The fi MONTHLY
PUBLICATION
Volume 2
BY THE MONTANA
BUTTE, MONTANA,
STATE
SCHOOL OF MINES
APRIL 30. 1925
Number 6
MINE STUDENTS iFIRSTDEBATE TEAM FILMED ATWORK IN GOOD SHOWING Pathe to Show Them Under-I CHANCELLOR SPEAKS -ORATORICAL CONT'EST I Montana State School of ground Getting Practical I ON COLLEGE COURSE IS POSTPONED I Mines Is Winner Over Experience____and in School State College . That a general misapprehension exAccording to an announcement re-I A. film that will give the Montana State School of Mines publicity all OVer the United States has been completed at the local technical co llej,e by Will Hudson, field representative of the Pathe News Pictorial Service. The storv shown IS intended to depict how the School of Mines combines instruction ill the history of mining in the classrooms and laboratories with actual work and experience underground It was made possible by the co-operation of the local officials of the Ana conda Copper Mining Company, who allowed part of the pictures to be taken in the Leonard Mine. The work of shooting the film was started last week at the Leonard. Mr. BUdson used as his actors James Martin, Wallace Tanner, Robert Nesbit, and Godfrey Walker of the junior class, and Harry Nightengale of the sophomores. Considerable difficulty was experienced in securing the necessary power for the battery of Kleig lights which were used to secure the proper illumination, in some cases wires having to be 'run to a lower level fOr conections. The men were shown taming on shift, barring down in a stope, setting up and operating a drill. (Continued on Page Three)
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. You have all probably seen the "Acropolitan Mail Box" in the library and wondered what it is all about. This' box is for any material that the lh.embers of the student body and IacUlty will contribtue for publication. In the past the student body has done Practically nothing about handing in lh.aterial for the Acropolitan and, consequently, the paper has suffered. Our Paper will never be a success until it is truly representative of the work and ability of the whole school, and the staff alone cannot possibly put out a Publication of this type. So let's all pitch in and see what we can do. If eVeryone contributes at least one article for the next issue it will sure be a world-beater. It is your paper, and it's up to you to help make it Worth white.
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ists concerning the proposed first year cei:ed ~rom. Mount St. Charles College, college course at the Montana State which IS sponsoring the annual Mon-: School of Mines, was the statement tana intercollegiate oratorical contest made last Tuesday, April 21, by Chan- this year, this contest has been postcell or M. A. Brannon of the Univer- poned from April 30 until May 12. sity of Montana. It is not generally This action seemed necessary because understood, he said, tl:at th~ ~niver- of requests from Montana State Colsity of Montana IS a single mstitutron lege and from Intermountain Union of. interlocking units and. that each stating that their orators were track U111texists to offer a special k ind of I men who were expecting to attend the training. He explained :hat by the University of Washington Relay Carenabl ing act through which Montana nival at Seattle on May 1 and 2. became a state, the federal governAs a result of this postponement, ment made an endowment of 100,000 I the preliminary contest to determine acres of land, the income from which I who will represent the Mines at the was. dedicated to the cause of m.ining I state event will not be held until May engm eer ing. The revenue from this en- i 4. There are three entries for the predowment has been large, the chan- liminary contest: Wallace Tanner, '26; cellor stated, and said that it might Thomas Lanphier, '28, and Henry (Continued from Page Five) Stanley, '28. All of these men are working hard and promise lively comSOPHOMORES ARE petition. The department of English VICTORS IN INTERis offering gold and silver medals for CLASS BASKETBALL the winners of first and second places, respectively. When the regular basketball season closed for the Miner's quint in Helena, ANDERSON CARLYLE Coach Charles McAuliffe began laying HOLDS MEETING plans for an inter-class tourney to be held in the new Ore Diggers' gym. It was decided that there would be four The Anderson Carlyle Technical Soteams. The freshmen would be repre- ciety held a business meeting on April sented by two teams, the Frosh I and 2, for the purpose of making arrangeFrosh II, because they constitute about ments for a banquet to be held about two-third.s of tl.le student body. The live wires of the class got .April 15. The meeting had a very down to business and selected the small attendance and was presided teams that were to uphold the honor over by Vice-President Louis Marick. of the freshmen. The Frosh I was The society decided to appoint a composed of all-around stars, such as: committee of four men to plan and Downing, Rowe, Bullwinkle, Ball, Sel- make all arrangements for a banquet. fridge, and Haggerty. The first three This committee is composed of Tanmen were members of the varsity dur- ner, Mayo, Goddard, and McGreal. ing the past season and made quite a The society is awaiting a report from name for themselves as hard-fighting. this committee and will announce its ambitious youngsters, while Ball, Sel- next banquet as SOOI1as this report is fridge and Haggerty are all-around received and satisfactorily accepted. athletes of no mean ability. The support of the student body in The Fresh II team was somewhat attending this next affair is requested, handicapped because of the limited as well as the attendance of the facamount of men who took an interest in ulty members. The society has been basketball. However, a team was gaining interest mong the students scraped together that would give stiff during the last few months, and with competition to the others. It was com- a well-organized banquet in the near posed of Calvert, the red-headed flash future we hope to stamp a lasting imfr0111Lima, and Cota, diminutive speed pression upon them as to the worth (Continued on Page Three) and merit of the society. I
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For the first time in its history, the School of Mines this year can look back upon the work of a debate team which has represented the Ore Diggers in contests with other college teams. In other year attempts to get debating started have been failures, because none of the men thought they had time to give to this activity. Last fall there was some interest manifested, which finally crysta1li'zed into a team composed of Harold Johns, former mernber of the Butte high school forensic aggregations; and William Metz of Grass Range, who had no previous experience. This team has made a record for the first year of platform argument of a victory over Montana State College and two defeats by Intermountain Union and one by Mount St. Charles. Considering the late start and the lack of previous interest in this activity, this showing is satisfactory to the team coach, Prof. Walter T. Scott, who considers that it is always difficut to develop inexperienced men to compete with tried speakers. The first contest of the year was held in Butte on Saturday evening, March 14, when Edward Pool, a former Mines student, and Donald Tr eloar, comprising the Intermountain Union team, which was just complet¡ ing a 2,200-mile, trip through Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, with ten d e b ates I'iste d duri ur mg t h err. journey. The visitors won a rather easy victor because of their own ability and because it was the first appearance uf the Miners before an audience. Principal J. G. Ragsdale of Butte high school, Miss Gertrude Ryan, coach of • debate at Butte high school, and Rev. Hugh Darsey were the judges. A goodsized crowd climbed to the third floor assembly room of the Butte Y. M. C. A. to hear the argument. On April 6, 'the Montana State College team came to Butte and tackled the Ore Diggers before the student assernb ly, Johns and Metz were much better prepared on their subject, and at the end of an hour and a half of heated controversy were returned winner s by Supt. A. H. Douglass of the Butte public schools, who was the sole (Continued on Page Five)