Montana State University - Sentinel Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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THE SENTINEL 15 Students are in attendance from all over the United States. and the pros- pects are brighter every year. The years 1900 and 1901. on the whole were quiet, but yet were marked by several important events. New members were added to the Faculty and losses suffered by the resignation of old ones. In June Prof. .I. ll. Wells sent in his resignation on account of ill health and in the following August. Professor F. D. Smith tendered his resignation to the Board. Professor A. I.. VVestcott was appointed to fill the chair of Mechanical Engint-erittg to succeed Prof. Smith, and Mr. W. D. Harkins, to fill that ot' Clit-mistry and Physics. Miss Eunice Hubbell also resigned, in order to be niarri -d. Miss Francis Corbin succeeded her in the chair of English l.itt-rature. In order to accommodate the increased demand for an extended coursi- in Geology and Minerology. the State Board ot' Education st-let-tt-tl .I. P. Rowe to fill the newly made department ot' Geologv. which he has zilzlr done since. Miss Louise Hatheway of the class of '00, was made as: st-int in the i - lllUl,tNllCAl, h'l'A'l'ltlN. l l.A'l'IlliAll I..-Xlili Preparatory department. Mr. .Iohn F. Davies of Butte. was teiiarigt,-tl as er- pert Librarian. He systematized the cataloging of the Library. and put it in excellent shape for future needs. Prof. .l. M. Hamilton was added to the Faculty about this time also. lle immediately took charge of the departments of History and Psyt-hology. At the June, 1901, meeting of the Board of Education, he was olef-ted Vico- Prcsident of the Vniversity. At this time Miss Ruth E. Kellogg: was t'lltJSt'll

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i - THE SENTINEL .17 to take charge of the department of Elocution and Physical Culture for women. In the December session, Miss Louise Hatheway, assistant in the Preparatory department, was placed in charge of a department of English and Rhetoric. This department was created by separating the work in English and Rhetoric from that of English Literature. The General Assembly of 1901, authorized the University to issue seven- ty thousand dollars in bonds to be secured by the revenue from the lands, as before given. Of the seventy thousand dollars, forty thousand dollars was to be issued as soon as the bonds could be sold and the remaining thirty thousand dollars in four years, or thereafter according to the direction of the State Board of Education. Bonds to the amount of forty thousand dollars were sold early in 1902. a Building Commission appointed and the contracts let for two more build- ings, a dormitory to be known as Woman's Hall and a Gymnasium. The construction was hurried to completion and the buildings were soon ready for occupancy. A serious misfortune occurred in February. 1902, but one that was un- avoidable. Science Hall caught fire and the entire annex was almost gutted. Happily the loss was fully covered by insurance and the University suffered little. In one way it was the better, for out of the low, one-st.ory annex arose the two-story addition we now have, giving two commodious labora- tories more than formerly. These were finished in the spring of 1903. Behind the Gymnasium a quarter mile track was laid off and inside this was placed base ball and football fields. The grounds were graded and lev- eled, making one of the finest athletic fields in the state. Later on still more improvements were made in the field and track. Clay was hauled, spread over the grounds and rolled, a fence was built around the Gridiron and the tennis courts clayed and rolled also. Through these improvements we have an athletic field to be proud of. The Northern Pacific Railway Company donated the forty acres lying immediately behind the University and on the slope of Sentinel, for the purposes of an observatory, through the efforts of Dr. Craig. This land did not include the summit, but nearly up to it on the western slope. In order to acquire the crest, a bill was introduced in the session of Congress of that year by Senator Gibson granting the University the south half of the north- east quarter, and the south half of the northwest quarter of section twenty- six ,township thirteen north, range nineteen west. The bill was referred to a committee, reported favorably for passage. and passed the senate with but little resistance. The donation of these two parcels of land gives the Uni- versity a site unexcelled in the United States for an Astronomical Observa- tory. It is eighteen hundred ninety feet above the plain and easily overtops all other peaks in the near vicinity available for such purposes. Taking everything into consideration we may safely say that the years eighteen-ninety-eight and nine. and nineteen hundred-one and two, have been the years the University has shown the most progress. both in equipment, building operations and in fact every line. 1903 holds the record for additions to the Faculty-excepting the opening