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Show THE DIXIE OWE 4 Welcome to Our Home To you many old students who are returning to the Dixie, the faculty extends congratulations on your good choice, your loyalty, and your determination to push on to a point where schooling will add power and opportunity to New students, we your lives. welcome you into our school family, to part ake of the many things which have given the students of the Dixie so much pleasure and satisfaction in the past. As we meet the students, old and new, the faculty members are conscious that we may be helping men and women of future greatness. The little first year boy who comes from the smallest village may be the future president of the stake, a noted financier, or a statesman. From the number of boys and girls who come puzzling out their courses will come the great educators of the future. Tomorrow the world will need inventors, mechanics, scion t.ists, social workers, theologians, engineers, commercial students, farmers and philosoAs we help you pass on phers. through high school and college into life, we see you filling these places; if it is not a Jane Addams or an Ida Tnrbell it is perhaps something greater, a well prepared and faithful mother; if it is not a position of honor in church or state, it is at least a consistent, well directed and useful life. Our hope is that you with the teachers realize your many possibilities and that you appreciate your many opportunities at the Dixie Normal College. We welcome you here, because all that the school is belongs to you. The work of loyal students of previous years, on tennis courts, race track, lawns and walks, was done that you and others who come after you might enjoy the fruits of this patriotWe ism, devotion and thrift. trust that our association with you this winter will make us all better prepared for than we have been for today; that we will be better men and women, better citizens, more appreciative and devoted Latter-da- y Saints, more desirous of letting our lives so shine that others, seeing our good works, will desire to pattern after us. With these thoughts in mind, we welcome you to join with the student body and faculty in the most successful year of the Dixie Normal College. H. M. Woodward. Our Visitors H. II. Cummings, Superintend- ent of Church Schools, and President Brimhall of the Brigham Young University, honored us with a three-day- s visit, October Nth to 16th. Sunday they addressed the young people of St. George in the afternoon and evening meetings of the Mutual Conference. Monday morning they talked to the students in Doth were so imdevotional. pressed with the depth and quality of the Dixie sand that they told stories full of grit, the gist of which was have plenty of sand in your craw. Supt. Cummings reviewed the phenomenal growth of the institution and announced that the General Church Board of Education had officially approved the name of Dixie Normal College. He also introduced Bro. Woodward to the school as President II. M. Woodward. Both announcements were received enthusiastically by the students and faculty. Monday and Tuesday Supt. Cummings and Pres. Brimhall visited classrooms and laboratories, examining the work as it is daily presented. Tuesday after- noon they met with the faculty giving instructions and suggestions for the welfare of the school. In the evening they, together with the Board of Education of the Dixie Normal, were tendered a banquet.. The visit did the school a great deal of good. Prior to their coming we cleaned, out the dusty corners in the classrooms and laboratories where odds and ends had accumulated, dusted the cobwebs from our bookshelves, cleaned up lawns and flower beds and made things generally spic and span. We received instruction and encouragement in outwork and were given a stimulus to continue to persevere in effort which will aid us throughout the year. Both Supt. Cummings and Pres. Brimhall expressed themselves as highly pleased with the spirit of the school and with the quality of the work we are doing. '1hey were exceptionally gratified with the large number of stud-denenrolled considering the present world conditions. We shall look forward to their coming again. ts Professors Mills and Cowles Supt. John M. Mills of the Granite School District, Salt Lake County, and Prof. LeRoy Cowles of the department of Education of the University of Utah, were visitors at St. George, October 19th and 29th. Friday morning they met with the school in devotional and talked to the students. Supt. Mills spent his boyhood in the town of Washington and he described his early schooling. He then told of his starting north to go to school with but seventy-fiv- e cents in his pocket. His on page 11 |