Right is the CHEMISTRY BUILDING. FRANCES HALL (L) houses the farm management division and the school of pharmacy. The DAIRY BUILDING and the old BARRACKS are R. At the next curve of the road are the FARM BUILDINGS of the agriculture division (L and R). Just before reaching 13th St. the road passes the PHYSICAL EDUCATION BUILDING (L), erected in 1930. It has an indoor track, swimming pool, and auditorium with seating capacity of 3,600. Athletic events featured today at the college with its modern gymnasium and floodlighted football field were impossible during early days at the school, for even if enough students had been enrolled to allow football and basketball teams, there was no athletic coach, and lack of transportation facilities prohibited games with other colleges. In those days one of the chief pastimes of the students was bronco busting, facilities for which were readily available. Right on 13th St. is the MEN'S DORMITORY (R) and the home economics PRACTICE HOUSE (R). The SCHOOL OF RELIGION (L), of modern design in white stucco, originally conducted as a branch of Wesley College, has been turned over to the agricultural college under a 99-year rent-free lease of its buildings and equipment, together with a charter for conferring degrees in religion. Right on a campus road is CERES HALL (R), named for the goddess of grain, and housing the women's dormitory, gymnasium, and the home economics department. FESTIVAL HALL (R) is used for R. O. T. C. drill, college entertainments, proms, and informal dances. The FOOTBALL FIELD is R. of Festival Hall. An outstanding organization on the campus is the Gold Star Band which is part of the college R. O. T. C. unit. Directed since 1902 by Dr. C. S. Putnam, it participates in special military events, appears at athletic contests, and has made several tours through North Dakota and Minnesota. With its campus on the plains of the Red River Valley where great herds of buffalo once roamed, it is appropriate that the school should have the bison as its insignia. The college emblem is a green and yellow shield (the college colors) bearing the letters "N D" surmounted by a bison. The traditional Homecoming banquet held each fall features a bison barbecue. The college maintains an extension division and experimental stations. The extension service includes the formation of agricultural clubs in rural communities and at the college, and administers Federal funds allotted the State for agricultural education. A primary function of the experimental department is the study of plant diseases and the development of disease-resistant grains. H. L. Bolley, a member of the faculty, discovered the formaldehyde treatment of seed for the prevention of smut on wheat and other grains and perfected a wilt-resistant flax while using these experimental facilities.