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The· Acropolitan A MONTHLY
PUBLICATION
BY THE MONTANA
SCHOOL OF MINES
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BUTTE,
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MONTANA,
New Librarian Pleased With Mines School
MAY 2: 1930
JUNIORS
WILL MAKE STATE INSPECTION
The policy of the School of Mines, that the juniors make an inspection trip of the mines, smelters and geology of the state of Montana, became I again a reality when the faculty passed upon a proposed itinerary for a trip to take place May 20 to 30. The trip is planned - so that variety will characterize all points to be visited. First there will be seen that intense folding and faulting which characterizes the ground line of the Rocky Mountains. Then come the coal mines at Roundup, and it wiIl be the first visit many of the students have made to a coal district, although familiar with metal mines from. crown block to sump because of their' work at Butte. After the coal mines the yqung flat lying stratigraphy of the plains region of Montana is to be seen. N ext is an oil field-the Cat Creek field. Although this is an old field in the stages of decline, it is particularly satisfactory for study and unusual methods can be observed such as that of forcing air into the oil sand in order to increase production. From the oil fields the party plans to go to Great Falls, and on their way there they will again pass along the front range of the Rockies. At Great (Continued on page 7) COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS TO BE DELIVE,REDBY DR. GEORGE OTIS SMITH
Miss Margery Bedinger Assumes Duties at Mines.
Her
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. She comes to the School of Mines from the Seattle Public Library, where she organized and was in charge of the department of Adult Education. She is recommended to us as being particularly skilled and successful in the reorganization of small libraries which is, of course, exactly the problem by which she will be confronted at the School of Mines. Miss Bedinger has traveled in the Orient, in England, on the Continent and in Egypt, Alaska, Canada and Mexico, and is the author of several recent articles in library journals. Miss Bedinger states that we have an unusually fine collection of technical periodicals, journals and government documents. Material which it would be impossible to buy now.
"I feel that we are most fortunate in securing as librarian a woman of Miss Bedinger's personality, training, . and experience," said Dr. Thompson. Miss Bedinger went two years to Smith College and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College, and from the New York State Library School, at Albany. She was first assistant in the Technology Division in the New York Public Library, then librarian of the Chemical Department of the E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., at Wilmington, Delaware. She was next head librarian for five years at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the first woman to hold this office; followed through her love for the West, by several years as li"The task of creating a library from brarian at the New Mexico College of this mass of material will be arduous
Dr. George Otis Smith, director of the United States Geological Survey and past president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, has consented to deliver the commencement 'address at the School of Mines this year. Dr. Smith is one of the best-known geologists in the world and in his letter to President Thomson accepting the invitation he said: "There are a number of things I should like to say to a representative Montana audience." The Class of 1930 is to be congratulated on having such a distinguished speaker for its commencement and the fact that Dr. Smith was willing to make the trip from Washington especially for this occasion is a compliment to the institution. His presence at commencement assures a large attendance of interested friends and alumni of the institution. and long, but eventually the School of Mines will have a library of which to be 'proud," said Miss Bedinger, after taking a general survey elf the library material on hand.
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4
MINERS WIN FROM 'STATE U. Newton and McBride Given a 2-to-l Decision Over Senior Law Students The first intercollegiate debate of the year for the School of Mines was returned a 2-to-l victory on Thursday, April 10, the victim of ore digger forensic prowess being Montana State University. Thomas F. McBride and Joe· Newton, accompanied by Professor Walter T. Scott as coach, made the trip to Missoula where the contest was held in the Main Hall auditorium. The Miners were opposed by George Martin and Steiner Larsen, seniors in the university law school. President C. H. Clapp of the university, formerly president of the School of Mines acted as chairman. Three M'issoul~' men were the judges, The question debated was: "Resolved, That lobbying pl~ys a necessary part in our government." McBride and Newton upheld the affirmative. The new cross-questioning plan of debating as developed by Mr. (Continued on page 7) IMPORTANT ELECTION MAY 6 TO INST'ALL OFFICERS FOR NEXT YEAR It has reached that time of the year when the annual A. S, S. M. election of officers is to be held, this being a regul.ar event in May. Consequently candidates for office will have the chance to do their campaigning and to hold the center of the stage for a while. Under the constitution of the A. S. ~. M., all candidates must file petitions of nomination showing at least ten signatures as well as their own. These provisions exist to prevent the useless nomination and voting on men who are not interested in holding office and who might decline to serve after being elected. At the May voting, there are four officers to be selected, the president, the student manager of athletics the vice-president, and the' secr:tary. Under the rules the president must be a senior next year, having completed enough of his work to warrant being considered a candidate for graduation. T.he student manager of athletics may be either a senior or a junior, but must have completed all the work of sophomore year to be eligible. Similar requirements prevail for the secretary and vice-president except that they must have credit in all studies of the freshman year thus being allowed to hold office if they belong to anyone of the three higher classes.