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

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THE DEAN OF WOMEN Greetings to the Stiuents of Montana State College: We may now look back on the record of things done during the past year with pride and a certain degree of satisfaction. Great people have not always reached their goal just because of their natural endowment, but because of that certain peculiar quality of being able to decide what they want and have used system and industry in getting it. Montana State College lias a just pride in the women who have gone out to the world's service because they are establishing a type that is recognized in the social, commercial and industrial world. Montana State College women are filling positions of trust and responsibility- and tliev have gained their high places because they have applied brains and a steadv will to their processes of living in such a way that in return they have found the kind of happiness which in their innermost souls they know they really want. I

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ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE To the Students of the State College Past ani Present. Greetings: Ir is most fir ring: that the Montanan should, year l»y year, emphasize some particular purpose or object. Very appropriate it is, that a college publication should make leadership its slogan. Leaders are horn not made. Leadership is built on honesty, ability, initiative, confidence in self, and a measure of aggressiveness, or a determination to keep working at the job. To a large extent it is this group among the young people of the country who decide to go to college. Many do not fill the requirements and fall by the way. Many manifest their leadership through association with their fellows in college. Others, developing more slowly, make their place later in lift . However, it is largely those who persist to the end of their college course, that we depend upon to take the lead in the social, business, industrial and professional life of the State and Nation. College is but a preparation, an aid towards more efficient work. Attainment is the result of continued hard, persistent endeavor, thoroughly and skillfully performed. For most of ns this is the task of a life time. ’I e not weary in well doing.

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THE DEAN OF MEN A loader is one who in facing a now problem knows what is best to be done. There is an old savin that the world steps aside for the one who knows where he is going . Formerly most leaders were developed by experience in practical life and came up through the ranks and there are now outstanding examples of self-made leaders. Scholarship as developed in the class room and the laboratory is an essential factor in leadership, but ii is only one factor. -Inst as important as scholarship are the (futilities of leadership that come from team work and human contact on the athletic field, in the student councils, in successfully managing a fraternity house, or in editing a college publication. Professor T. S. Adams of Vale says. •■Thinking is only the beginning of wisdom: action is essential to its consummation. Truth as it emerges from the closet is largely hypothesis. It must be refined and tested in the laboratory of life. After Luther Unibank had created a new plant in his greenhouse he tested it out in a real farm field before putting it on the marker. The student activities are the best testing fields that colleges possess for their prospective leaders. 1 »