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

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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

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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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Montana Extension Seruice THE Montana Extension Service, one of the units of the Greater University of Montana, is the medium through which the teachings of Montana State College and the United States Department of Agriculture, as they relate to agriculture, are carried into the homes of farmers and stockmen of the state. Some of the states in the country boast over twenty years of extension work. Extension work actually started in 1785 in the early agricultural societies, the first of which was formed that year in Philadelphia. The work has been nation-wide only since the passage of the Smith-Lever act about sixteen years ago. Extension work, in an educational sense, is teaching; in a business sense, it is selling ideas. In the early efforts to establish and develop a nation-wide cooperative extension service, the officers were guided largely by the teaching profession. Later, because it had to “sell” ideas, it brought salesmanship into its activities. In Montana, extension work is supervised by J. C. Taylor, who holds the office of director of extension. His office and all the offices of the administrative officers are in the Extension building, which was the home of Montana State College in 1893. Montana, being such a large state, has wide variations of soil, climate, and rainfall. For that reason, extension specialists in the various lines of agriculture are kept continually busy finding improvements suitable to all the sections of the state. There arc specialists in agronomy, livestock, dairying, poultry, home economics, horticulture, economics and other fields. These specialists keep in touch with the work of the college and experiment station, work out practical applications for agriculture, and then distribute the information through the regular extension channels. At present thirty-six of the fifty-six counties in Montana have agents of the Montana Extension Service. EXTBNSIOK m i LDING Thirty