Montana Wesleyan University - Prickly Pear Yearbook (Helena, MT)

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Emfowmefzf Erma' There is perhaps no other epoch in the history of Wesleyan more important to the growth of the college than the launching of the en- dowment campaign in the year 1924. Students and friends of Wesleyan are enthusiastic over the prospects for a successful completion of the drive which will mean a 3300.000 endowment for the college in adddition to 2l42tm,o0tJ for huildings and equipment. Such a, need for Wesleyan has long been apparent. Difficulties which have hindered its growth in the past will be brushed aside by the financial foundation which this endowment will secure. However, Wesleyan is not to be downed by any such handicap as the lack of a permanent financial status. She has fought for and maintained a high standard of scholarship and faculty leadership. Victories have been won against other institutions of learning much larger than Wesleyan, both within and without the state. With the launching of the 1924 drive for the endowment Wes1eyan's future is assured. Builded upon victories in the past her victories in the future will place her along side the best. The endowment is a big step in that direction. May its success never be iinpared. l l I 1 I L t t L

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11017721.77 iyfm 270 11 It is a fine thing when a college presents splendid buildings and equipment, it is a delightful thing when the campus spreads stretches over green and tree clad fields, but in the end a college stands or fails because of her faculty. Wesleyans buildings number but two, her campus is a small patch of grass, nevertheless she is a college brought to high attainments through her faculty leadership. During the year Wesleyan was admitted into the membership of American As- sociation of colleges. an organization which has strict eligibility rules of admittance, one of which demands that a college to hold membership to hold membership must have at least eight standard departments with instructors heading them having no less than Masters of Arts degrees. Wesleyan easily met this requirement along with the others which specify that the institution must have a certain amount of building and equipment. The services of an efficient and enthusiastic faculty is the privilege of the Wes- leyan student body. With such leadership the college has excelled in the activities such as athletics, glee club and chorus work, dramatics, forensics and those scholas- tic attainments which come about by the personal help and sacrifice of the faculty. In or out of the class room they are ever willing to help. Perhaps as students we do not appreciate the faculty as much as we should. But dare we say that our Seniors of this year in looking back over the four years of college work, who in their present triumph cannot but help recall the personal help of faculty members and in so doing breathe a sigh of appreciation for the things that have been done for them. Lest we forget let us pay tribute to a faculty which has striven for our best interests.

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