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Show THE mil COLLEGE. J A Splendid Institntion at Logan. Where I Practical Agriculture ii Taught ia ia All Iti Era-cha, : The Department of Practical Mechanics, Where ii Taught Skill in Work-I Work-I ing Wood and Stool. I GIRLS THAT ARE WORTH HAVINO Thev nra Taught Domostio Economy. Uon Ho work. Embroidery. Cooking and the Art of Entertaining. The ( llK-e lltiildifil-l ;t.tnplte tn Every r-unUir I'lin Method, mill Coan. of Uuly A Kit That is rn.arpa.lteri Tlm llitrroH of lb Home And lb l.oi!tf. A p-cent vi-.it nn behalf of TllF. '1'imi s 1 1 the. I'tah Arh-iilturfil college at. IH'iui limbic-! ('lis paper to furnish liv.sh n-i.l valuable, information i 1 1 1 1 1 r n i 1 1 r an eduoat ninal enterprise 11I great promise nml importance to the '!. 1 1 1 1 i u -t (if I'tah. 'J lie school opened on tint 'Itli in-a, with over a hundred I cholnts, 111. imi than livi) tunes as miiiiy ;i were entered a yir afto when the l olluH lir.st bcgini its work. Last Satur-l;iy Satur-l;iy the hoard of trustees, consisting of Messrs. M"( '1 ii-!! ick. ami Snwles ot Salt Lake City, Hrovvn anj Hilia of l'rovo, ' I laimunnd of Logan, Dlii'ii of llyi nm anil ( Toss of I Igdeti, lii'iil 11 meeting at tin'. Institution uri'l expressed them- -elves as highly pleased ami encouraged j vitli the initio ik. Ttiey fee! tlm lit-; most confidem,, in tlm conniption mid ' "i 01 the school, the grow injf inter- j est .it' t ie peop.M. ami -specially tho . yourig wen tic, 1 women of I'tah, and; thn s 1 -1 h 1 1 ;i r .- 1 1 : ami skill of tin) facility headed by I'l i'-iilcnt Sanborn, whose 111 irkrd il:i!i.,n f..r the work of pre ; udiug iivcr ami iiisnagin:' -ni'h n in stitiMiuii is no ly recognized and appro ciatcl liy uii. N VI I l.'K'.s 1, HAM) KNItoW MI.N T. ! The city of Logan is located on a siplitly ami eMmsivo pliittun on tho eastern rim of ('acini alley, one ol the ini'M lii'Hiitilui regions that adorns the topoutaphy of I'tah. Thn colk'n site on tlio eastern Milmrli of I. ijan is one of iic!i rare and (oniinaiidiiij; Kianileur that it seems created for tliu express i pnrp'i of heal inn on its crest a Krlut ediicational institution wliicli shall he a ; lilting ami suil'miem crown for tlio 1 august uml wide spread p:noraiiri over ! wlii-li it preside. Hundreds of feet ; iilinvo the le el of the valley, it over- '; looks a latiiNcape sin tchin out over a , radius of many leagues in front and i Hank; heinned in liy inouut lins in the ' ilistance, the verdant floor threaded by j Ktreaui and river, fringed with trees j ha its name plainly printed on tag hung on a stake. Here area thousand object leaaoog; plowing, planting, cultivating, culti-vating, aow'ms;, harvettiig, irrigating, grafting, pruning, fertilizing; the effect ef-fect of heat, cold, wind, itinshine, altitude; alti-tude; the nutritirequalitiea of substances substan-ces under different conditioni; whether forage dry or green will yield the largest larg-est aniouot of nutriment; what kinds of food are the most conducive to health and growth, flesh or fat; the impediments impedi-ments and obstacles to Tfgctable ' growth; how best to train and cultivate; culti-vate; what are noxious and what healthful. health-ful. NATl ttK'S I.AHOlilTOHV. Such inquiries are conducted by actual actu-al experiment; and any sensible student will luarn all these things and a thousand thou-sand others by simply coming in contact con-tact with nature in such a work shop as is here provided. The most that is required re-quired is to have good health, honest impulses, senses on the alert, and sympathy with the great world of fact and truth. In respect to live stock, there is a large barn near the college building wherein horses, cattle, sheep, !iOki and other animals, including poultry, poul-try, are kept, and their housing and iniinawuieut are made the source of a constant and multiform information. The halnu of animals are ascertained; the results of different kinds and methods meth-ods of nutrition and care, and the relation rela-tion of nutrition to the production of working power, flesh, fat and warto. The chemical laboratory has an equipment equip-ment provided at great expense; and its researches carried on in the presence pres-ence of the utudonts give them constant opportunities for investigating the properties anil relations of material so W.taiH'i's, thus training the mind in the purest furn- of scientitic culture. MINI) AND UCSCLG. - In the basement rooms of the main college building are a series of workshops work-shops i! h a complete set of tools for each student in each department. Here h has a beautiful otittit of bright, new tools, with a place for each, and each in its proper place. Ho has lirst to learn to keep them in place and in good order, a very important lesson, l'.y spemlinir mi hour or two each school day for a term or two in each department depart-ment with hi tools and materials he acquires skill in working wood, ion, steel and other metals; in turning, moulding, patterning, drafting and other training. The lathes are all run by steam power, the students taking turns in the use of the engine. Such exercises are apecially important as a means of physical development; ami x' Ii i it) trailing the muscles they also lietret mental aptitudes, and there is ' stored in tho miuds as a basis for auto- j malic action a reserve power which 1 counts as an important factor in mind i' development. I.IHI.8 -WORTH IIMIN;. The young lady students have equal facilities for learning needle work, embroidery, em-broidery, cutting, cooking, dairying. the teachers are specialists, each having been educated for a special line of work, and to this line every energy Is devoied. There is a preparatory course to fit students for college, and also a special three yoar course in Agriculture. Agricul-ture. There is also a post graduate course in raining, irrigation engineering engineer-ing and science. A business course of two years is provided wherein actual forms of exchange, banking and general gen-eral business are carried on from counters coun-ters and bank oltiees. This course includes in-cludes business forms, correspondence, political economy, civil government, commercial law, and the usual studies carried forward at commercial colleges. Diplomas are issued to those only who pass a thorough examination. ex-amination. M'KCIAL XVOIiK AND KKATl HKS. The four-year course in agriculture as kpecial work for the lirst year includes in-cludes two hours of shop work daily in wood and iron including turns in learning to use the engine. In thn second year their exercise is on the horticultural grounds, iu pruning, grafting and handling the great variety of crops grown upon them. These include varieties of for rest trees and a large number of varieties varie-ties of small and liin'e fruits of each class, and the snxeral classes of vegetables. vegeta-bles. The third year the exercises are on the farm where questions of tillage, crop manipulation, dairying, fet'dniir, and sm h like are under constant cou-sidi cou-sidi iaiion. 1 he cM-rrises i f tim fourth year arc tloioted to veterinary and laboratory lab-oratory woik in c: emis'.ry, botany and other .sciences. '1 no eoiir.m in median ical engineering eriv- ponds with that of agricultural except that a great, r amount of higher tna' hem-ilics and physics is tmgiit in this course, and it substitutes f.r tats li viinicl work in agriculture the study of analytical mechanics, me-chanics, mceh.nim, im't illiug) , electricity, elec-tricity, machine di-,-'.;! and other technical studies. 'II. e coui-e in civil engineering f"r fie tir-t three years constitutes .-UTuoiom v, ie!d engineer-ing engineer-ing and field practice for ioine other ! Studies of the cir.ir-c on e, t leiil.ure, j in! the fourth year '.. mum!;, g.vcn to -engineering desi-gns, irrigatiiit', ent'i- necring. loads and paie'-icnM, stabil ity of structures, etc. Tho course '.o j domestic aits eo!no:.les v.-:th i!,e i-i.ii!. j on agriculture except that substitution 1 wo sexes in one house until t he influx of students should be so great as to justify jus-tify the erection of another similar building. Students, male and female, occupying this homo have in common a large reception room, after the fashion of a parlor, furnished with pictures, piano, center table and a dozen ckairs antique. They have a large and well furnished dining room in common, adjoining ad-joining which is the kitchen and pantry, the most complete and convenient culinary cul-inary workshop that can be seen anywhere any-where east or west. Tho partition, with dining room on ono side aud kitchen and pantry on the other, is lilted up with doors on each side, tho intervening space being filled with liroud shelves, those serving as dish and crockery cupboards and apertures for nnmng back and forth. It is said that a number of these culinary contrivances were designed by President Sanborn, who inherits a degreo of taste aud genius for domestic economy, though in like mannar his inventive powers are exhibited in tho contrivances of the barn, aud gouuraily throughout tho scvural stnicltires composing this plant. The students of the homo constitute a family in the sense that they meet to-geiher to-geiher al the iliiung room table and opposite sexes meet at stated hours in the reception room. They also regulate the quality and cost of their board with t.io proviso imposed by the imuage-nii imuage-nii iit that they lo not in their bearding beard-ing expenses e.'.ceed each per wee':.. K erni-i arc free, each student oaviu ; a siu iil entrance fee ami providing pro-viding his or her separate bedc'.oih-ing. bedc'.oih-ing. No letter, more apprjpri-mo apprjpri-mo or economical home can bn fou, id in lie; rang; of college uccom-uiodaitouH uccom-uiodaitouH anywhere. TliK l.l Akl'lAN' A v.r.i.. l're'.ilin r over this home, and greet- , ing the w.iuir as tiie mistress of the j mansion, is a somewhat mature-looking- ! young lady, tail ami graceful iu her carriage, ibieul ill address, her lace; framed m aud suriuotiMied with a llcece i I golden cutis, crsatile, pure man- j m-re 1 and (! si ri"t. L.-s Josephine ; (.lissom is worthily ii s:aliid as the matron and guardian of the bays ami j grls enUu.si.ed lu her cii.i: .' A -so- I dated with tier i- her mot hi r v. no gie- j an air of more, pi '.inoii ucd v i-utraMe- i ne-s to t ti e managonmut. Miss (,ris- soin being from Misa'.saippi, and having graduated at a southern eohege, her! k -, - - - . ...... ; :-:- .i:-vv tK4 '-v'-: : . - : Logan Agricultural College. ex'rai'tiou does n.il arguo a proven. ial famousness tor culinary thrill and domestic do-mestic iiccomp'.i.-iiini uta; but gener:; rules being proved by exceptions, it is said that she serve, m an exception to prove the rule that Yankee women are better housekeepers than their southern south-ern sisters; ami it might bo added, "tho' 'tis a pity that 'tis true," that we havu more eontidenee in tile discretion of vouth when souid yreat sorrow has swept, lik'! a tempest hand .athwart the chords of lite ami left upon the soul the imprint of the mature age that holds the Heeling past, or some ii.sthntaueous, soul-en-i ve'opitig episode, in e'.eri.a! retrospect. Among many others equally worthy may be noticed the daughters of Hon. John T. Caiuo, enrolled as inmates of the houiP. tACl I. TV. Arranged iu order of seniority of ap-pointmnnt ap-pointmnnt the faculty consists of Jeremiah Jere-miah V. Sanborn, li. S., president, professor of agriculture; Kvert S. Kieh-nian, Kieh-nian, M. S. A., horticulture and botany; William I'. Cutter, Ii. S., chemistry; Alibie L. Marlatt, M. Sc.. domestic economy; Jacob M. Sholl.It. M. K., me-chauical me-chauical er.ginrering; Henry L. Everett, A. M., English and modern languages; John T. Caine, jr.. preparatory department; depart-ment; Alon.o S. Mills, li. Sc., assistant agriculturist; Miss L. S. Throupe, music; mu-sic; J. E. Sheppard, business course; Mrs. S. W. Eddy, preparatory department; depart-ment; J. A. Yealman, foreman of shop work in wood; S. S. Twomley, veterinary veteri-nary science; J. H. Walker, stenography stenogra-phy and type writing; Mrs. T. S. Rich-man, Rich-man, elocution. are made wherein special provions are necessary for the eduation and training which seem most .needed in woman's natural aud chosen field of work. Each course involves work in chemical botanical, bot-anical, physical and other laboratories, and each course has museum collections collec-tions iu its interest on which large amounts of money are being expended. TIIK .STI DKN T'S HoMK. While the residents of Logan have been generous and hospit aole in the way of providing pleasant and inexpensive inexpen-sive homes for students, it has been deemed wise Is well as necessary to provide a college twime for students who desire to avail themselves them-selves of its privileges and comply with its regulations. Hence on the brow of the college plateau we have a large and splendid building, almost as pretentious in external appearance as the Ixuutsl'ord. Its internal arrangement, arrange-ment, and furnishing bespeak com-modiousness, com-modiousness, convenience, comfort, durability du-rability and good taste. Students have roomy, well ventilated, well lightod dormitories, each apartment apart-ment provided with closets for wardrobe, and eacli made ea-y of access. The building is planned in two sections, with separate halls and stairways, stair-ways, .there being no communicating , door or pas-ages, no student being allowed al-lowed within tho premises of tho other sex under penally of summary expulsion; expul-sion; these precaution. being deued necessary for the a. comuiodutii.n of the i and melodious with waving harvests, I : do. ted over with more than a doen J . towns and villages, the locomotive j 1 steaming across the lield. the blue sky ; i spreading its measureless arch bejond the broken ranges, Logan city wiih its ' massive Mormon temple close beneath, i mountain peaks in the rear and the ' vaulted dome of eternal aoire oyer- J I brad; no tiiui can lo.nt hern- on without a quickened sense of j nature's divine sublimity and splendor, fortunately the college has ampin grounds, hundreds of acres, upon j j lins beautiful plateau whose lesthctic, superiority intct ever be. thn purest aud lao-t precious soiuvh of enl.hteiimert with which tile institution cau hope to ! be eadow t.d. j si OI K ANOSlnvi It'ASiT.. j The fuudamttnta! idea of the Agri-1 ; cultural college is to rducate trie whole ! ' man, intellectual and moral and piiv.si-' piiv.si-' cat, brain and eye and hand; to culture ; i the reason, train the mechanical pow-j j ers and tit tlm boy and girl for thrift' I and us-ifiil ii"ss in prn-'tical life, lirain 1 . and eye and hand, senses ami muscles, i each is a learning org tn, in ord-T to the broadest co .opera. ion with i.hiuio iu educational development, l or instance: To learn agriculture: is to comprehend the laws ami agents wherewith nature puts forth her en alive energies, and j also to join hands with ail such trans- i Itiriiuug forces in reproductive processes I to harness them, guide them, tvmhh:i i and analyze them, thus showing in lull ; dominion tho true credenliais to schol- j iirsiup, No other art rests upon so' tread a foundation as that of ngrieul- lure All its forces are sovereign in their sphere; yet they surrender them j selves obedient sen ants, if we but! study them ami know them and utilize ! them in accordance with their inherent i properties. NAl'lltK'S KINUK'niA 111 I.N. j To illustrate: it: order to teardi prsc j lical arieuiture, fere is a large plat of j (..round cut up into hundreds of l.ttie, tields, each manted in some kind of train, or vegetable, or crass.' or tree. There are dozer.s. sometime hern'reis, of varieties of pitch kind. Each vhmclv entertaining, domestic economy, hygiene hy-giene ami such like. There are stated lectures on these arts, and there are special suits of rooms containing machines, ma-chines, tables and all necessary appa. rattis. The kitchen is a model of neatness, neat-ness, cleanliness and convenience. The rango is provided with a thermometer and the various processes of the culinary cul-inary are performed without the likelihood of being burned or underdone. A pleasant and profit-I profit-I abiti feature ais the giviug of din uers at which students assist in enter-j enter-j taming and serving guests, while other ! other students, members of the faculty and visitors become guests for the occasion. occa-sion. This department of domestic economy is presided over by Miss Abbie L Marlatt, a graduate of the Manhattan Agricultural college, Kan, a tall, iithe. dignified young woman, who.se intellectual cast and lady like sympathies sympa-thies seem well calculated to elevate and ennoble domestic science in the minds of the girl students, and lift them above the frivolity tod sickly dilettanti-ism that unlit so many of the more wealthy and fahionable young ladies for real usefulness or eu joyment in the higher and more responsible, walks of ilfo. ( OI.LF.CF. MrrilllliS. 1 (-st it might be surmised that systematic, sys-tematic, methods, such as are usually pursued at tho moro advanced institutions, institu-tions, do not obtain, il is important to note tl; it there are four full courses of lour years each: Agricultural, mechanical mechan-ical engineering, civil engineering aud domestic arts. Each of these four year courses embodies the purpose of a liberal lib-eral and practical education' German, I reneh. elocution, grammar, rhetoric, English literature, drawing, niathe mattes in itssoveral lines, botany. chemistry, chem-istry, physics, phy in.cgv. geology, mineralogy, ;oiilntry.iiiilniiiology, political polit-ical economy, civil government, mental i srieuce, course of reading, etc., being! included. Studies, recitations, cxer-(ises. cxer-(ises. con furring degrees, klamhr.i of sciiot.-triiiiip ami deportment are all in scold wiin the te st met 10ds attained in t.it c'a insiiintiors In .nh cum su 1 |