Montana State University - Sentinel Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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T H E SENTINEL 19 2 4 fifin ShirffY tf. ( ' mitt Yes, the sketch is a good likeness of De Loss Smith, but it fails to show what no artist could catch, — the spirit of kindness and good -fellowship that makes him one of the best liked professors on the campus. H you were to listen to one of the Glee Club boys, he would convince you that Dean Smith, for he is Dean of the School of Ulusic, is a great scout on the annual tour that the club makes. De Loss Smith is a soloist of quality and an instructor of ability. Many say that he is a task-master , hut that quality certainly detracts none from his popularity and shows well in the accomplishment of the students. IV f.i.ss Smith is always ready to back a campus cause and can be counted on to sup- port, with hard work, the latest need. It ' s true that I Van Coon resembles one of those well dressed, pompous, dynamic, ' Big Business men that we find in the movies. But Dean Coon doesn ' t act and we ' ll wager that he comes closer to being the Big Business man than any of the movie pro- loly]«?s. As Dean of the School of Business Administration, he is reputed to know his stuff. His lectures are interesting and any- thing but sleep producing. The business- ad students swear by him and he has a wide following from those who have taken econo- mies under him. He has a bark that is much worse than his bite and his ever willingness to turn from the well piled desk in the Sim pk ins hall office to listen to some stu- dent ' s woes, wins him the friendship of even his H W ft majors. Dean Coon ' s school is a progressive institution and his grads are constantly finding that his courses are sure fire in the money gathering world. Ik ht. . Smirk

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ONE YEAR OF COLLEGE limit t ' .iitirlrs ■ , foljrf During the past seventeen years Dean Mollett has hovered over the SchtHjl of Phar- macy just as he nurtures one of those rare plants that he and the members of the school are raising constantly out in the little plot in front of the Y hut. But none of his success- es as a plant doctor ever brought him ball the joy that the past year of school has offered. With nearly fifty embryonic drug clerks, doctors, and nurses working hard to vindi- rate the personal in lei ' est that their Dean takes in them. Professor Mollett is feeling pretty proud in his quiet way. I-Jccause Mollett is quiet and soher ap| ear- ing he is one of the least known deans of the University. But — once you have broken ihe front, Dean Mollett hecomes a humorous, kindly professor, an interesting talker and a loyal worker fur Molilalia . He rather shyly admits that Montana , to him, first meant the Aggie school where the pharmaceutical department was organ- ized. Dean Mollett headed the school at the A grit-Li It m ' ii] College from 1U07 to HWi. when the department was moved to the University. We don ' t hold that against him. The artist drew this picture of Dean Spaulding in army uniform, not because the dean is a squad shark, but because the only picture he would submit to the Sentinel was one of himself in the war days when he was a captain in the A. E. F. Dean Spaulding, in reality, is the much liked, quiet head of the best Forestry school in the country. A practi- cal forester, a good fellow and a man — Tom Spaulding is a prominent figure in campus life. Dt;m Spaulding handles the shorthorn rangers from the brush as well as he leads •a grand march as a formal. He is a hard worker and expects as much from his students. The transit luggers, axe artists and botanist know I his and fail out I heir best to please him. In and around the cam- pus he is free and easy in being just one of the fellows. Few of the faculty have a hetter knowledge of student affairs and a wider circle of friend mitside their own departments. Dt ' titt Thomas, SpQULdiftg

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ONE YEAR OF COLLEGE President Charles U Ctapp The campus stories credit someone as say- ing that Dot- Jesse ' as Dean of Men puts up his court -marital front because he is natur- ally of a retiring and genial nature. We like that idea. The Doc came here as a man of science and professor of chemistry in 1!)12 and was just one of the fellows 1 Since taking on the dean ' s job he has a hard row to hoc and a thankless one. The bouncer never was popular in the days of yore and the clean is a conscientious boun- cer. Dot-tor Jesse has been untailingly loyal to the school and has done much to raise the academic standards in a fast growing Uni- versity. And after the cry of those who have left by his request has died away, many will say, He ' s a good head ' If you know Prexy ' Clapp you ' ll recognize this sketch, but it doesn ' t tell you much about the strength, broad vision and sincerity that have enabled him to guide the University successfully through the trying period of re- adjustment and expansion that followed the great war. Prexy came to us three years ago on the eve of the sudden growth that the University has undergone. Never a light task, the work of the president during Doctor Clapp ' s ad- ministration has been rendered doubly heavy by the construction of the new buildings of which we are so proud and the increase in number of students which has marked the transition of the University from a small to a large instit ution. Yet Prexy has been a tireless worker, and has showed infinite patience under a burden which would have broken a weaker man, He is never too busy to listen to those who want his help when in trouble, and is always ready with kindly and sincere advice and aid. Prexy is one of us; he belongs to the gang and merits the affectionate regard in which we all hold him. Dr. liuhird ft. Jn.w