Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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Ti-113 POLY I .., -1.3--wgwl-3 A.. .1 N .. CLASS IN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING operation uncler the trees, arounfl which are gatherefl over fifty boys anil girls, eating' apples ancl clrinlqing' sweet cifler. Another pleasant feature of the farm has been the egg feeds and the abunclance of fruit and vegetables on the tables. 'Ifhe farm has niacle it possible lsr surrouncl the school with that icleal honie influence which woulcl, otherwise, have been impossible. Every stuclent of the Polytechnic this past year will praise the name uf Blr. blames tl. Hill for making the splentlicl gift of this farm to the school. -L. T. E. lYest hears a great commotion in the hall as of cyclones mixefl up with battering rams. and as he hastily inquires into the trouble, is tolcl by one of the innocent bystanclers that the radiator was in its last spasm anil the gurgle he hail just hearrl was the railiator's will mafle out in the name of Peace filasj A-Xt the finish an inch may measure the ilistance between success anil failure: but the next clax' the distance is measurefl in miles. HARVESTING THE GOLDEN CROP I

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I ff, .t 4f LF. L THE LQLY L f w:1sL..l ' . 1 we , 1 2 1 ' ' . S 1 A CLASS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY They learn lu handle every kind of farm machinery. 'lfliis past year the Avery Comany has furnished the school with a threshing machine outlit, gasoline? engine, and plovvs. The boys have threshed the grain and plowed the land with the tractor. .ln connection with their classes in animal husbandry, the students have actual experience in caring for the herds of .lersey and Holstein cattle, the thoroughbred Poland China hogs, and farm horses. The fruit has been gathered and sorted by the boys and a part of it put up for market. The trees in the orchards have been pruned, and practical lessons in grafting have been given. A canning plant has been installed, and the surplus vegetables and fruit, such as sweet corn, beans, peas, plums, and apples, have been caned for winter use. At the State Fair at llelena, the products from the Polytechnic farms won five first premiums, Five second premiums, and three third premiums. At the Yellowstone 'County Fair, the Polytechnic products won fifty-six premiums in all, of which twenty-eight were first premiums. It also won the silver loving cup oiiierd by the Great Northern Railroad for the best farm exhibit. Along with all this instructive work and experience, there has been much pleasure. The boys will long remember the abundance of apples, plums, and cider. One of the beautiful pictures that will be treasured up in the minds of the students this year, is the cider mill in x l!!! Y . 'V . s -4'i- , -. ' -7 1,1 eff , fp J? A . ' Wd?'zi A' 'Fig ,,,, 412 CLASS IN ORCHARDINC

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3 Academic Department E 1 A URHETORIC CLASS IN SESSION ' 'Iio eliminate from our vocabulary the woixls I cant' and to hll our mental shelves with I aim, is the aim of the ,Xcademic Ibepartment of our Polytechnic. Our colors are the Poly's own, green and gold: the green being' eniblamatic of our condition upon entering the held, and the gold, signilicant of our worth when we have completed the course. Our flower is the forget-nie-not. Our number is legion, for as each and every student seeks entrance into the Institu- te, he talks with our President. The latter, during' this little conversation, makes a few mental notes and when the prospective stu-lent mentions his perplexity regarding a proper selection of studies, he advises linglish, and Ifnglish it is from then until the completion of the whole curriculum. Even when the work is SLIQZII'-Ct1ZI'ECfI with the title Conversational English, it is as Iinglish in structure and founfclation as the formal Rhetoric and Grammar. Oh, if only we can be a truly English speaking people, not an ungrammatical, slang- producing' state. XVe hold as our first purpose, to teach ourselves to use It is I, and I have seen, then to see if we can write a paragraph or letter or paper with sufficient intelligence 'that the reader may be able to assimilate our thoughts without a revised speller and slang lexicon at hand. One would think as we advance, that the faculty are trying to End our particular forte or field of capabilities, as we are requested to debate, describe, explain, exhort. and narrate until one day we are lifted to the highest pinnacles of hope in ourselves only to be cast, the next day, into deepest glooni. But we are trying, and we know,that by perseverance we can succeed in this, the most essential study from the viewpoint of our later life. NYe, of this department, appreciate the verity of the statement that Education is prepa- ration for complete living, and as a corollary, we add that the more complete the prepara- tion, the more complete the living, so it is that it is worth our while to spend much of our Valuable time learning the conjugations and declensions of Latin and German that we may