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

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THE College of Engineering is probably the most popular of all the branches of Montana State College. It has more students than any of the others and has conferred degrees upon more than five hundred engineers, most of whom are employed by leading engineering concerns throughout the world. Engineering education in the world today is an outgrowth of a popular movement early in the last century to promote the “application of science to the common purposes of life.’’ During the early part of the nineteenth century, the engineers were self-taught, as there were no opportunities for them to secure a scientific education in the engineering fields. The College of Engineering at Montana State, which was founded in 1893, was made possible by the Land Grants of Congress in 1890. The fundamental purpose of the College of Engineering is to fit the engineer for “a worthy place in human society and to enrich his personal life.’’ Undergraduate activity may be divided into three main headings, namely: The control and utilization of forces, materials, and energy of nature; The organization of human efforts for these purposes; The estimation of costs and appraisals of values, both economic and social, involved in these activities. An engineering education is a good general education; there is no warrant for assuming that the two have different ultimate purposes which necessitate two distinct programs for the engineering student. The distinction between pure and applied science is rapidly being broken down, and it is realized that the engineering education is not crass and materialistic philosophy which merely lends efficency to selfish acquisition. The College of Engineering plans to further “upright character, correct living, service to society, agreeable personality, and good citizenship.” The engineering instruction covers the fields of mathematics, fundamental sciences, and engineering principles. Courses in chemical engineering, architecture and agricultural engineering are included in the curricula. The College of Engineering includes not only the academic curriculum, but also conducts the Engineering Experiment Station. 'This year the Station has conducted experiments with various motor fuels, and is installing a seismograph for cooperation with the United States Geodetic Survey in the study of earthquakes. Results of these and other experiments will be made available to the public through cooperative meetings and the publications of bulletins and circulars. North Entrance Roberts Hall Twenty.six

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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

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THK College of Agriculture at Montana State College was organized to give Montana men and women a practical training in modern agricultural methods. The long distance from the large markets, and adverse natural conditions. have made the demand for these trained workers very great. The many superior products which Montana now raises, and the efficiency with which she markets them, is a fitting memorial to the success of these workers. East Entrance The College of Agriculture was Morre Ha founded at the same time as the rest of Montana State College, in 1890, which for many years was known as Montana State Agricultural College. The College was made possible through the Land Grants made by the national congress in the Morrell act of 1887. It is from this bill that the present “Ag” building takes its name. The early growth of the College of Agriculture was very slow, and in 1903 but four students had been graduated. The administrative officers of the college realized the need for a more modern school, and between 1903 and 1913 much new equipment in the form of barns and pavilions was added to the campus. This modern equipment, combined with the growing faculty, has placed the college on a par with the best schools of its kind in the West, and since 1913 the College of Agriculture has had close to twenty graduates each year. Students of Agriculture have a choice of majoring in many diversified subjects. The present curricula provides for the conferring of degrees in: Agronomy, animal husbandry; agricultural education, the Smith-Hughes work; dairy manufacturing; horticulture; agricultural engineering; economics; poultry raising and veterinary science. A course is also offered in which the student may become an Irrigation Specialist. This course is becoming popular and as Montana's Reclamation projects are developed, will become more important. At the present time only one-fifth of the graduates of the College of Agriculture are engaged in actual farm practice. The remaining four-fifths find their careers in teaching, county agent work, experiment station work, positions with the United States department of agriculture, or with the various packing companies and cooperative societies. This latter division absorbs the greatest number of graduates. The evolution from hand and animal labor to the application of powerful machinery and improved methods of technique in agricultural practice will create many new places which cannot be filled except by trained workers. In the future the call for these agricultural technicians will be even greater than in the past £3 Twenty-seven