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

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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..

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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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QX ..,...cfq,'--Q..-,.f,e,,, pl-g..f ...:e:.u :gp-..i , ,,,,,,,, -W W ., 5 + q J. QS M ra M L '-,f ,A,t'N ' E 1 f - ,Qi N 1 ' 1,3 -Q fm ,, ' -Q s if . f is A ,fs ff ' ' sw ' at 1 -W f,,:1- xx Manual Arts Department This department, although in a crude and very much undeveloped condition, has made some advances this past year which are worthy of note. Last spring the shop was without a floor and the tools were scat- tered over most of the campus. The room was minus a ceiling and the roof leaked, making it bad for the three machines then in the shop. The machines mentioned were a band-saw, jointer, and a home-made wood turning lathe. All of the benches tof which there were only fourj were composed of old boards nailed together in a reckless fashion. Since last spring the shop room has assumed a new and vastly better appearance. The floor is of good smooth concrete. It has a ceiling and the roof has been repaired. A new circular saw, with attached niortiser, has been added, in addition to a small supply of hand tools. Futhermore seven new work benches with hard maple tops are complete. The largest task attempted this year was to start making twenty solid oak tables for the new dining hall. Seven of these tables are nearly complete this spring. The outside work done by the boys has been of the most practical nature. A group of students completely framed and put in place all the iioor joists, rough flooring, and set the window frames in the new 320,000 dining hall. Furthermore, they framed and erected the heavy roof trusses which are of the scissors type, also the rafters along with part of the roof boarding. At this stage of construction the work had to be turned over to the carpenters because the completion of the building was desired before the students could have finished it. In addition to this, the students framed and erected Mr. Eaton's small bungalow besides doing all of the electrical wiring. A CORNER OF SHOP. ..29-.