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Show Four Term Plan Inaugurated. I LJ i H Student Can Enter Utah Agricultural I College December 3. H III direct line with the pulley of the n Utah Agricultural Oollegfl to serve nil K of the people, Is the recent I'eoipin m Izatlnn of the school year at t tin t In- H atitutinii Into three terms. Instead of B I , two, at) In the past. A Minimier ipnir- m ter of three months has alsu been iiii- H thorlzeil hy the honrd ami will he ilc- B vehipeil us conditions ileiiiaml. There H has always heen a deinaud made hy M many stmlcnts who could not afford, BJ or whose outside Interests would not J permit 1 1 1 it. to spend a year at the H ltiHt 1 1 nt ton, for courses running iut H purl of a eur. 'I'd meet this demand, H winter courses were urriinireil I'om- H InK us they did, durlni; the whiter V period when must work is slack. the H appealed In many wlm cmild not fat K away at an other lime of (he year. BbB These courses procil must popular b and valuable, Howerer, it was im- B posslhle In give, durlnf the winter ajouraa, nil of the work k'lwu durlni; Bb the rest of the year, lu addition the BJH Winter Course wurk was designed BBfl primarily for the man Off woman who BJ could spend hut one or at most two K Winters at the institution, and who BH therefore minted the fundamental ami B Intensclv practical work. Thus, the B atiident who desired to carry work of BBJ regular collegiate stamlard, looking BBB toward a degree, could not secure much of this work In the Winter BBB In order to make available all of 1 the work of the college, botli practical B ami regular collegiate work, the four H term system wa- devised. The regular BBB school jriir of nine monthi has been H divided Into three term- of twelve H weeks each, and the Hoard of Trustees H has authori.c'l the expansion Of the B Summer School Into a fourth term. Wm when condition! warrant few , B amples will show how this sstem BV works. Mr. Jooat foff iiistamc can B attend sil I for the entire real He I regis ten at tin beginning of the year HH ami attends all three terms. Hut Mr. ltoe cult atteml hut part of the year. B He finds that he cannot gel away from B his farm work early enough for the B opening of the ichool year bul that B li December B, tin- opening of the B Olid term, he will he free. hi I lecem- jH ehi H In est, is school, ami finds a B RtUltitUde of courses open to him. BBB Most of these are hew courses, he- BB cause rauny at the eouraai thai began HH wiib 'he opening of school have been I iroucluded ill the one term. He enters, attends school for the winter term, In regular classes, under rcKUlar facultj memberu, ami 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 his work as without Interruption. But he finds that BJ can continue for the BjkTing term. Me does this mid at the end of the school year he has secured two-tblrds of a year of complete school work. Thus, a student can enter at the beginning of any one f the three terms. If necessury, he can discontinue discon-tinue at the end of any term, with his work completed and with his credits recorded. He will nlwajs find new courses starting which he can enter. The work of the school still comprises com-prises the many practical vocational courses in addition to Its regular collegiate col-legiate work. Both the vocational and the collegiate courses have been adaptisl to this new plan. The regular regu-lar entrance requirement! that have heen In force In the past nre still in force lu regard to the collegiate work, hut any one who Is eighteen years of sge or over, or who, even though Under eighteen, has had at l.asi two year- of high BChOOl work, may enter the vocational courses without ex-alienation. ex-alienation. These courses emphasize the practical phasea of the subjects taught, and give Information for Immediate Im-mediate application. The following vocational courses have heen nr ranged : Agriculture: agronomy, animal BUSb aiuirv, botany, dairying, farm manage litem, veterinary science, horticulture, panltry husbandry. Commerce : accounting, ac-counting, economics, sociology, stenography, stenog-raphy, typewriting, government, marketing. mark-eting. Home Economics; art. cooking, toocis hom,. construction, dressmaking. Mechanic Arts and Agricultural Engineering! En-gineering! automobiles, carpentry. forging, farm I hliier.v. mechanical drawing, irrigation and drainage, rural architecture, roads, aurvej i. General Gen-eral Science: bacteriology, chemistry, elocution, Kngllah, history, mathematics, mathe-matics, music, modern languages, physlolog) , ph.v lies The winter term heglns December ' and the spring term begins March 1(1 Those wishing either vocational work .a work of collegiate grade can enter on either of these date- and find practically all of the work of the ln- atltution open to them. |