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

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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

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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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eO E DIJC3ATIO NAR Progress The progress fop women students, during two decades at Montana State College has been interesting, from a small enrollment to the present very crowded condition. Hamilton Hall, the Woman's resident hall, no ' housing seventy-six. opened in January. 1!»11, with sixteen residents and today it houses less than half the freshman women. Because of the splendid high schools in Montana the preparatory department and short courses for women are long since forgotten. Every woman graduate of Montana State College is eligible to membership in the American Association of University Women. This national organization of College and University women has its headquarters and club house in Washington, with related branches in every quarter of the world. Our departments have Honor organizations and a small number of the junior women are elected to Mortar Board each spring. The women of Montana State College have a just pride in our progress as well as the standards attained.