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Show . Prof ; McKirahan Will ITS 1 Return To Wasatch I f Porf. Walter W. McKirahan, Ph. D., ; who comes to take the Principarship 1 of Wasatch Academy is expected to ; arrive today. Prof. McKirahan will ! be accompanied by his wife and a i little son recently adopted. They ! have been visiting relatives at New ! Concord, Ohio, and planned to be j here by the end of this week. In re- turning to Mt. Pleasant the McKira- bans will find a large circle of friends ! and a bigger school with one or two i more buildings yet to be erected, j During the past three years Prof. j McKirahan has been a Graduate Stu- ! dent and instructor inColumbia Uni- f j versity, New York City. One year ! ago he received his Doctor's Degree from Columbia, having completed a I difficult scientific course in the De- f j partment of Chemistry. For the past 1 i year he has been an instructor in the ; same department. There is probab- J ! ly not in all Utah today a man rank- I ing higher in the course Prof. McKir- ahan has been studying. But when ! the Board of Home Missions in New j York were needing a man to follow " ! Prof. Chas. L. Johns in the task of IS ' leadership for Wasatch they natural- . 1 ly sought a man who had experience I here. Prof. McKirahan had been - planning to accept a College Profes- sorship somewhere in the West, but "" : this call to a. great Academy where he -., ; had formerly labored was heeded and I he conies bac k enthusiastic to realize another splendid year in the Acade- ! my. Commencement time found , several vacancies in the Wasatch Faculty to be filled and it is believed 1' that Prof. M.Kirahan is gathering a Faculty inferior to no year in the past. |