| Title : | Yellow Stone & Blue : the First 75 Years |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Sue Hart, Author |
| Publisher: | Montana : Montana State University Billings |
| Publication Date: | 2002 |
| Pagination: | 248 p. |
| Layout: | ill. |
| Size: | 22 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-971636-20-0 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical index (p. 243-248) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Education
United States
University History
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| Class number: | 378.73 |
| Abstract: | MSU was founded in 1893 as the Agricultural College of the State of Montana.[10] It opened on 16 February with five male and three female students. The first classes were held in rooms in the county high school, and later that year in the shuttered Bozeman Academy (a private preparatory school). The first students were from Bozeman Academy, and were forced to transfer to the college. Only two faculty existed on opening day: Luther Foster, a horticulturalist from South Dakota who was also Acting President, and Homer G. Phelps, who taught business. Within weeks, they were joined by S.M. Emery (who ran the agricultural experiment station) and Benjamin F. Maiden (an English teacher from the former Bozeman Academy). Augustus M. Ryon, a coal mine owner, was named the first president of the college on 17 April 1893. Ryon immediately clashed with the board of trustees and faculty. Where the trustees wanted the college to focus on agriculture, Ryon pointed out that few of its students intended to go back to farming. While the rapidly expanding faculty wanted to establish a remedial education program to assist unprepared undergraduates (Montana's elementary and secondary public education system was in dire shape at the time), Ryon refused. The donation of the Story land to the college occurred in 1894, but Ryon was forced out in 1895 and replaced by the Rev. Dr. James R. Reid, a Presbyterian minister who had been president of the Montana College at Deer Lodge since 1890. |
| Contents note: | Education in the West; From Humble Beginnings; Getting Started; Some Highlights of the Twenties; Surviving and Thriving in the Thirties; Challenges and Changes in the Forties; The (at Times) Tumultuous Sixties; The Sixties : The Tumult Continues; Some Trials, Some Triumphs; The Exciting and Electronic-Eighties; The Century-Ending Nineties; The Last Years Of The Nineties – Moving Toward A New Century; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=19963 |
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