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Show PROF. WALTER S. KERR Tfl SPEND YE1 II EUROPE ' ProfeEsor Walter A. Kerr of the' ino.kni language department of thet University of Utah will sail on the steamer La. Touraine from New York to Havre, France, April 21. to tpend, his sabbatical year in tfurope. His" wife and two children will accompany him.. I He expects to spend from fifteon to, eichteen months across the sea and will afend the Uni easily or Gre:ijble, in southern France, during the sum mer In the winter he will return to Pat is Visits to battlefields and s'ght j seeing to tn-s will he the more inter-1 esting parts of a program of hard studv, ho said. 1 Pitifi-F.sor Kerr's contemplated tour; wi'I not be his first in tlfe old world. He was a student in Germany from 1900 to 1903, antkin 1911 and 1912 he attended the University of Lausanne anu the University of Paris. Mrs. Kerr and their two children, a daughter. 5 years of ace. and a on, ?, yer-i? of age, speak French and will pursue further knowledge of the lan ' gung The children have acquired their ability to speak French through its constant use in the home and use is j.n phly as English. in addition to his work as ;m Instructor, In-structor, Professor Kerr is interested ;In athletics and Is a member cf the I athletic council of the university. He-has He-has represented the institution at ;mef'tingt; of the Rocky Mountain conference con-ference and is intrusted with the c-are 'of keeping Crimson athletes up to thr- eligibility standards required by the! jcontercuce. |