Show of pure air taken Immediately from the outs The hotair flues together with another act for the removal of tho foul air makes an Ideal vontlUulns Byatom Tho equipment Is for tho work done of the beat Tho biological laboratory Is furnished with drawcrcd tables specially spe-cially dculgncd for tho work In zoology physiology and botany There are here compound microscopes ono of tho latest lat-est and best microtomes and Incubator Incuba-tor for work In embryology dissecting microscopes chemical reagents Illustrative Illus-trative specimens for study together with the various accessories needful for students In their work In the physical laboratory are an air pump Wlmhursta machine of strong power telegraph Instruments telephone tele-phone dipping batteries sonometer Je den Jars levers and pulleys electric elec-tric bells spectroscope magnets Geis ler tubes Xray tube Wheats lone bridge galvanometers wireless telegraphy tele-graphy apparatus fact everything necessary for a thorough high school course In physics The manual training department con talus excellent apparatus for normal work in that subject It Includes a lathe adapted not only for woodwork but for light meralwork such aa iron and brass turning drilling and boring a forge with anvil vice and screw 1 cutting tools and tho various small tools such as chisels planes saws etc The library easily ranks among the I very best school libraries In the State i While the number of books Is not excessively I ex-cessively large something over 1000 I volumes the books are all new and I have been purchased under Intelligent direction so that there la not a book on tho shelves which Is not of actual I practical working value This library Is thrown open to the use of the citizens citi-zens as well as of student rime physical culture department la well supplied with the lighter apparatus I appara-tus such as wands dumbbells and In dian clubs The art department Is well supplied with easles desks models and drawIngs draw-Ings Time Instruction Includes from still life ns well as models and outdoor out-door sketching With this is Joined a brief study of artists and their work I This enumeration of material and apparatus ap-paratus though brief and Incomplete will indicate the possibilities of the school As a place for securing training of a high school grade It has few if any superiors in the West Its advantages advan-tages are many Situated near the rim of the Great basin It has a climate moro than ordinarily healthful Tho coat to students for living Is small board room light and fire being obtained ob-tained for 3 per week and this may bo made much cheaper by the usual club method Those attending here are entirely en-tirely free from the many Immoralities met with in the larger cities Classes In the school are smaller than In many of the more populous institutions and as a result the student gets more individual l indi-vidual attention But the very success of the institution produces a new and allabsorbing problem prob-lem Already the facilities arC found Inadequate In-adequate to accommodate the ever creasing attendance It has been found I necessary to divide many of the classes I into sections and even the sections crowd the recitationrooms With the development of the country which seems certain within the next year and the consequent Increase in population 1 the question How shall we accommodate accom-modate all tho students who are likely to apply for admission presents itself to the minds of the teachers Can wtf think of turning Individual away who knock for admission Present indications indica-tions point to one of two things Either admittance will have to be denied to many or the facilities will have to be increased The course of Instruction given here is almost identical with that given in the first three years of the State normal nor-mal school course at the University The fourth year normal is not at present pres-ent given but we have the indirect assurances as-surances of the instructors at the University Uni-versity that it will be taught here during dur-ing the next school year This will again add to the attendance and make I i r 1 < I ay r xJ qjZI1 rG t 1 1 1 Ili 1lt h t Nf I rl1 rl I I I 1 I mot 19u cc rJ I Southern Branch Normal School Cedar City tho need of Increased facilities more apparent THIS PRESENT FACULTY consists of the following capable persons per-sons J R Clark B S who succeeded Mr Bennion as principal and Mr Drlggs as instructor in English at tho commencement of the present school year Js a graduate of the State University Uni-versity and last year reviewed his studies at the L D S and Salt Lake Business colleges During the winter of 180899 he held the prlnclpatshlp of tho Heber City high school George W Decker B Pd is librarian and instructor in science IT Claud Lewis B S is registrar and Instructor In history and psychology psycholo-gy He also In strucls the secondyear norrmil class In mathematics Jr H TIpton physics and manual training I O C Anderson music Miss Blanche Thomas succeeded Miss Spencer at tho commencement of the prosent year as Instructor in physical I culture reading and elocution I I I Miss Marlon Nlckcrbocker and Mr I NIelson were new additions to the faculty fac-ulty the present year and Instruct tho preparatory and llrstycar normal students stu-dents in mathematics United States history physiology and hygiene I 1 The institution has already proved a great boon to the people of the southern south-ern counties Six graduates from the thirdyear normal class of last year arc now taking the fourtyear normal I at the University and a like number I will graduate this year It places within I with-in the reach of the people far removed from the leading educational institutions institu-tions of the north an opportunity to satisfy their thirst for knowledge at an outlay within their reach and Is maklijg Itself felt in the betterment of society In this part of tho State Yet we realize that Its mission has only commenced and feel to say let the good work go on until It nils the measure of its creation and Is superseded by a still better effort in tho procession of progression I CHAS S WILKINSON |