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

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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

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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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Bqx ,Wg ., . , .,,c,,...s,, ,M V E. .MW 7 Q g W ms 5 fi ' 5 K A E' ,AQQL g fb f X I 5 f H 9 Qs S 179 E ' Ls J fc ' ...pp 55,1 ' M xiirrxfemfw--'mfg-' -f-1' zas1uz.a..-- 1wb,-..f , N osx - -:-1:--. - ---1: The Business Exchange One of the most interesting and practical features of the Polytechnic is the Business Exchange under the direction of Mr. A. O. Kline. A very unique and original plan is used. There is a desk for each student in the Exchange. All desks have drawers in which the students keep their books and supplies. There are also lockers wherein the penmanship students may keep their paper and ink. On one side of the Exchange there are offices, each office representing a different firm. There is a Commercial Exchange, a Wholesale Company, and a Real Estate Company. On the the other side there is a Bank. YVhen the students have finished the preliminary work in Book- keeping, they are supplied with order pads, a check book, and journal, ledger, sales book, etc., which they themselves keep. They then borrow money from the Bank to start with and begin their actual business prac- tice. They buy and sell various forms of Merchandise, which are varied as students advance. The merchandise is represented by small cards. each card representing a certain kind and amount. Cards are also used to represent chattels and fixtures. The students have to make out all their own bills and orders, lease their stores, make out insurance policies and all legal papers. This gives them training in things that are usually hard for the average student in other courses to understand. In order that the students make regular profits they have two cards, one represent- ing the price of Merchandise at Wholesale and the other representing retail prices. This management also enables them to keep Within certain bounds and prevents them from selling at exhorbitant prices of their own. Every bill, order, check or anything of this kind has to be O. K.'d by Mr. Kline before being used. The books of each student must be in correct form, all transactions journalized and posted, trial balances corrected and books closed correctly at the end of each set. If all these items are correct the books are O. Kid and the student begins a new set CORNER OF BUSINESS EXCHANGE .-.27-.