The Daily Missoulian., 1914-06-29
THE MssouLlAN, MONDAY MORNING JUNE %, 1914
FORESTRY SCHOOL
AT THE UNIVERSITY
First Annual Announcement of New Department Makes
Interesting Reading-Established on Broad
Basis with Logging Engineering Key
note, School Has Real Mission.

| logging engineering, while the degree
| of bachelor of science in forestry is
conferred upon students successfully
completing the four years course and
| specializing in the practice of techni-
cal forestry.
The Faculty.
I The announcement shows a splendid
faculty of Is members, including Dean
Dorr Skeels, selected form the forest
service of this district, noted in the
service for his almost phenomenal
work in practical logging engineering
OF these Is instructors the professor
of forestry are yet to be announced.
1t is understood that both have been
selected and that the men are engaged
in actual forestry work at present. An
nouncement of their names will prob
ably be made upon the return of
Dean Skeels, who is now In Idaho
conducting a timber sale for the for
est service. The known members of
the faculty are as follows:
Dorr Skeels, logging engineer, dean
and professor of forestry and lumber
ing.
Morton John Elrod Phi. D., profes-
sor of biology.
Jesse Perry Rowe, Phi. d. professor
of geology.
Joseph Edward KirkWood, A. NJ,
Phi. D., Professor of Botany
George F'ulmer. Reynolds, Phi. D.,
Professor of English and Rhetoric.
Richard Henry Jesse, Jr., Phi. D.,
professor of chemistry.
al cf
mathematics.
Robert Neal Thompson, B. S., as
sistant professor of physics.
Eugene F. A. Carey, B. S., assistant
professor of mathematics.
William George Bateman, A. M, as
sistant professor of chemistry
James Henry Bonner, B. S., instruc
tor in engineering.
Cornelius Bol, instructor in shops.
William w. H. Mustaine, B. S., di-
rector of physical education.
Lecturers Of Note.
In addition to these professors and
instructors there will be "a special
lecturers for the forestry school this
season. This list is headed by Dis
trict Forester II. A. Silcox and in
cludes a number of practical men in
numbering and forestry.
The bulletin shows that the short
course in forestry, which has been a
success, is to be continued. This course
will be strengthened by, the thorough
establishment of the school and will be
extended over period of IL instead of
eight weeks, as given last year.
A Building, Too.
The Missoulian has already told of
the state board of education, through
the efforts of Charles H. Hall of this
city, giving the university $4,000 for
a forestry building. Plans for the
structure are already being prepared
by Architect J. H. Kennedy In gem
eral, it is planned to build with this
first $4,000 the front wing of a build
ing that will be maltese cross shaped
when thoroughly completed and which
will, in the end, cost $50,000. AS this
is to be the home of the forest school,
the building will be of great logs in
stead of brick and will have rustic
finish--a pleasant contrast to the pres
ent brick buildings on the campus. It
will be set back from the oval near
the science hall and will be entirely
surrounded by trees of good size now
growing there.
In its arrangement the first floor
will be divided into an office and
class room for the dean, drafting room,
surveying class room with built-ln
cases for instruments. On the second
floor will be two large class rooms,
the forestry library and a large spe-
cial lecture room which can be used
when the students of the whole school
are assembled to hear lectures by
specialists in forestry. There has long
been a demand for such a room as this
and it will be used by other depart
ments as we'll as by the school of for
estry. The school of law, school of
journalism, school of pharmacy and
others can have room where all may
gather for lectures or for social en-
tertainments.
The new forestry building is to be
modern in every respect. Even the
first section to be constructed this
year will make a splendid addition to
the campus.