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Show FOUR TERM PLUF INAUGURATED Students Can Enter Utah Agricultural College December 3. In direct line with the policy of the Utah Agricultural College to serve all of the people, is the recent reorganization reorgan-ization of the school year at that institution in-stitution into three terms, instead of two, as in the past. A summer quarter quar-ter of throe months has also been authorized au-thorized by the board and will be developed de-veloped as conditions demand. There has always been a demand made by many students who could not afford, or whose outside interests would not permit them, to spend a year at the institution, for courses running but part of a year. To meet this demand, winter courses were arranged. Coming Com-ing as they did, during the winter period when most work is slack, they appealed to many who could not ge away at any other time of the year. These courses proved most popular and valuable. However, it was impossible im-possible to give, during the winter course, all of the work given during the rest of the year. In addition, the Winter Course work was designed primarily for the man (r woman who could spend but one ot at most two winters at the institution, and who therefore wanted the fundamental and intensely practical work. Thus, the student who desired to carry work of regular collegiate standard, looking toward a degree, could not secure much of this work in the Winter Course. In order to make available all of the work of the college, both practical and regular collegiate work, the four-term four-term system was devised. The regular school year of nine months has been, divided into three terms of twelve -weeks each, and the Board of Trustees has authorized the expansion of the Summer School into a fourth term, when conditions warrant. A few examples ex-amples will show how this system works. Mr. Jones, for instance can attend school for the entire year. He registers at the beginning of the year and attends all three terms. But Mr. Roe can attend but part of the year. He finds that he cannot get away from his farm work early enough for the opening of the school year, but that by December 3, the opening of the second sec-ond term, he will be free. On Decem-ebr Decem-ebr 3 he enters school, and finds a multitude of courses open to him. . Most of these are new courses, because be-cause many of the courses that began . with the opening of school have been . concluded in the one term. He enters,' attends school for the winter term, in regular classes, under regular faculty: members, and at the end of the term' he has completed a certain division of work for which he has received credits. cred-its. He can discontinue school then, and enter at the beginning of any, term the following year and continue llis work as without interruption. But he finds that he can continue for the spring term. He does this and at the end of the school year he has secured two-thirds of a year of complete school work. Thus, a student can enter at the beginning of any one of the three terms. If necessary, he can discontinue discon-tinue at the end of any term, with his work completed and with his. credits recorded. He will always find new courses starting which he caa enter. The work of the school still comprises com-prises the many practical vocational courses in addition to its regular col' legiate work. Both the vocational and the collegiate courses have been adapted to this new plan. The regular regu-lar entrance requirements that have been in force in the past are still in. force in regard to the collegiate work, but any one who is eighteen years of age or over, or who, even though under eighteen, has had at least two, years of high school work, may enter the vocational courses without examination. ex-amination. These courses emphasize the practical phases of the subjects taught, and give information for immediate im-mediate application. The following vocational courses have been arranged ar-ranged : Agriculture : agronomy, animal husbandry, husb-andry, botany, dairying, farm manage-, nient, veterinary science, lvortieulture, poultry husbandry. Commerce: accounting, ac-counting, economics, sociology, stenography, stenog-raphy, typewriting, government, marketing. mark-eting. Home Economics: art, cooking, foods, home construction, dressmaking. Mechanic Arts and Agricultural Engineering: En-gineering: automobiles, carpentry, forging, farm machinery, mechanical drawing, irrigation and drainage, rural architecture, roads, surveying. General Gen-eral Science: bacteriology, chemistry, elocution, English, history, mathe- matics, music, modern languages, physiology, physics. The winter term begins December 3 and the spring term begins March 10. Those wishing either vocational work or work of collegiate grade can enter-on enter-on either of these dates and find practically all of the work of the institution in-stitution open to lem. |