Alfred Atkinson Correspondence Files

Alfred Atkinson Correspondence Files, 1914-1940

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Montana State College. Office of the President.
Title: Alfred Atkinson Correspondence Files
Dates: 1914-1940 (inclusive)
19141940
Quantity: 14.4 linear feet
Collection Number: MSU.00001, Accession 00001 (accession)
Summary: The Alfred Atkinson Correspondence Files consist of Montana State College (MSU) President Alfred Atkinson's correspondence for the period 1919 to July 1937. Files may contain enclosures including reports, legal and legislative documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and announcements, and other materials related to that correspondence. Major subjects include faculty and faculty issues including tenure, appointments, financial and occupational problems, and organizations; students' lives and conditions on campus, their finances, student-related problems, and organizations; the alumni including Alumni Association, Collegian, and occupations pursued; the University System, Montana Legislature, citizenship statements required of all employees of MSC by House Bill #474 of the Montana State Legislature in 1935; the Federal Government including appropriations; Depression programs including the National Youth Administration, Works Progress Administration, Civil Works Administration, Federal Emergency Relief Administration and other work relief programs; agricultural and land use agencies including the U.S.D.A.; State, regional and national agricultural organizations and their programs including the Montana Association (Montanans Incorporated), Farm Bureau, Farm Foundation and Farmers Union; schools of Montana and associated programs including High School Week, Future Farmers of America and basketball tournaments; other educational institutions and higher education programs. There are extensive files on instructional programs and problems, planning during the Depression, and financing the University System and its institutions.
Repository: Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
Languages
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Alfred Atkinson, the 4th president of Montana State College, was born in Seaforth, Ontario, Canada and graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College, received his B.S. at Iowa State College in 1904 and his M.S. at Cornell in 1912. He arrived at MSC in 1904, as an instructor in agronomy and a member of the Experiment Station staff, was appointed a professor of agronomy in 1905, and was appointed to the presidency in 1919. He was president for 18 years which encompassed many changes at the college, as well as in the state and the nation. Of these changes and challenges finances, the Depression, instructional programs including improving the engineering departments, and projects in the agricultural community are addressed extensively. He also served as Federal Food Administrator for Montana, 1919-1921, during the Hoover administration. In 1937, he left to become President of the University of Arizona. He served in that capacity for 10 years. He died May 16, 1958 in Arizona at the age of 78.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Correspondence files of President Alfred Atkinson's Administration at Montana State College (MSU) include all correspondence for the period 1919 to July 1937 with the exception of material from the following files that were missing: College correspondence 1927/28, 1928/29 and 1928/30; general correspondence 1928/29, 1929/30, and 1930/31; and annual reports of administrative and educational departments which were removed at some time prior to 1989. Files may contain enclosures including reports, legal and legislative documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and announcements related to that correspondence. The collection has been arranged into 13 series and accompanying sub-series in the original order when received from the president's office by the archives department of the library. There is an original inventory and index in the accession file. An updated index with file citations containing all subjects, individuals, and locations mentioned is included in the finding aid. Major correspondents and/or subjects are: the Chancellor's Office and State Board of Education; Land Grant College Association; Academic and Administrative departments and divisions of MSU including Experiment Stations and Extension Service; faculty and faculty issues including tenure, appointments, financial and occupational problems, and organizations; students' lives and conditions on campus, their finances, student-related problems, and organizations; the alumni including Alumni Association, Collegian, and occupations pursued; the University System, Governors of Montana, Montana Legislature, citizenship statements required of all employees of MSC by House Bill #474 of the Montana State Legislature in 1935; the Federal Government including: appropriations; Depression programs including the National Youth Administration, Works Progress Administration, Civil Works Administration, Federal Emergency Relief Administration and other work relief programs; agricultural and land use agencies including the U.S.D.A.; State, regional, and national agricultural organizations and their programs including the Montana Association (Montanans Incorporated), Farm Bureau, Farm Foundation, and Farmers Union; schools of Montana and associated programs including High School Week, Future Farmers of America, and basketball tournaments; other educational institutions and higher education programs; Alfred Atkinson's correspondence with or about noted Montanans and educators including E. L. Currier, W. M. Cobleigh, E. C. Elliott, F. B. Linfield, R. R. Renne, A. M. Ryon, and M. L. Wilson. There are extensive files on instructional programs and problems, planning during the Depression, and financing the University System and its institutions. Two names of the institution are present: College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts and Montana State College (which Atkinson preferred). Within the educational units, they are called divisions at some points and colleges at others, reflecting the developing infrastructure of the institution.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Series 1: Montana University System, 1914-1937 (starts with collections subject index)

Series 2: Montana State College (MSC), General Files, 1919-1938

Series 3: Administration: Operations and Problems, 1918-1937

Sub-series 1: Finance and Budget, 1918-1937

Sub-series 2: Physical Plant - Buildings, Campus, and Services, 1919-1937

Sub-series 3: Publications, Publicity, and Public Relations, 1920-1937

sub-series 4: U.S. Work Relief Programs on Campus, 1933-1937

Series 4: Faculty, 1919-1937

Series 5: Students, 1919-1937

Series 6: Alumni, 1921-1937

Series 7: Academic Divisions, Colleges, and Departments, 1914-1940

Sub-series 1: Division of Agriculture and Associated Departments, 1914-1937

Sub-series 2: Division of Engineering and Associated Departments, 1919-1937

Sub-series 3: General Division, 1931-1937

Sub-series 4: Division of Household and Industrial Arts and Associated Departments, 1920-1937

Sub-series 5: Division of Science and Associated Departments, 1919-1937

Sub-series 6: General Education Departments, 1919-1937

Series 8: Activities in Instruction and Associated Problems, 1919-1937

Series 9: Research, 1926-1936

Series 10: Conferences and Conventions Held on Campus, 1916-1937

Series 11: Correspondence Related to non-University System schools and institutions, 1919-1936

Series 12: Correspondence Related to National, State, and Regional Problems, 1919-1940

Series 13: Miscellaneous Personal Correspondence and Papers of President Atkinson, 1919-1937

Sub-series 1: Correspondence Related to Montanans and Ex-Montanans

Sub-series 2: Miscellaneous Alfred Atkinson Correspondence and Associated Papers, 1919-1936

Sub-series 3: Alfred Atkinson - M.L. Wilson Correspondence and Related Wilson Materials, 1919-1937

Acquisition Information

Correspondence files of President Alfred Atkinson sent to the library archives were assigned accession number 00001 on January 29, 1973.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2009 May 14

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

1: Montana University System, 1914-1937Return to Top

University System files include correspondence on general and administrative matters between assorted participants in Montana educational development and Montana State College President Atkinson. Files may contain enclosures including reports, legal and legislative documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and announcements, etc. related to that correspondence.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	Accession 00001 Subject index
1	2-3	General and miscellaneous administrative material	1926-1937
1	4	Ten-year report of Chancellor Brannon	1932-1933
1	5	Chancellorship	1920-1937
1	6	Rulings of the Chancellor's office	1918-1921
1	7-8	Minutes of Executive Council meetings	1919-1937
1	9	Executive Secretary	1935
1	10-16	State Board of Education Chancellor's calendar, Excerpts of minutes, etc.	1914-1937
2	1-2	MSC relations with other units	1920-1937
2	3	MSU State Forestry and conservation experiment station	1936
2	4-5	Education statistical survey, Higher education in Montana	1928, 1931
2	6	University code	1921
2	7-10	Citizenship statements, A-Z	1935

2: Montana State College (MSC), General Files, 1919-1937Return to Top

The Montana State College general correspondence files include administrative organization; advisory councils and committees; reports on education, duties, and policies; progress reports and proposed future plans; special reports on services; questionnaires, historical items, traditions; accreditation/scholarship reports and stationery related to the name to be used. As in all series, enclosures of many types may be present.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	11	MSC General Comments	1919-1935
2	12	MSC General Comments, Administrative Organization	1919-1935
2	13	MSC Agricultural Advisory Council	1921-1923
2	14	Land Grant College Committee on Organization and Policy	1923, 1933, 1935
3	1	Reports of "Philosophy of Education" and "State Problems and Policy" Committees, Twenty-year Plan (proposed)	1934-1936
3	2	MSC Regulatory Duties and the State Department of Agriculture	1920-1933
3	3	Reports of Progress (official)	1920-1927
3	4	President's Annual Report	1927-1928
3	5	Reports of Progress (official)	1929-1936
3	6-7	Reports of Progress (unofficial)	1919-1937
3	8	Special Reports: Services Rendered by Various Montana Departments	1924
3	9	Ten-Year Progress Report	1922-1933
3	10	Ten-Year Outlook	1928-1938
3	11	General Questionnaires	1922-1937
3	12	Miscellaneous Historical Items	1922, 1934
3	13	Name of MSC (Letterheads, etc.)	1921-1935
3	14	Accreditation, Scholastic Standing	1921-1936
3	15	Traditions	1923-1935

3: MSC Administration: Operations and Problems, 1918-1937Return to Top

Files on the operations and problems of the Atkinson Administration have been organized into 4 sub-series by the major emphasis in each. Some files may not fit into a sub-series, but were retained in their original order. These include the bookstore, records management, labor and employees committee, library, Registrar, and Vice- President files. The four sub-series are: finance and budget; physical plant - buildings, campus, and services; publications, publicity, and public relations; and U.S. work relief programs on campus. As in all series, enclosures of many types may be present.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		1: Finance and Budget Correspondence in this sub-series concerns administrative accounting and purchasing; general financial matters; bond, mill levy and tax information; legislative materials on financing and appropriations; institutional and departmental budget requests; Federal appropriations and related files; several studies of financial costs; and gifts, loans, and donations.	1918-1937
Box	Folder
4	1	Administrative organization (central): general accounting system	1927, 1933-1935
4	2	Administrative organization (central): purchasing system	1919-1937
4	3	Administrative organization (central): committee on buying scientific equipment and charging for breakages	1933-1934
4	4	Bookstore	1931-1936
4	5	Correspondence files (record management)	1923
4	6	Finances, general correspondence	1918-1924
4	7	Finances, general correspondence	1925-1930
4	8-10	General financial statements
4	11	Income funds	1918-1930
4	12	Federal appropriations (Purnell bill)
4	13	Legislative materials	1918-1926
4	14	Legislative materials	1927-1930
5	1	Bond and tax amendment campaign (Initiative 18 and 19)	1919-1920
5	2	Development budget	1921-1923
5	3	Bond allotments and expenditures	1923-1925
5	4	Mill tax distribution	1925-1926
5	5	Administrative costs of university units, Governor's committee on	1925-1926
5	6	College finance committee re students and costs	1925-1926
5	7-11	General correspondence, finances	1930-1937
6	1	Legislative materials	1930-1937
6	2-6	Miscellaneous legislative materials	1930-1937
6	7-8	Legislative materials, department budget requests	1931-1933
6	9-10	Legislative materials	1935-1937
7	1-4	Legislative budgets	1929-1935
7	5-9	Federal appropriations	1930-1937
7	10	Federal appropriations: millage tax and bond issue ( Referendum 33 and 34)	1930
7	11	Federal appropriations: study of per capita costs of students	1932
7	12	Gifts, loans, donations	1926-1937
8	1	Labor and employees (non-faculty) labor committee	1918-1937
8	2	Library	1919-1931
8	3	Library	1932-1937
		2: Physical Plant - Buildings, Campus, and Services This sub-series includes files on the infrastructure of the College including buildings; the campus grounds; services, maintenance, and uses. Enclosures of many types may be present. After the general correspondence the files are arranged alphabetically.	1919-1937
Box	Folder
8	4	Physical plant: miscellaneous correspondence	1920-1937
8	5	Buildings: general correspondence	1922-1936
8	6-10	Buildings: Student Union, Girls Residence Halls, General Correspondence	1932-1936
8	11	Buildings: insurance, Girls Residence Halls	1936-1937
8	12	Buildings: Mead and Mount, general contractors	1934-1936
9	1	Buildings: Use of buildings by outside organizations, etc.	1921, 1933-1934
9	2	Campus grounds, correspondence	1924-1936
9	3	Campus traffic	1923-1936
9	4	Fire protection	1921-1936
9	5	Heat, power, and electric light	1924-1937
9	6	Land holdings	1919-1931
9	7	Sewage system, sidewalks, streets	1921-1935
9	8	Telephones	1923-1931
9	9	Water rates	1933-1934
9	10	Water rights	1924-1936
		3: Publications, Publicity, and Public Relations Files on promoting the college including exhibitions and radio, community programs and publicity handouts. Enclosures of many types may be present.	1920-1937
Box	Folder
9	11	Public Relations: Publications correspondence	1924-1937
9	12	Public Relations: Publicity	1920-1937
9	13	Public Relations: Publicity, Exhibits	1920-1934
9	14	Public Relations: Publicity Radio	1924-1936
9	15	Public relations	1934
9	16	Faculty memberships, Bozeman Chamber of Commerce	1920-1936
9	17	Registrar (Report of Registration Committee)	1929-1947
		4: U.S. Work Relief Programs on Campus Files on the Civil Works Administration, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, National Youth Administration and Works Progress Administration programs for students and non-students included. Also includes the Vice- President's file. As with other series, enclosures of many types may be present.	1933-1937
Box	Folder
9	18	U.S. Work Relief C.W.A., Student employment	1933-1934
9	19	U.S. Work Relief C.W.A., Unemployed campus projects	1933-1934
9	20	U.S. Work Relief programs: FERA Student employment	1934-1935
9	21	U.S. Work Relief programs: FERA Non student	1934-1935
10	1-2	U.S. Work Relief programs: FERA, NYA, WPA	1935
10	3	Vice-president, MSC	1932

4: Faculty, 1919-1937Return to Top

This series includes the correspondence and enclosure papers related to faculty, professional and personal life and problems. Files may contain enclosures including reports, documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, announcements and articles, etc. related to that correspondence. The files are arranged alphabetically followed by two faculty organizations files.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
10	4	Academic freedom and tenure	1921-1937
10	5	Appointments, promotions, dismissals, etc. (General)	1924-1934
10	6	Consulting work	1922-1926, 1935
10	7	Contributions	1932
10	8	Cost of living studies	1933
10	9	Group life insurance	1931-1935
10	10	Hours of service	1932
10	11	Housing and recreation	1936
10	12	Married women, nepotism	1935-1936
10	13	MEA membership	1937
10	14-16	Faculty meetings	1922-1931
11	1-2	Faculty meetings	1932-1937
11	3	Military service	1924
11	4	Officiating at high school contests	1926
11	5	Professional improvement, Sabbatical Leave, etc.	1919-1937
11	6	Qualifications	1921-1936
11	7	Retirement plans	1923-1937
11	8	Retirement plans	1923-1937
11	9	Salary levels	1919-1924
11	10	Salary levels 1931-37
11	11	Service committee	1924-1933
11	12	Service reports	1932
11	13	Sick leave	1934-1935
11	14	Social matters	1922-1936
12	1	Teacher's oath	1931
12	2	Teaching load	1919-1935
12	3	Travel expenditures	1919-1937
12	4	Visits to Helena	1925
12	5	Faculty organizations: Faculty Symposia	1925-1931
12	6	Faculty organizations: Quarter Century Club	1930-1936

5: Students, 1919-1937Return to Top

Correspondence files concerning students are organized into seven areas that cover general topics and the correspondence with Deans of Men and Women, financing, health and housing, organizations, problems, student publications, and miscellaneous other topics. Files may contain enclosures including reports, documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets announcements and articles, etc. related to that correspondence.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
12	7	Dean of Men, correspondence	1932-1936
12	8	Dean of Women's office	1921-1936
12	9	Dean of Women: Social Director	1931-1935
12	10	Dean of Women: Una B. Herrick (Social Guidance Advisor)	1931-1935
12	11	Students (General)	1922-1936
12	12	Student enrollment (Registration, studies, etc.)	1922-1929
12	13	Student enrollment (Registration, studies, etc.)	1930-1937
12	14	Student-faculty relations	1928-1937
12	15	Student fees	1921-1937
12	16	Student finance, general
12	17	Student employment	1923-1937
12	18	Student loans	1925-1937
12	19	Student health service, correspondence	1919-1937
13	1	Student housing: general correspondence	1921-1937
13	2	Residence halls	1920-1934
13	3	Residence halls	1935-1937
13	4	Student organizations: general correspondence	1933-1936
13	5	Student organizations: Associated Students, Student Senate	1920-1935
13	6	Student organizations: Agricultural Club	1922-1931
13	7	Student organizations: President's Club	1927
13	8-9	Student organizations: Fraternities and sororities	1921-1937
13	10	Student honorary organizations, general and miscellaneous	1920-1936
13	11	Honorary organizations: Sigma Xi	1932
13	12	Honorary organizations: International Knights	1924-1934
13	13	Honorary organizations: Phi Kappa Phi	1930-1935
13	14	Honorary organizations: Septemiviri	1931-1936
14	1	Students: political organizations	1924
14	2	Rocky Mountain Students Presidents and Editors Association	1920
14	3	Student problems, Delinquent Students, Discipline, etc. (General)	1919-1937
14	4	Student problems: hoboing	1922-1923
14	5	Student problems: marriage	1924-1932
14	6-7	Student strike	1930
14	8	Prohibition, enforcement of by students (proposed)	1924
14	9	Student publications, general and miscellaneous	1925-1936
14	10	Student publications: Montanan	1925-1936
14	11	Student records	1925, 1933
14	12	Student social affairs	1930-1935
14	13	Student traditions	1921-1935
14	14	Students, foreign	1919

6: Alumni Files, 1921-1937Return to Top

Correspondence related to alumni and College matters. Files may contain enclosures including brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and announcements related to that correspondence.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
14	15	Alumni: general correspondence	1924-1937
14	16	Alumni Association	1933-1937
14	17	Alumni: Collegian	1934
14	18	Alumni: notable, etc.	1930-1934
14	19	Alumni: occupational summary of graduates (includes 1896-1921 summary)	1923-1932
14	20	Alumni: letters from President to MSC graduates	1921-1925

7: Academic Divisions, Colleges, and Departments, 1914-1940Return to Top

Included in this series are the general correspondence with divisions of the College and their attached departments which is arranged into six sub-series reflecting the organization of the institution with some exceptions (the units do not match exactly any of the catalogs issued from 1919-1937, but the order of the files has been maintained). Files may contain enclosures including reports, documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and announcements, etc. related to that correspondence.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		1: Division of Agriculture and Associated Departments Division of Agriculture including seven departments and the Extension Service and Experiment Stations. Files include general correspondence and special programs or projects. As with other series, enclosures of many types may be present.	1914-1937
Box	Folder
15	1-3	Division of Agriculture: general correspondence	1921-1930
15	4	Division of Agriculture: Agricultural Course Inquiry	1920
15	5	Division of Agriculture: relations with U.S.D.A.	1921-1924
15	6	Division of Agriculture: student judging contests	1924-1936
15	7-8	Agricultural Economics: general correspondence	1924-1937
15	9	Agricultural Engineering: general correspondence	1919-1937
15	10-11	Agronomy: general correspondence	1921-1937
15	12	Agronomy: crop standardization, and soil improvement work	1919-1933
15	13	Agronomy: Grain Inspection Laboratory	1920-1925
15	14	Agronomy: tillage, seeding
15	15	Agronomy: corn	1924-1933
15	16	Agronomy: grain, wheat varieties, smut prevention	1925-1937
15	17	Agronomy: legumes	1924
15	18	Agronomy: sunflowers	1919-1920
15	19	Agronomy: sweet clover	1923
16	1-2	Animal Industry: general correspondence	1920-1936
16	3	Animal Industry: feeds and feeding	1931-1937
16	4	Animal Industry: Little International	1932-1936
16	5	Animal Industry: livestock train	1924-1937
16	6	Animal Industry: range livestock research	1922-1936
16	7	Animal Industry: military grass	1935
16	8	Animal Industry: recreational ranching	1935
16	9	Dairy Industry: general correspondence	1924-1935
16	10	Dairy Industry: Bitterroot dairy herd improvement controversy	1934-1935
16	11	Horticulture Department: general correspondence	1925-1937
16	12	Poultry Department: general correspondence	1921-1934
16	13	Veterinary Department: general correspondence	1923-1935
16	14-16	Extension Service: general correspondence	1914-1930
17	1	Extension Service: general correspondence	1931-1936
17	2	Extension Service: training of extension workers	1923-1924
17	3	Extension Service: Extension Workers Conference	1922-1936
17	4	Extension Service: Director's letters to extension workers	1923-1924
17	5	Extension Service: county agricultural agents	1919-1935
17	6	Extension Service: county Home Demonstration work	1923-1929
17	7	Extension Service: 4-H Club Work	1914-1935
17	8	Extension Service: Forestry	1925-1930
17	9	Extension Service: Work with Indians	1923-1946
17	10	Experiment Stations: general correspondence	1929-1936
17	11	Experiment Stations: Central Montana Branch Station	1926
17	12	Experiment Stations: Horticultural Branch Station	1932-1936
17	13	Experiment Stations: Northern Montana Branch Station	1921-1927
17	14	Experiment Stations: U. S. Range Experiment Station	1930-1935
		2: Division of Engineering and Associated Departments Correspondence and papers related to the Engineering Division and its seven departments. As with other series, enclosures of many types may be present.	1919-1937
Box	Folder
17	15-16	Engineering Division: general correspondence	1919-1936
17	17	Engineering Division: "Bridging the gap between the college and industry"	1933-1936
18	1	Engineering Division: Engineering Experiment Station	1920-1937
18	2	Engineering Division: agreement with State Highway Commission	1920-1932
18	3	Engineering Division: Engineering Extension Service	1930-1934
18	4	General Engineering: annual reports	1930-1937
18	5	Architectural engineering: general correspondence	1920, 1932
18	6	Chemical Engineering: general correspondence	1931-1935
18	7	Civil engineering: general correspondence	1919-1933
18	8	Electrical engineering: general correspondence	1926-1937
18	9	Industrial engineering: general correspondence	1929, 1935
18	10	Mechanical engineering: general correspondence	1935
		3: The General Division The General Division consisted of two-year courses with options toward four-year degrees. Enclosures may be present.	1931-1937
Box	Folder
18	11-12	General Division: correspondence (Two-stage plan)	1931-1937
18	13	General Division: game conservation course	1933-1936
		4: Division of Household and Industrial Arts Correspondence of the Division of Household and Industrial Arts, its various departments and associated programs. As with other series, enclosures of many types may be present.	1920-1937
Box	Folder
18	14	Division of Household and Industrial Arts: general correspondence	1931-1936
18	15	Applied Arts: general correspondence	1924-1934
18	16-17	Home Economics: general correspondence	1920-1937
18	18	Home Economics Association	1924-1934
18	19	Home Economics: White House Conference on Child Health and Protection	1930-1934
18	20	Home Economics: play school
18	21	Secretarial Science: general correspondence	1924-1930
		5: Division of Science and Associated Departments The Division of Science correspondence includes its departments (an extensive correspondence about athletics in the Physical Education Department is present), programs and governmental partners in research. Files may contain enclosures including reports, documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, articles and announcements, etc. related to that correspondence.	1919-1937
Box	Folder
19	1	Division of Science: Dean of Science	1932-1935
19	2	Division of Science: correspondence with U.S. Bureau of Entomology	1929-1935
19	3	Division of Science: correspondence with U.S. Biological Survey	1935-1936
19	4	Botany and Bacteriology: general correspondence	1932-1935
19	5	Botany and Bacteriology: Barberry eradication campaign	1925-1937
19	6	Chemistry: general correspondence	1922-1937
19	7	Chemistry: fertilizer research	1920-1936
19	8	Chemistry: soil work	1923
19	9	Chemistry: Public Service Division	1919-1924
19	10	Chemistry: oil laboratory (Work of State Chemist)	1919-1937
19	11	Chemistry: water and food labs (Cooperation with State Board of Health)	1923
19	12	Chemistry: swimming pool standards	1923
19	13	Zoology-Entomology	1923
19	14	Entomology: general correspondence	1924-1937
19	15	Entomology: Strand, L., Appointment as Head of Entomology Dept.	1929-1930
19	16	Entomology: bee keeping
19	17	Entomology: grasshopper control	1919-1937
19	18	Entomology: rodent control	1919-1934
19	19	Mathematics: general correspondence	1924-1937
19	20	Nurses Training: correspondence	1924-1937
20	1	Physical Education: general correspondence	1925-1937
20	2	Physical Education: non-student use of P E facilities	1923-1937
20	3-6	Athletics: general correspondence	1920-1937
20	7	Athletics: Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference correspondence	1933-1936
20	8	Athletics: Athletic Committee reports	1929-1935
20	9	Athletics: Reports of committee on eligibility of athletes	1924-1937
20	10	Athletics: MSC Athletic Association reports	1925, 1932-1937
20	11	Physics: general correspondence	1923-1935
20	12	Physics: seismograph and earthquake research	1930-1935
20	13	Pre-medical work: correspondence	1925
20	14	Zoology: general correspondence	1923-1936
20	15	Zoology: Fish studies	1935-1936
		6: General Education Departments General education departments not assigned to a division: their correspondence, programs and projects. Files may contain enclosures including reports, documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, articles, and announcements, etc. related to the correspondence.	1919-1937
Box	Folder
20	16	Education and psychology: general correspondence	1921-1936
20	17	Education and psychology: certification, qualification to teach	1919-1936
21	1-2	Vocational education: general correspondence	1919-1937
21	3-4	Vocational education: news notes, etc.	1920-1936
21	5	Vocational education: Conferences
21	6	Vocational education: agreements with Gallatin High School	1925-1935
21	7	English: general correspondence
21	8	History: general correspondence	1925-1935
21	9	History: Dean Hamilton's History of Montana	1931-1937
21	10-11	Military Science: general correspondence	1920-1932
22	1	Military Science: Armory (proposed)	1934-1936
22	2	Music: general correspondence	1919-1936

8: Activities in Instruction and Associated Problems, 1919-1937Return to Top

Correspondence on all facets of instruction, its problems and programs, and special instruction related events originating on campus are included in this series. Included are commencement, student entertainments, scholarship and scholastic awards, special short courses of study, special dates, and miscellaneous subjects related to academic college events. Files may contain enclosures including reports, documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, articles, and announcements, etc. related to that correspondence. After the instruction files, the files are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
22	3	Instruction: Education Policies Committee	1923
22	4-5	Instruction: Instruction Committee	1922-1936
22	6	Instruction: Land Grant College Committee on Instruction	1920-1936
22	7	Instruction: Questionnaires to Chancellor's office by instructional faculty	1923
22	8	Instruction: Whetzel's experiment in teaching	1931
22	9	Instruction: adult education	1934-1937
22	10	Instruction: assemblies	1923-1935
22	11	Instruction: audio-visual work	1920-1936
22	12	Instruction: challenging courses, recording F's of transferred students	1934
22	13	Instruction: class hours	1935
22	14	Instruction: special adjustments for Seven Day Adventists	1936
22	15	Instruction: class size, l929-36	1929-1936
22	16	Instruction: sectioning of classes	1932-1934
22	17	College entertainments, extracurricular activities: general correspondence	1924-1936
22	18	College entertainments: Dramatics	1933-1936
23	1	College entertainments: Oratory and debate	1931-1937
23	2	College entertainments: Musical performances	1932-1937
23	3	Commencement	1925-1937
23	4	Commencement, Woman's Day	1932-1936
23	5	Correspondence work	1922-1936
23	6	Curricula and course of study	1919-1931
23	7	Curricula and course of study, liberalizing courses	1926, 1936
23	8	Entrance requirements and limited enrollment	1921-1932
23	9	Examinations	1925-1935
23	10	Examinations, cribbing, and honor system	1925-1933
23	11	Freshman orientation	1921-1929
23	12	Freshman week	1926-1933
23	13	Freshman week	1934-1937
23	14	Graduate studies	1924-1937
23	15	Graduation requirements	1921-1936
23	16	Honorary degrees	1933-1936
23	17	Mother's Day	1935-1937
23	18	Parents Day	1935
24	1	Personnel and placement, counseling systems, testing: general correspondence	1924-1937
24	2	Personnel and placement, counseling systems, testing: Agriculture	1930-1933
24	3-4	Personnel and placement, counseling systems, testing: Engineering	1919-1932
24	5	Personnel and placement, counseling systems, testing: teacher placement	1924-1933
24	6	Prospective students, recruitment	1917-1935
24	7	Quarter vs Semester	1919-1931
24	8	Religious activities	1919-1932
24	9	Religious activities	1933-1937
24	10	Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards: general correspondence	1920-1934
24	11	Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards: general correspondence	1935-1937
25	1-2	Scholarships, Fellowships Awards: High School honor scholarships	1921-1937
25	3	Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards: Rhodes scholarships	1934-1936
25	4-5	Scholastic requirements (Class attendance, absences, tardiness, dropping classes, extra-curricular eligibility)	1920-1937
25	6	Schedules, Holidays, etc.	1933, 1936
25	7	Seminars	1935
25	8	Short Courses: miscellaneous correspondence	1929-1935
25	9	Short Courses: Bankers	1921-1923
25	10	Short Courses: Dairy Industry	1929-1936
25	11	Short Courses: Fireman's School	1930-1934
25	12	Short Courses: Roads School 1929	1934-1935
25	13	Short Courses: School of Agriculture, general correspondence	1922-1936
25	14	Short Courses: Trade and Industry course	1934-1936
25	15	Short Courses: Water Works Operators	1933-1936
25	16	Student study facilities	1925
25	17	Summer School	1920-1937
25	18	Veterans Instruction	1919-1926

9: Research, 1926-1936Return to Top

Files exclusively devoted to research. As with other series, enclosures of many types may be present.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
26	1	Research (general): correspondence	1926-1936
26	2	Research (regional): correspondence	1935-1936

10: Conferences and Conventions Held on Campus, 1916-1937Return to Top

Correspondence related to conferences and conventions held on campus extensively covering High School Week. Files may contain enclosures including reports, documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and announcements, etc. related to that correspondence.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
26	3	Conferences and conventions: miscellaneous
26	4-5	Conferences and conventions: reports of time used, value, etc.	1930-1937
26	6	Boys and Girls Vocational Conferences	1920-1926
26	7-10	High School Week: general correspondence, reports, etc.	1929-1937
26	11	High School Week: High School Association Correspondence	1933-1934
27	1	High School Week: Future Farmers of America	1932-1935
27	2	High School Week: Future Farmers of America	1936-1937
27	3	Farm and Home Week	1918-1932
27	4	Visitors' Day	1916, 1926
27	5	School Superintendents and Principals Conference	1922-1927
27	6	High School Basketball tournaments	1920-1926
27	7	High School Basketball tournaments	1928-1937

11: Non-University System Educational Institutions, 1919-1936Return to Top

Correspondence with schools and educational institutions not within the University System in relation to mutual issues and interests. Enclosures including reports, documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and announcements, etc. may be present.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
27	8	Schools of Montana: general correspondence	1919-1936
27	9	Schools of Montana: Association of School Board Trustees	1926
27	10	Schools of Montana: Five mill tax	1926
27	11	Schools of Montana: High School commencement addresses	1920-1933
27	12	Schools of Montana: High School correspondence course (proposed)	1935
27	13	Schools of Montana: High School honor societies	1933
27	14	Montana Conference on Educational problems, MSU	1935-1936
27	15-16	Land Grant College Association (general)	1919-1936
27	17	Conference on Higher Education, University of Washington, July 15-16	1935 July 15-16
27	18	Conference on University Training for National Service, University of Minnesota, July 14-17	1931 July 14-17
27	19	Inter-mountain Union College, Billings	1926
27	20	North Dakota College
27	21	Flaming Arrow School for Boys

12: Correspondence Related to National, State, and Regional Problems, 1919-1940Return to Top

These files were received in alphabetical order by subject. Numerous diverse problems, organizations, institutions, and constituencies are represented. Files may contain enclosures including reports, documents, brochures, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, articles and announcements, etc. related to that correspondence.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
28	1-3	Agricultural and economic conditions in Montana: general correspondence	1919-1937
28	4	Agricultural and economic conditions in Montana: Monthly Bulletin, Northwest Grain Dealers Association	1920-1922
28	5	Agricultural credit	1922-1923
28	6	Agricultural policy: general correspondence	1924-1936
28	7	Agricultural policy: Export Corporation and McNary-Haugenism	1923-1924
28	8	Agricultural policy: Export Corporation and McNary-Haugenism	1925-1928
28	9	Agricultural policy: Diversification loans, Agricultural credit	1924
28	10	Agricultural policy: Domestic allotment	1932
28	11	Agricultural policy: Agricultural (AAA) and Soil conservation	1934-1937
29	1	Agriculture committee, Montana Bankers Association	1921-1923
29	2	Agriculture committee, Montana Bankers Association	1924-1933
29	3	Consumers Counsel, Gallatin County	1934-1935
29	4	Dairy industry	1922-1937
29	5	Dry land farming	1922-1937
29	6-7	Drought and Depression relief	1919-1937
29	8	Farm Foundation	1933
29	9	Farm labor	1922
29	10	Farmers, Outstanding	1922-1931
29	11	Farmer's organizations: Farm Bureau	1925-1935
29	12	Farmer's organizations: Farmer's Union	1921-1937
29	13	Farmer's organizations: National Farm Holiday Association
29	14	Flax Institute: flax tariff	1923-1935
29	15	Great Plains Association	1936
29	16	Irrigation	1919-1936
29	17	Irrigation, Sugar beets	1919-1923
29	18	Land clearing
29	19	Large scale farming	1920
29	20	Margarine	1935
30	1	Marketing: general correspondence	1920-1936
30	2	Marketing: cattle	1925-1935
30	3	Marketing: Cooperative	1922-1932
30	4	Marketing: grain	1921-1930
30	5	Marketing: grain, milling in bond	1924
30	6	Monetary policies	1933
30	7	Montana Development Association	1921-1923
30	8-13	Montana Association, Montanans Incorporated	1930-1935
31	1-2	Montana Association, Montanans Incorporated	1936-1937
31	3	Montana Association, Montanans Incorporated, Maps and Brochures
31	4-5	Montana Association of University Women	1923-1930
31	6	Montana Crime Commission: general correspondence	1929-1930
31	7	Montana Crime Commission: drafts of bills, etc.
31	8	Montana Farmer	1922-1935
31	9	Montana Society of Natural History	1936-1937
31	10	Montana Wool Growers Association	1935
31	11	Montana state song	1934
32	1	Murphy, F. E.: Minneapolis Tribune	1931-1934
32	2	Northwest Farm Products Association	1923
32	3	Pacific Northwest promotion	1919-1927
32	4	Phosphate Committee, Land Grant College Association	1935-1937
32	5	Phosphate Committee, Land Grant College Association	1935-1937
32	6-9	Planning Program: general correspondence	1924, 1934, undated
33	1	Planning Program: flood control
33	2	Planning Program: land utilization - general correspondence
33	3-5	Planning Program: land and water utilization (general)
33	6	Planning Program: land utilization: soil surveys
33	7	Planning Program: land utilization: sub-marginal land (withdrawal program)
33	8	Planning Program: power resources
33	9	Planning Program: public welfare legislation
33	10	Planning Program: trade program
33	11	Planning Program: U. S. D. A. discussion groups
33	12	Political matters, National	1936
33	13	Political matters, State	1933
33	14	Radio	1931
33	15	Rural rehabilitation and resettlement
34	1	Russia, Russian visitors	1930
34	2-3	Settlement: general correspondence
34	4	Settlement: Garrett article and related material
34	5	Settlement: Land Settlement Advisory Board
34	6	Settlement: Montana Month
34	7	Soil and wind erosion control	1934-1935
34	8	Spring Wheat regional conference
34	9	Standard of living, rural	1931-1934
34	10	State government	1922
34	11	State lands	1932-1933
34	12	State lands, Leasing	1932
34	13	Taxation, Montana
34	14	Transportation: transportation problems (general)	1920-1932
34	15	Transportation: Northwest Regional Advisory Board	1925, 1935
35	1	Transportation: North Pacific Export-Import rate	1925-1926
35	2	Transportation: special railway rates for Montana gatherings	1924, 1933
35	3	U. S. D. A., bill forbidding the advocacy of reduced consumption of any agricultural commodity	1935
35	4	U. S. D. A., Secretary Wallace's visit to Montana	1935
35	5	U. S. D. A., Secretary W. M. Jardine
35	6	U. S. Department of Conservation and Public Works (proposed)	1935-1937
35	7	U. S. Tariff Commission, wheat studies	1923-1924
35	8	Weather	1920-1936

13: Miscellaneous Personal Papers of President Atkinson, 1919-1937Return to Top

This series is organized in three sub-series. It contains assorted correspondence and personal papers which are not necessarily related to college administration matters. Enclosures may be present to support the correspondence.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		1: Correspondence Related to Montanans and Ex-Montanans Files of correspondence between or about issues concerning a variety of Montanans. Files are grouped alphabetically by name.
Box	Folder
35	9	Correspondence related to Berghild Anderson, W.L. Beers, Thomas D. Campbell, W.M. Cobleigh
35	10	Correspondence related to E. L. Currier
35	11	Correspondence related to Chester Davis, E.C. Elliott, J.M. Hamilton, Sam Hampton, Walter S. Hartman
35	12	Correspondence related to F. B. Linfield, I.D. O'Donnell, Carl Peterson, R.R. Renne, Mauro G. and J.G. Rodriquez, A.M. Ryon
35	13	Correspondence related to A. H. Stafford, W.L. Stockton, R.H. Sutherlin
		2: Miscellaneous Alfred Atkinson Correspondence and Papers Correspondence and papers which may include reports, announcements and memorabilia of Alfred Atkinson's presidency of Montana State College.	1919-1936
Box	Folder
35	14	President Alfred Atkinson (miscellany)	1921-1932
35	15	President Alfred Atkinson: inauguration of	1919
35	16	President Alfred Atkinson: Federal Food Administrator for Montana	1919-1921
35	17	President Alfred Atkinson: Forsyth bench lands	1920-1936
35	18	President Alfred Atkinson: smoke injury investigations	1919-1932
		3: Alfred Atkinson-M.L. Wilson Correspondence and Materials	1919-1937
Box	Folder
35	19	M. L. Wilson (miscellany)	1919-1933
35	20	M. L. Wilson: Dry Farming-Triangle Survey	1921-1923
35	21	M. L. Wilson: Fairway Farms	1923-1931
36	1-13	Correspondence: Atkinson-Wilson	1924-1937

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Agricultural experiment stations-Montana
Agricultural extension work-Montana
Agriculture and state-Montana
Agriculture-Montana-Societies, etc
Basketball-Tournaments-Montana
Canadian Americans-Montana-Bozeman
College presidents-Montana-Bozeman
Depressions-1929-Montana
Education-Montana
Federal aid to education-Montana
Governors-Montana
Higher education and state-Montana
New Deal, 1933-1939-Montana
Schools-Montana
Youth-Montana-Societies and clubs

Personal Names

Atkinson, Alfred, 1879-1958
Cobleigh, William Merriam, b. 1872
Currier, E. L. (Edwin Lovejoy), b. 1887
Elliott, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1874-1960
Linfield, Frederick Bloomfield, 1866-1948
Renne, Roland Roger, 1905-
Ryon, Augustus M
Wilson, M. L. (Milburn Lincoln), 1885-1969

Corporate Names

Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities
Future Farmers of America
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
Montana Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics
Montana Farm Bureau Federation
Montana Farmers Union
Montana State College--Administration
Montana State College--Alumni and alumnae
Montana State College-Presidents
Montana State College-Students
Montana-Legislative Assembly
Montanans, Inc
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Montana)-Administration
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Montana)-Alumni and alumnae
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Montana)-Office of the President.
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Montana)-Presidents
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Montana)-Students
United States-Dept. of Agriculture
United States-Federal Civil Works Administration
United States-Federal Emergency Relief Administration
United States-National Youth Administration
United States-Works Progress Administration
University of Montana (System)

Geographical Names

Montana-Economic conditions-20th century

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