The Acropolitan A MONTI-ILY
PUBLICATION
BY THE
MONTANA
STATE
SCI-lOOL OF MINES
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BUTTE,
Volume VI.
MONTANA,
President's
Registration Will Start Sept. 17th
AUGUST
Message
Number
15, 1928
! Large Enrollment
to Freshmen
Expected at Mines
I am looking forward with great anticipation to greeting the class of 1932 of the Montana State School of Mines, for we are all going to be freshmen together-your first year at the School of Mines will be my first year here also. You have many new experiences before you and many new contacts to make with strange people. I have exactly the same thing to go through, and I am sure we shall Registration for the first semester of enjoy going through them together. Fortunately, we have one of the few small the 1928-1929 school year starts at 8 o'- schools left. in the country. If there are not too many of you, I hope to become acclock Monday morning, September 17 quam ted WIth each one of you personally and to be able to call you by name when I see you on the campus. I hope you will feel free to come to the President's office with the regular classes to start either at any time, free to talk over your problems, both personal and academic. So let Tuesday or Wednesday, depending upon us get acquainted as soon as you arrive on the campus. the extent of the registration. The School of Mines has a splendid history. It is going to be our job, your job and my job, to see that it has an even more splendid future--with a devoted faculty, On Saturday, September 15, all summer and a remarkable situation this should become one of the field work will come to an end in order a splendid equipment, great mining schools of the world, that students may arrive in Butte in time Let us begin the fulfillme:~.t of this hope with the class of 1932, of which I am for registering at the beginning of the already enrolled as a member: fOllowing week. Details of the registration period have not been completed but wiI! be available for students before the
I d tl twi a rea y more .ian wice as many I applications received here from prospective students for. Montana School of Mines catalogues than in any past summer th . .' di t路 f f the ere IS every mmca IOn or one 0 e largest enrollments in the history of the Butte school, believes Miss Agnes Hubbard registrar, who has had charge of this corWith 1
respondence. Approximately 300 such requests have been filled since the spring term ended and a large number of inquiries are expected during the remainder of the summer. The fall term will open September 17. Never before in the history of the Montana institution has there been evidenced such an interest in the School of Mines by high school graduates, Miss Hubbard feels. Last year there was an enrollment of 166 students recorded in the four classes at Butte, more than half of which were in the freshmen group. A number of inquiries have come from advanced students who would enter the upper classes, also.
middle of September. With prospects for a heavy freshman enrollment this fall a large registration force will be necessary and this year there will be a special registration committee.
Francis A. Thomson Becomes Mines President on July 1
The first semester ends Friday, February I, although the first semester is interrupted by the Christmas recess from becember 22 until January 7. ThanksgiVing Day will also be observed as a full hOliday.
McDonald Heads Montana Alumni
Victoria B. C路 He completed work for an A. B. degree at Columbia college but the degree was deferred on account of his youth. He graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1904 and later received his masters degree from the same insti-
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Alex M. McDonald, a graduate of the lVrontana School of Mines with the class
Dr. Francis Andrew Thomson, for the past 10 years dean of the University of Idaho school of mines and director of the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology on the morning of July 2 assumed his duties as president of the Montana School of' r:~g~~~~O~d~~eo~~:o:~c~~路a~::~
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N ew Improvements On Mines Campus
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In 1904 he was a student at the 'School of Mines in London and
the Ecole des Mines at Paris. His first professional experience came Extensive improvements on the School as an assayer and millman at the Victoria, of Mines campus which will provide hunMetallurgical works and from 1901 to 1902 dreds of feet of sidewalk, curbing and he was a construction engineer, building grassed parking, began shortly after July
ion of the executive board of the instrtution. Mr. Craven's resignation became effective June 30. President Thomson came to the Uni-
versity of Idaho in 1917 to head the newOf 1922 and at the present time with the ly reorganized mines school and during rOck drill and efficiency department of I his stay in Moscow the enrollment of the the Anaconda Mining Company at Butte, school was greatly increased and the was elected president of the Alumni Asschool now ranks with the very best in Sociation at the annual election held the the United states. During his stay in end of May in Butte Idaho perhaps the most outstanding acChester H. Steele, '16, geologist with complishment was his creation of the the A. C. M. Company, was chosen fir::.~ Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology in Vice-president, and Walter H. Jensen, '10 1919. He fostered its passage by legislaPresident of the Prentice Auto Company tion and since that time directed its in Great Falls, second vice-president. A. eration, supported entirely by state ~. Adami, '07, professor of mining engtn- propriations. He is also a consulting eering at the Montana school, was re- gineer with the United States Bureau elected secretary-treasurer. Mines. President Thomson, although born John M. Norton, '17, with the Diamond ~ine at Butte, was chosen for a three England came to Canada at an early and received his preliminary education Year term on the executive committee.
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a copper smelter for the Northwest Smelting and Refining Company at Crofton, B. C. From 1903 to 1908 he was superintendent, consulting mining engineer and superintendent of mines for a number of large mines in Nevada and Colorado, in addition to doing extensive mine examination work in the western states and Can-
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10, with W. A. O'Brien of Butte holding the contract. The work to be done includes construction of buttresses and a coping on the present stone retaining wall east of the buildings. On this coping, a stout iron railing will be laced and on top of each buttress an ornamental lamp post, seven
ada. I of them in all along the wall of nearly From 1908 until 1917 he was head of two blocks in length. . op- the mining department at Washington It is the intention to keep these lights ap- State College, Pullman, coming from the burning until midnight thus extending en- Washington institution to Idaho. He is greatly the line of Butte's nocturnal galof the author of numerous technical books axy to the westward. and publications dealing with research on The contract also includes 500 feet of in mining and ore treatment problems. five-foot sidewalk which will be placed age at (Continued on Page 3.) (Continued on Page 8.)
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