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Show PROF. JUS. L. BARKER GOES TOO. OF 0. THIS FALL Trof. James L,. Barker, principal of the Weber college, Is to become head of the modern language department of the University of I'tah. at the beginning begin-ning of the fall semester, according to an announcemen; made yesterday afternoon af-ternoon by the university board of re-j gents The announcement followed the quarterly meeting of the board, , and It was also slated that Assistant Professor Walter A. Kerr, acting head of the dopartnit-nl. and Assistant rro-feasor rro-feasor w. T Runsler, will continue in the department. Mr Kerr is a former member of the Weber academy faculty. facul-ty. The Weber college principal is eminently emi-nently fitted for the important position posi-tion he has been called to assume next fall, being considered one of the highest high-est authorities on the French language in America, and almost equally well versed in the German language He received his A. B. degree at the University Uni-versity of Utah in 1901. taking both his high school and college work at that institution, after having received his grammar school education in the I public school at North Ogden, Weber' county. The same vear he went to Europe and served as a missionary for , the Church of J6SUS Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints in the Swiss-German mis-' sion. until 1904, continuing his lan-gm.Ke lan-gm.Ke studies to some extent during i be ine per iod. In 1906 he became head of the language lan-guage department of the Brigham Young university at Provo, Utah, and held that position until 1914, with special spe-cial leave of absence several times for post-graduate work in Switzerland, German; and France His post-graduate work was dune in the University Of Geneva and Neuohatel, Switzerland; j University of Marburg. Germany; Al-1 Miance Francaise. University of Pans.: catholic Institute and College of France. Paris. In 1912 he received the degree of License es Lettres for work in romance and Germanic philology, from the University of Neuchatel. He j also engaged In research work for one and one-half years and some of his I writings have since been published in; Modern Philology, the science organ of the LTniverslty of Chicago. Professor Barker, who is a son of Henrj Barker of North Ogden. the town in which he was born and passed his childhood, came to the Weber academy in 1914, from the B. Y. U., i and his three years of service has been 1 of almost inestimable value to the local lo-cal Mormon school Scholarship has been placed on a higher plane than ever before, as evidenced by numerous intellectual contests won by Weber students within the past three years, I and he was also responsible largely for the placing of two years of college work in the school curriculum, raising i the standard and changing the name of the institution from Weber academy to Weber college. As a disciplinarian Principal Barker Bar-ker has won wide recognition, and the Weber students and faculty members "swear by him " He will be greatly missed at the college and in the city generally, when he goes to Salt Lake, as his association with the students and his lectures in many ward houses , in Ogden have been of much impress. |