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The Acropolitan A MONTHLY PUBLICATION Vol. IV.
BY THE MON'rANA
STATE SCHOOL OF MINES
BUTTE, MONTANA, JUNE 3,1927
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Pryor Wins Miners Win One Oratorical Contest First at Dillon Two Frosh ~nd Soph Share Honors The annual School of Mines oratorical contest was held in the chemistry le~ture room on Tuesday, April 26, With a good sized crowd present. A nUmber of students who had expressed interest in the contest dropped out When the event drew near leaving just three who appeared with orations. These were Philip Pryor, freshman, whose subject was "The Spirit of Vandalism;" Fred E. Johnson, Sophohlore, with "Education, the Only PreVentive of War," and Joseph Newton, freshman, with "The Menace of ~cience." The judges were Miss Lil~lan Kerrigan, coach of public speakIng at the Butte High School, Rev. C. G. Cole, pastor of the Mountain View ~ethodist church, and Earle N. Genzerger, a leading Butte attorney, President G. W. Craven, presided. All three of the orations represent;d considerable work and thought. he fire of Pryor's delivery made him the choice of the judges for first ~lace. When the votes were checked It Was found that Johnson and Newton were tied as far as the first two hlethods of determining place were ~oncerned and it was only when the ;1.st method possible was tried that ohnson received the edge to give him SeCond. Gold, silver, and bronze hledals were awarded respectively to the three men in accordance to the ~laces they won. These medals have een awarded annually by the departn1ent of English. This year they were provided from a fund donated to ~aintain forensics at the School of ,,'[' e lnes by the Butte Chamber of °hlmerce.
l> As a result
of this contest, Philip rYor became the entry of the School oif IVrIlles in the Montana intercollegl~te Contest which was held in BilIngS. ~n M ay 6 ,under . Of the auspices W Bllhngs Polytechnic Institute. He Was accompanied to Billings by Prof. e alter T. Scott, who gave him his JOaching. The contestants were e~seph Monoghan from Mount St. St.arles; Ralph Edgington, Montana 1'[ ate University, Hja lrnar .Landoe, ontana State College; Donald 'I'reIoar I II ' ntermountain Union College, nd A.lfred Bartz of Billings Poly-
technic Institute in addition to the Ore Digger. Montana State Normal College, the other member of the Association, did not send a representative.
Half Mile Won by Wells
NEW IMPROVEMENTS AT MINES Considerable
Monoghan, Edington, and Landoe respectively, were awarded the first three -places. Experienced coaches of oratory pronounced Monoghan's effort, "World Education for Peace," the finest given in a Montana contest in years and an unusually fine performance for a college man anywhere. The other men were much more evenly matched and decision among them was difficult. All except Pryor were experienced speakers with many appearances on the platform to their credit. He delivered his oration in good style and showed plenty of promise of developing into a winner later.
interest
over the various
A track
is being shown
improvements
which
on May 20 and 21.
The Normal
men
are being started about the school. Everyone wants to know how the
piled up 85 points against the Mines' 22. This inequality of points may
place will look next
partly
Fall.
Well, for
be due to the
fact
that
the
one thing, the swimming pool will be Normals had one man, Taylor, who ready next September. Every effort alone made 28 points. is being made to have the water heatAmong our own men only one took er and circulation pump in operation. first place; Wells nosing out his opThis will enable take showers games.
handball
immediately
players after
to the
Among the outside improvements which will undoubtedly be finished this Summer are the retaining wall At the annual business. meeting of along the front of the buildings, a sidewalk over the retaining wall, and the Montana Intercollegiate OratoriInside improvements cal Association, Dillon was selected some curbing. will include new tables for the physics as the place where the 1928 contest additional heating faciliwill be held. Prof. R. E. Albright of laboratory, inMontana State Normal College was ties in the library, considerable terior .painting, installation of a low selected as president for next year, recordFather Emmett L. Riley of Mount water alarm and temperature ing 'guage, improved ventilation for St. Charles as vice-president, and rooms, and Prof. Walter T. Scott of the School the chemistry laboratory of Mines as secretary-treasurer, a additional blackboards for the metalposition he has held the past six lurgical buildings, The mill building will hardly. be years. recognizable if Mr. Haley's program of new equipment goes through. The THE JUNIOR PROM mill building has some very fine equipment at present,. but rapid The junior prom is the social af- strides in milling processes have fair of the year that all the school and I been made in the last few :v.ears and the alumni have been looking for the intention is to bring the equipIt is the climax of the school's ac- ment up to date. tivities for the year as well as the final means the junior class takes of SIGMA RHO honoring the graduating cla s.
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This year's prom is expected to be the largest held in years and everything possible is being done by the Mines to assure everyone of a wonderful time. The date has been set for Friday, June 3rd, at the Columbia Gardens Pavilion with the Loomis fifteen piece orchestra and entertainers rendering the music.
meet was held between the
Montana State School of Mines and the State Normal College at Dillon
Delta Chapter of Sigma Rho, the first chapter of a national college fraternity to be associated with the School' of Mines, was installed on May 10, sixteen students being initiated as charter members. The installation and initiation ceremonies were held at the Silver Bow Club, followed by a banquet in the main dinInvitations for the prom nade have ing hall of the Club. Local membeen sent out to the 'alumni and bers of other chapters of the fraterfriends of the school. All other arnity who had charge of the ceremonrangements have also been completed. ies were R. J. Studer (Beta) and H. Come on boys; bring your girls. Let's g'o-!! (Continued on Page 4)
ponents on the half mile. Possibly Mayo would have won the quarter mile but for the starter's off prematurely, mal man pretty
the
gun going
which gave the Norinside
of the
track,
a
good advantage.
At 10 o'clock on Saturday morning a cross country race was held. The distance of two and a half miles was covered by a Normal lad in sixteen minutes and fifty-six seconds. Boyce of the Mines team made 5th place in seventeen minutes and thirty-eight seconds. Other Mines men who placed in this event were: Wells 6th, Healy 8th, and Mayo 10th. The weather during the meet was to the great disadvantage to the men, the cross country run being through mud and snow-covered fields. MINES
STUDENT
GOES TO WEST
POINT Louis Russell Wirak, a Sophomore at the School of Mines, has received this year's appointment to West Point from Senator Wheeler. Wirak, who is a nephew of Joseph Russell, of the Silver Bow Refining Co., will leave for the Military Academy on the Hudson about June 25. • In 1925 Wirak graduated from the Lincoln High School, in Los Angeles, . and entered the School of Mines the fall of the same year. At the "Mines" he has been a consistently good student, and has taken an active part, as well, in school activities, being a member of the track team for two years, a member of the Anderson Carlisle Technical Society, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Dancing Club for the current year.