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

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D EDICATION Successful Institutions are the product of ideas, and ideas are born of the minds of men. However, mere ideas do not make great institutions. Without ideals, success cannot pass beyond a certain limitation. fiThe noteworthy growth and achievements of Montana State College have given her the right to be called a successful institution; but her success is not ordinarily attributed to the thing which is truly responsible for it. It does not lie in the generous support which the people of Montana have always given to her, not in her expanding buildings, nor in the ever increasing numbers of men and women that go forth from her halls every year. Rather, it lies in the greatness of her ideal, adherence to which has given the justification for all these other things. flThat ideal is pregnant in the minds of every man and woman who has ever attended the institution. Acting on teams and as individuals they have alike, in the face of victory and defeat, on every form of life’s battlefields, shown qualities that could only arise from the inspiration of a truly great ideal. flThe Bobcat Spirit is not an athletic concept alone. It is Montana’s ideal. It stands for fighting spirit and for sportsmanship, for honor and integrity. But more than this, it is the will to do. It entails self-sacrifice for the common good, and it embodies the idea of never-ending progress. It is the finest thing that the College can give to anyone. flWith the sincere hope that in the more fruitful years to come it may not be lost, we dedicate this volume to THE BOBCAT SPIRIT.

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 THE MONTANAN 1931 A Record in Copy and Pictures of the College Year 1930-1931 Published by the Associated Students Montana State College Bozeman Volume Twenty-four

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ORE1DORD This volume contains the story of the past school year. It has no greater aim than to put in lasting form that which Montana students will want to remember of the Blue and Gold days of 1930-1931. flThiS is a far cry from the policy of many Montanans of the past, for it has long been the custom of each incoming annual staff to attempt to outdo its predecessor in the use of an original and magnificent theme. However. Volume twenty-four must remain out of the competition. Its theme is the College itself, and the staff has attempted to eliminate anything not in harmony with this. It is a college annual and it has no wish to be anything other than collegiate. tlln order to keep the book on an artistic level with those of the past, and to preserve unity throughout, a decorative theme has been introduced and the accepted principles of bookmaking followed, while events have been arranged in their natural order and an index added so that it may also serve as a reference volume. However, the following out of the ideas embodied above has not been allowed to interfere with the attainment of the real object—that of recording accurately and faithfully the events of the college year. fiThis is a loyal Montanan. If it seeks to be collegiate, it also seeks to depict our own campus life just as it really is. It believes in the greatness of its own college. It cherishes the ideals and traditions which make distinctive and dear to us, life at Montana State, and it upholds the Bobcat Spirit as a vital living thing.