Show ITH the close of another academic academic academic aca aca- W WITH demic year it is eminently proper as well as natural that before we pass out across the The passing threshold we take a year glance backward and note our progress or our sion It can not but delight the hearts of us all that the retrospect is so pleasing It is doubtful if any 1 previous year shows so much advance advance advance ad ad- vance in everything that is tending to build a solid reputable efficient college The Regents and the Faculty Faculty Faculty Fac Fac- are patient progressive vigorous vigor vigor- ous fighters and their work has told And the students have well seconded them Perhaps the most immediately conspicuous element is the increase in the number of students now approaching approaching approaching ap ap- within a half dozen of Boo The most gratifying feature of this is that the college students show proportionately the greatest augmentation A more subtle element and yet one really more significant is the sharper line drawn between students students students stu stu- dents of preparatory grade and those of college grade The separation separation f tion into two groups each with its own set of class officers and each to deal individually with its own interests interests interests in in- has done more than any other oth oth- er thing to emphasize the College A better more intelligent more enthusiastically loyal college spirit has pervaded the student body gen gen- University functions functions- balls parties athletic meets etc have been more largely patronized There has been considerably less apathy toward affairs that concern the students at large The Faculty has been improved in some respects and has been enlarged enlarged enlarged en en- the new members have proved scholarly skilled and lar The number of courses has been more greatly varied and increased ased in number attractiveness and advancement advancement advancement ad ad- and the existing courses course have been made more exacting The material equipment has been greatly increased The library is constantly growing The most notable notable notable not not- able improvement has been in the elaborate furnishing of the electrical electrical electrical cal and metallurgical laboratories In this respect we may honestly boast that few institutions in America America America Amer Amer- ica are better equipped and some of considerable note to which many Utah students have gone are infer infer- With growing spirit there has been heartier mutual appreciation and association between student and teacher And with it all there has been a better knowledge and appreciation on the part of the people of the state whose taxes support the university university uni uni- of the kind of institution they are re paying for And the in increase increase increase in- in crease of patronage for next year gives promise of taxing to the utmost utmost utmost ut ut- most the capacity of our classrooms |