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Show Brigham Young University Opens its Doors Monday With Strong Factulty The Young university will open next Monday morning with a faculty fac-ulty unprecedented for scholarship in the annals of the institution, with an unusual variety of courses, and with more adequate equipment than has ever been the lot of the school. Four members of the faculty fac-ulty are returning from sabbatical leave during the past year or more, eleven members are returning from less than year leave, and ten new members have been added. Prof. B. F. Larsen, of the art department, de-partment, has just returned from Europe where he has spent the past fifteen months studying art. While Professor Larsen spent the major portion of this period in Paris, he also visited the principal art galleries gal-leries of Europe, outside of Paris. Prof. B. F. Cummings, head of the department of modern languages, has just returned from Stanford university, where he has been for the past seventeen months doing work towards the Ph. D. degree. Professor Cummings has now to complete tie writing of his thesis. From the same institution comes Prof. C. E. Maw, with the Ph'. D. degree in chemistry. Miss Hermese Peterson has just completed a year's work at the University of Chicago, specializing in primary methods. Lowry Nelson, of the extension division, spent six months at the University of Wisconsin, and was awarded the M. S. degree in the department of economies of that institution, in-stitution, majoring in rural sociology. sociol-ogy. Prof. E. H. Eastmond has spent the summer in Europe, studying study-ing art. Prof. H. R. Clark has been awarded the M. A. degree from the University of Washington, in the department of accounting. Prof. Thomas C. Romney, of the history department, has received the degree of master of arts from the University Univer-sity of California during the summer. sum-mer. Prof. John C. Swenson spent the summer session at Columbia in the department of economics and sociology. so-ciology. Dean H. V. Hoyt was a delegate to advertising conventions in London, and has spent the balance bal-ance of the summer touring Europe. Laval S. Morris, instructor in horticulture, spent the summer at the University of Minnesota, doing work towards the M. S. degree. J. Stewart Williams, instructor in physics, did work at the University of Chicago and Ed M. Rowe, instructor in-structor in English, attended the summer session of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college. Among the new members of the faculty are Dr. Milton Marshall, late of the University of Chicago, who will be assistant professor of physics. Dr. Weston Oaks will be assistant medical adviser. Other new appointments are A. Rex Johnson, John-son, instructor in office practice ; Ralph Booth, instructor in music; Briant L. Decker, instructor in biology biol-ogy : Reva Lewis, instructor in clothing and textiles; Leroy J. Robertson, instructor in music; Maude Dixon Markhnm, instructor in English; Knthryn B. Pardoe, instructor in-structor in dramatic art; Hazel Clyde and LaPreal Bullock, instructors instruc-tors in training school; William F. Hansen, instructor in music. Sabbatical leaves of absence have been granted to Prof. J. M. Jensen, who will spend the winter at Stanford Stan-ford university ; Prof. Alice L. Reynolds Rey-nolds and Prof. Vilate Elliott, who will spend the winter in Europe, and Prof. T. E. Pardoe, who will attend Columbia university. The leave of absence of Prof. Fred Buss has been extended one year. The buildings of the university have been cleaned and renovated throughout, and many important improvements and rearrangements made, which will add to the efficiency effi-ciency of the plant. The most noteworthy note-worthy improvement is the placing of a new floor in the College building. build-ing. Many improvements have been made in the various departments. depart-ments. With the enhanced scholarship of the faculty has come the announcement announce-ment of many new courses, especially espe-cially those for advanced students. A glance at the catalog shows an increase in the number of courses which may be taken for graduate credit in all of the departments. In spite of the adverse season, authorities at the university anticipate antici-pate an enrollment at least equal to the banner record of last year, when over a thousand college students stu-dents were in attendance. Word comes from Price, for example, that the entire graduating class will attend at-tend Young university this winter. This is unprecedented. Similarly, the inquiries indicate that there will be a large representation from Richfield and Sevier county, from which the number of registrants has not been large in recent years. Students Stu-dents have sent word from as far north in Utah as Richmond, Cache county, that they intend to matriculate matricu-late at the "Y" on Monday. |