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Show AID ASKFD FOR UTAH COLLEGES (Salt Lake Tribune) Creation of several junior college col-lege districts in Utah and maintenance mainte-nance of all the colleges from state funds entirely or by state subscription subscrip-tion proportionate to an amount raised in each district, for cooperation coopera-tion cf the schools, was urged by Aaron V. Tracy, Ogden, president of Weber college, before members of the Lions club at the Hotel Utah last Friday afternoon. "Ar.ncur.cement by L. D. S. church authorities that the church plans to withdraw from secular education ed-ucation probably within the next tvv-o years, has created the problem of financing operations of at leiust three Utah colleges," said Mr. Tracy. "In the past, Weber, Snow and Dixie colleges have been maintained maintain-ed by the church. When church support is withdrawn, another plan of financing must be devised. Those junior colleges are indispensable to the regions they serve, and must be flr.ar.ccd, at least in pari, by the s'.at-". They should be made a part of the public school system. "The junior college plan is excellent. ex-cellent. Business of universities should be confined entirely to research re-search work and freshman and sophomore students, who are not sufficiently advanced to undertake research work, should be enrolled in junior colleges, thus relieving universities of the responsibility of giving them elementary college education. ed-ucation. '"Such an arrangement should be effectively worked out in Salt Lake. It would necessitate the establishment, establish-ment, however, of a junior college to handle the approximately 2300 freshmen and sophomore students attending the university." |