| Show UNIVERSITYOF UTAH Ono of the truest things ever spoken Is A prophet Is not without honor 1 eave In his own country The remark Is strikingly applicable to our subject People throughout Utah do not Generally I Gener-ally appreciate the fact that the University Uni-versity of Utah made by law the head of the publlc school system of the State Is a really great Institution I 15 vain to hope that we can do much I In this article to supplant the prevailing prevail-ing apathy toward higher education In general the University In particular We do wish however to state what we conceive to be the situation In the hope of undeceiving some of those who may be looking afar for the advantages that He at their feet WHY GO AWAY FOR COLLEGE TRAINING I Is true that other schools throughout out tho United States cover more ground than our State University and some have advantages In this or that particular line but In the main the fitudcnt that goes East or West to pursue pur-sue courses offered at home makes a grave mistake The l cost of his training train-ing is necessarily much greater The teachers he meets are seldom those whose reputation has reached his ears for the preparatory work Is almost always al-ways done by men of smaller caliber that that of the heads of departments The classed are nearly always much larger than those of the same grade In fimiller Instituions making individual attention next to impossible And the equipment In the way of libraries laboratories labo-ratories etc though more extensive Is usually no better In quality If so good I as those In hIs own home school Then e too the work Is not likely to be so readily applicable to conditions the Btudent will meet when he returns home to biffin his life work Such facts f ought tr make young men and women I = N I I I HIflhlIFIII 1111111 I U 27 IU Sitt i j fyJ Jrte1ir + fifr nk Q A ¼ J 4 I r4k 110 b 4 It ti Surveying Class ini the Field Hour of University Buildings i L atop and think before they give up to the enchantment lent by distance H UNIVERSITY IS WHAT IT PRETENDS TO BE We ore free to assert that no other school in our country does better work In tho courses it attempts than the University of Utah In proof of this we need but to call attention to the fact that degrees Issued by that Institution are accepted without question by nearly near-ly all tho greatest universities of the United States Such recognition men simply that thono universities regard the work done here Just as good as the work they aro doing And this respect has been won by University students who havo gone away to continue their courses I Is remarkable how few have been the disappointments when euoh sudent have entered other universities uni-versities I la more remarkable how many have been notably successful Among recent achievements of University Uni-versity graduates in the East Fred W Reynolda has In two years won an important Im-portant Instructorship at Harvard Leon Walters has achieved success Bomewhat similar In the chemistry department de-partment at Columbia R I Bradford otanda among the foremost If not at the very head of his classes in metal lurgy a the same Instltulon The testimony tes-timony to constantly coming from University students in other schools Is that tho preparatory college work can bo done Just a well at home GENERAL TONE OF THE UNIVERSITY UNIVER-SITY Th University htia always been conducted con-ducted In a quiet dignified conservative conserva-tive way preferring no blaring trumpets trum-pets to herald Its worth living rather through the character of Its students Its growth has not been startling but eteady moving to the front with the advance of tho State The past two years however have wrought great changes Permanently established on the finest of si tea with ample room to grow tho State simply bounding forward for-ward In wealth and tho demand for Igher education Increasing with astonishing as-tonishing rapidity there seems to be no reason why the coming year will not bring such good results a will exceed I tho expectations of the most sanguine THE BOARD OF REGENTS Among those lo whom much honor in due for tho success of tho University is the Board of Regents Especially during tho past two years has this body shown devotion to the Interests of the University sacrificing their time and energies In Iu behalf Few people realize what c load of responsibility they havo carried what a great work they have accomplished In establishing establish-ing the University in Its new home And their pay has been the honor and experience only for it should be ro membcrcd that tho IB Regent not a salaried official a ofclal At present the board consists of James Sharp chairman Frank Pierce Waldemor Van Cott Mrs Emma j ilcVIcker 1118 Rebecca E Little j Moses Thatcher Thomas R Cuter w W Rlter dud Joseph T Kingsbury PRESIDENT AND FACULTY Dr Joseph T Klngsbury whoso reputation rep-utation for scholarship honesty of purpose and fatherly manner has spread afar despite his modesty stands at the head of the University in him thn people of the Stale repose such confidence aa to make them all but sure that while his administration lasts every step the Institution takes will be a step forward And this trust r has strengthened ever vince he took t the relna In the employment of tonchers the policy of the University has oer been 3 to secure the best the country pro i duces men and women whoso chare l tors are beyond reproach whole lives E are Inspirational who are ripe in arholnrshlp and skillful In handling elates and In tho Hclcction the mls i takes made have boon very few in f deed In this respect comparison with fr other schoola Is l Invited The faculty f of the University have always stood In L thj front rank among the educators t of oUr country They have ben loyal to Utah over tnklng an active part In furthering her Interests c j THE STUDENTS f As d body the students of the TJnl 9 vcrslti are largely selfpovernlng os tabllBhlnK among themnelvcB such or ft Rnnlratlrina aa fire deemed proper and al L bonollclal by the nell Each clnss C 6 for Instance Is fully organized for the tf P furtherance of Its Imercla Then there 1 ore the following llternry and debating hI L flocletl > affording nmplc orportunltlos k ft for general Improvement and culturo 1 The Engineering society the Zeta i11 Gamma society the Current History class the College Womens club the clas Normal society and the Senate Besides Be-sides these the students also edit and support the Chronicle a weekly paper devoted particularly to their Interests THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION In the matter of physical education It Is pleasing to note the rapid strides made Hy the University lately At last It is being generally appreciated that the whole man must be educated th body mind soulto get the best results re-sults Strong efforts are therefore being be-ing made to give the students plenty of opportunity for physical exercise Nor is It all a football craze as many people might think Football Is carried car-ried on in Its proper season so also arc basketball handball baseball tennis golf track athletics and physical culture cul-ture every good game or sport In short that can bC practiced The object ob-ject is to get every student whether boy or girl to take exercise I Is found that those most active physically physi-cally are the best mentally that one condition reinforces the other The lime spent in athletics therefore is quite the contrary from a waste of lime There is this rule too rigidly enforced that students must keep up In their class work or they may not Join any football or other team nor participate In the sports Thishas avery a-very salutary effect Though the athletic association Is maintained largely through the efforts of the students it is under the direct supervision of a committee consisting of the president and members of the faculty Prof Maud May Babcock whose efficiency in physical culture wore Is beyond question baa charge of the young women Mr Harvey Holmes tle director of physical education for the young men Though a new man In the Institution Mr Holmes has already al-ready shown that he is able to handle his work In a masterly fashion Under his charge the athletes of the University Univer-sity have made remarkable progress as was evidenced by the football boys this fall the first team having won the championship of Utah and the second sec-ond team stands now at the head of the 130pound teams of the State In employing Mr Holmes and In appropriating ap-propriating for the Improvements of the athletic grounds the Regents show that they aio alive to the Importance o the work and kindly 1 disposed toward to-ward It The faculty too have lent their efforts forts recently moro than ever before to further the cause In this connection Prof Byron Cummings deserves special spe-cial mention He has lately assumed the lead in the responsibility of carrying carry-ing out the contract awarded the athletic ath-letic association to build 0 grand stand fences and otherwise lit up the athletic Held President Kingsbury Profs Merrill Allen Lyman and others of tho teaching force have also taken an active Interest in furthering the good cause The dream of the association Is to have one of the most modern and best equipped of gymnasiums I will toko only a Cow years to make the dream come true at the rate things are now moving WHAT THE UNIVERSITY IS The University of Utah comprises U Tho School of Arts and Sciences 2 the State School of Mines 3 the state Normal school At present there Is also maintained 0 preparatory department de-partment which provides high school courses for suoh students as are not prepared to do the college work Just a soon as ample high school facilities are provided in the various counties this department will be dropped and the energies of the University turned to higher work A movement looking to this end Is now on foot SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Through the School of Arts and Sciences tho University offers two courses one in general science leading to the degree of bachelor of science the other in liberal arts leading to the degree of bachelor of arts We can best give an idea of this branch by detailing the subjects studied stud-ied and the methods teaching In several sev-eral of the representative departments GEOLOGY I will be remembered that this professorship pro-fessorship is specially provided the Salt Lake Literary and Scientific association asso-ciation having endowed the chair of geology In the sum of GOO and appointed ap-pointed Dr J E Talmage to the position po-sition Tho department is situated in a highly favored region Utah being the natural home o regon geologist and the Salt Lake valley equaling any other oth-er section in UIP State in features of geological Intorjpat The University buildings arc on the old lake terrace of Bonneville days and from Its windows win-dows may be seen a wide range of geological phenomena x The clashes In this department have steadily increased in enrollment and scope A few days ago the advanced geology classes seldom numbered more than four student now the enrollment Is up to twenty while In tho Introductory Introduc-tory grades a many as ninety have registered In a single year Tho work la conducted according to methods recognized as best Including a combination of lecture Instruction recitation and seminary research Students Stu-dents of advanced classes prepare each D npccial paper in th nature of a thesis involving library research and field investigation The class t lectures are richly IllViatralcd with musfum ma lerlnl chart models and stereopticon views Field work also constitutes an important part trips being frequently taken to lnspcc such phenomena as occur all around The courseo offered consist of 1 General geology introductory 2 all applied or economic geology 1 1 Applied or economic geology I 1 courae In Utah geology 5 course In paleontology and historical geology Dr Talmage has gained a reputation for scientific attainments almost worldwide world-wide Ho Is i a fellow In many of the leading societies not only In America but In England and Is therefore inconstant in-constant and direct touch with the leading scientists of the day HISTORY The courses offered under this head Include mediaeval and modern English and Amerlcon also courses in tho do c vclopmont of political Institutions and In current events In pursuing tho work students go for information to historical sources as far as practicable prttcnlle seminary methods arc largely employed Emphasis Is placed on America especially the western part as a Held oc historical research this procedure being based on the be lef that in the study of history It Is archaic letter to Institutions 6egin with modern than with The University is well equipped fO this work In having 3 historical library unequaled In the Iritermountaln region Prof William G Roylance a man full of good common sense and scholarship Is at th head of this department ENGLISH This department is one of the most thoroughly < jganlzed and vigorously conducted In the University All preparatory pre-paratory students whether working for ho normal certificate or for entrance to the college courses are required to take English during the entire preparatory prepar-atory course Throughout these y ars there Is a Judicious Intermingling and correlation of grammar rhetoric Including In-cluding composition and literature The course In grammar is the most thorough and advanced given In the State The work In literature follows closely the study of those selections c i f tN = JipJ r I LV I A Corner in llis Un iverslty Machine Shop of literature prescribed for entrance to college by the conference oC college and secondary schools of theJ cw England the Middle Atlantic and the Southern States The college courses articulate with those of the preparatory school They are differentiated Into departments depart-ments of rhetoric literature and philology lology In the courses In rhetoric the principles prin-ciples of rhetoric In the higher forms are taken up some of the best work of representative authors being studied as models Then abundant practice in composition is given during the freshman fresh-man year a paper being required at eel recitation All students doing college work are required to take course one This consists con-sists qf a careful study of the forms of literature and the canons of cill oism l together with the essential characteristics char-acteristics of the literary periods down to 1SOO Courses also are given In Shakespeare Wordsworth and Contemporaries Contem-poraries Tennyson and Contemporaries Contempora-ries Other courses have been given in American Literature Nineteenth Century Cen-tury Essayists Chaucer Browning and Pope The courses In philology include = 1 An elementary study of the history of the English language 2 r an advanced ad-vanced study of the English language for those that have a working knowledge 1 knowl-edge of Latin German etc 3 a beginning be-ginning course In AngloSaxon 4 1 an advanced course In AngloSaxon Including In-cluding a study of Bcowulf and other old English productions Prof George 1 Marshall a practl States It is the geographical center of one of the greatest mineral regions of the world From one to two hours ride will take tho student of the University Uni-versity to any of the famous mining camps Park City Bingham Mercur and Eureka Some of the biggest and most modern smelters In the world can be reached by street car In less than an hour The walls of tho school almost al-most shalce from the blows of the hammer ham-mer the thunder of the blast And everywhere the student feels the spirit of the great Industry of the Rockies WORK VERY PRACTICAL There are two courses offered by this school one leading to the degree of bachelor of mining engineering the other to the degree of bachelor of electrical elec-trical engineering Practicality is the keynote In prosecuting the subjects laid out in these courses Every principle prin-ciple dIscussed is applied to actual conditions con-ditions Students are required during each year of the course to put at least fifteen hours a week in the laboratories the shop the drawingrooms or in the field Excursions lo mines siTielters powert plants machine shops etc arc of very frequent occurrence The student stu-dent i therefore ready for his working clothes the moment his degree Is handed degee ed him And the demand for such engineers ee gineeis is so great that students of the mining school are in come instances employed before their graduation Indeed In-deed one difficulty is to keep students from going out and accepting tempting offers before they complete the course SCHOOL WELL EQUIPPED SPfOOL Besides the great natural advantages the mining school has an equipment with that compares most favorably that of other schools attempting the same worjc This year too heavy purchases pur-chases ot apparatus have been made The new machine shop is to be furnished fur-nished lofcompletenoss For tho test ingroom there have been recently ordered or-dered a sfcam engine a gas engine a turbine waterwheel an aircompres sor llhothcr auxiliary apparatus For tho work in electricity several electrical elec-trical macljlnes and an outfit for the study o arc and incandescent lights with considerable other needed material mate-rial is to be added to the furnishings very soon soonMEN MEN IN CHARGE The principal of the mining school Is Dr J F Merrill a scholar of wide and successful l experience In several of the best universities of the United States His specialty Is physics and all classes In this subject are either taught by him or under his Immediate p 1 s Aa r Mc s lrus l i n 14 fr i f S GPjL P Y L Students Assaying University of Utah cal teacher and thorough scholar stands at the head of this department Assisting him are Benjamin R Howell How-ell a graduate 01 Columbia qnd Howard How-ard R Drlggs a graduate of the University 1 Uni-versity and for years a teacher In the public schools and the branch normal Prof Fred M Reynolds now absent on leave tind doing postgraduate at Harvard also belongs to this department depart-ment His return will bft marked ban b-an increase In the scope of the work BIOLOGY This course commences in the fall by tho study of elementary zoology In this study several objects are kept In view One Is to la foundation for further biological studies another is to give the normal students knowledge of common local animals of this region re-gion and to give them 0 suitable trainIng train-Ing for nature studies The work is made thoroughly practical and opportunity oppor-tunity is given for the acquisition of skill In the use of both the compound and dissecting microscope First the sludcnt bccomfcs familiar with the structure of arlhopodon animals through the careful study of several Insect forms Then follows a study of the earth worm a molluflk and several vcrtlbrates including a fish and a frog A most thorough study Is made of the common leopard frog and this usually closes the first halfyear During the second halfyear the same class lakes up the study of botany bot-any In this study much practical work Is done by the student In order to get a clear understanding of plant growth and structure Considerable at lenllon is given to the relationship of gven plants to soil moisture altitude etc as exhibited by our rich and varied flow of mountain valley and desert Each student is i required to procure Identify and mount fifty species of wild native fiowery To the student who has completed tho first years wgrk In zoology and botony Is offered several lines of studies stud-ies He may devote a whole year to advanced work In botanical studies Including much microscopical work upon up-on the Algae and Fungi and also a considerable amount of attention to a systematic study of the local flora A whole years work Is also offered In advanced zoology comprising many of th interesting problems as presented by the Great Basin fauna together with the systematic study of the same To thoso students who have taken one year of preliminary work In zoology and botany IP I offered a half I I years work In the more technical laboratory lab-oratory methods hi biology including tho making of bacterial culturesstain InS sectioning mounting otc THE MINING SCHOOL There are many reasons why this department de-partment ofythe University Is almost sure to become the largest branch of the Institution In the first place Salt Lako City is the logical home for the leading mining school in the United supervision Assisting Dr Merrill are Prof Richaid P Lyman who has charge of tho work In surveying and drawing and some of the classes in engineering en-gineering The professor is so well and favorably known as to need no further praise here Then there ate Prof Acree from the Chicago university who though a new man has rapidly won the hearts and confidence ofl Ho has charge of the chemistry department de-partment Instructors Beckstrand Wllcox Ward and Silver too all of whom arc men specially fitted for the work they handle are also employed Assistant Prof Broadford also belongs to the mining school having charge of the department of metallurgy In which subject he Is now achlevln2such success suc-cess at Columbua On his return to the University tho metallurgical department depart-ment Is to be enlarged and better equipped to meet the great demand for work in this line Some of the representative rep-resentative subjects of the mining school shall now be discussed more in detail to Illustrate the character of the work carried on ENGINEERING The work done in the University in englneerlr Includes courses in mechanism mechan-ism analysis of roof and bridge trusses mining operations steam engines en-gines hydraulics and the designing of both machines and structures In all these courses the aim is to give only such work a Is of practical value The methods of engineering used by local engineers are sought out and taught so far as Is practicable Thus students arc prepared for conditions they arc most lllccly to encounter In this course city engineering road making railroad reservoir canal and mining work are all given Topographical Topograph-ical surveying1 is studied for half a year During the winter months the students stu-dents revote themselves to textbook and office work the spring and fall bc imj i devoted to practical work with instruments in-struments on the field An important part of the surveying work comes during dur-ing the six weeks of the summer vacation vaca-tion when in some mining camp the members of the class make actual surveys sur-veys of mining claims preparing the plats and notes In careful conformity with the Instructions to mineral surveyors sur-veyors given by the SurveyorGeneral In addition to this work underground surveying Is also done and the notes taken ore worked up and from them a map of the mine 16 I made THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL or the three branches of the University Univer-sity the best knOwn is the normal school Every year for nearly a quarter of a century this department has sent forth a class of graduates to mingle In the educational and other affairs of the State From this host of young men and womon have come a large proportion of the best teachers teach-ers of the West They have been honored with Important positions not only In Utah but In other States Among its facilities the normal school now maintains one of tho best equipped training schools In the United States This Includes besides nil the eight grades a kindergarten department In prosecuting the work of the normal course students devote a great deal of their time during the fourth year to practice work under the dlreetono teachers of long ex perience and proved ability The courses offered by tho normal school Include the fouryear normal course on the completion of which the student is I awarded n certificate entitling en-titling its holder to teach in tho public schools of the State for five years without further examination This certificate may be renewed under certain cer-tain conditions There is also a kindergarten course covering five years I differs from the other course principally In the practice wont being taken In the kindergarten department Students may also have conferred on them the normal diploma This is recognized by law as the professional or life diploma of high school grade making the holder eligible to teach for life In any school In the State 1 is awarded with the degree cither of bachelor of science of bachelor of arts to such students as have completed com-pleted certain prescribed courses In the college department of pedagogy The plan of the department is to have candidates for the diploma so arrange their elective work as to specialize In one or more groups of subjects In their senior year they may then do some practice teaching in I these subjects in high school grades I Emphasis Is placed on the fact that the student should have 3 thorough knowledge of the subjects he Is to teach and that he should not try to make pedagogical methods a substi Lute for scholarship The work in school admlnislra ton Is designed for those expecting to become principals supervisors and superintendents of schools The topics studied are schood law and In that connection national State city and county systems and methods are considered con-sidered both from an educational and a business point of view Besides this a study of school hygiene is taken up The young people of Utah do not generally realize that the openings for collegetrained teachers are So many as to make it n serious difficulty to fill them properly Teachers for high schools principals of dlstricls are called for every day Counties demand de-mand skilled men for superintendents districts need women of college grade to act as supervisors In short high salaried positions are waiting Impatiently Im-patiently for abilily to step forward and pick them up The sentiment In favor of county high schools is rapidly growing Salt Lake county will probably prob-ably establish five in various districts by next year But there is likely to be I a serious check to this spirit for high education because of the lack of properly prop-erly trained men and women to dp4hG work Teachers throughout this State who are pegging along year after year In the same old rut ought to wake up to the situation Theres money influence in-fluence and every other good thing In it True it may mean sacrifice to attend at-tend the University for a few years But suppose It does what better investment in-vestment can a man or woman make than to take out a degree when through it he can step from a district grade that pays him perhaps 50 0 month to a position that carries a salary of from 1000 to 2000 for ten months service not to mention the culture and intellectual attainments that come with such training Truly we need waking up |
