MZFMSU00001.xml Guide to the Alfred Atkinson Correspondence Files 1914-1940 Atkinson (Alfred) Correspondence Files Kim Allen Scott, 2009. Updated by Heather Mulliner, 2022. Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Montana State University Library, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscript Collections 2022
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-10-10. Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard ) Montana State University Library, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscript Collections Alfred Atkinson Correspondence Files Montana State College. Office of the President. MSU.00001 Accession 00001 14.4 linear feet 1914-1940 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. Collection materials are in English

This collection is open for research.

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

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

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.

This collection was processed 2009 May 14

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.

 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 Atkinson, Alfred, 1879-1958 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)-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) State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (Montana)-Office of the President. Montana-Economic conditions-20th century Agricultural experiment stations-Montana Agricultural extension work-Montana Agriculture and state-Montana Agriculture-Montana-Societies, etc Basketball-Tournaments-Montana Canadian Americans-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 College presidents-Montana-Bozeman Agriculture Children and Youth Colleges and Universities Bozeman Montana Montana University System 1 1914-1937

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.

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

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.

 MSC General Comments 1919-1935 2 11 MSC General Comments, Administrative Organization 1919-1935 2 12 MSC Agricultural Advisory Council 1921-1923 2 13 Land Grant College Committee on Organization and Policy 1923, 1933, 1935 2 14 Reports of "Philosophy of Education" and "State Problems and Policy" Committees, Twenty-year Plan (proposed) 1934-1936 3 1 MSC Regulatory Duties and the State Department of Agriculture 1920-1933 3 2 Reports of Progress (official) 1920-1927 3 3 President's Annual Report 1927-1928 3 4 Reports of Progress (official) 1929-1936 3 5 Reports of Progress (unofficial) 1919-1937 3 6-7 Special Reports: Services Rendered by Various Montana Departments 1924 3 8 Ten-Year Progress Report 1922-1933 3 9 Ten-Year Outlook 1928-1938 3 10 General Questionnaires 1922-1937 3 11 Miscellaneous Historical Items 1922, 1934 3 12 Name of MSC (Letterheads, etc.) 1921-1935 3 13 Accreditation, Scholastic Standing 1921-1936 3 14 Traditions 1923-1935 3 15 MSC Administration: Operations and Problems 3 1918-1937

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.

 Finance and Budget 1 1918-1937

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.

 Administrative organization (central): general accounting system 1927, 1933-1935 4 1 Administrative organization (central): purchasing system 1919-1937 4 2 Administrative organization (central): committee on buying scientific equipment and charging for breakages 1933-1934 4 3 Bookstore 1931-1936 4 4 Correspondence files (record management) 1923 4 5 Finances, general correspondence 1918-1924 4 6 Finances, general correspondence 1925-1930 4 7 General financial statements 4 8-10 Income funds 1918-1930 4 11 Federal appropriations (Purnell bill) 4 12 Legislative materials 1918-1926 4 13 Legislative materials 1927-1930 4 14 Bond and tax amendment campaign (Initiative 18 and 19) 1919-1920 5 1 Development budget 1921-1923 5 2 Bond allotments and expenditures 1923-1925 5 3 Mill tax distribution 1925-1926 5 4 Administrative costs of university units, Governor's committee on 1925-1926 5 5 College finance committee re students and costs 1925-1926 5 6 General correspondence, finances 1930-1937 5 7-11 Legislative materials 1930-1937 6 1 Miscellaneous legislative materials 1930-1937 6 2-6 Legislative materials, department budget requests 1931-1933 6 7-8 Legislative materials 1935-1937 6 9-10 Legislative budgets 1929-1935 7 1-4 Federal appropriations 1930-1937 7 5-9 Federal appropriations: millage tax and bond issue ( Referendum 33 and 34) 1930 7 10 Federal appropriations: study of per capita costs of students 1932 7 11 Gifts, loans, donations 1926-1937 7 12 Labor and employees (non-faculty) labor committee 1918-1937 8 1 Library 1919-1931 8 2 Library 1932-1937 8 3 Physical Plant - Buildings, Campus, and Services 2 1919-1937

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.

 Physical plant: miscellaneous correspondence 1920-1937 8 4 Buildings: general correspondence 1922-1936 8 5 Buildings: Student Union, Girls Residence Halls, General Correspondence 1932-1936 8 6-10 Buildings: insurance, Girls Residence Halls 1936-1937 8 11 Buildings: Mead and Mount, general contractors 1934-1936 8 12 Buildings: Use of buildings by outside organizations, etc. 1921, 1933-1934 9 1 Campus grounds, correspondence 1924-1936 9 2 Campus traffic 1923-1936 9 3 Fire protection 1921-1936 9 4 Heat, power, and electric light 1924-1937 9 5 Land holdings 1919-1931 9 6 Sewage system, sidewalks, streets 1921-1935 9 7 Telephones 1923-1931 9 8 Water rates 1933-1934 9 9 Water rights 1924-1936 9 10 Publications, Publicity, and Public Relations 3 1920-1937

Files on promoting the college including exhibitions and radio, community programs and publicity handouts. Enclosures of many types may be present.

 Public Relations: Publications correspondence 1924-1937 9 11 Public Relations: Publicity 1920-1937 9 12 Public Relations: Publicity, Exhibits 1920-1934 9 13 Public Relations: Publicity Radio 1924-1936 9 14 Public relations 1934 9 15 Faculty memberships, Bozeman Chamber of Commerce 1920-1936 9 16 Registrar (Report of Registration Committee) 1929-1947 9 17 U.S. Work Relief Programs on Campus 4 1933-1937

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.

 U.S. Work Relief C.W.A., Student employment 1933-1934 9 18 U.S. Work Relief C.W.A., Unemployed campus projects 1933-1934 9 19 U.S. Work Relief programs: FERA Student employment 1934-1935 9 20 U.S. Work Relief programs: FERA Non student 1934-1935 9 21 U.S. Work Relief programs: FERA, NYA, WPA 1935 10 1-2 Vice-president, MSC 1932 10 3 Faculty 4 1919-1937

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.

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

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.

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

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

 Alumni: general correspondence 1924-1937 14 15 Alumni Association 1933-1937 14 16 Alumni: Collegian 1934 14 17 Alumni: notable, etc. 1930-1934 14 18 Alumni: occupational summary of graduates (includes 1896-1921 summary) 1923-1932 14 19 Alumni: letters from President to MSC graduates 1921-1925 14 20 Academic Divisions, Colleges, and Departments 7 1914-1940

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.

 Division of Agriculture and Associated Departments 1 1914-1937

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.

 Division of Agriculture: general correspondence 1921-1930 15 1-3 Division of Agriculture: Agricultural Course Inquiry 1920 15 4 Division of Agriculture: relations with U.S.D.A. 1921-1924 15 5 Division of Agriculture: student judging contests 1924-1936 15 6 Agricultural Economics: general correspondence 1924-1937 15 7-8 Agricultural Engineering: general correspondence 1919-1937 15 9 Agronomy: general correspondence 1921-1937 15 10-11 Agronomy: crop standardization, and soil improvement work 1919-1933 15 12 Agronomy: Grain Inspection Laboratory 1920-1925 15 13 Agronomy: tillage, seeding 15 14 Agronomy: corn 1924-1933 15 15 Agronomy: grain, wheat varieties, smut prevention 1925-1937 15 16 Agronomy: legumes 1924 15 17 Agronomy: sunflowers 1919-1920 15 18 Agronomy: sweet clover 1923 15 19 Animal Industry: general correspondence 1920-1936 16 1-2 Animal Industry: feeds and feeding 1931-1937 16 3 Animal Industry: Little International 1932-1936 16 4 Animal Industry: livestock train 1924-1937 16 5 Animal Industry: range livestock research 1922-1936 16 6 Animal Industry: military grass 1935 16 7 Animal Industry: recreational ranching 1935 16 8 Dairy Industry: general correspondence 1924-1935 16 9 Dairy Industry: Bitterroot dairy herd improvement controversy 1934-1935 16 10 Horticulture Department: general correspondence 1925-1937 16 11 Poultry Department: general correspondence 1921-1934 16 12 Veterinary Department: general correspondence 1923-1935 16 13 Extension Service: general correspondence 1914-1930 16 14-16 Extension Service: general correspondence 1931-1936 17 1 Extension Service: training of extension workers 1923-1924 17 2 Extension Service: Extension Workers Conference 1922-1936 17 3 Extension Service: Director's letters to extension workers 1923-1924 17 4 Extension Service: county agricultural agents 1919-1935 17 5 Extension Service: county Home Demonstration work 1923-1929 17 6 Extension Service: 4-H Club Work 1914-1935 17 7 Extension Service: Forestry 1925-1930 17 8 Extension Service: Work with Indians 1923-1946 17 9 Experiment Stations: general correspondence 1929-1936 17 10 Experiment Stations: Central Montana Branch Station 1926 17 11 Experiment Stations: Horticultural Branch Station 1932-1936 17 12 Experiment Stations: Northern Montana Branch Station 1921-1927 17 13 Experiment Stations: U. S. Range Experiment Station 1930-1935 17 14 Division of Engineering and Associated Departments 2 1919-1937

Correspondence and papers related to the Engineering Division and its seven departments. As with other series, enclosures of many types may be present.

 Engineering Division: general correspondence 1919-1936 17 15-16 Engineering Division: "Bridging the gap between the college and industry" 1933-1936 17 17 Engineering Division: Engineering Experiment Station 1920-1937 18 1 Engineering Division: agreement with State Highway Commission 1920-1932 18 2 Engineering Division: Engineering Extension Service 1930-1934 18 3 General Engineering: annual reports 1930-1937 18 4 Architectural engineering: general correspondence 1920, 1932 18 5 Chemical Engineering: general correspondence 1931-1935 18 6 Civil engineering: general correspondence 1919-1933 18 7 Electrical engineering: general correspondence 1926-1937 18 8 Industrial engineering: general correspondence 1929, 1935 18 9 Mechanical engineering: general correspondence 1935 18 10 The General Division 3 1931-1937

The General Division consisted of two-year courses with options toward four-year degrees. Enclosures may be present.

 General Division: correspondence (Two-stage plan) 1931-1937 18 11-12 General Division: game conservation course 1933-1936 18 13 Division of Household and Industrial Arts 4 1920-1937

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.

 Division of Household and Industrial Arts: general correspondence 1931-1936 18 14 Applied Arts: general correspondence 1924-1934 18 15 Home Economics: general correspondence 1920-1937 18 16-17 Home Economics Association 1924-1934 18 18 Home Economics: White House Conference on Child Health and Protection 1930-1934 18 19 Home Economics: play school 18 20 Secretarial Science: general correspondence 1924-1930 18 21 Division of Science and Associated Departments 5 1919-1937

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.

 Division of Science: Dean of Science 1932-1935 19 1 Division of Science: correspondence with U.S. Bureau of Entomology 1929-1935 19 2 Division of Science: correspondence with U.S. Biological Survey 1935-1936 19 3 Botany and Bacteriology: general correspondence 1932-1935 19 4 Botany and Bacteriology: Barberry eradication campaign 1925-1937 19 5 Chemistry: general correspondence 1922-1937 19 6 Chemistry: fertilizer research 1920-1936 19 7 Chemistry: soil work 1923 19 8 Chemistry: Public Service Division 1919-1924 19 9 Chemistry: oil laboratory (Work of State Chemist) 1919-1937 19 10 Chemistry: water and food labs (Cooperation with State Board of Health) 1923 19 11 Chemistry: swimming pool standards 1923 19 12 Zoology-Entomology 1923 19 13 Entomology: general correspondence 1924-1937 19 14 Entomology: Strand, L., Appointment as Head of Entomology Dept. 1929-1930 19 15 Entomology: bee keeping 19 16 Entomology: grasshopper control 1919-1937 19 17 Entomology: rodent control 1919-1934 19 18 Mathematics: general correspondence 1924-1937 19 19 Nurses Training: correspondence 1924-1937 19 20 Physical Education: general correspondence 1925-1937 20 1 Physical Education: non-student use of P E facilities 1923-1937 20 2 Athletics: general correspondence 1920-1937 20 3-6 Athletics: Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference correspondence 1933-1936 20 7 Athletics: Athletic Committee reports 1929-1935 20 8 Athletics: Reports of committee on eligibility of athletes 1924-1937 20 9 Athletics: MSC Athletic Association reports 1925, 1932-1937 20 10 Physics: general correspondence 1923-1935 20 11 Physics: seismograph and earthquake research 1930-1935 20 12 Pre-medical work: correspondence 1925 20 13 Zoology: general correspondence 1923-1936 20 14 Zoology: Fish studies 1935-1936 20 15 General Education Departments 6 1919-1937

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.

 Education and psychology: general correspondence 1921-1936 20 16 Education and psychology: certification, qualification to teach 1919-1936 20 17 Vocational education: general correspondence 1919-1937 21 1-2 Vocational education: news notes, etc. 1920-1936 21 3-4 Vocational education: Conferences 21 5 Vocational education: agreements with Gallatin High School 1925-1935 21 6 English: general correspondence 21 7 History: general correspondence 1925-1935 21 8 History: Dean Hamilton's History of Montana 1931-1937 21 9 Military Science: general correspondence 1920-1932 21 10-11 Military Science: Armory (proposed) 1934-1936 22 1 Music: general correspondence 1919-1936 22 2 Activities in Instruction and Associated Problems 8 1919-1937

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.

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

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

 Research (general): correspondence 1926-1936 26 1 Research (regional): correspondence 1935-1936 26 2 Conferences and Conventions Held on Campus 10 1916-1937

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.

 Conferences and conventions: miscellaneous 26 3 Conferences and conventions: reports of time used, value, etc. 1930-1937 26 4-5 Boys and Girls Vocational Conferences 1920-1926 26 6 High School Week: general correspondence, reports, etc. 1929-1937 26 7-10 High School Week: High School Association Correspondence 1933-1934 26 11 High School Week: Future Farmers of America 1932-1935 27 1 High School Week: Future Farmers of America 1936-1937 27 2 Farm and Home Week 1918-1932 27 3 Visitors' Day 1916, 1926 27 4 School Superintendents and Principals Conference 1922-1927 27 5 High School Basketball tournaments 1920-1926 27 6 High School Basketball tournaments 1928-1937 27 7 Non-University System Educational Institutions 11 1919-1936

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.

 Schools of Montana: general correspondence 1919-1936 27 8 Schools of Montana: Association of School Board Trustees 1926 27 9 Schools of Montana: Five mill tax 1926 27 10 Schools of Montana: High School commencement addresses 1920-1933 27 11 Schools of Montana: High School correspondence course (proposed) 1935 27 12 Schools of Montana: High School honor societies 1933 27 13 Montana Conference on Educational problems, MSU 1935-1936 27 14 Land Grant College Association (general) 1919-1936 27 15-16 Conference on Higher Education, University of Washington, July 15-16 1935 July 15-16 27 17 Conference on University Training for National Service, University of Minnesota, July 14-17 1931 July 14-17 27 18 Inter-mountain Union College, Billings 1926 27 19 North Dakota College 27 20 Flaming Arrow School for Boys 27 21 Correspondence Related to National, State, and Regional Problems 12 1919-1940

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.

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

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.

 Correspondence Related to Montanans and Ex-Montanans 1

Files of correspondence between or about issues concerning a variety of Montanans. Files are grouped alphabetically by name.

 Correspondence related to Berghild Anderson, W.L. Beers, Thomas D. Campbell, W.M. Cobleigh 35 9 Correspondence related to E. L. Currier 35 10 Correspondence related to Chester Davis, E.C. Elliott, J.M. Hamilton, Sam Hampton, Walter S. Hartman 35 11 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 12 Correspondence related to A. H. Stafford, W.L. Stockton, R.H. Sutherlin 35 13 Miscellaneous Alfred Atkinson Correspondence and Papers 2 1919-1936

Correspondence and papers which may include reports, announcements and memorabilia of Alfred Atkinson's presidency of Montana State College.

 President Alfred Atkinson (miscellany) 1921-1932 35 14 President Alfred Atkinson: inauguration of 1919 35 15 President Alfred Atkinson: Federal Food Administrator for Montana 1919-1921 35 16 President Alfred Atkinson: Forsyth bench lands 1920-1936 35 17 President Alfred Atkinson: smoke injury investigations 1919-1932 35 18 Alfred Atkinson-M.L. Wilson Correspondence and Materials 3 1919-1937 M. L. Wilson (miscellany) 1919-1933 35 19 M. L. Wilson: Dry Farming-Triangle Survey 1921-1923 35 20 M. L. Wilson: Fairway Farms 1923-1931 35 21 Correspondence: Atkinson-Wilson 1924-1937 36 1-13