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

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Greetings from the President The progress of education in recent years has come about largely through research, which is the study of phenomena. This method of accumulating facts bv means of carefully planned investigations has contributed in a large way to the body of teachable knowledge now available to students. The research method of accumulating facts has displaced our superstitions with the noble conception that nature is ruled through law. This gives us all an attitude of security which was not possible when we believed that the forces about us were governed by caprice and whim. The college student who secures lasting benefit out of his education must acquire the habit of getting and analysing facts. This insures the continued progress of the individual when college days have passed. The present age owes so much to the progress of education based on fact accumulating research that it is fitting to make this the central theme of the l! -b Montanan.

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Montana State Board of Education «1ohn E. Erickson Governor Ex-officio President L. A. Foot Attorney General Ex-officio Elizabeth Ireland Superintendent of Public Instruction Ex-officio E. V. I AVELElt W. S. Davidson John Deitrich M. Murray W. M. Bickford Frank Eliei. A. 0. Gullidge V. M. Johnston Administrative Officers Melvin A. Brannon. Tii.D. Alfred Atkinson. D.Sc. F. B. Linkiei.d. B.S.A. John C. Taylor. B.S. James M. Hamilton. M.S. Una B. Herrick Earle B. Norris. M.E. William K. Flew. A.E. W. H. McCall. A.M. A dele W. McCray Mildred E. Xemkck. B.S. Ray B. Bowden Chancellor of V. of Montana President Dean of Agriculture Director of Agricultural Extension .Service Dean of Men Dean of Women Dean of Engineering Supervising Architect Registrar College Xursc House Director Hamilton Hall Director of Publications

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Educational Piiourb in Montana Forty years is a long time in tin lift- of a person. but a brief jieriod in the lustory ol a state, in INS!) Montana had no state institutions of higher learning and less than a half dozen four-year high schools. Today this state supports a complete system of higher education organized into one great university, and two hundred and fifty fully accredited high schools. Both university and high schools are housed in commodious, modern buildings and are equipped with up to date laboratories, shops and classrooms. At the same time that they have been building and maintaining this splendid system of schools and colleges, our people have been developing the almost unlimited natural resources of our Treasure State. Millions of acres of land have been reclaimed and brought under cultivation, and millions of horse power of hydro electric power have been harnessed and made to turn the wheels of industry and carry our commerce. Thousands of homes with all the comforts and many of the luxuries of modern inventions have arisen where the Indian and the wild animals roamed a generation ago. Today educationally Montana stands among the most progressive states and the credits earned in our schools and colleges are accepted at par any place in the I nited States. r r 1