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

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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-.

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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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. 1 k N . 1' 'Y f,.t ' -.. . . 7.4, , r 2L Vl'gfY1F3-l'f,-,1y f- 1-afzf ff: '-:.w me -'. - ' fa Hi ww' '-:A Y. ' .- - ,nb 'K- Domestic Science and Art 'There s Something More than Making a Living: There's Making a Life. The Work of the Domestic Science and Art Departments at the Polytechnic . Greater and greater grows the need of practical training for our girls. The students who enter the Polytechnic Institute have a higher aim in life than that of making a living-making a life, the work that God in- tended for them. The Training of Our Girls,--The average girl from the time she enters kindergarten until she matriculates at college, has been educated and trained along exactly the same lines as the boy. She is taught higher mathematics, history, German and the ideals of brave men, but the woman's share of quiet courage, patience, and home making is entirely overlooked. She can read Virgil and Caesar, although she cannot cook an egg or sew a seam. Finally, her education finished, she knows all about Political Economy and Mathematics, she can detect the short change by the grocer, but she does not know the first principle of House- hold Economy or Home Making. And it is infinitely more important that she should know the three H's, the three things that are her part in life's plan. Not that the classical training should be neglected, but she should be able to cook a meal with as much grace and skill as she can preside over a piano. God intended woman to be the home maker. Home means a resting place, the place where we find shelter. rest, comfort, and love after the trials of the day. The home should be artistic, beautiful, and restful-the atmosphere so full of love and kindness that no matter how far from it we wander, there will always be a longing in our hearts to return home, to the place where Mother is, and where our highest ideals of life are formed. The Training at the Polytechnic How We Cook,-This department is fully established, giving a three year course. The Domestic Science department at the Polytechnic gives the girl a well-rounded practical knowledge of cookery and all things pretaining to the comforts, welfare, and health of home and family. Household Economy, Household Decoration, Cookery, Serving of Meals, Entertaining, Food Values, Diet, Invalid Cookery, Home Nursing, Can- ning, Preserving, Pickling and the making of Jelly. Great importance should be given to Household Construction and Decoration. A thorough training in Household Economy enables the girl to decorate her home beautifully and artistically, so that it is restful to the nerves and pleasing to the eye, through design and color scheme, at the least possible cost. All work in this department at the Polytechnic is the most practical in all branches. From the orchard of three hundred bearing apple and plum trees, the young ladies of the Domestic Science class made 1900 glasses of jelly and canned hundreds of quarts of other fruits. They also used products of the gardens, canning vegetables, relishes, and pickles, all of which are used in the dining room. tContinued on Page 60,3 ..Qg..