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

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w. M. COBLEKIH Dean of Engineering CCUSTOMS and practices transmitted orally from one college generation to another constitute in time the traditions of the institution. Traditions assist one generation to maintain the high standards of excellence set up by a previous generation. Traditions of special virtue and merit have a profound effect in shaping the character of life on the college campus, and in providing the basis for an institutional spirit so distinctive in its nature, that the same spirit does not seem to exist elsewhere. 'This spirit contributes to effective performance in the educational process, and to the social life of the campus. It helps to develop desirable traits of personality and a determination to render efficient service. Civilization has gone through, and will continue to go through, many phases. We are now in the economic phase of the world's history. During each phase, control passes from one group to another. The scientist, the engineer, and the technologist now occupy a foremost position in present day affairs. The educational processes of the Montana State College will place its graduates in commanding positions for service under modern conditions. zn Twenty-four

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UN A B. HERRICK Dean of Women A S I look back across the past few years. I am conscious of the substantial growth of Montana State College campus affairs and the increased interest of the students in the larger and vital world of events. I sincerely appreciate our affiliation with the A. A. U. W.f which is the finest possible connection and inspiration for our graduate women after they have gone out from college. It was after years of planning, correspondence, and inspection that the Mortar Board chapter was granted the women of attainment at Montana State College. Besides the departmental honors. Montana State College has an outstanding interest in the Spur organization—for here is the Mother chapter. It is with deep pride we point to their motto of “Service.” and I look forward to their expansion. These, with many other interests, give impetus to women student movements which will, no doubt, mean greater growth in future years. T wenty-three

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F. B. LI X FI ELD Dean of Agriculture A COLLEGE, its plans, its service, and its visions, are the creations of its faculty. Buildings provide places for work, while libraries and equipment arc needed as aids to the service the faculty can render. Legislators and Boards establish college and provide the means from which buildings, etc., are made available and a faculty employed; but the creation of a college is the responsibility of the faculty. We might particularize still further, and say that men and women make a college, or. in other words, the college is the product of the vision, the learning, and the service which individual men and women put into the college instructions. The College of Agriculture of the State College has been built around this ideal. Men first—men of ability, of vision, and high training in every position, and these coupled with experience, in positions of leadership; and the only limitation on this has been the inability to interest men of the quality desired, because in a competitive market our finances and the opportunities we could offer were inadequate. With such men and equipment provided, students know they can depend upon the high qualities of the opportunities for study, and for the enlargement of their powers during their college careers. Twenty-five