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

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THE College of Applied Science is divided into five major departments under the present system of education at Montana State College. These departments include Applied Science, Botany and Bacteriology. Chemistry, Entomology, and Physical Education. Courses in these departments all lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science. Upon this college rests the responsibility of acquainting the students, including those who are registered in other colleges than the College of Applied Science, with the fundamental sciences. With the help of a capable staff of professors, the student is afforded the opportunity of becoming acquainted with everyday science, and preparing himself for entrance into the struggle of life either in a general way or as a specialist. In this way the student is allowed to choose that type of work for which he is best fitted. If he desires to enter a profession, he will find himself capable of grasp- ing the more specialized subjects because of his firm foundation in the rudiments of science and its applications. On the other hand, the courses in history and modern languages place the student in a position to meet people of a high social caliber and to talk to them in terms that will indicate the possession of true culture. In carrying out the plan of education in this college, an effort has been made to combine as much practical work as possible with the theoretical studies that are offered. Well equipped laboratories facilitate high grade practical scientific work. There is an added incentive to good work in the fact that the best students in certain departments are given the opportunity of working in the laboratories of the experiment station, where valuable knowledge of science, in its relation to agriculture and industry, may be obtained. Theory, in quantities which would take a good many more than the usual four years to cover, is obtainable in the libraries of the several departments in the form of the best books on general and specialized scientific material. The quality of the library books insures accuracy and aids greatly in developing the desired proficiency of the student. The College of Applied Science thus takes its place among the highest ranking divisions of the institution. Here it is that the student learns the story of the past in order that he may profit by the experience of others, and here it is that he learns those subjects which constitute a broad education and fit him at once for active participation in college life and. finally, in everyday life. Twenty-eight

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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

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THE College of Household and Industrial Arts at the present time embraces the departments of Home Economics, Applied Art. and Secretarial Science. The story of the development of this college from its conception, to the present well organized branch of our institution, is interesting and worthy of note. Twenty years ago there were about one hundred women students on the campus, with few common interests. The only event which brought all the women together was the initiation of the “Does,” an organization of women that fostered fraternalism among the women students and carried out the plan of initiating into the organization the freshmen women who had completed their first semester in college. Main Entrance Herrick Hall About that time Hamilton Hall was built and named for Emma Scheidler Hamilton. The wonderful growth of the women’s division of the college may be partially realized when we note that at the beginning of the history of Hamilton Hall only sixteen women toot residence there. Following the World War there was a reorganization of the college into a quarter basis under the chancellor system which made it necessary to organize the college into divisions or separate colleges of work. At that time Home Economics. Art. Physical Education, and Applied Science were included in the women’s division. Later, when the new gymnasium was built, the Physical Education Department took over all physical education for women. Still later, the Applied Science course for women enlarged its borders and became the College of Applied Science. In conjunction with this change, men students were admitted to this division of scientific education. In the autumn of 1925. Herrick Hall became the headquarters for the women’s division. Since that time the Department of Secretarial Science has been added to the College of Household and Industrial Arts. From this college have come numerous activities and worth-while additions to the curricula of the women students, among them being the course in Freshmen College Life. The Vocational Congress for Girls originated here, the ideals of which later found expression in the development of a Boy’s Vocational Congress, and finally resulted in the evolution of High School Week. It is also to this college that must be accredited Women’s Day, that event which is such a fitting celebration for the finale of the school year. Twenty-nine