The border vidette., 1926-12-18
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA NEWS

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the state selection committee,
announced last Saturday follow.
ing the examinations of the can
didates. Mock is a Senior at
the University and will continue
his studies in modern history at
Oxford, be said following his
selection.
/ He is one of the two ranking
students in the University, and
was recently elected to Phi Lap
pi Phia. national honorary scho
lastic fraternity. AS former
president of the Junior class.
and member of the Shaman
Players and Theta Alpha Phi,
national honorary dramatic fra.
ternity, Mock has participated
in many student activities at the
University of Arizona. He will
go into residence at Oxford next
fall for a term of three years.
The need for collegiate educa
ton in Arizona, and the proper
relation which should exist be.
tween the various institutions of
higher learning in the state will
be the chief topics of discussion
at a state educational conference
to be held December 20 and 81
at the University of Arizona un.
der the direction of DR.. Cloyd
Fl. Marvin.
| The following schools will be
represented at the conference
and on the program: Eugene
Hilton and Dean Wesley Taylor
of the Gila Junior College; DR..
/ A. j. Mathews and Dean Ira
Payne of the Tempe State
Teachers College; Grady Gam
mage and Dean Walter Niles of
the Northern Arizona State
Teachers College; E. w. Mont
igomery and Dean H. A. Cross Of
the Phoenix Junior College.
The University will be repre-.
sented by the deans of the vari
Gus colleges.
The addition of three highly
pedigreed young Holstein COWS
to the pure bred stock of the
University of Arizona was an
nounced recently by w. S. Gun.
ningham, head of the dairy de.
partment. Two of the COWS
were purchased from the Miller
Cattle Company of Buckeye, Ari
zona, and the third from the Go
man herd of the Salt River Val
ley. All three cows are from
blue ribbon stock, and are cows
that recently won prizes at the
state fair, Cunningham said.
Through a plan recently in.
augurated in the College of Agri.
culture of the University of Ari.
zona, practical farmers of the
state will be asked to speak to
the students of the college of
their success and methods EN-,
ployed in their particular field
of agriculture. Dean j. j. Thorn
Der, head of the college, said re.
Gently. The first of the series
of speakers was William Thomp
son, lettuce grower of Glendale,
Arizona, who spoke on Lettuce
Growing in Arizona and Lettuce
Marketing. The speakers will
be selected from the outstanding
farmers of the state, Dean Thorn
Der said.
| At a coming special election
of the student body of the Uni.
versity of Arizona, the students
will vote on a proposed amend
ment to make the Arizona Kitty.
kat, humorous magazine, an Off.
cial publication Of the student
organization, it was said yester-
day by Curtis Benjamin, student
president. The magazine has
in the past been operated as a
private enterprise, which the
students now wish to take over,
Benjamin said.
| L. M. Winsor, irrigation engi.
neer with the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, recently arrived
in Tucson from his Berkeley
office and in cooperation with
the irrigation specialists of the
University of Arizona is now in.
vestigating the irrigation system
and proposed Charleston dam
near St. David, A. B. Ballan-
tyne, assistant director of the
University Agriculture Exten.
sion Service, said yesterday.
At the present time, according
to Ballantyne, the project is be-