Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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FRANCIS A. THOMPSON, E. M. The miner’s pick shaped the corner-stone for the foundation of progress and prosperity in the west. To-day, technically trained men are adding to the structure so firmly founded. To meet the demand for men to plan the progress and success of the great ventures, the Washington State College School of Mines was founded and for eight years, its graduates have gone forth to con¬ tinue the work already started and unearth the riches of new fields. From Mexico to Peru, from British Columbia to Alaska, State College assayers, engineers and metallurgists are in the mines, mills and smelters. The work of the School of Mines follows the two main branches of the old time profession, Mining and Metallurgy. The first dealing with the extraction of ore from the ground and the second, the extraction of wealth from the ore. Tunnelling and timbering, assaying and milling, ore dressing and metallurgy are taught in the Mining Building at the foot of the college campus, while geology, chemistry, mathematics and surveying and other subjects in the courses are taught in the college recitation halls and laboratories. Each summer finds students of the State College School of Mines working in the mills and mines of Goldfield, the Coeur d’ Alenes and British Columbia. 22

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W. G. BEACH, A. M., C. E. STANGELAND, Ph. D., A. BERGLUND, Ph. D. The Department of Economics Science and History has been so enlarged and broadened during the last two years that it has become one of the most important departments of the college and the broad and comprehensive courses which it offers are being taken advantage of by a much larger number of students than ever before. The faculty has this year been increased to three members. Dr. Stangeland, after spending a year studying in Europe, is back again, and Dr. Berglund, who filled Dr. Stangeland’s place, while the latter was in Europe, has been retained permanently. These with Prof. Beach, the head of the department, make an especially strong faculty for Economics Science and History. Many students of the college have begun to realize the importance of much training along economic and sociological lines, and not only is the number of students majoring in this department greatly increased, but the number of students from other departments who are electing work here is much larger than ever before. There is no course offered by the college which gives the student a broader and better working basis for a successful career in life than the course in Economic Science and History. To the lawyer, to the business man, to a citizen in any walk of life, a study of the economic and sociological problems which are the problems of citizenship, is of the highest importance and nowhere is a better opportunity offered for that study than in the courses of the Depart¬ ment of Economic Science and History. 24