University of Montana Western - Chinook Yearbook (Dillon, MT)

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TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO. DILLON, MONTANA 4

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THE CHINOOK PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF THE MONTANA STATE NORMAL COLLEGE DILLON, MONTANA 1909 —3—

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Running Glance at M. S. N. C. No, of course you can not leave Dillon without seeing the Normal College. Take you through? I shall be delighted. You will have to walk up though, for the street car line has not yet been put up the hill, and all the hacks but one have been loaned to a neighboring town. You won’t mind a little inconvenience like that, however. If Dillon has one thing better for a town of its size than any place in the state, it is its cement side walks. We have a good one all the way from town to the college. Yes, that hill crowned with tall buildings of all styles of architecture harmoniously blended together is the Normal hill. When you weary of the points and curves of the Gothic on the Old Main, look up at the Norman towers and battlements on the new building. After that you may rest your eye by glancing at the long lines and lofty pillars of the dormitories, imposing in their Graeco-Roman simplicity. Those buildings are no small aid to the Departments of Art and History in giving the students a knowledge of the architecture of different countries. We shall go to the main buildings first, and work our way back. These first rooms on the left are the offices. That man there poring over the handful of papers is President Swain. Whether you see him working or at leisure you always find him ready to help others along with a kind word and a cheering smile. The next room is Professor Clark’s class-room. We shall not stop today, for he announced in “General Ex’’ yesterday that today he was going to arrange his books and apparatus in order. Here is Miss Bettes’ class-room, and it is the girls’ own room, or rather, they make it theirs, because it is so sunny and cozy with the tables, books, and pictures. Who uses the hammock? W'hy, no one yet. W’e have no one of the right size for it, so we keep it hanging there in the hope that some day an element may come along so small that we can test the utility of the hand-work done in the practice school. W hen we go down this corridor, we are in the main building. Miss Dunning has this first class-room on the left. It is handy for the girls to s; rint in their gymnasium suits down the stairs to