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Show AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE CLOSES ON MAY 12 In responso to a real need for moro trained agriculturists on tho farms that has manifested Itself during dur-ing the present crisis, the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college will end tho 1917 school year May 12, 'according to an announcement just mado by President Presi-dent E. O. Peterson. To mako up for the two weeks lost In class work, school will bo held six days a weolc for tho remainder of the school year, and tho school day will be lengthened. length-ened. This concentration, and corresponding cor-responding concentration of tho commencement com-mencement exorcises will allow sufficient suf-ficient tlmo for aro work of tho year to bo completed with practically no secrlflco. This action was taken by tho col- I lege only after a careful rovlow of tho situation. Letters wore sent out to tho parcntB of tho students In an offort to determlno tho neod existing on tho farms for tho additional labor. The replies to these letters Indicate I that at present tho college can servo I tho p'eoplo of tho stato better by ro-I ro-I leasing Its students on May 12 than I by keeping thera until Juno C, as iJchoduled. " Already over 200 young men havo left school to engago In definitely assigned as-signed work In productlvo agriculture agricul-ture In addition, many upper class-mon class-mon havo boon engaged by various counties, cities, and towns throughout through-out Utah to suporvlso agricultural work. |