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

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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

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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 in its permanent home. In a few days they had another meeting, and each boy brought another boy with him. These ten boys pledged them-- solves to use their iniiuence to help other boys to take a definite stand as Christians. The movement spread among the girls, and within a week there were over forty boys and girls asking to be organized into a church. The Superintendent of Con- gregational Churches, Rev. G. J. Powell, was called on for advice. He informed the boys that on March 14 Dr. Hubert Herring, then the Gen- ' eral Secretary of all the Congrega- tional Churches of America, would be in Billings, and that he would organize at the Polytechnic a stud- ent church. March 14, 1910, was a great day at the Polytechnic. At that time fifty-two students and teachers united in joining the Polytechnic Church. The creed of this unique church is a simple one. It is so broad in its principles that it can take into fellowship anyone who believes in God, the Father, Christ, the Son, and the Brotherhood of Man. REV.WALTERH.NORTH For the past six years it has had for its pastor, Rev. Walter H. North, who is also pastor of the First Congregational Church, Billings, Mont. Each year a large percentage of the student body have entered into the fellowship, and its influence doubtless has been more far- reaching than that of any other church in Montana. The entire mem- bership during these ten years has aggregated over one thousand, and they are today taking high places on both sides of the world. ,,.,aaww'W1 SHOP l