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Show Message Received ( Information Just received by( . President E. G. Peterson ot the Utah Agricultural College from It. C. Mc-Larsen, Mc-Larsen, Education Director ot the . ' Committee on Education and Special . Training ot the War department.,: ' '" Indicates that the courso ot study :, open to members of the collegiate eectlon of the Students Army Train- JriB Corps will be very comprohen- ,, Blve. Practically every department " n the. Utah Agricultural College will $Ji. have" something to offer either In ' V-vJ!l the basic or In the allied subjects, HitS outlined for the sudente. : Each student will be expected io spend ilfty-three hours each week in military work, class) room feclfa-tlon feclfa-tlon and preparation. Of these; eleven el-even hours each week will be in practical and theoretical military instruction and In physical training. The remaining forty-two hours will be given over to so called allied y eubjects. These Include English, French, German, mathematics, phy- 1 ' . " slcs, chemistry, biology,, geology, geography, topogratfiy, ,map making ' moterology, hygiene, sanitation, do- i ;, ' Bcrlptlvo gcomotry, history, interna tional law, military law and govern-j ment. I The program of study In the al-' lied subjects must include a course on the underlying issues of the war. This course", which must occupy at least three hours each week ot tho student's time In recitation and six ihoura In preparation, may be gven iby any one of tho departments of history, political science, economics, philosophy or modern literature. "Tho opportunity for the student In the cbllglate section of tho S. A. T. C. to get valuable and varied academic aca-demic Instruction In connection with his military work Is plain from this telegram from Director MeLarren," said President Peterson In commenting comment-ing on tho message. "Fortunately, wo are very well prepared at tho Utah Agricultural Collego to glvo Instruction In-struction In all of the subjects men-'tloned.V men-'tloned.V . The telegram Intimates that students stu-dents ot special training will bo allowed al-lowed to take special courses and that changes will be made In tho gonoral plan to suit technical and professional schools. In tho ca3o of students who have pursued for nt least ono year at an approved institution insti-tution such studies as form part ot tho program of preparation for tho chemical welfare service, tho medical medi-cal corps, the engineers corps, tho ordnance corps, or other technical branches of the service, the Com-mltteo Com-mltteo on Educational and Special , Training may authorlzo tho reduction reduc-tion In tho hours ot military Instruction Instruc-tion to not less than six hours each week. Provision will also bo made by tho committee for technical atid special programs in medicine, engineering, engin-eering, chemistry and other technical techni-cal courses. |