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Show ter gives this enlightening thought: that Utah is better prepared pre-pared than any other state in the nation to provide adequate higher education facilities for its returning return-ing veterans. more than twice the national aver- age. Following the Bible admonition that "by the mouth of two witnesses wit-nesses shall all things be proven," Dr. Partch's testimony is substantiated substan-tiated by Dr. Paul H. Buck, provost pro-vost and dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, Harvard University. Uni-versity. Dr. Buck declares that the result of Harvard's two-year educational survey revealed that Utah ranked first in education in the United States, with Connecti- I cut practically tied with Utah for first place. To completely clinch the matter, mat-ter, one must add the testimony of Utah's own educator, Dr. J. R. Mahoney, director, bureau of economics eco-nomics and business research, University of Utah. Says Dr. Mahoney, Ma-honey, "... educational levels of men and women 20 to 60, and subdivided into age groups of 20 to 25, 25 to 30, reveals Utah highest high-est in the nation in each classification." classi-fication." The sum total of the entire mat- Utah Ranks High In Educational Circles Of Nation Utahns as a group are the nation's na-tion's most scholarly people their ratio of school attendance surpasses sur-passes all other states. Utah ranks first in the number of persons per 10,000 population attending educational educa-tional institutions. The above facts have been revealed in a survey of national education needs by Dr. C. E. Partch, school of education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Bruns-wick, New Jersey. Dr. Partch declares also that the number of persons of secondary secon-dary school age per 10,000 population popu-lation in Utah attending school is 775, the national average is only 510. The national average of students stu-dents attending higher educational institutions during the prewar years of 1939-40 per 10,000 population popu-lation was 112 students; Utah's average on the same basis in the same school year was 151 men and 86 women, a total of 237, |