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Show GRATIFYING SHOWING. The Tribune a few days ago presented present-ed figures compiled by the registrar's office of-fice of the Utah Agricultural college at Logan, showing an increase of enrollment enroll-ment in the school over t hat of last yea r, u p to December 1 , of more than Ui per cent I'M) students. The new students stu-dents admitted this year number 212 more than last year. This increase is considered remarkable, because ' ' scv-1 scv-1 era I junior colleges opened' for their first year of work last September." It is si a ted n lso that more than J .")() stu-den stu-den ts have enrolled for tho winter cfin rso. These a re gratifying signs, not only of the financial status of Utah's agricultural agri-cultural communities, but as well of the determination and desire of the young people to get ahead in the world to fit themselves for larger duties and opportunities op-portunities and to make the most of t heir environment. The state will profit handsomely when these energetic i and progressive young folks turn luo'k t o their work, and no doubt each of j them will reap added rewards in money and satisfaction for tho time spent in Utah 's schools of practical knowledge. 1 1 is not to be expected, nor per haps is it desirable, t hat all the students stu-dents will remain permanently in Utah. The intermingling of our cosmopolitan population, with the consequent, exchange ex-change of ideas, has been a powerful factor in individual and national progress. prog-ress. But let us trust that what Utah may lose in the departure of some of these ambitious young persons for other fields it may recoup by attracting a similar element from other states. A pleasant feature of the work being be-ing done at the Agricultural college is the interest shown by tho woman students stu-dents in the courses designed especially especial-ly to fit them for the duties and responsibilities respon-sibilities of home-making. It had been fashionable of late years for girls fretting fret-ting under the anticipated restrictions of the home to deride such training as savoring of a foregone sentence to domestic do-mestic slavery, and to declare their emancipation even ere they were enslaved. en-slaved. Tho business of making a home and becoming a mother needs no defense. Almost every normal young man looks forward with some eagerness to the day when he may become shackled as a good husband to a good wife, and it is safe to say that even a greater proportion of normal young women regard such a domestic do-mestic fate with equanimity. As the more important, if not the greater, burden bur-den naturally falls upon the better half in such a partnership, it seems the part of common sense to gain all the enlightenment possible on the subject. This is what the young women are doing do-ing at the Agricultural college. |