Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-07 | Page 4 | Opportunities for Students

MT1TIES ! FOB STUDENTS ! , ) 3 "Opportunities of the rarest kind i await the students who register in the j School of Mechanic Arts of the Utah K 'Agricultural college at the opening of, t tho winter term on December 30." So ; 5 says Ray B. West, director of the f school in speaking of the winter cours- i es which begin then. ' On that date intensive "work in all i kinds of mechanical work will begin, with especial stress on farm tractors and nutomobiles. In these courses j work of an elementary as well as ad- ; vanced nature will be given. The elementary courses will be designed ; to give thf farmer an. understanding I I of the principles of the gas engine and 1 jits working, while in the more ad- t vanced work the practical repairing will bo dono and special work In other phases of gas engine study, including the operation of storage batteries, the a study of lighting and starting systems b- and the practices of acetylino welding B will bo taken up. j The work will all be extremely prac- v tical. During the past six months the $ college has successfully trained 1147 vocational students for the army In , the work which will be given in I ho winter quarter. The rigidity of the work demanded by the government necessitated the installation of $15,000 'worth of new equipment, which, with ! that formerly in the shops makes the Utah Agricultural college shops the most modrn in tho west. Aside from tho abundance of equipment the large corps of instructors employed to train the soldier students will still be avail- j able. I Persons desiring further information about courses given In the winter quarter can receive it by addressing the president of the Utah Agricultural collego or the head of the department In which they wish to register, before J the opening date December 30.