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Show : SL.U.UKK SCHOOL AT LOGAN The Utah Agricultural college has undertaken the most ambitious program pro-gram for the summer quarter ever attempted by any western institution A national summer school for this 1 state is a new step in the advancement advance-ment of our educational ideas; it Is a new departure in the field of academic aca-demic instruction of the teachers of our fair state. Counting Utah twenty-four states stretching from the Atlantic on the east to the Pacific on the west are represented at Logan. In addition, Canada, China, England, India, and Mexico are all contributing to the large student body. The total enrollment enroll-ment amounts to 1359, 1124 of which are regular students. One important feature of this school is that the extra expense Incurred In-curred by the employment of such an illustrious faculty has been en- tirely met by the entrance fee of $25 for each student. To be able to allow teachers of this state lo sit at the feet of America's greatest thinkers and educators without touching the tax funds should be source of satisfaction satis-faction lo we who contribute to the public expenditures. Just what this national summer school means to Utah within its boarders can be only partially com prehended. Ou the faculty are such men as Turner and .Merk from Harvard Har-vard in history; .McCollum in human nutrition; Branson in economics and sociology; Angell in recreai ional leadership; Blackwelder and knap-pen knap-pen iu geology; Cowles in botany; Allee in zoology; Thorndike and Frauzen in psychology; Carruth in English and in addition such special lecturers as Dr. Stiner, Dean Bailey, from Cornell, John Adams from England, En-gland, and others. The young people peo-ple of this state who are attending the summer school at Logan are not only getting the most recent information infor-mation in the various fields of instruction, in-struction, but are also receiving an infusion of inspiration which will carry car-ry back to their respective communities. commu-nities. Utah and ber people are little understood un-derstood beyond her border lines. When such a man as Dr. McCollum, .he world's greatest human nutrition nutri-tion expert say that the students here are better prepared and more able to carry his work than in his own university it is a tribute not only on-ly lo the individual students but is a reflection of the efficiency of our educational system. Dr. Branson says the Mormon people are practicing the greatest social experiment in the world. Dir. Stiner says the people of Utah with the setting of these valleys val-leys ha not a part of the world, "you are set off by yourselves," was his statement. Prof. Merk in history, a man of wide experience and travel, and a man who has studied peoples from the dawn of civilization made the remark that he had never met a more clean, wholesome, friendly, and confiding people. And thus statements state-ments of this sort might be continued. contin-ued. The point is that the impressions impres-sions formed by these teachers and students alike from other states and other countries will . help in the moulding a more wholesome attitude atti-tude toward this state and her people. peo-ple. , Let us hope that this national sum mer school becomes a permanent part of our agricultural college. |