MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, originally the University of Montana, made one of the component parts of the latter by legisla tive act of 1913, is located at Missoula. It was endowed by a grant of land, 46,560 acres, from Congress in 1892. Of this amount 30,668 acres have been sold, the sales amounting to $539,715. The doors of the institution were opened Sep tember 1895 with a few students and six mem bers of the faculty. In September 1918, the faculty included 65 professors, assistant pro fessors and instructors, 19 lecturers and 7 li brarians, a total of 91. The total number of students was 941,-304 men and 637 women. The total number of alumni was 488. The in come from all sources was $309,409.78. Courses are offered in the College of Arts and Sciences in biology, botany, chemistry, economics, edu cation, English, fine arts, geology, histRry and political science, home economics, Latin and Greek, mathematics, modern languages, physics, psychology, public speaking, physical education. There are professional schools in forestry, journalism, law, music and pharmacy. Provi sion is made for graduate work. A biological station is maintained at Flathead Lake. The work of the university continues throughout the year, on the four-quarter system. The de grees conferred are A.B. and B.S., and the cor responding masters' degrees. Women are ad mitted on equal terms with men. The income is.derived in part from the sale of land, in greater part from legislative appropriation. The campus contains about 50 acres, with an adjoining portion of Mount Sentinel of 560 acres. This beautiful mountain rises from the level plain 3,200 feet high. In 1918 the build ings were main hall, science .hall, Craig hall (women's dormitory), library, natural science building (new), gymnasium, two barracks buildings constructed for the Student Army Training Corps, a hospital to care for 50 pa tients and a Y. M. C. A. hut. Legislative ap
propriation was made for a new library build mg. The library contains about vol umes and 18,000 pamphlets, and receives over 400 periodicals.
MONTANAR, Valentine Hil aire, French-American missionary: b. Marign ane, France, 14 Feb. 1870. He was educated at the seminaries of Aix, France, and the Paris Seminary for Foreign Missions. In 1889 he joined the Society for Foreign Missions, was ordained priest in 1893 and the same year was sent on the Kwang-tong mission, China. While in that province he was stationed successively at Linchow and San Ning. From 1908 to 1912 he was in New York in charge of the Chinese Catholics of that city and from 1912 to 1915 he was in charge of the Catholics of Chinese birth at Montreal, Canada. He was persecuted dur ing the Boxer uprising in China and saw many of his Christian chapels and villages laid waste. In 1905 he was accused by Chinese officials at San Ning of implication in the massacre that took place there that year. He was exonerated of all blame, however, upon investigation by Mr. Lay, American consul at Canton, and Com mander Evans of the United navy. He compiled a Chinese-French dictionary, for use in the missionary schools conducted by him and is the author of 'Method of Learning the Can tonese Years in China,' and contributions to The Catholic Encyclo the Bulletin de Notre Dame de Beaure prd, and various American and French period icals.