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Show U. S. PLEASED WITH A. C. WAR RECORD ; (Special Dispatch. LOGAN. Jan. 6. President reter-jB son of tho Utah Agricultural college ' S h.is just received a certificate of ap- I preciation from the Culled States gov-j C crnment for tho establishment of a i H unit of the students! army training corps at the college during the world I war and for tho efficient work 9 which was accomplished at the lnti- I tution. During the summer of 1918 "5S4 I men. members of the national army M training detachment from Wyoming 1 W and California, received special Warl I training at the college and C50 men, i 8 students of tho V. A. C. were train-1 I ed ;is members of the students' army J training corps. The students of the rs. A. T C, received, under strict mill-II tary discipline, special military and IB academic Instruction designed t pre-IB paro them for further training in I m officers' training schools or to fit j L., them to servo as mechcanlcs and tech- B niclans In tho army. Twenty-one commissioned officeis OH were in charge of the military in-In structloii given theso men, practically Hie entire college faculty aided In the academic instruction j I given . The institution gave to the 250 II men in the collegiate section, instruc- i B Hon In military law, the history of I Eg the war, physics, mathematics andlH personnel work, one hundred men II wero trained as radio-telephone-elec- J I trlcians. Three hundred were train-jig ed as surveyors, chauffeurs, auto me- IB chanlcs, machinists, carpentei.s, bla' l - r smiths, horse shcers, concrete work- B erK, or wagoners. " The Utah Agricultural college wasjR asked by the war department to rec-ommenjd rec-ommenjd men in unlimited numbers m from the S. A. T. C. for officers' train- B ln schools. During the first two' g months of operation of the S. A. T. C. fl Ti9 men weie recommended These recommendations w ere made from ; g both the collegiate and vocational sec- I Hons. : r,ft tr |