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Show IFLIII TO ME ! VOCATIONAL COURSE j j Patients in Army Hospital j to Avail Themselves of i Opportunity. !' ! Plans are being made by patients now i at the army general hospital at Fort Douglas to take advantage of the offer of educational and vocational training fa- ' cilities at the University of Utah. i The board of regents of the institu- j tion, through President John A. Widtsoe, has made a formal offer to the govern 1 niL-nt lo furnish vocational and educa-I educa-I i:oii.tl facilities frr reconstruction pa-j pa-j t!t-;iis at the lort hospital free of charge ! and lo have the school used as an adjunct ad-junct to the hospital fur the special j training of men for civil life niter lln-ir , discharge from the army. Although this offer was made to the war department some days ago through Senator "Y. H. King in Washington, no formal reply as to acceptance or rejection rejec-tion of the plan has been received from the department. However, it is considered consid-ered significant that the plans for constructing con-structing vocational shops at the post for use in connection "with the reeonstruc-I reeonstruc-I lion hospital have been altered to the j extent of elimination of the shops. This i is thought to mean that the department i prnbabiy will accept he offer of the uni-vers.ly uni-vers.ly to furnish the facilities for vocational voca-tional training in the university shops, which are well equipped for this work and which are conveniently located for use by patients in the post hospital. But whether or "not this formal offer of general use of the university for vocational vo-cational training of the patients is accepted, ac-cepted, there is an offer of the institution to individual patients to. give them courses in educational or vocational branches, and this offer holds good regardless re-gardless of what action the war . department depart-ment may take upon the other proposition, propo-sition, it is explained. Two or three of the overseas patients now at the reconstruction hospital are anxious to taiie up educational branches at the schooi just as soon as school work is resumed at the institution, and steps are being taken to make arrangements so that these men may begin their work at the opening of school after the holiday season. In the meantime it is expected that a reply will be received from the war department de-partment relative to the university's offer of general use of the school for reconstruction recon-struction patients. |