Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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THE POLY The Music School has begun instruction in its new building and, with increased equipment, it is possible to do the best Work. The man- agement is under the best of instructors, Which supplies a very necessary part of what should be every girl's education. Our Art, Oratory and Domestic Science courses are also of the highest order and should also play an important part in the proper education of all young women. We also have a College Department of which we are exceedingly proud. The work is under the best of instructors with Dean E. T. Krueger as the directing head. For those ambitious for higher educa- tion we can offer the most attractive courses and combine them with any vocational education above enumerated. It is especially desirable to the student of limited means, for should he be forced to abandon his college courses, he will not be thrown upon the World unable to take a place in a Well-paid position, but he can demand a good salary in the line of his training and his years in college will be so much gained. THE TWO GREAT AIMS OF THE POLYTECHNIC The institute from its inception has had two chief aims in all its work. Its first idea has been to make good citizens. Its second, to help its students to choose their proper vocations in life, and then to nt them to give the best possible service in these vocations. In training for citizenship and for life it firmly believes that all sides of the boy or girl should be developed symmetrically. Unless the moral part of one's nature is properly built up the Whole life structure fails. The school seal shows very concisely and clearly the idea of the all around development nurtured in the Polytechnic. At the base of a shield and helping to form the two sides of the same are the words skill and health, calling for the trained mind and perfect, well-controlled body-the best possible use of the God-given power in every individual. About these two essentials of a complete life stand patriotism and industry, representing the part the person should play in the world as a complete life if it is to perform its full service to the state and to society and be the happy, contented individual God intended every person to be. THE SUCCESS OF ITS EXALTED IDEAL The Polytechnic has an exalted ideal of education to uphold and maintain. The work of the past decade, fraught with many cares, greatest sacrifices and arduous toil, proves the worth of this ideal. Hundreds of young people have entered its open door, remained for a brief periodland gone out to take their places in the world's battles. Imbued with the spirit of the Polytechnic, trained in its class rooms, on the farm and in the shops, inspired by contact with the helpful teachers and other earnest workers, made better by chapel services and talks of great religious leaders, they have gone forth to occupy their places in life faithfully and well. Whether on the distant fields of France, Where some have laid down their lives for democracy, or on the mission fields of Asia, suffering untold hardships for humanity, or in the every- day life of the Northwest, performing ordinary tasks of the home, the school or of industry, the students of the Polytechnic are making good.

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THE POLY more and more the necessity of science as the best means of production. To be a successful farmer, one should be as well trained as in the most learned professions. The school's model farm with its splendid man- agement and ideal location in the heart of one of the most productive regions of the World gives our student the best opportunity. to study scientific farming, which will yield many times the cost of his education in the production of his own lands. Manual Training and Shop VVork should be a part of every boy's training, for Whether he aspires to follow out its teachings as a vocation or not, he will find use for the many lessons in every Walk of life. It is operated in close relationship with our Auto and Tractor course and our Engineering course, and its usefulness in both is very apparent. The training is given under an excellent instructor and We are capable of producing the most satisfactory results in this line of Work. Automobile and Tractor Engineers. The world's demand for food answers the question of the value of this course. Horses are no longer capable of giving to the farmer the Work necessary to operate our large farms. The powerful tractors have solved the call, but it remains for schools to supply trained operators for these engines that the most may be gained of their enormous horse-power. The need is a crying one and the young man who elects to take the steps necessary to train himself in this capacity can make no mistake. His success is assured. Our course is directed by Prof. R. B. Howard, a man with Government recog- nition, having served the Nation during the War in instructing our sol- diers in the many necessary details of the ponderous tanks and trucks in use With our army. Certainly no more need be said of the excellence of our service. There has been a long felt need in this section of the country for a high-grade academy or college preparatory school. The county high schools of Montana and Wyoming do not have a dormitory system and are not able to give the proper care and attention to young people who come from smaller towns and the ranches. The Polytechnic offers a thorough course in this line and is accredited with most of the univer- sities and colleges to which our students might desire entrance. THE NEW Y. M. C. A. BUILDING

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THE POLY THE FUTURE The Polytechnic with its mighty work to perform, its marvelous field of service, and its exalted ideals of education, has a Wonderful future ahead. The next decade will find it developed into one of the great institutions of the country, and who can doubt that in the not far distant future, this institution will have a name along with the other great schools and colleges of the Nation which have molded civiliza- tions, laid the foundations of empires and changed the social order of the world. E. T. E. MR. E. C. MacDONALD, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Mr. E. C. MacDonald has filled a very important position in the school this year. More than that, he has filled it well. As Superin- tendent of Buildings and Grounds, he has had absolute charge of the property of the institution, the provisioning of the battalion and the upkeep of the dormitories. It is safe to say that his work has kept him the busiest officer on the grounds, yet he has given to his every duty the most painstaking care and service. He has gone about his work with a smile and good cheer, making many friends in the line of his duty. As has often been the case, we have all found some occasion when Mr. MacDonald's accommodating manner was of considerable moment to us and in this not even the least among us but received our just share. Mr. MacDonald came to us from Good Will High School, an in- stitution a great deal like the Polytechnic, where he had served in a like capacity. He has also had considerable experience in the head- quarters of the Boy Scouts, and in that capacity learned many things that have been of the highest value to us in meeting the many problems that naturally confront the faculty of an institution like our own. MISS L. M. BEEBE Miss Beebe, in her capacity as office secretary, has been a most faithful employee of the directors of the institution. Her valued serv- ices, efficient methods and studied care have done much' to lessen the many burdens of the office. In fact, we have grown to rely considerably on her thorough knowledge of our methods to do much that no ordinary secretary would attempt. It is a pleasure for us to look back upon the ha.rd, grilling work of the office and note how studied have been her efforts to spare us the many little matters of detail with which one is so constantly vexed. She has been a faithful, untiring worker and her efforts have certainly been weighed and appreciated by all who have come in contact with her. THE POLYTECHNIC CHURCH As no community is complete without a church, very early in the history of the Polytechnic steps were taken to organize a church. This church was started in Mr. L. T, Eaton's private office, when five boys met to plan ways and means of making their lives count for the most among their fellow students. That was one week after the school was