Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-07-12 | Page 30 | 'College on Wheels' due in Utah Wednesday Ohio Students to Visit State's Scenic Area

6 n Wheels Wheels' Due in Utah Wednesday 0 O 4 O O O Ohio u ens Visit 9 0 r o. o r s sL L i h. h V 0 t r 4 a w. w AND THIS t. t t OH PR t w IS WHY I p HERE IS 1 III r SOME N OVER r e HEREr HERE I yb r rw iy i e t 9 f J Here are members of the auto caravan of Professor Protessor Lynds Jon Jones l of Oberlin college as they left the Ohio town and swung west for their six weeks' weeks jaunt Men and girls alike wear khaki breeches and woolen skirts Professor Jones is in the inset Trusty Tr Flivvers Convey Canvey Oberlin Oberlin Oberlin Ober Ober- lin Cla Class s on Six Weeks Weeks' Tour of West WestBy By NEAThe NEA The worlds world's only college on wheels has started Its long trip toward the land of the setting sun It will pass through Utah stopping J at St St. George on July 15 16 I Its It's a college that has neither text books classrooms nor final examinations ex ex- The class motto Is early to bed and early to rise and the college yell deals with the joys of cranking battered flivvers I Professor Professor- Lynds Jones of Oberlin Oberlin Ober Ober- i lin college Is making his ninth annual annual annual an an- anI I nual pilgrimage to the Pacific coast with his Ecology class which consists consists con con- con I of four young oung men and two coeds I They are going In flivvers The object of their trip is to study birds animals and rock formations all the way across the west The trip is ex expected to last six weeks During all of this time all members rs of the party will sleep and eat out of doors They are carryIng carrying carrying carry- carry Ing camping equipment and wearing wearIng wear wear- Ing their oldest clothes The route cuts across Indiana and The Flivver college will make the follow following ng stops on its trip through the west St. St George Utah July 15 Pasadena Cal CaI July 19 Monterey CaL Ca' July 2126 21 Morgan Hill Cal August 4 Pasadena August 7 Illinois swings through southern Iowa and Nebraska and then dips down into Colorado to Denver and Pikes Pike's peak Then it goes south touching Bryce canyon and ZIon canyon swinging south again to the northern northern northern north north- ern rim of the Grand canyon and then heading through to Pasadena Ca Cal There follows a no short excursion ex excursIon excursion ex- ex up the coast to Monterey and then the party returns to Pasadena Pasadena Pasa Pasa- dena and disbands Our trips are planned to furnish an opportunity for the studies of at plants and animals as t they ey actually occur In nature says Professor Jones It Is organized as a college class but bilt the methods of classrooms are dispensed sed with as much as possible We cant can't teach this course by the usual methods GETS REAL CONTACT By Bv actual contact with the field Professor Takes Young Folk Into Open for Study of Rock and Trees work one learns how the plants and animals are adapted or adapt themselves themselves them- them selves to each type of ot climate Especially Especially Es Es- are are we interested in how howman howman howman man has found it necessary to meet the conditions that each climate makes if it he is to remain in It long Dally Daily lectures review the work that has Immediately preceded make male interpretations of the things seen and studied bring out correlations correla correIa and relationships between the life liCe and environment and anticipate the work work that is to follow Credit for tor the course is given next winter when each student writes a paper covering the summer summer sum sum- mer studies There is no final ex examination ex- ex NO FANCY JANCY CLOTHES No one would guess that these voyagers are collegians at least from the way they dress For the short skirts and wide trousers are arell all ll shipped on to Pasadena the tho western terminus of f the r route ute anc and wont won't be donned until the trip is ended and everybody Is ready to start back home Next year yea Professor Jones will make his Ms tenth tour When he be began began began be- be gan them he Insisted that the would be the last But now he says says he doesn't know about that thai His friends agree that It is very doubtful if It he will quit with the tenth trip For Foe a roving spirit is hidden InthIs in inthis inthis this quiet college professor they say say and and hell he'll head for the he the coast const every summer until he can no longer long long- er work the pedals