Show sa c ahe 5 he bah atah z fa te 1 I chool school of mine xa joaeph 77 F mm merrill i I 1 that utah in recent years has enjoyed an almost phenomenal industrial development no one will deny but her development has not been along industrial lines only her educational progress has been quite as rapid as her industrial her public JOSEPH FRANCIS MERRILL ph D principal state school of mines school system beginning with the kinder garten arten and ending with the university is both oth her pride and her glory by means of f this system she is enabled to offer her ons and daughters a free education which ends ads only with a college course at the head of his system stands stand B by lv legislative enactment the university of utah and though there has been a rapid growth of all parts of the system yet nowhere hash has this growth been more manifest than in the university itself here the standard of admission has been raised the facil ile J W DR JOS T president university of atah wes have been increased the courses of instruction st have been broadened and deepened and multiplied and the number of students registered has bas more than doubled toe th e university of utah is at present made up of three schools the schol of arts and sciences the state normal school and 35 the state school of mines the first provides a liberal education in the arts and sciences the second a thorough professional training for teachers in all branches of the public school service and the last an engineering education designed to make J its JAMES E TALMAGE ph D F R S E etc professor of geology competent engineers the normal school rants grants certificates and diplomas to its gradates ates and the other two schools confer de grees rees upon those completing any of the courses of study besides the above named schools corn coin university proper there Is main sketches of state school of mines ste scenes nes university of utah v lip al ja J 7 ht 40 A lk 4 IT ea DR it N r COSMER 0 t I 1 bained a preparatory school in con connection netlon with ith the university the purpose of which is to bridge the gap by a three years course between the eighth grade of the public schools and the university courses it is 1 4 hoped however that there wi will soon exist a sufficiently large number of good high schools throughout the state that the university unis ver hersity sit author authorities itle s will be justified in dis continuing the preparatory school a condition that the university faculty would hall hail with delight the school of min mines es is the youngest but not the least department of the university it was formally established by an act of the aegis legislature lature less than two years ago this law lair makes the school a department of the university of utah in accordance with a provision of the enabling act providing tor for 16 into the the admission of utah as a state union which act also set aside one hundred huldred thousand acres of public land as an endowment for such a school anticipating the formal establishment by the legislature of this school the university faculty began t ging ering seven seve years ago a four years courso co u SZ veining Vm m 1 ining lin engi engineering eerlings |