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Show UT O N I A NNineteen TwelveSenator WilliamsALMOST forty years ago Mr. Williams attended the old Desert University -embryo of our present University of Utah. The payment of his Freshman tuition was probably his first help to the Institution. Two months ago he introduced and engineered through the Utah State Legislature a bill appropriating three hundred thousand dollars for a magnificent new building to occupy the center of the circle of State University buildings. That was his most recent help to the institution. From the day he gave his first paltry support to the University of Utah until he so materially helped in providing for the new administration building, Senator Williams has been working with increasing zeal for educational advance in Utah. Looming up high in his progression are his several appropriation bills in the Legislature for the Agricultural College and for the State Industrial schools; his appointment by the Governor in 1909. as Regent of the University of Utah, and his recent strenuous pushing of the bill for definite appropriation of funds for the State institutions of higher learning. .Senator Williams' work for educational development, great as it is, has been but an incident in the life of a keen, successful statesman and business man. He has been, and is, one of the great pillars of the Republican party in the State. He is president and manager of the Co-op Furniture Company; one of the promoters of the new Utah Hotel; a director of the Consolidated Fuel Co.-in short, Senator Williams is a competent business man, and worthy statesman, whose helpful interest in the educational growth of the State of Utah we, the Junior Class at the State University, wish to gratefully acknowledge. |