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

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4 i W :SAX -,m.,..,,,:,,. -A ,,., - . ,A , W Y Y , , , tp . Q15 f l 1 ' , ra rx I X I , W u x.: 1. .1 Iii ki-M, -WWME 3 ?i ' q I o .,,- .- SENIORS ARTHUR C. EKLUND, Barber, Montana, Business-Academic. He who keeps the window of his mind closed seldom breeds trouble. RUSSELL ALDEN AVENT Burlington, Wyoming, Agriculture. A pursuer of wisdom, a hater of idleness. BURNS WENDALL RORABECK Ryegate, Montana, Academic. A believer in pleasure as the spice of life. ' -25-

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Ei:-..,: A' l'.:.X'.X4 ' ' 'F' ' Y 5' ' AL fl q SE' wmv? ': 1. 7ff'w 5 FD fx ' ss f 3 , W 55 J ff' ! A :QNX :iff ,,?! ' J A'k I 4 ,.l 'A f A 5 T - .c - A f C., LQ. F'12lffv'fif3-M'f' - ' - ' 'w'3r.J4i?f-L. - f' f 44'f'i' 1 W. H. NORTH, B. D. Never doubted clouds would break Never dreamed though right were Worstedg wrong would triumphg Held We fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to Wake. -Browning. The Polytechnic Church The church life in the Polytechnic Institute has been maintained during the year. Services have been held every Sunday, and a series of special evangelistic meetings were conducted by the Rev. George VVil- liams, president of Albion College. Illinois. From the opening of the year in the fall until February, the several pastors from Billings were in- vited to conduct theservices. ln February, Rev. Walter H. North of the Billings Congregational Church, was asked to assume the relation of pastor to the Polytechnic Church. Since that time the work of the church has been under his direction. At Easter time a very impressive Com- munion service was conducted and twenty-one persons became members of the church. The church put on an every member canvass and pro- vided for the expense of its maintainance. A more complete program is contemplated for the coming year. A stately, dignified, and impressive morning service will be combined with a Bible school under specially trained leaders. Plans for promoting mis- sionary and benevolent interests are already in mind. It is anticipated that in a short time the neighborhood homes will be reached by the Poly- technic Church and the parish greatly widened. The reach of the iniluence of the Polytechnic Church is inestimable. The church habits which the students acquire will react in the upbuilding and maintaining of the efficiency of many of the Home Missionary churches on the frontier. AQ4..

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tire is o l Q' f 1 tai 425 g. 2 fN 5 fffifritt e ' Vf to 'FT' J 1 .Departmen ts What the Academy Means The question of whether or not your high school or academic educa- tion in itself will pay depends for its answer not so much on what you have studied as upon how you have go11e about it. Have you been in- terested in your work? Have you tried to get all out of the work you can or have you tried to get out of all tl1e work you can? Have you been intensely interested in some subject? Have you a desire to get a better understanding of this subject in a college or university if possible, but if this is impossible tand we doubt it in any casey are you going to use every other opportunity to pursue the study of that in which you now have an interest? Have you learned to feel at ease in the company of boys and girls of your own age? Have you abundant good health due to the habits of proper living, and are the habits and the ignorance which are not conducive to happy, healthy living repulsive to you? Have you outgrown the idea that an education offers an opportunity for an easier way of making a livingg and have you realized that an education means a greater work, a greater respon- sibility and a greater service? Has your education made you a better man among good men? Has it helped to make you kinder to all living things, has it brought you a step nearer your Maker? If it has done all of this or any of this it has paid. These questions perhaps bring vividly to our minds a few things that We should embody in our academic work. Education should not mean so many useless tasks which we must undergo for life's prepara- tion, rather it should mean life itself, for it is life. No longer do we say that we are fitting ourselves for such and such a profession or oc- cupation, but we do say we are living on a small scale the life which embodies the great and unknown future. Unless some great and unseen force enters our lives they will remain essentially the same in future years as during our school period. Then let us train ourselves in our chosen line of life in the manner we desire to go. The academic work here offers a splendid chance for such develop- ment. Good departments are maintained in all lines of workg in Math- ematics, in Latin and Germang in Chemistry and Physicsg in Domestic Artsg in Music, in History and English. In addition to these we have many other courses such as Sociology, Bookkeeping, Engineering, Man- ual Arts, Psychology, Agriculture, and practical Farming which high schools over the state cannot and do not offer. In this respect we are far ahead of them. Much has been accomplished toward the organization and development of all of the above departments during the past year and prospects seem to be even better for next year. ' -266