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

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Behind the engine house there is a large space which we use for a skating rink in the winter and for tennis courts in the spring and fall. Last of all we conic to the dormitories. Only the young and giddy girls live in this dormitory next to the engine house. The matron looks after those young people. The Seniors and the most settled of the Juniors live in the farther dormitory. They look after the Dean, and take good care of her too, keeping her safely housed between the first and third stories. Those are all the buildings of our college, but the dormitories contain the Y. W. C. A. room and the Sorority rooms, as well as a reception room. When you come again there will be some new buildings to show you. At least we hope to be able to point out a new dormitory and a fine, large gymnasium. Theo Smith, ’09

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the Gym. The next room is the Hall of Silence. There any severely studious persons can find a quiet spot where lessons may be prepared without fear of interruption. No, that isn't an argumcnc across the hall. That is Mr. Fuller talking on the “Importance of Local History,” and he is telling them where to “go to” for the data. Mr. Mosher and Miss Carson own the last two class-rooms on this corridor. That little path? Oh, Miss Carson made that, going over to tell Mr. Mosher that the reason spelling grades are so low, is that he counteracts her teaching by saying, “Abbreviate everything.” Now let us go down stairs to see the Gymnasium. It is not very large, but there was enough room here for the Seniors to give the Juniors a pretty close chase for the basket ball championship. Wait a moment for me, please. I see the door of a shower-room open and my conscience will not let it remain in that condition. These three rooms across the hall belong to Mr. Monroe. This first is the chemical laboratory, where the Freshmen discover all sorts of exceptions to generally accepted laws. The middle room is the class-room in which every student must at some time make his appearance, and discover what a mere speck his boasted knowledge would make on the landscape of science there unfolded to his view. The third room is the physical laboratory. We shall not be able to look at all of it today, for workmen are putting in a new piece of floor. The Seniors wore that out trying to determine the height of the barometric column. I have been saving the best part of the building to repav you for climbing these stairs. This is our assembly hall, the finest owned by any college in the state. And here next to it is our new library. The banner on the wall is the basket ball championship banner. The Juniors won this year and every class is proud of the fine way in which they played. By going through this little hall, one arrives in the old assemblv hall. We have so manv students now that we have quite outgrown it. This room adjoining is the studio. Everything, as you see, is strewn about in artistic confusion. Yes, we do basketry here, but not at this time of year. The raffia here is left over from that used by the Seniors last winter. There is the room where we grappled with the dead and modern languages. On the floor above are the music rooms and the rooms for manual training. The noise is all relegated to the top story, so that the neople who do wood-carving beat the time for those who practice on the pianos in the adjoining rooms. I don’t wonder you take hold of the hand rail when you start to descend this stairway. We are going to have an elevator here as soon as the Legistlaure makes the appropriation for it.

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The Faculty. HENRY H. SWAIN, PH. D. University of Wisconsin, Beloit College, University of Chicago, President, Professor of Economics and Sociology. Are we not brothers? So man and man should be: But clay and clay differs in dignity; Whose dust is both a ike. JOSEPH E. MONROE, B. A. Kansas Normal College, University of Glasgow. New York University, Vice President, Professor of Physics and Chemistry. His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him, That nature might stand up and say to all the world, This is a man. ROBERT CLARK, M. A. Amherst College, Clark University, New York University, Professor of Psychology and Biology. I pray thee, mark me, Neglecting worldly ends and all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of mind. LUCY HAMILTON CARSON, M. A. University of Illinois, Illinois State Normal University, University of Chicago, Professor of English. So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, most virtuous, discreet, and good.