Show STUDENT LIFE in the right direction are capable of doing The names of these two students are J C Ilogensen B S ’99 aud J W Nelson B S ’00 They are both Cache County boys and both arc graduates from the Commercial department of this College On entering school of the “root of neither had an all evil’’ at his command and they were often placed in trying circumstances But by perseverance sacrifice and hard work they were enabled to complete their courses After finishing the work prescribed for a degree they were both desirous of continuing the studies along their chosen line To do this they were obliged to teach school in order to replenish their pocket-book- s Accomplishing this they went East last September to do work in horticulture and agriculture in the Michigan Agricultural College Their first three months’ work at that institution was so satisfactory to their professors that when Director Smith of the experiment station received word from Washington asking if he could recommend any men from that school to enter the department of agriculture as experts in soil work he replied that the only ones he could recommend were the two men from Utah Consequently the positions were offered them and after careful consideration were accepted The boys entered upon the work Jan 1 and are receiving remarkably good salaries Ilad they remained during the entire school year at Michigan they would have secured their Master’s Degrees in Science The results achieved by these boys show what can be accomplished by hard work and a determination to succeed and also show the standard of the work given at this school to demonstrate the theories advanced in the k It is maintained that the equipment for soil physics work in this institution is with the exception of that provided in the Agricultural College of Wisconsin the best in the United States An agricultural student in looking through the magazines in the library came to the box stamped “Farmers’ Magazines” Thinking to spend a profitable hour in perusing the pages of that useful magazine he pulled out one of the periodicals in the box and found “Sound Currency” This change is indeed creditable on to the librarian as it shows her part She can sec that sound currency will promote all agricultural enterprises Last term’s recitations in Horticulture may be compared to the plot in a good narrative or to a good argumentative speaker treating a subject which he winds up with a brilliant climax The point in comparison is this: — All the recitations in Horticulture were good but the last recitation (from the point of view of the class) was the best for think of a bushel-baskfilled with large beautiful delicious pomes which had to be tested for their flavor by only seven pupils — of course the Professor assisted the class to some extent — and you have the reason for that recitation’s being the b?st The Agricultural Glee Club has commenced Prof Merrill’s class is doing free clinic work over-abuudan- ce post-gradua- te holding regular practices text-boo- far-sightedn- ess et Farmer’s institute work is still going on at irregular intervals An interesting meeting was held in the College chapel Saturday Feb 21 Profllutt is conducting an experiment on the effect of high temperature on weed seeds 0n Mondays The Agricultural Club is certainly the most favored society of the institution Seven of the strongest members of the faculty have now of the signed the Constitution' and club thereby becoming regular members The class in Agronomy 3 has started and By-la- ws & the members do considerable laboratory work t |