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Show THE Emm THAT PAYS The Utah Agricultural College Wlntr Course Work Is Building Toward Sounder, Saner Citizenship. The wincer courses given every year by tue Utah Agricultural Oot lee are this year to be enlargad and more nearly adapted to the need of the many men and women who are in want of practical, vocational work, according to an announcement Issued by President E. G. Peterson. In characterizing char-acterizing this valuable work, President Presi-dent Peterson Issued the following statement: ".Many thousands of the farmers, housekeepers, mechanics, livestock men, creamery men, cheese makers, fruit growers, gardeners, contractors, contract-ors, and builders of Utah cannot, and do not want to attend a full high school and college course. Yet among them are many of the most Intellectual and most sound citizens that we have. And many thousand! of young men and women aspiring to be successful in these vocations have Dot the time for four years of high school and four years of college. The Utah Agricultural Collega winter course work has been designed to meet the needs of these people. It has also been designed for the young ,V 1 ' L V ' ' "' t ' y t ' f, i 5 ! Ji & . m " , j The farmer who can do his own repair work is doubly efficient. A repair shop on the farm. men or women who are working for their college degree. The work is all Intensely practical, designed to equip them better for the battle of life. "Very important is the woman's work to be given in home nursing, in home sanitation, as well as in dressmaking, dress-making, poultry management, art work, and other immediately serviceable service-able courses. Mother craft will be taught the girls they will be trained In the feeding, clothing and general care of children at once the most Important of home economics and the most important consideration of our civilization the proper training Df the future mothers of the race." The trend in modern education toward to-ward a sane conception of the needs of the majority of the people Is gen-ral. gen-ral. It is finding expression everywhere every-where in the organization of new courses and in the remodeling of old courses, all designed to fit the. student stu-dent for actual service in life, without with-out sacrificing the cultural value of education in the least. The Utah Agricultural College is In the van in this movement. By increasing . it A knowledge of food and food values, val-ues, new ideas in the preparation of foods, these all aid the housewife greatly in her dally task of meal getting. get-ting. winter course work both in scope and in efficiency, it has further adapted itself to care for that vast class of people that cannot, for various reasons, rea-sons, get away from their work long enough to attend the full school term. The winter course work is so organized or-ganized that it can care for four classes of students. In the first place, the farmers, mechanics, carpenters, business men, workers of all descriptions descrip-tions who want intensely practical work in their vocations are provided )for. Nest, the housewives looking for subjects that will increase the efficiency ef-ficiency or the beauty of their homo, can find what they desire. The young men and women who desire short courses that will fit them for a vocation voca-tion are taken care of. Those who desire a college education, and can not attend school except during the dead months of winter, will find courses leading to a degree in which to register. The winter course work begins November No-vember 14, 1916, and ends March 24, 1917. The work i3 so arranged that those who cannot attend the entirs term can spend the tifue at their disposal dis-posal very profitably. A circular describing this work, and listing the sixty-five special courses to be given, will be sent free upon request. |