the other classes such measure of sue- cess in their studies that as they approach the senior year I will be proud to offer that same wish to them. The director at his desl{

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Clayton Forbes Muilenburg Noble Jackson Schrenk Butler Frame Dodd “YOUR COLLEGE” From its meager beginning on -November 6, 1871 through sixty ' seven years of fortune and misfortune to its present progressive status , Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy has been a name nown to the Technologist everywhere. While it had only three graduates in 1874 with a total enrollment of about 30, it has steadily in creased to a graduating class of 93 and total enrollment of 707. The school is not nown for any one department but is given its prestige by graduates in all seven major curricula . Conceded to be the most general in its scope is the mining curriculum , which is supennsed by Professor C. R. Forbes. The field of mining is readily divided into three divisions; viz , Metal Mining , Petroleum , and Geology. We find the metal mining option to include wor in all departments of the school . One afternoon may be spent in Quantitative Analysis and the next one will find the student running a traverse in the school mine. The Petroleum and Geology options are more centralized. The Petroleum course raises, as special worl{ y classes in Natural Gas Production and Oil Field Deielopment which pertains to the drilling operations and handling of the crude oil. The Geology curriculum affords a complete outline of the formation and identification of various natural roc 1 { structures. A graduate of the Mining Department might be found along a jungle river of the Torrid Zone searching for platinum deposits or in the Arctic regions mining go d, but in any case probably in the open air . Metallurgy is a very specialized field of chemistry. This curriculum is headed by Prof. C. Y. Clayton. The content of this course is very largely related to the smelting and dressing the ores received from the mining engineer. Processes of flotation , smelting and electrometallurgy are studied as the means of concentrating and