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Show increased Enrollment Buildimgs anti Equipment Equip-ment at k College AcconlltiK to a report on legislation legisla-tion Just compiled by Heglstinr P. K. Petctson of the Utah Agricultural Agricultur-al College, there are already enrolled en-rolled nt that Institution for 1919-1920. 1919-1920. 2157 students. This registration registra-tion shows a marked Increase over the heaviest proVTous enrollment In 1916-1917, nnd It will undoubtedly ho still further Incrensed by nt least sovcral hundiod .gays Prof. Peterson. An analysis of the registration Is very significant. Thero nro 111: tegular students lu attendance a compared with 911 for 191G-1T. There aro 1G9S regular and special students In residence. With t.v registration reg-istration for tho Spring .nuulcr which opens In .Mnrcli and tho on-slant on-slant Influx of sldents sent to the college by tho government for training train-ing It la estimated that this number wi'll tench at least tho two Ih-jiuaml mailt this year. The 'most piomlsing characteristic of tho rcglsttation this yenr Is the huge number of Kii'sutuen In attendance. The l-'-pgli-men class uumboiH nearly 100 members, mem-bers, an Increase of over 100 pr cent over thu largo Freshman class of 19ir which has n membership of 189. "Thfs extraordinary growth In the number of freshmen Is the most significant thing about our 1919-20 , registration." said President H. G. Peterson when tho icglsttar'i le- I v port was submitted lo him. "A mii'ii- .ttnonce of this remarkable Incvaie throughout tho next few years will .moan Hint the Utah Agricultural Col-lego Col-lego will be giving lustructlo.l u its campus to u student body ol thrt6 Ciouind within the near fit Mr' I e"eed Ihl., year will sco oir-uilzot' , , i ruction -ivcn on College "ill ii approximately thioo thousand citizens citi-zens of t'tah nnd tho West If we ncmher with ocr permanent student stu-dent body of ' some two thousand Houndup visitors." This renmikahle growth It; enrollment enroll-ment hag happily been accompanied hy n coricspondlngt Increase lu tho buildings and eiiulpmcnt. Within the last three years three largo brick buildings have been added to the College plant nt an appptoxluiate cost of $370,000. Theso structures aro tho Livestock buuldlng, tho Plant Industry llullldlug, and the Agricultural Agricul-tural Engineering llulldlng. They furnish ndmlrnble accommodations for the departments of animal husbandry, hus-bandry, dr1 vlng, poultry husbandry, farm inaungement, range management, manage-ment, veterinary science, ngionomy, botany, plant pathology, hortocult-utp, hortocult-utp, surveying hydraulics, mechnnlr cal drawing, architecture, household sanitation nnd farm mechanics. In addition, tho Institution has added other buildings and equipment of Importance. Tho heating plant has been enlarged, a campus lighting system Is being Installed, and a new water system is being put In. A modern barn to house the college luirscs, matching tho dairy nnd sheep hams, has been constructed, a seed house, where seeds of high podlgiou ft'lll bo classified and stoiedd, hns been built, and the materials for the constt uctln.it of tho first unity of what 1b lo event ually" be an eight unit conservatory system has at rived. riv-ed. These additional buildings and Improvements have iieen nciiulied at a cost of approvluutely $32,000. ' The College has purchased or Is now puichuslug additional fnini and campus luud. About $21,000 will b( expended In this connection. Thu Federal gavurnmont hoi en gleul share of the cost of these new bunldlngs. The efficiency with which the college authorities huvo h'amllcd the Fid r.it fur I m lh io! B diet" Jmlnllifr worl ifillcd toi ttu H following statement noin the State H Ardltois when they completed n re- jH cent nudllf of the hooka of (' Hi.iiU H '"The last fiscal year wis ni'A H normal one nt the College because it H tho fact that Ihe school nti'K'-rUlou H bad much to do with the tni.nlnlj, fl housing mid feeding of many soldiers H nnd this reiiulieil a gleal deal of ex- H tra work too lu the orflre. Th. vl- H flclals ut o to be much commended H for tho way they luiudled nnd mot tho H situation. The piovlsloim of tho H Government contract weiu compiled H with so efficiently and economically H that, a good piotlt was realized. Tho H wise cse the school made cf Ihcuton- H cy appropriated hy the Stato and jJ Federal (oveinments foor the pur- H posu of roustruclliig building s, H known as Uarracks No. 1 and liar- H racks No. Is very pralsewoithy ,B nnd Is pointed to hy he government H auditor who proceeded us, as n inns- ' H tet stroke not approached by any of H the other stntes, so wwe are Inform- H ed, These two bulldingH nro of flru- B proof constructltin, and will hu used jH for tho Mechanic Arts and Live- H stock ncpartmcnls." i H i fffffffffffi |