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Show Graduation Ceremonies Observed Ob-served at Logan College; Richards Talks LOG AN, June 1. Flfty-slx degrees, Including one master's degree and tho honorary degree, of doctor of laws given to Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hlnes, were conferred upon graduates of the Utah Agricultural college this afternoon after-noon at tho concluding exercises of the twenty-seventh annual commencement com-mencement of the Institution. President Presi-dent A. W. Ivins of th eboard of trustees trus-tees of the college presided. The address to tho graduates was delivered by Stephen L. Richaras ot Salt Lake. Mr. Richards counseled the graduates to fight for the continued con-tinued existence of the old-fashioned American home, tho corner-stone ofj our national existence, which seems to j be disappearing from the midst of our national life. j President Elmer C Peterson gavo i his annual report, in which was out-' I lined the remarkable growth of the I Institution during tho past year. According Ac-cording to th" report the college reached Jn organized Instruction dur-J dur-J ing the past twelve months 10,355 stu-i stu-i dents. Of there 1756 were in actual (attendance at the college. The regu-I regu-I lar resident attendance, excluding 'short course students and fedoral vo-Icational vo-Icational men, numbered 1225. The ! president also railed attention to the Increase In buildlng3 and equipment which the past year' lias seen, Including Includ-ing three largo brick structures, the animal husbandry, plant Industry and agricultural engineering buildings. Prof. John T. Oalne IIT, who leaves ! the institution this spring to enter the field of private business, briefly outlined the success of the college during tlie thirty years of its existence. exis-tence. Miss Geneva Wells, representing repre-senting tho graduating class, spoke on civic responsibility. Tho complete program was as follows: fol-lows: Music, orchestra: Invocation. i resident u. ji. liuuge: Tne Lost 'Chord" (Sullivan), by Ruth Evans; I "The Call of the Agricultural College." President A. W. Ivins of the board ; of trustees. . 1 Report hy President E. G. Peterson; sextet from "Lucia" (Donizetti., by Gladys Smith, Ruth Evans, Albert Southwlck, C. R. Johnson, i "Civic Responsibility," by Geneva ! Wells, representing the class of 1920; "Address to Graduates." Stephen L. Richards: "The Horn" (Flelglcrl, by Albert Soulhwick: conferring of dp-groes; dp-groes; "Minuet, Old Style." Peter Nel- , son; strlnc quartet; benediction, Rev. I IW M. Kau ff man. I ! on I |