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Show lllE COLLEGE PREPARED FOR lllDffEHG btim of Harrison, Thurs-ton Thurs-ton and Hafen Will Increase In-crease College Efficiency; Aider Curriculum Offered Uoniay, September. 12 will .'rt 'tie opening or registration :' ,M twenty-second year of lie College, and elaborate preplans prep-lans have been made to re-e re-e the growing student body. , physical plant has been in-' in-' ,e(J ' in its efficiency through .'4 addition of laboratory appals appa-ls the more complete prep-.on prep-.on of class rooms and the Tjdition of fine art paintings. " (In August 23, J. William Har- on successfully passed his final IIjminations for the degree of ;..tor of philosophy in Siology at the Iowa state college i agriculture and mechanic arts. je received his doctor's degree 'Mi that great institution on September 1. Dr. Harrison has -.irsued his biological studies at Ames for the past two and a half rears. The culmination of these Indies has brought to him the sist coveted educational at-iiiment at-iiiment which the great .universes .univer-ses ol the world can offer. His yioff teachers, students and Mends rejoice with him and of-i of-i er him their congratulations for iis great achievement. Dr. Harrison began his edu-itional edu-itional work at Gainsborough, England. He cams to America a Mormon convert and set-:!ed set-:!ed in Eureka where he suc-s-sfully pursued the mining business as a contractor. His yeat appreciation for the study il botany led him to discon-iaue discon-iaue the mining business and en-w en-w rnllpEe at the Brieham Young university where he received re-ceived his bachelor's and mask's mas-k's degree. He taught school at 'it old academy and later high ccnool at Hinckley and came '.mm that institution to Dixie college. He entered the college of ag-limlture ag-limlture and mechanic arts of State of Iowa in the spring of 1930. He was assigned a problem prob-lem in mycology and asked to determine the cause of spontaneous spon-taneous combustion in harvested tage crops. Through' his reaches re-aches an important field of dy has been opened and is low being pursued at the Iowa "'lege. The educational stand- ot Dixie college are increas-fiand increas-fiand heightened by the atuin nents of Dr. Harrison. The educational and cultural standards of Dixie College are o elevated through the studies stud-ies o! Miss Evelyn Thurston who s. during the past year, been 1 student of French and musi-al musi-al rt at the University, of Sou-California Sou-California in Los Angeles, te Thurston began her educa-tonal educa-tonal work at Dixie College. has studied with the best usical teachers at Salt Lake in Chicago and Washing-D. Washing-D. C. During the school year iJ,928"29 and the summer ,of ' she was a student of musi- I 1 art in Paris and Switzerland. aged while there in ths M)' of French as a coronary , " "dy or music. Returning , "ucie College the following ' 'fars, she took up her posi-;;' posi-;;' as head of the department of music. She now returns i r mother year's study to J department of piano music ,' enters the department of :, 'Sn languages to teach the language. "r'n the summer, the col-4!'rtor col-4!'rtor of fine arts, Ar-i Ar-i Hafen, has studied Span-t'fJj Span-t'fJj the University of New .. - This university claims to 5 l0e center of Spanish study Ulrica. The peculiar 1 and C?Jf. history which Slir" .(, . ."ls university makes it ,M 's great school for the ,h 01 sPanish. The efficiency ;nt . colleee language depart-Ur depart-Ur tt!S great'y added to this if! of "Eh tlle increased stud-W stud-W Ir- Hafen and Miss ?;er,ch and the addition of Urtt,,.,,, the already strong de- tW ".I lanSges. C(oi0r s the summer of the di-Srriith di-Srriith v 'fee'-!llcatlon. B. Glen W , S tleen educational di-4e di-4e Tj r the summer camp of Bo, mpanogos council of the Couts of America, and II. L Reid, head of the department of history, has been special history his-tory lecturer at Zion national park. A fine art painting, representing repre-senting a remarkable study of Zion park, was- purchased by the college last week from Prof. Bessie Bes-sie Hazen, a California artist, who was accompanied by a group of student artists. The party had been in the canyon for Several days on a painting tour, and on their return stopped at Dixie College to view the art collection collec-tion there. Dixie College believes that its greatest service can be rendered through the educational advancement advance-ment of its faculty, the increased laboratory facilities of the physical phy-sical plant and the student leadership lead-ership of lta enthusiastic and high-minded student body. |
