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Show Prof. Must be a Live One X 'RECO'RT) OF ACRICULTUTKAL COLLEGE ATTESTS ' DAj; OF CLOISTERED VETiAGOG IS VAST. 1 " A phuso ot tho Industrial conferences conferen-ces Just concluding at tho Agricultural Agricultur-al College of Utah Is tho practical naturo of tho Instruction given. All tho farmers as well as the houso-wives houso-wives who attended these conferences conferen-ces are peoplo of mature years who are past tho Btago when they wUh to rocolve theorotlcal Information, howevor valuable this may bo In some cases. They wish to know tho essential facta In regard to tho prob lems which make up their lfe's work and so thoy came prepared to ask questions and receive Information which may bo of Immediate practical benefit. Tho largo numbor ot Influential men who aro present, Including some of tho most prominent mon Industrially Industrial-ly and agriculturally in tho Inter-mountain Inter-mountain country, attest tho act that the Instruction la of great value. Thcso conferences aro only ono phaso of tho recont romarkablo do-predatlons do-predatlons that aro being mado In our educational traditions. -Tho tlmo Is past and gono forevor when tho Col- Llego professor In a publicly supported Institution can lock himself In his laboratory lab-oratory and maintain an attltudo of superiority to ward tho world and peoplo about him. Tho Agricultural Collcgo faculty, Including as It does, many of tho most omlnont educatois In tho west, has demonstrated that thorough training docs not necessarily necessar-ily allonato a man from tho common affairs of llfo. Tho great example of this faculty, under tho leadership of President Wldtsoo, has stated emphatically em-phatically thot education may bo a preparation for mixing with tho com- mon problems of llfo rather than a rjuestlon of separation from thoso affairs. af-fairs. It takes no great prophet to sco that within a decado theso great conforoncos will bo among tho most Important event of tho year. On tho occasion at theso annual meetings Logan wll bo thronged with thou-sands thou-sands ot tho practical farmers and housokoopors and business loaders of the stato making theso conferences conferen-ces essentially upon forums whero tho business of tho Btato for tho last year Is discussed and plans for tho futuro laid. It moans vastly for tho stato of Utah whon such a coniHtlbn shall somo to pass; It means sympathy sym-pathy with all of tho workers of tho state; it means foresight In effort by giving every man a knowledge In a gcnoral way of tho activities of his neighborhood, it will, In all probability probabil-ity Lc'ono of tho ma:n factors for tho rapid development of tho stato of Utah. Utah is to bo congratulated upon tho fact that It is pioneering this great movement toward a stato betterment. MAIM TJlSILVIfC UTAH ACRICUL.TUW.AI. COLLEGE |