Montana State University - Sentinel Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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. i I i ni Chancellor Elliottis Greeting Six months ago there appeared to he hut little pl'11spe t that the l'lass ol' Nineteen-twenty would have the t-ustomary opportunity to use its elironieling' pen, its memory-riyeting pliotograplis. its playful phrases in adding a distinetiyi- ehapter to the history of student life in Montana. The Vniversity had aeeepted the Challenge of VVa1', and was ahsorlmed in performing a proper share of the venturesome tasks whit-h the nation had laid upon all sehools. Studentship had suddenly eome to signify a new and eomplete eonseeration of personal enemy. aiiility and ideals to vietory for the everlasting' Right. The 1-onquering armistiee of November permitted us to return to the weaving' of the falirie of life: upon the new looms of the promised peaee. And the Sentinel happily fitted itself into the design of things that had to he. This volume of the Sentinel will, I hope, refleet from its makers, something' of the personality of those members of the University who gloriously saerifieed themselves and gallantly served the world eause of freedomg something of that sentimental 3tt3t'lll1lE'I1f for the University which in after years will he trans- formed and vitalized into an enduring' loyalty for Alina Materg something of the large part whieh the members of the elass have had in the making of the University as it is. If opportunity he fully aeeepted this Sentinel should prompt on-eoming elasses to he eonseious of new responsibilities for making the Univer- sity to he. Wliatever be the distractions, or the mood, every time I approach the Uni- versity myeyes and my attention become fixed upon the giant M standing on the steep slopes of Mount Sentinel. lt flashes a eontinuous message to me. Al- ways of Montana, the great, the greaterg always of the Manhood and Motherhood of the State that founded and sustains the Universityg always of the Mysterious Might. of Mind that, developed. aeeumulated, and exerted, means so mueh for the destinv of men. You have your Sentinel find vour M for your messa0'e. . ' . f .N . :- Q - l - -15-

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- l v 1 A 1' EH , L Message of Dean 811185011 If a greater test ean be made of a man's loyalty other than dying for his eountry, it is living for it. That test is now demanded of us. Nor is it necessarily the easier one to make. The millions of men who offered their serviees in the great war made the saerifiee for the ideal that Freedom shall not perish from the earth. Wlietlier or not this ideal shall be realized depends to a large extent, on those of us who are living today. The larger share of this great responsibility rests with the sehools and universities of this eountry. A free people must lie an intelligent people, The state of Montana provided men and women ready to fight the enemy, or to serve those who were fighting for our eountry's eause. It now stands ready to serve the living. Through its State University Montana is offering a liberal and adequate edueation to all young men and women who must soon take part in direeting the government and the soeial life of this nation. It is earnestly hoped that a large nuniher of boys and girls will take advantage of this offer by plaeing themselves under sueh supervision as will furnish the strenuous mental dis- eipline neeessary to fit them to fight for the problems of peaee as valiantly as those students who gave their lives for the problems of war. Mueh eredit is due the elass of 1920 and espeeially the editors of this Sentinel for their untiring efforts in producing a puhlieation whieh, while it honors our illustrious dead, also attempts to give to all the living a. vision of the larger life whieh may be theirs. 117-