The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-08-29
Sees PROSPECTS
FOR GOOD YEAR

With prospects for an attendance
total of $500 students in the Montana
institutions of higher education, Off
Gals of the four units of the Univer-
sity of Montana look forward to the
school year of 1924 as the most
successful in the history Of the %univer-l
sity, according to Chancellor M. A.
Brannon. The curve charts have
shown a steady and growing increase
in attendance for % years, and al
though the time is approaching when
the attendance will be restricted, no
regulatory limitations will keep the
enrolment from showing a healthy
growth each succeeding year, the
chancellor believes.
The university in Missoula is eX-
pected to have LOO students enrolled
this year and the state college at
Bozeman will have nearly 1900, while
the State Normal college in Dillon
and the State School of Mines in
Butte will have proportionate num-
bers, although it is probable the
School Of Mines will not have the per-
centage increase of the other units.
Registration days at the university
will be September Is and 26 and ac-
tual instruction will begin September
81. At the Dillon Normal registra-
ton will be on September "a and in
struction will start September %. The
other institutions will have opening
oates similar to those at the univer-
sity.
There will be no check to admission
to the State University from the high
schools of the stale until September
1, 1924, when the plan of admitting
without examination only the pupils
who among the two-thirds having the
highest examination grades will be
placed in effect. Under this plan the
lower third in each school will be adj
mitted only upon passing an examin-
alton, although any student of an ac-
credited high school will have the
right to appeal to a board of arbitra
ton, which will be comprised of the
chancellor, the superintendent of pub
lie instruction and the president Of the
institution to which admission is
sought. Mitigating circumstances,
such as illness, or economic obstacles.
will be considered Every sympathetic
ally" Chancellor Brannon stated in
explaining the plan, and it is expect
ed that numbers will be admitted
even though they co not pass an eX-
animation, providing they have a sub
stantial reason for not having been il
the first division.
It is stated that there are two reas
ons for seeking to limit the attend
ance one being the desire to ecOnom
ize financially and the other, a!
Chancellor Brannon explained to "ac
cent in the minds of high school pu
pills the insistent need of putting
forth a real effort
September 1, 1927, will inaugural
the plan of grouping subjects from
which time on graduates of accredit
ed high schools may be admitted t.
the State University without an ex
animation only when their secondar,
courses include three units of Eng
lish, one unit of American history
and at least two other units of tn
following groups: Mathematics, his
torical and social science, laborator
science, foreign language.
"The University of Montana,
Chancellor Brannon stated, els az
centing quality, and this policy NJ
only keeps Montana in step with tn
leading institutions in other state
but it gives her a certain amount
priority, for the university has man
good men capable of initiating, and
IS getting recognition outside of hs
boundaries"
Chancellor Brannon stated that tf
university is securing this year {
members of the faculty men of ran
attachments. whose ability will be n
Elected in the progress of the unive
sity and whose acquisition will add
the prestige of the state.
There are now $50 members of Il
teaching staff, the number havir
been cut from 489. In these figur'
are included administrative office
and their assistanes.
The University of Montana h;
among it's many distinctions the re
ord for training at the ~agricultur
college in Bozeman a larger percen
age of men who return to actu
farming than almost any, eth
western school figures show. A su
vey of graduation records in n yves
ern state showed that approximate
only 6 per cent of the graduates
its agricultural college ever return,
to the farm, bat in Montana a su