The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-06-22
THE COLLEGE OF MONTANA.
8 Work, Condition, Faculty and Prospects

The College of Montana closed its fifth
and most prosperous year last week. Tit
total enrolment of students for the year
reached 133-coming from four States, four
Territories and the Province of Ontario,
Canada. Eight religious denominations
we're represented. During The year the Met
tallurgical Department was successfully
started, with an enrolment of 10 regular and
2 special students, with q number of addi-
tional applications for admission K year.
The Faculty of the College during the past
year consisted of five pr ofessors and five
teachers. The income for the year was about
SD, 900, the expenses about l $4,000, leaving q
deficit of S .0Oo-s2,00o Of " hich was paid by
the Presbyterian Board Of AiG for Colleges
and Academies. Unpaid accounts due the
College are sufficient to GOV er the balance.
The growth of the Cole Re and the plans
and prospects for next year make another
building a necessity. A subscription paper
was therefore circulated last winter and
spring in Montana and the East which re-
suited in an aggregate of s26 900. subscribed
by 16 men. The largest single subscription
was $4,000, and the smallest $500. A con-
tract for q new building has already been let
and work commenced. The entire structure
will cost about $4,000, and will provide four
new class rooms, \ dissecting room for Biol
opy. q gymnasium and dormitories for 40
students.
Next year q decided advancement will be
made in every department.. Prof. Augustus
NJ. Ryon, of New York, has already been
elected to the chair Of Civil and Mining En-
cheering. DR.. Traphagen will be retained
in his chair Of Chemistry aud Metallurgy.
Prof. Notestein remains in the chair of
Mathematics, and Prof. Brantley in that of
Greek aud Latin. Another teacher Of music
will De added to the present number. Miss
Jamison, of New York, az expert stenog-
rapher and typewriter, has been employed
for the coming year to teac b shorthand and
typewriting. Miss Lena G reve. of Hamburg,
Germany, will take char ge of the German
and French classes. The Art department
will also be enlarged by the addition OF
Modelling and Wood Carvi ing to the several
branches already taught.
Tie College will thus be more thoroughly
equipped in every department than ever be-
fore. With q Faculty OF eleven professors
and teachers, all thoroughly qualified under
the best instructions of N modern times, the
College of Montana viii be second to no
other institution that asks for the patronage
of the youth of Montana and adjacent Terri
tories, and to its Presid ent, DR.. D.. j. NC
MILAN, il almost wholly due what it is.
With the Collegiate ms titute conveyed to
him for a nucleus, he set resolutely to work
and has built up the splendid institution We
now have, working heroica1ly and success
fully in the face of all those obstacles and
disbursements which so frequently over
whelm institutions of like character in their
infancy, and in five years has not only put it
on a basis that insures its ~permanency, but
has gained for it such a splendid reputation
by its work and character that its continuous
enlargement has been an absolute necessity.
The buildings of this year will give it faclli-
ties far surprising those that have existed,
but all the indications point to a demand
upon them to the utmost, and the ultimate
greater enlargement and additional teachers
until it will be one of the largest Colleges
in the Country.