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Show Southern Branch of A. C. U. j By an act of the last State ; Legislature the branch of the State Normal School located at Cedar City was changed to the branch of the Agricultural College of Utah. The fundamental funda-mental reason for this change was the undoubted need of home builders and home makers in the rich but undeveloped valleys of Southern Utah. It was thought that the "New Education" fostered by the Agricultural College would give a new and strong impetus to the development of the rich souhern countries. The branch Normal School has been for sixteen years the pride of southern Utah. Its student roll includes the names . of men and women who have achieved eminence in many professions and hundreds of good citizens in every walk of life. The great influence for good that this school has weild-ed weild-ed through its earnest student body and its inspiring teachers will be an ever widening memory. mem-ory. The old school is not dead; it continues under an enlarged mission; it still derives its authority from the State; the name does not make a schoo 1 The organizations and gradu-. ates and former students are in vital connection with the school as before, and will receive the same courteous consideration. Under the new law, the school at Cedar City will emphasize em-phasize industrial courses, but all other essential departments will be maintained at the highest high-est standard. Agriculture, home making, commerce, mechanic me-chanic arts, and all the great ' resources of the South will be given vigorous attention, but English, music, the sciences . and arts, and all subjects that help to make good intelligent citizens will be looked after with equal vigor. The graduates gradu-ates of the B. A. C. will have received the foundation work for teaching or for any other of the established professions of man, and may enter any of the advanced institutions of the land. Prof. Roy F. Homer, experienced experi-enced in educational work and a thorough convert to education for all necessary tasks, is the new principal. He is supported by a strengthened Faculty, including in-cluding most of last year's teachers. The buildings and equipment have been overhauled overhaul-ed and improved. The course of study has been changed, in conformity with the ruling of the State Board of Education and with the best recent thought, so that only English is a required subject; all others may be chosen, under faculty guidance, to conform with the special needs or gifts of the student. Education helps to give joy in the journey of life. The Branch of the Agricultural Agricul-tural College at Cedar City is the only State Institution in Southern Utah. It must be made great and permanent. This can be only if the old enthusiasm, en-thusiasm, loyalty and faith of the people prevail for the schbol in its new form. If this be I done, it may become a chief factor in reclaiming the desserts, des-serts, in introducing scientific farm and home management, in utilizing more fully our natural na-tural resources, in providing homes for the sterling sons and daughters of Southern Utah, of building a generation so trained in body, intellect and spirit, that their open, clean vision may see and their hands reach the promise held for the children of our wonderful State Utah. |