The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-30
FAVORABLE REPORTS
EX-GOV. RICHARDS AND PROF.
LEONARD ON MINING SCHOOL.
THE SHOWING IS FAVORABLE
Attendance and Work Have Greatly
Increased Since Last Year
Prof. L. r. Foote Is
Reelected.

At a meeting Of the board of trustees
of the school of mines last evening, the
report of President N. r. Leonard was
read and approved. The report, which
will be sent at once to the state poard
of education was, in part, as follows:
Il herewith submit the following re-
port of the condition and progress of the
Montana State School of Mines for the
fiscal year ending November 80, 1901.
'At the date of the last report we were
in the midst of the first semester of our
first year. We had enrolled twenty-five
students of whom there were seventeen
pursuing freshman studies three sopho-
mores and five engaged in special work.
Consented to Arrangement.
"For reasons then assigned, this board
consented to an arrangement whereby
persons not fully prepared for admission
to school might enter those classes for
which they were prepared and receive
instruction in the school in those studies
in which they were deficient. You also
authorized the board of trustees of our
school to select a teacher for these ad-
ditionai classes at a salary of $1,000 for
the remainder of the fiscal year.
"Prof. Leon r. Foote was selected for
this work and has given entire satisfac-
ton. The policy thus adopted has proven
advantageous to the school. Several of
those who were pursuing special courses
took advantage of the opportunity thus
offered and are now enrolled In our regu-
lar classes and expect in time to grad
uate from one or the other of our regular
courses.
LAS the work has increased on our
hands Prof FoOte has been assigned to
assist in the freshman work in mathe-
mates, where he is doing good service.
Salary of $125.
1.-THE board of trustees has selected him
for the remainder of the college year at
salary of $125 per month and requests the
approval Of its action by the board of
education.
"The c. W. Clatk professorship of
engineering has been filled by the cleo
ton of Alfred B. Knight of Butte.
Prof Knight entered upon his work Mo-
vember /, 1901. He is well known as a
practical civil and mining engineer. hay
ing been for the past fifteen years a
citizen of Montana, where he has had
charge Of important engineering and
mining operations.
This chair is not supported by the
state, but the salary of the professor
is to be paid directly by the treasurer
Of the board of trustees out Of funds
placed in his hands for that purpose
by G. w. Clark.
In the Second Year.
1.-THE total number of students en-
! rolled during our first year was thirty
nine, of whom seventeen We're classed
as freshmen, three as SOphOmOreS, one
as junior, ten were in special courses,
and eight We're classed as preparatory.
I'VE are now in the middle of the
| first semester of our second year. At
| tendance mas increased to fifty, with
| other additions expected at the end of
| the first semester. Our experience thus
! far indicates that for some years to
come the great difficulty with which
We will have to contend is the lack
of careful preparation in the primary
! studies. This Is not meant as re-
| Election upon our elementary and our
| high schools, but is due to the condi-
tons to which, in a new state, these
| schools are necessarily subjected.
The last general assembly of Montana
dealt with the School of Mines in a
| generous manner. We were treated
courteously both in committees and
upon the floor of the two branches of
| the legislature, and, while they did
not give us all we desired, they appro-
| priated enough 70 enable us to carry
| forward our work in good part as we
had planned to do.
| 1.-THE full appropriations made We're:
For maintenance, $4,000 each year for
two years; for past due bills of $4,000.
$2.161.77; for steam heating plant. IS,
| 700. total of $2s.s61.77 available for
the year now closed. and OF $25.0e0 for
| the years 1923.
! Principal Items.
"a list Of the principal items under
the head of equipment e-..>"aces a
series Of six balances OF precision for
the department Of chemistry and metal