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Show HOME PROJECT WORK WILL BEJSCUSSED Teachers Will Meet to Take Up Standardization of School Credits. i A meeting of the principals and dis- trict superintendents of all high schools where teachers of agriculture are em-: ployed by the year, or where a local leader is maintained and home project work is supervised, will be held at the East high school Thursday morning at 9 o'clock for the purpose of considering methods and plans whereby the home project work done by the boys' and girls' clubs can be standardized and school credits allowed. Representatives from the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college and the University of Utah will bo present to explain the policy pol-icy of these institutions in regard to allowing school credit for this work. W. E. Stephens, in charge of the high school boys' club work, will submit a plan at the meeting tending toward a standardization of the home project work. Mr. Stephens is at work on a manual to guide tne boys in their efforts. This manual will contain a simple system of cost accounts, showing the cost of production. pro-duction. Several specific experiments will be outlined. A resume of the work will, be required in connection with the projects finished, showing the benefits occurring and the method by which cost production may be decreased and profits prof-its increased for another year. Each boy will be required to deposit his net profits in some bank and thus start a savings account. ! It is planned to issue an agricultural club paper, which, will contain articles of interest to the boys in connection with their various projects. It will include in-clude a column for general notes where the doings of other groups throughout the country w-ill be told. Each high school will have a representative on the editorial staff of the paper. Each boy who is actually engaged in home project work will receive a copy of this paper, which will be issued monthly. |