The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-23

state have a man i'm the department of
chemistry who knows his business. and
who is eminently capable Of dealing
with the mining Industries of the state.
The new quarters In the university
buildings viii give ample quarters for
the present needs of the department.
The building Is to be completed in time
10 nave everything i'm readiness for
work at the beginning Of the mex col
lege year. The university now offers
facilities equal to those offered by
many institutions that have gone
through the test OF years. but with the
new quarters. new material. and the
additional students that will come in
the department of chemistry will make
a good showing.
In our last we called attention to a
point that needs emphasis. for IL Is n
which needs repetition until the people
OF the state catch its true meaning. 1t
Is the policy of the state board of edu-
cation to make the state institutions in
Monana equal to the best. and to make
them as nearly free as possible. As a
consequence students are not required
To pay for material used. There
are no laboratory fees. Break
age alone Is charged up to the
strients. In to-day's paper | read that
the University of Missouri offers to each
teacher i'm that state two months of
work at the state university at no ex-
TIC I'm fh'1 '' 49,
of Montana offers to each teacher i'm
the state. and to each young man and
woman in the state, not only two
months of schooling as cheap as that
mentioned. but offers IL until the stu
dent graduates. This is a great point.
Students are permitted to TAX as much
work I'm chemistry as we can give them.
and the entire cost Is breakage. Pa
rents who are expecting to send their
children to school viii do well To con-
suit the catalogues Of the Eastern
schools. aEi see how many dollars IL
takes to Civ one a course In chemistry.
Some Of us who have been there can
speak from experience. 1t has been said
that the people OF Montana do not read
college catalogues. | do not believe
that. At least, II they do not. it is
hoped those who peruse these lines and
are interested will look into a few and
draw comparisons. Your own institu-
lions, supported by your own taxes,
court your investigation, and are will
ing to stand comparison. You have the
institutions, you have the faculties. you
have the pure mountain air, 1t is all
free. What more Is lacking to make
success? Students.
Every institution in the country. with
a few exceptions, is after students.
These few are now at expense in ex-
cess of their income and can handle
no more without additional expense,
which they cannot meet. An institution
may have all the material to be had,
may have the most learned faculty in
the country. but without students IL
amounts to little. Universities are built
for students. Taxes are levied or the
supposition hat students will come to
the institutions. With all the expense
I'm the most expensive institutions in
the country there is not a college or uni
versity hat could live one year from
the fees derived from students, however
many there might be. There must be
endowment or taxes. The people owe IL
to the community to upport institutions
of higher education: they W 1t to their
children and to the state to send their
children to their own institutions
The chemical department of the Uni
versity OF Montana has kept pace i'm
the growth of the university. Students
at the university recognize at once the
force of the above remarks relative To
fees. and take up the work with eager
ress. The last annuel report of the
president to the state board of duca-
ton shows that students have been en-
rolled i'm the work of the department,
certainly a very nattering showing.
During the summer a good sized inn
port order will be sent to the old coun-
try for material. Already several thou
sane pasteboard trays are on ham in
which to arrange ores and minerals. and
other museum specimens. The assay
furnace is hot a good portion of the
time. The chemical laboratory has the
''air" of other universities. The present
equipment is excellent. The instructor
is thoroughly competent. Living eX-
penses are all that is necessary. There
is only one thing the student must sup
ply Ia make the work successful. and
that IL brains. Without these he is help
less: with them we offer him the field.
Chemistry. i'm one form or other. is
bound to he the leading science in this
mining state. and IL will not be hamp-
cred i'm any way at the university.