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Show SALT LAKE WEEKLY LAUDS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE HIGHLY X COMPLIMENTARY ARTICLE REGARDING RE-GARDING WORK OF STATE INSTITUTION. IN-STITUTION. Goodman's Weekly, under new management man-agement and under the Editorship of Mr. Burl Armstrong, comes from the I i'!tss with high praise for the Utah B; Agricultural College. Under the title f9Q cf "Tearing Holes In The College Couisc," the weekly proceeds to Indorse In-dorse the "Constructive Distinction" which has taken place at the Agrlcul-tuial Agrlcul-tuial College. Among other things, the Weekly says: "The College Course has served for many years as i harrier betwe-n the great group of highly trained educators who make up the facultioi ot our education!' institutions in-stitutions and the people who ultimately ulti-mately pay all th.c salaries and to tthom therefor is due the service ot these institutions. "Here is a thing final and sacred,' tt.- stated sonu pedagogues of tho past, pointing 1c. the College Course 'this you may not change or criticize,. "Uut someone not many decades ago fired a shot Into the College Course and aftsr the first cries of 'Sacrilege' died away the people saw through the hole which this heathen gun had made, the smug and self-sufficient educators as they were. They were bearded and were dreaming ot the past, unconscious, like children, that the twentieth century Is the greatest century l.i the history of the world. Since the first lnroadn were made on the College Course, it has been the center of constant and severe se-vere criticism and it has been forced to an organization and readjustment to meet a real necessity. The fulfilling fulfill-ing of this necessity which has been made a part of College duty, la .re history of the Agricultural Colleg of Utah, especially dur'ng the last i ycais, when it has matured to a greater great-er extent than ever before, Its Ideals. The Agricultural College is an institution institu-tion of service and In accomplishing this ideal It uses various- means. "First It has affiliated very effcetu- I ally Its course of study with the stuio of ttah, thereby coming In direct con tact not with the few more or less trained graduates of the secouuao schools, but rather has aimed to mee-that mee-that 'compact majority' which constitutes constit-utes the real life of the state. In order to reach this great group of people which comprises 90 per cent of our school population It has noccs-t noccs-t i. held Its ncademlc standards u IrlPv lower in order to have Its standard stan-dard of servlco high. "The Extension Division, which has ..en magnified during the last year Is a remarkable development ot the Idea that It Is the duty of tho Institution Institu-tion to carry education to tho very doors of tho people. By means of In-djstrlal In-djstrlal trains, farmers' schools and special lectures, co-operative work Wth tho public schools nnd lastly by the organization of an energetic correspondence cor-respondence department. Tho Extension Exten-sion Division has been rendered among the most efficient organizations of Its kind In the United States. The spirit of this work Is admirable In the extreme. Disregarding so-called scholastic scho-lastic dignity, disregarding tho criticism criti-cism of a certain element of alleged Ture in the state and looking onl for results and willing to make any 2e. in order to obtain these re- sulU tho Extension staff of ho Col lego has accomplished a work In the Si of Utah In the last two year. Sch rneans more for tho d-j-toP- ment of the state than ony other one t factor." , t The Weekly then makes a state nent regarding tho proposed changes In Ihc College especially tho lntonsl- fvlng of tho college work and concludes con-cludes with tho following statement "But more Important than all Miew changes on paper " ?J tho Ideal in tne minds of the facul.y that tho work In which they are engaged en-gaged is the greatest work In tho I world. Today they are united to a 1 ruan and nil Imbued with a splr't of service that will accomplish wonder In tho Btato of Utah. dangerously sick with pneumonia. Mr. Guy SorenBen, proprietor of the Fremont Hotel Salt Lake City, Is visiting vis-iting with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Christian Sorensen. |
