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Show UNIVERSITY ENTERS ' FIELDIHESEIIH i Three Bureaus Will Give Practical Aid in Variety of Subjects. Pursuant to a recent recoi.imendatlon to the council of rebuts In- President t John A. "Widtsoe of the University of ! l'L;ih, three practical roscareh 'uureaus will lo established within the next six months. The now fj Ftom will be divided, accord- ; in? to Dr. WkUfoo'3 p!an, into three divisions: di-visions: (1 ) (Jeolotcical m in inert, under Dr. J, Pack; (li) biological, under Dr. X. Miller, and (."0 economical and sociologies 1, under Dr. Georg-o Thomas. It will be tho aim of these men to gather about them profrsors of attainments in the certain lines who will compose tha board of investi;?a.tio:i. President "W idtsoe's plan provides for another side to e:ich of the bureaus. This will be called "Scientific Research Work," arv.1 will le carried on at the university laboratory- When.; the 'Tactical work will advance the university locally, this scientific research, it ia bebev&u, will advertise the stute institution throughout the nation. Although not the first university to enter the research field, Utaji is among the first few in tho nation. Wisconsin and Minnesota are leading1 the colleges of the middle west, while Harvard and Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania are the pioneers of the east. .Reports .Re-ports state that these Institutions are specializing in a wide field, whereas it Is Utah's idea to limit the effort to the most important phases of business endeavor.. The aerrlcnltural side of the research work will bo taken care of by the Smith-Hewea Smith-Hewea officials, who are operating- under a $Ji),000 appropriation from the suite lesiElaUre and one of $25,000 from the federal governments Prolorsor C. D. Steiner is in charge of the work, and is being' arsis! ed by Professors TCI ea nor Wilkentron, J. H. Tipton and A. L. Beeley. This department poes to tho farmers by niPHns of the university students. After . the agricultural students are graduated and can meet the slrlct-requlro-ment of the Smilh-Huglies work, they distribute dis-tribute themselves amende the various high schools of the state, where they receive re-ceive frequent, visits and advice from the research professors at the university. More than thirty high schools have passed the Smith Hushes i quirementa, according to Professor Steiner. Tho older farmers, he continued, are aJso registering for short courses i nrler the agricultural experts. Meetings are scheduled for the three rf-search divisions early next, week, and the heads will confer with I 'reside it "VVirttsoe to plan details of this revolution In theory of universities. President Wldtsoe announced recently that the McGregory fund will be used this year to insiall a complete metallursu'a.l library at the University of Utah. The president added that such a library has long been needed at the state institution institu-tion and when finished would be one of the moat modern in the west. Jt was also announced that the United States bureau of mines will make the University of Utah metallurgical research station the center of mining research work in the west. Government experts, under the leadership of P Yank K. Ovilz, fuel engineer and superintendent, of Seattle, Seat-tle, visited the university station on behalf be-half of the government t lie latter part of April, and. after conducting a thorough thor-ough invesigation of the facilities and energy of the local station, recommended the centering of work here. The party included E- P. Barrett, chemist, chem-ist, of Seattle; D. A. Lyons, superintendent superinten-dent of experinent stations of the bureau of mines; J. O. Lewis, chief petroleum technologist of the mining bureau, and Mrs. E. P. Barrett, chief clerk. |