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Show SEEK SUPPORT FOR JUNIOR COLLEGES Ogden Men Explain State Educational Problem to Lions Club To contact the Milford Lions Club fur general suggestions, and to express ex-press a project of the Ogden Lions Club and to ask assistance, President. A. W. Tracy, of Weber College, addressed ad-dressed the local club Wednesday, and urged the moral support of the move to place a series of regional junior colleges in the state of Utah. With President Tracy was Leland Monson, who cited statistics on the costs of a junior college system, and ' suggested means of defraying same. In 1931, the L. D. S. church relinquishes re-linquishes its support of its junior colleges in Utah, and President Tracy Tra-cy heads a move to have the physical equipment of Weber College, Snow College and Dixie placed under the control of the state, as well as the management of one or two other proposed pro-posed junior colleges. It was educationally educa-tionally unsound, the speaker said, to crowd over two thousand first and second year students into the Uni versity of Utah, many of whom are not seeking education for the professions. pro-fessions. The fields of the universities universi-ties and of the junior colleges are entirely different, stated President Tracy, hence the need for the latter. Regional junior colleges give equal educational opportunities for all, he (! said. Leland Monson, speaking after Mr. Tracy, stressed the benefits accruing to the immediate district near the colleges. Seventy per cent of the benefits, he said,were received by the immediate locality, and for this reason, rea-son, thought that the smaller junior colleges should be scattered about in small, enterprising towns. He quoted statistics from the state of Califoif- nia, and declared that the students entering Leland Stanford University from junior colleges, were better prepared for the last two years 6. college work than were the Stanford-prepared Stanford-prepared students. The cost of maintaining main-taining junior colleges in Utah ranged rang-ed from $244 per student at Weber; to $176 per student at Dixie College. His suggestion was that, when church control of these schools be relinquished, they be maintained by a state appropriation, plus local tax and a nominal tuition fee. - George Jefferson was the only member of the Lions Club who expressed- himself on the subject. He stated that, while the state supported junior college idea was undoubtedly an ideal plan, he was doubtful that the next legislature would make provision pro-vision for such a system. Depletion of the state general fund and the largest delinquencies in history throughout the several counties were sufficient cause, he said, to hold the junior college idea in abeyance for ," some time. o |