Montana State University Bozeman - Montanan Yearbook (Bozeman, MT)

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THE DEAN OF MEN A loader is one who in facing a now problem knows what is best to be done. There is an old savin that the world steps aside for the one who knows where he is going . Formerly most leaders were developed by experience in practical life and came up through the ranks and there are now outstanding examples of self-made leaders. Scholarship as developed in the class room and the laboratory is an essential factor in leadership, but ii is only one factor. -Inst as important as scholarship are the (futilities of leadership that come from team work and human contact on the athletic field, in the student councils, in successfully managing a fraternity house, or in editing a college publication. Professor T. S. Adams of Vale says. •■Thinking is only the beginning of wisdom: action is essential to its consummation. Truth as it emerges from the closet is largely hypothesis. It must be refined and tested in the laboratory of life. After Luther Unibank had created a new plant in his greenhouse he tested it out in a real farm field before putting it on the marker. The student activities are the best testing fields that colleges possess for their prospective leaders. 1 »

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THE DEAN OF WOMEN Greetings to the Stiuents of Montana State College: We may now look back on the record of things done during the past year with pride and a certain degree of satisfaction. Great people have not always reached their goal just because of their natural endowment, but because of that certain peculiar quality of being able to decide what they want and have used system and industry in getting it. Montana State College lias a just pride in the women who have gone out to the world's service because they are establishing a type that is recognized in the social, commercial and industrial world. Montana State College women are filling positions of trust and responsibility- and tliev have gained their high places because they have applied brains and a steadv will to their processes of living in such a way that in return they have found the kind of happiness which in their innermost souls they know they really want. I

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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE In a geography of the United States published in l 7(i. or fifty years ago. there is the following reference to this State: Montana is yet to a great extent unexplored. It is known to have a fine climate, much rich soil and great mineral wealth. It already produces a large amount of gold. ’ The two principal towns were Helena and Virginia City. The population of Montana in U70 was iM.utm. Cattle were the principal agricultural product of the country. Seventeen years later, or in 1803. the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and the Agricultural Experiment Station were established: but ten years later, or in 11103. only four students had graduated in agriculture, which showed the little interest at that time in agriculture. From its establishment the College of Agriculture and the Experiment Station rook an active leadership in the agricultural development of the State, particularly in calling attention to her agricultural resources and pointing the way to their development. The work of the institution also developed leadership among many farmers over the State, men who aided the institution in pushing forward our agricultural program. About twenty-five years ago a beginning was made to enlarge the agricultural faculty and provide adequate equipment for instruction without which students in the agricultural course could not be expected. Ten years were needed to accomplish this task, during which practically all the present agricultural buildings were provided. The more complete knowledge of the agriculture of the State which the work of the Experiment Station brought forth led to a large influx of new farm settlers, and from this an increasing student attendance in the College of Agriculture. This training of leaders is. and should be, a large part of the work of the College of Agriculture. Hy so doing, it very greatly broadens the agricultural service it can render to the people of the State and Nation. It is the only institution in the State that is equipped to train these students for this wide range of service. We are trying to do the job as effectively as possible. Dean I.ixfiei.d