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Show EDUCATE THE YOUNG. A Plan for the Establishment in Salt Lake City of a Large Normal . School. SOMETHING OF INTEREST TO ALL The City's Educational and Material Advancement Ad-vancement sure to profit by the. Schema, There is a fair prospect that Salt Lake will have a Normal school. The city needs an institution of this kind, and it would prove one of tho greatest bless-ngs bless-ngs that could befall it were this sort of an addition to its educational advantages advant-ages established at once. Mr. J. W. Hamm, of this city, is in receipt of a letter from a gentleman in the east who has had much experience in educational matters, and who proposes pro-poses n plan, which is thought by numerous nu-merous citizens of Salt Lake to bo entirely en-tirely feasible, by tho adoption of which a Normal school can be started bete Under tho auspices aliko favorable to tho promotors aud to the city. Au extract ex-tract from the letter which this gentleman gentle-man has written to Mr. Hamm, is here given. Ho says: ' "You are acquainted with real estate aud financial matters, and in that capacity ca-pacity can commaud the respect of business busi-ness men. I am a school man, aud have had a pretty broad experience in educational edu-cational affairs as teacher, superintendent, superintend-ent, and conductor of Normal institutes, and am somewhat of an organizer in that line. Now, my plan is that you see if a tract of land of from ten to twenty-five acres in extent can be had about u milo or so out of Salt Lake, suitable for normal school grounds and surroundings. If you can iiud something some-thing that could ho tloatcd, then I will go down and work up an interest in tVtn uMm,1 iilita unit al'ivt u rttlttnl nl. the school idea and start a Normal college, col-lege, reserving a small portion of the land for buildiugs and putting the rest on tho market. Tho plan, of course, is in the rough, but you can see that it might become a matter of merit. "Evanston, Illinois, one of tho finest suburbs of Chicago, was started in this way, and tho University company is immensely rich now. Normal, Illinois, tho location of tho Illinois State Normal school, near Blooinington, is another instance." Mr. Hamm has replied to this gentleman gentle-man that there would bo 110 difficulty in securing tho land asked for, and advises ad-vises him to take tho matter in hand. Mr. Scott's idea is to form a company, the stock to bo paid for either in , laud or money, and with a capital of $100,000 to go to work without delay and build in some suitable location near tho. city a normal school which shall fulfill all tho requirements of a first-class educational educa-tional establishment. |