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

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ONTENTS Book I Book 11 Book I 11 Book I V Book V Book VI Book VII The College Classes College Life Activities Athletics Organizations Features

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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.

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Alma Mater Fling wide your colors bright and true Sunset gold and ether blue. Fit emblem of our college days Proudly we our banner raise. When years have borne us far away. Memory will keep today. We’ll gladly owe to M. S. C.. What we are and hope to be. Oh, M. S. C , right loyally We offer songs of praise to thee. Long may thy power enduring be Alma Mater, hail to thee!