Montana State University - Sentinel Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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SCHOOL OF IOURNALISM ARTHUR L. STONE Dean The Montana School of lournalism has iust finished the first year in its third decade of existence. lt was among the very first institu- tions of its kind founded in the United States and has en- joyed the distinguished A rating in the training of po- tential newspaper men and women. The school was started back in l9l4 when Dean A. L.- Stone set up a few tents and officially opened the can- vas flaps to the few students who came to sit shivering in a cold atmosphere. Only the Montana blizzards could drive the school inside an old bicycle shed, the sides of which had been boarded up and supplied with a few windows. After the war the school moved into a military barracks which it still occu- pies today. The recent pass- age of a bill in the legisla- ture, however, has given strength to the hope that the school may have a new horne in the future. Today the school features practical training in all fields of newspaper work. A com- prehensive background in all phases of the College of Arts and Sciences is required of graduates in addition to their professional training. Em- ploying the principles of a metropolitan office, students gather, handle and present the news for the semi-weekly Montana Kaimin. The print shop, added a few years ago, has rounded out the school's efficiency and com- pleteness and offers valuable training in its laboratory courses. Through outside contacts and news services more than twelve thousand col- umn inches of university news are sent out by journal- ism students and printed in Montana papers every year. ln the classroom methods of handling news, typogra- phy, advertising, copyread- ing, make-up, editorial writ- ing, public relations, libel laws and current events re- ceive emphasis. H , ' W A , . 'M' '-nf .mm T1 5 Dean Stone .... in the reading room .... linotype and press .... the Kaimin room .... Editor Raft checks proof.

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' Ei'-If ,vi v if - img- x. 1 W ' fl ET' Lvl. ' .v'1 F-.,- -v 'i IAGL3 ,F- Dean Spaulding .... history by tree rings .... equipment models .... models . . . . pictorial history of Montana lumbering . . . . the Foresters' secretary, Mary Wilson. -my 3 .. tl SCHOOL OF FORESTRY THOMAS C. SPAULDING Dean in a little room in the attic of Main hall the first classes in forestry met in 1912, under Professor Dorr Skeels and Dr. 1. E. Kirkwood. lt was called the Ranger school and was established at the state university by the govern- ment. The state legislature cre- ated the School of Forestry in 1914. Professor Skeels se- cured S35,000 from the gov- ernment and a shack, the one which now houses the A.S.U.M. store, was built for the school. This structure was used for seven years, but a rapid increase in the departrnent's enrollment demanded a larg- er and better building. ln 1921 the present School of Forestry building was erect- ed, and still receives acclaim as one of the finest in the west. Situated in the heart of a richly-timbered section of the state where every inland forest type of the northwest is found, the school enjoys unusual opportunities f or the practical work so im- portant in forestry. As much as possible of the technical instruction is carried on in the field. Two years' summer field practice is required of students in the school. Within easy reach of extensive log- ging, lumbering and lumber- manufacturing operations, field trips of one to several weeks' duration are required of juniors and seniors. These trips do not normally exceed EB75 a year and offer unlim- ited practical advantages. The school maintains its own nursery with a potential capacity of 1,000,000 trees a year, under constant im- provement and expansion. In addition, a valuable school forest of some fifteen hun- dred acres, loaned by the United States Forest Service for experimentation purposes, is immediately adjacent to the campus. Within 100 miles are 16 national forests, two other government timber re- serves, several state forests, a national park and several private forest protective asso- ciations.

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h 5 Dean Leaphart .... practice court .... Miss Russel's office .... in the reading room. SCHCOL OF LAW C. W. LEAPHART Dean Class A academic rank- ing, one of the most complete legal libraries in the north- west, the honor system of ex- amination and outstanding recognition among national law organizations are among the factors which distinguish the School of Law as one of the leading institutions of the State University. One of the oldest schools on the campus it was established in 1911, occupying one floor of its present building, then the university Library. In l923 the Library was moved to its new location and the entire building was taken over by the Law school. The school is noted for its excellent working library of 23,000 volumes. It includes the reports of the Supreme Court of the United States, the complete Reporter Sys- tem, all state reports up to the Reporter System, English Reports, English Statutes, Canadian Reports, the re- vised and current statute laws of all the states in the Union, citators, encyclopedi- as, digests and all leading collections of cases. 'lt has been built around the Wil- liam Wirt Dixon Memorial Library, a gift of Mrs. W. W. Dixon, and includes the gifts of ludge Iohn I. Mcl-latton and the seven thousand vol- ume library of the late Sen- ator W. A. Clark. Prerequisite to entrance in the school is two years of regular academic work with three years of pre-legal work recommended. The course of study in the School of Law itself normally takes three years. The case system of in- struction is employed. Spe- cial attention is given to practice court work in which the students are required to argue legal questions, try cases, prepare appeals and go through all the steps inci- dent to the trial of a law suit. A thorough course is given in the use of law books. The school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools, and is ap- proved by the American Bar Association. Graduates maY, in the discretion of the Su- preme Court of Montana, be admitted to practice in the courts of Montana without further examination.