Montana State University - Sentinel Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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DEPARTMENTS OF STATE UNIVERSITY Coi.J.EUt: til- ' AliT lM»! nKM ' KS

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PUBLIC SERVICE DIVISION rHUE ' service work :it the Stsit University is tar- ried on in greater pro] tortious in rcrent j ' l-ars. The Slule University is actuated In Hie idea that, so far a ils resources permit, il should perform any publie service fur which it is more- naturally adapted than other existing agencies. For this reason, it undertakes various extension activities, auch as correspondence study, extension lecturing,, and the like. Courses offered in curresyx indent study recently an- included in cur- rieutums of biology, botany, business administration, economics and soci- 11 logy, education. English, geology, history and political science, homo economics. Latin, matheniat in.-s, modern languages, music, pharmacy and psychology, A bureau of public information was established in Oeloher, Ml lit. fur the pnvpi.vh- of furnishing free information lo citizens i I ' Montana o» various subjects. It is believed that |his effort on the part of the Stale University to assist the public has proved its value, and every person Becking information of any character is urged to take advantage of this offer of help.

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BIOLOGY l r ift:nxfir Mi HI l i i -I . Kl.linji Iiiftiriutiif I Id; 1 1 l . tfrlMPklfr OrifSKS in the Department of Rinfogy at tin: State University lead the student to a widely varied study, both in the classroom and the field Biology is the science of living things, their organic structure, of I he laws by which they are controlled, of their utility to man and their relationship to htm and of man s relationship to the world about him. Through ihe study of biology, the student o! .tains a knowledge of the world of life in which he is a part. The biological expert may enter federal research work, he may become a .sanitary engineer, he may direct and manage a museum, he may became a teacher or he may concentrate his knowle lge in medicine, Montana pre-medic students arc fully prepared for admission lo any medical school or college in the t inted States. An important part of the Department of Biology at the State Univer- sity is the Biological station at Yellow bay on Flathead lake. The Univer- sity owns eighty-nine acres at the bay, with nearly a mile ami a half of shore line, forty acres on Wild Horse island and forty acres on Bull (Idlewilde) island. Building equipment at the station comprises a sub- stanti al brick laboratory, a log dining room, a kite hen and a group of sleeping lenls. Other equipment necessary for research work includes sixteen and thirty-foot gasoline launches, a row boat, collecting apparatus and Juhornloi-y instruments The station is located in virgin forest between the lake and the Mission mountains, which rise to an elevation ot 8 600 feet at this point. An oppor- tunity La provided here for field work which cannot be accomplished in the regular routine of a university program. M