QUESTION OF TODAY
Mine Students Quizzed
BUTTE, Mont., May 15.—"What
is the most important question before the American people today.
Can you distinguish between hypo-
gene and supergene enrichment? If
you were going into an isolated locality, what five nontechnical books
would you take with you? Who developed the electrolytic process for
zinc? What do you think of the
sit-down strike?"
Such are the questions Montana
School of Mines students who expect to graduate in June must answer in the senior comprehensive
oral examinations being held this
week. The examinations are designed to sample the student's gen
eral, broad and comprehensive
knowledge both of his own field
and of the world about him rather
than of his specific knowledge of
details learned in the classroom or
laboratory.
Many technical and scientific
questions test the general knowledge of the senior students who
are presenting themselves at the
president's office each afternoon to
be quizzed for forty-five minutes
by a committee consisting of President Francis A. Thomson, Professor A. E. Adami, Dr. C. L. Wilson,
Dr. E. S. Perry and Professor A. M.
Gaudin. Other members of the faculty also participate in the examination.