The Nome nugget., 1933-08-19
 A NEWsY LETTER
 FROM ALASKA COLLEGE

College. Alasks
 July q, 1883
 Many of whom asthis statement comes have matriculated at some institution of higher learni1k ir the States; others were graduated lat the annual High School Com. mencements in the Territory thii year, hut whether you have at tended college, intend to attend or at present are undecided. trust that you and those most concerned about your education will take time to give due consid. leration to the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines.
 The Alaska College will begin it's twelfth year September 15, with faculty exceptionally well qualified bo.h by scholastic attain ments and by teaching experiences to present the several courses off- cred. For this reason I emphasize |the fact that a small institution |splendidly equipped with the latest and best labratory equipment ad- equate library facilities. and the advantage of individual attention in classroom work presents the best kind of an opportunity for a young man or young woman to secure an education.
 Quite recently we were con- fronted with the statement that the college was essentially a mining school for men as1 have inadequate facilities for women students. Six ty have been graduated from this institution. or this number twen- ty-five are from the School of Mines; Thirty-ive are from other departments; there are fourteen woman graduates. If one will take time to scan the list of grad Iuates to be found on pages s5 and tS6 of the 1933-1934 catalogue to- sgether with the list of seniors on page 87, nine of whom were grad fuated this year, he will find record ed there young men and women who made good in college and who are making good out of col- lege. Of the sixty graduates forty ,,x are domiciled in the Territory and occupy responsible positions Resides the Arts and lst'ers ,ou. Sc leading to the degree of Bachelor ot Arts, courses leading 10 the ia. gree of Bachelor cf Science are offered in Agriculture, Business Ad ministration, Chemistry. Civil En- gineering, General Science, Geo. logy, Home Economies, Metallurgy and Mining Engineering
 Of special advantage and inter- est in connection with this Far thest North" College are the re- search projects upon which it is engaged; Palaeontology with the American Museum if Natural His tory, study of the Aurora under grant from the Rockefeller Found ation. second international Polar Year Commission, and Archaeolog- ical work on St. Lawrence Island. In addition the United States Bur eau of Mines and the Biological Survey have stations at the Col tlege. Under the provisions of the Hatch Act the College operates both the Fairbanks and ,Matanuska Agricultural Experimental Stations The Smith+Lever Act provides funds for cooperative work in az triculture and home economies.
 Located in . section of Alaska where mining operations are being conducted on . large scale the student in the School of Mines has the unusual advantage of being able to combine theoretical train ing in the classroom with prac- tical work in the field.
 It is not always easy to decide in favor of efficiency. Sometimes even in Alaska 1t is difficult to un- Idsrstand that all That elftters is