Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-30 | Page 8 | University 'Campus' is High on Mountain

I ART STUDENTS u PAINT AI T AT ALPINE SCHOOL u 4 3 i. i 1 4 p i.- i. t s S T J St 5 1 UNIVERSITY CAMPUS CAMPUS' IS HIGH ON MOUNTAIN B. B Y U s Unique Summer Term Amid Aspens Aspens As As- pens of Draws Many ny 5 PROVO PROVO Beneath Beneath the shadow of oC majestic Mount at atan atan an n altitude of ot nearly 1000 feet the Alpine summer school term of BrIgham Brigham Brig Brig- ham lam Young uni university is conducted at Aspen Grove each year car in a setting th that t gives it the distinction of being perhaps perhaps' one of the most unique university campuses in America I Thirteen years ago it began with about bout a dozen pupils and two tors ors Entering its second week this year year car Registrar John E. E Hayes reports re- re ports poris orts an enrollment of students from rom eight states and three nations Eleven professors arc teaching art English Ge Geology logy Sociology physics educational sociology political science sd- sd ence nee modern languages speech h botany botany bot- bot any ny and economics as compared to the ic two fa faculty cult members who gave instruction in geology and biology the ic first year of the schools school's exist exist- nee enee I Stud Study In Tents Six tents open a at sides and ends and nd filled with about twenty chairs and nd a table each are the classrooms Mountain breezes 5 blow through to i cool ool brows perhaps perhaps fevered fevered with the theor theory of relativity or puzzled over difficult French verbs Students Student and ors alike for the most part p dress dreS ress in hiking br breeches boots and shirts open at the collar Ladles Ladies and m mens men's ns n's dormitories house the ic student body in contrast to the six x weeks spent in tents and cooking cookIn over ver open campfires b by the first doz dozen n students I L I. W. W Happy Hodon Hodson Hod Hod- son on camp chef has held that lion tion on every year of or the he schools school's exIstence ex- ex after alter the first Religious service distinctive at Brigham Young university is not neglected at this mountain school 15 miles from its ils mother campus at Provo Dr Gerrit de Jon Jong professor of modern languages is appointed I bishop shop for this years year's term and morning and evening service are con eon ducted each Sunday A peculiar coincidence is that a grove rove of aspens east cast of the campus shaped in a natural Y overlooks the campus ampus much the same as the giant Y Y on the mountain cast east of Provo looks down on the university it sym sm Opinions differ as to where the idea ea for the mountain school came from rom Some attribute it U to the late I Dr Martin Marlin P. P Henderson who died dieden ten en years year ago while dean of or the college college col- col lege ege of arts and sciences of ot the uni uni- Others say Dr Fred W. W Tar ray lor br or Provo physician and nature lover s seeing eing in it the possibilities for nature study and outdoor living it now now af a r- r fords was wac instrumental l in giving the idea to university heads heads- Certainly the efforts of the two men were responsible re re- rc- rc in a large measure for its beginning Dr Henderson professor of ot biology was one of the two first faculty members Fred Buss professor sor of geology was the other The mountain summer school began began began be be- gan in 1922 the first year of the administration ad ministration of President Franklin S. S Harris Largely through his fostering and leadership in fri its early years it has grown Irown to its it present proportions I In 1927 a record enrollment of more I Ithan than students was reached