Show U I Educational l Matters Tit mirrur of run The very favorable auspices under which the University of Utah hu reopened re-opened tot the current collegiate year have been already noticed biiefly and In general terms In these columns It 1 Is sale to say that the present opening Is by all means the most promising ol all In Ihe history In the Institution The treat Interest fell by the people In the Interests of the University teethed early demonstration during the summer by the unusual rail for catalogues indeed in-deed the entire edition became practically practi-cally exhausted long before the beginning begin-ning of nciual work and the faculty had recourse to the Issuance of a brief circular cir-cular containing the mist Important Items of Inlormatltm Mils similar prove of special value to students II 1 being of convenient arrangement and ol pocket site The registration of students Is not yet complete for beside the new students who are yet making application for entrance a number of others sate been permitted lo postpone their registration until their course are laity arranged Already nearly 400 student are In actual ac-tual attendance about hall of whom are newly enrolled This number Is I exclusive exclu-sive of the attendance In Ihe Training School Ihe Ait Department and the School for the Deaf Hut It 1 ls not from the number of Its students or the extent of the patronage shown that the othcers of lire Institution find their greatest satisfaction the quality uf the present I fdJT student U the main point ol pride The examiners have been sliicl In their tests ands great number of applicants have been rejected on the grounds of Incapacity to enter upon the wok of the Institution but among prose who have been admitted a much more satisfactory satis-factory preparation exist than has been the tale heretofuie The policy of the faculty Is I to tried students hoC apply for admission to the Irepiratoiy I School C I If they are In any way deficient so as to threaten the success uf their work and particularly II they are of such age as to be eligible for public school training All the lime coilrgiaie ranks Gum Freshmen lo Senior are well Hint A number ol tegular graduates trout tin tallowing Instllutluns are enrolled for the university courwa Collegiate loud lute Rowland Hall I ball Lake College latterday Saints College < < Sail lak oH City IllRh School I lliliham Young Academy Irovo llrlIt lam Young College Col-lege Logan etc The University clone are so well filed that many ol rl necessity have been divided Into several sections The extent of the actual work ol Instruction In-struction may be judged from the fact that fire program Uj In Us present stable shows Ilk hours recitations per week this of course exclusive of the work In Iho Training School fur Teachen Alt Depattmeitmul the bchool for Ihe 1d The laboratories lor experimental demon Ion work In thu Natural Ills tog an7 livulcsl science tassel are In l n I l eo txcelli Her and the workers use not n lowJ cl is lng their satislactlon and rV appreciation over the excellent equip meet for their week The large new building lu nnerously placed at the ervlce of the Univrrlty by the Sail Uk IJleMry and Sdenillc Associa Ion rt a most ralunble addilnn lo the University accnmmodaiinua In fart without Mme such Incieosa of faolllie thin present attendance would nut be poMlnl rAI In addition to the description I of apparatus appa-ratus and the use of mien as have appealed ap-pealed alieady In these columns we may menllon tiny steps are being now taken lo estahhth a fully equipped 1 nitleorologlcsl station this lo he under the unction of Ihe Untied SHIM Weather llureau Certainly there is I no lack In the Unl vertll of material fidlitles of talent mid Ability among Instructor and slit dents of healthful tiltbum i iyr l the work ol determination In lihor un I letnltllngly for success and with such endorsements who can 1Mlbl alto what the result will be I rviaiiTr Norm Were It not for the lime lecture loom In the laboratory bulWIng the Uitlreriiv I would be without a room Urge enouh lo axemble IU students at one time The eIaNee In first tar mitlmatlcs English an awl 1 a few oUwr subjects hove to meet In sections The mineralogies laboratory U I a type of convenience tin dais In mineralogy already number 70 students Anutrla are In cause of construction for the biological laboratory this room Its a dell ol luring Irog and leeches of louls awl h < hs wiiha pair of very active alligators I svral feet In length r to relieve the monotony On Weilneadsy an enthuslaitlc meetIng meet-Ing was held by the students to discuss the propriety of unanliIng an athletic association The president of the unit security and several of the professors entered the room while IIro 1 meeting was In pnigreat and look part la the proceedings promising the I tludefll all proper encuuragetneiu and support A volunteer choir and glee club give selections every morning at the dun1 exercises and tins meat majority of tne other student present take par still r r the prolessloniM The School for the Deaf resumed I Its session October lat The Normal department hu received aver A hundred newIadenta Knlrsnce eMmlnatlons are still In pnwieM They are u ully held on two = or three days per week nle last 1 week the New York dry Iworil ofoducntlun cent In III alimats to Ihe baird ol estimate and appoillonment requiting the sum of fji7jo8i for school lllIIll > u4Sa The sum of I 50x1110 given by N I Cohurn of MiawcliuMlls lu Colorado colleges has been used In the erection ufa line architectural building and fur the purchase of n large Illrjiy The iicwV building 1 aSxm and built I ol the laniuus pedclibloHnditoneol Colorado Colo-rado The late It S Avery ol Washington 1 > C has bequeathed f pot o to the Ian I Smithsnnian Instill tlon Mr Avery wai an auiluir and publisher woiks on phnnogsphv I IJr E t White of Coumbut Ohio favorably known lo the teacher 01 Utah withre mrnif of ten week the pact summer dehtnd one hundred lectures pon psjiho > n > theory and art of teiclim > d horI management and morn trilnmir More the niimmer srhools In Iron I rsinia I New York and Otto Amonk the prominent and popular eduiiifonal men of England mar lie menhonMl lir J G riich Prof Percy A Itarnttanl Editor I T J Macnamara ul I Ihl Awl ii > iir The Dent named Is now seventy yeoman f age and Is I writing writ-ing a volume on Or I Arnold and Matthew Mat-thew Arnold for Ihe series of Gnat hducaton Irof I R Aus hurg li I fnmlshlng avery a-very Interesting series uf chalk talk lora lor-a number ot the eastern educational journsls This most litMrucllv plan of Iir llnr Inniuciioll 11 orlilnil with llr Aujs burg f 1 reniiont comment it i made relative lo the unusual interest thai prevails this year throughlui the iiunlry In etluca tional rnatirr In t Uh lbe spirit m m which pnvitN In ill the Institutions within Its I horde h very commendable commend-able 1 he University Agricultural College Col-lege the II Y college I at IxJfsn the ten I S Collette I ol thi city enhI Y Academy Irovo the public schools of the Territory the kindergarten schools and Ihe various ilenoflitnatlonal I schools are feeling lira pulaatlonf SInew SI-new life anl I are succaafully accomplishing accomp-lishing their mluion Front the East cornea the same cheering new Vaasar college says that ill walls are nlotosl bursting ruAreill Amherit hat she largest lieshman cuiss lu Its history and t Iaf J tl ht Union begins Its hundredth year with I a similai report Th New York SolHI JanMl one of Iho leading educational papers of the I United Slates lakes the poltlon that Western teachers an more intended In education then the teachers of the East I The editor base his opinion I upon the fact that Inn UsJIy msd of five hundred I letters In which are titled for samples I uf the paper remittance lor hookt or paper iwdagoglcal Inrjulrles criticisms uf production t m pipers information as in school In which tn + WrI given the majority nf the letter come front west ol tint Miulsilppl According lo the opinion entertained by the loumsl named the peilod Iroai SSS to 1875 may be called the dark age 01 education educa-tion In America It 1ts l stalwl that after that time the West took the Initiative III the march ol educational moires ill l compliment paul this section I of country by ulle of the leading educational 1 organ Is certainly scans lot congrsluUtloii Dartmouth college leas entered upon lie iioth peer Chicago employ 3600 teacher and elects 400 new teacher earl year To hundied uf Three ale aelecled from ex i rlencil teachers iron other neetluni ul time country the others are graduates gradu-ates from the city training school Sioux city Iowa 1 Ing erected a mug ool nincent high school building I IWo a swung capacity on the assembly room plan ul 8 10 stuilenis One of Utahs prominent educators Irul Kllai J MacBwan ol Ile Auricul IJ tg rural 1 College has just conml tiled a translation ol Ur lusiav Krevtag work The Technqti of the Drama It telex Ihe first Ironlation of hint work Into linjliih that has been attempted I The work Is n thomueh exposition uf Iramunc conirHMitlcn and ail and gives an excellent uf the principal drantai ol buphocle HltikaffMare Leasing Goelire And Schill r j b who ore familiar with Ihe u ty i Iro Mac L wan predict fur Ina I work a deserved Notwltlislanding the Loaitei ehvllita lion flf the Nlneleenh century one II astonished In okUlK A IIIIploon 01 the cat of malntlnnK a standing army as conuAlltd with t1 c1 01 Iduallln In the difreont curries of I the world The following tD1Iptlon has recently boon lilliie rsllsc 10 the cost per caplt lor inllMary purposes ss compared with the amount utndt for educa lIonll purpolcsr ry FdtIoMI Fart iurposs I llalaed jut h r NDa mart ir 9 f f Ute gate J r 133 |