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Show UNIVERSITY j NOTES i ti Oij the eve of his retirement from the presidency of the University Uni-versity of Utah, Dr. George Thomas Thom-as sat down for a few minutes Among a litter of unpacked books to express his feelings about retirement. re-tirement. "It feels like going out in the wilderness without a tent," lie said,,1 in his well-known half-serious, half-laughing way. Hundreds of faculty members and ,students gathered on Monday night to honor President Thomas at a. banquet and dance. The (president, who has been at the head of the state's largest educational institution for two decades, explained that he began his association in an executive position pos-ition with students and faculties 45 years ago. It would be hard to nave to leave it all now, he added, satisfaction at the arrangements which have been made for him to continue to keep an office on the campus in the capacity of President Pres-ident Emeritus. The duties of this honorary position have not .yet been defined by the board of regents. re-gents. In a new office in the University Univer-sity library,' which will be named in his honor after President Thomas death, the retiring official of-ficial will devote himself to whatever what-ever work the Board of Regents appoint him to. In addition to his duties in helping- the new admin. stration get under way, it has suggested that he supervise the study and research of advanced students in economics and political poli-tical science. would like that," Dr. Thomas said. "I enjoy association with students." His spare time will be spent in completing two books, which press of executive business has kept him from. The books are on economics and on irrigation, subjects sub-jects in which President Thomas has published several other volumes. volum-es. Of all the changes which have been made at the University dur-' ing his presidency, Dr. Thomas is proudest of the raised scholastic scholas-tic standards, and the national accreditation of the school which followed. These standards were raised by "tightening up" the courses, he explained, and by improving im-proving the scholastic preparation of faculty members. "I am glad to be relieved of part of the responsibility of this big school, but I am glad that I am not leaving it," said the jovial jov-ial nrpaidfnf v, , o, nK iuoKea around his old office for the last time. "I began to teach youngsters in '96, and I have been with them ever since." THE CONSERVATIVES University of Utah students opinion once more range itself on the conservative side last week when an extended campus survey took a representative cross-sampling of what students are thinking Opposing revision of the draft law, 88 per cent gave an emphatic empha-tic "No" to the question, "Do you favor lowering of the draft age." Eighty per cent of the 400 students stud-ents questioned turned humbs down on an American expeditionary expedit-ionary force, and only 41 per cent favored arming of the mercant marine fleet. |