Show T Tr if UT UTAH A H I The States r UV IVERS I IT Y oj of 0 t t let letY Jl Y ilI I L last appropriated 1 H HE I 0 for the erection of new fleW I tor the rIt tor lag them and fur tur Improving the grounds on 0 which the they were to be constructed and andI The Tb buildings Are now completed s I and the Work of the s rear it II well adr way wa The le ure b bu of e therefore I a tb the I Ij j of the of Utah In a perman I cat home By Br thu act ot of generosity the hate ilat has ha secured sixty acres of Fort a mat mut sent emt cite for hr her University The Tb University was organized In early pioneer day daf but only In nun MIlt for tor near maar year feare In 1161 Dr was Wal appointed president and from that time UJ e It hu has gradually grown In Import I once anc up to the present It lies ha been subjected to constant op opposition an and also allO to generous encouragement b by thet the 1 t people of Utah H for ex exI X I bona at times has haa been severe and has Itu made Ita it progress slow indeed but butr It Its friend and have be n r able to hold It up and to carry It through the critical period of its III lX ex exI Istenes Many people ha have r I stood tood Its aims aim and nd and amI have havel ha hanot l not understood It Its surrounding condi conditions conditions and have therefore and ted It In many wa waA ways A better time however Is dawning up upon upon on It and no doubt from now on the 1 University ot of Utah will be looked upon with greater favor than heretofore It OlIn Gan be maintained and uplifted only by byth th people It belongs Iong to them and can be mad to eke out a bare existence or It may be fostered and put In the front ranks of prosperity and just justas All as the good I of our State Stale may decide to do No 0 one has ha any doubt now however liS as to what will be de decided 1 to be done For the University to most rapidly It must mut certaInly certainly hUe have the tho hearty sympathy of the people be In touch with them and be In hearty accord with nil all the high schools and academies In the J State and work In harmony harmon If IC possIble with all The University otters courses In arts Art sciences mining and electrical en l to college collee courses and normal and kindergarten courses Xo To give prACtice to students In Inthe Inthe the normal courses a training school chool and kindergarten are maintained ut ht the I University In connection with the th nor normal normel mel mal school schoolS S 5 Among the tho subjects In which n Is given chen ore lire literature Anglo Sax c on English philology elocution ancIent anti modern language Latin and Greek literature and Greek art ancient States Stales and constitutions economics socIology psychology ethl ethics logic analytic geometry aqua Ions calculus astronomy mechanics 1 engIneering surveying advanced general gen geu eral crill physics electrical measurements f and dIrect current machines applied electrIcity metal and wood work In ini i shops chemistry assaying metallurgy geology mineralogy biology histology i t and physical education etc Excellent facilities are offered In the stull study of most or of these thee subJects The laboratories In physics chemistry and andt t mineralogy are modern In n their ap eta un d arranGed arms for the ut utmost Utmost most convenience both for students and h Instructors The class rooms for all ii the subjects given Ilven are arc pleasant And well ventilated and lighted The it 11 Js well Veil arranged to meet the theand and greatest and to hae have convenience the they books ot ant the magazines students the most accessible to them DepartS Depart meat ment libraries are planned and will be tully fully proVided for on the completion of s the museum building It may be well 1 to slat Ilat ro ft that museum um Ine t I I mostly to geology 1 r n t I and biology was 1011 Included s to be constructed FACILITIES or LOS ANGELES t YA Ite 4 43 R Rl l rh C ft Jp I J 1 1 A I Superintendent of the Los Ios Angeles Public Pub lic 1113 Schools CaliforniA as compared with other States Is lI liberal ral In her appropriations for Cor school chool purposes purpose Schools remaIn In session elon at least leat eight months In the year ri Ute the Average time for tor the whole State being nIne months CIties and amI the larger larler towns are unusually read ready to vote oto taxes to turn furnish Ish superior for common schools and these are In session ten months during the year The teaching profession Is highly esteemed by the people As AI II a class the teachers represent II a high degree of oC and general culture and re receive cele fair compensation There are Bre two excellent the State University at Berkeley anti Stanford University at Palo five th normal schools which rank high In the tho quality of theIr work In addition to the teachers who re calve their trainIng In this State ac acquisitions are being made from the nor normal normal mal s schools and colleges ot of other Sta States tes because of the mild climate and nd hope hopeful hopeful II ful field for advancement Teachers In inthe the high school hool are largely college grad and there are many college grad graduates In the grammar schools Loe Angeles la III the center of southern California and the people of oC the sur surrounding rounding country look 1001 to her to fur furn n fish h educational Iu facilities of oC II a higher order than can Ie be obtained In the die dis district hool and for tor such lIuch advanced edU edUcation education cation as I can be given glnn outside the great grent un universities tiel Jn In the elt city there are fitly four primary mary and grammar grade schools one state normal school and one hIgh school which Is In two taro bUildings The Los Ios Angeles Angel l city high school le Is the largest In the State hay ha haIng In Ing an enrollment this year eor ot of nearly 1 00 students It less has six courses three of lAtin and re preparatory for the tho and furnish studies of a vary tog Ing character The literary scientific and c commercial courses do not pr prepare are for the university but are Intended more elp especially lally Cor those who o end their format formal education In the high school which is III In reality the peoples college This secondary education has grown to assume aRlUm a Very Important place In our city There are over children In Inthe inthe the primary and grammar grades of the public school department of Los Ange Angelu Angelee lu lee The Kindergarten Is considered a apart apart part of the primary department has hasa 1 a special and receives liberal lib liberAl erAl attentIon There Is II a school for tor MN with th the appropriated by I the I legislature but on account of the tho great reAt vies rill In Ina material It wa 11 found to be hf beyond the reach of the means at deaf In the tho SprIng street build Inc Ing The main studies such as rend read rendIng readIng Ing arithmetic language geography history etc are Bre given glnn the mot most attention but the training of the hand I also consideration and a full course of manual work I Is taught from rum the first flut to the eighth grades gradell Inclusive Paper folding paper cutting anti and clay modelling are taught In the first grade color tOlor work In connection lion tion with dr drawing wing is II taught In the sec HC secand and ond grade cardboard In the third and fourth grade rde wood l fe taught the toys In the rUth fifth seventh and eighth grades while the girls of the and nd sixth grades radeo are taught sew sewIng Ing and In the seventh anti and grades gradel cooking There lire are twelve telve rooms carefully fitted up for aloud work and six for tor the cooking depart department ment theo the other manual work u II In the regular I school hool room The Introduction of this manual training Is III the out outgrowth outgrowth growth of the desire to render the school more practical hurt but educators have hae demonstrated that It Is also a securing superior mental tie de The subject of I school hool room decoration has baa received a hearty response from parents parentI and amI friends ot of education and andall all of at our buildings building both Loth inside and out outside side Are fast becoming models of neet ness nes and refinement The pUblic school department has five hundred and elgh teen teachers actually at work besides several leveral substitute tell teachers hell The Th element predominates In Los Ios Angeles and wield II a greater Influence than that or of any other department The public 8 school hool property Is valued at There are arc many private schools and Institutions for hIgher eduCAtion In Los Angeles city doing good goal work and re reflecting fleeting great credit upon those thoe In charge the University of Southern CalifornIa consIsting of a cOllege of liberal arts art college of oC medicIne col college legs lege ot of dentistry college of music and other departments Occidental college with a full collegiate course under the supervision of the Catholic church the Marlborough School and Girls Collegiate ate school for young ladles There are also allo mill military tar academies and prepare tor tory schools for boys bors prominent among which fire are the Las 0 Angeles academy the Military school nd amI the Eton school Los ros Angeles college and Wo Du news college furnish special courses In business trainIng On account of the tha excellent climatic conditions anti and the fair paid Los Jo Angeles lies hal a COrps of the beet beat teachers available which accounts In n na II a large larKe degree for tor the excellent work In all educational lines and creates create an In Intellectual atmosphere There are Ie sev oral eral schools of art elocution anti and ex ax preas Ion each cacti adding Its special train trainIng trainIng Ing to complete the educational system There are aro parochial schools In charge of the sisterhood of the Catholic church hurch also an orphan asylum under the direction of the Sisters of at Charity and II a similar Institution supported b by the generous people of thIs city which Is II doing a 11 noble work for tor many unfortunate children Public Instruction In CalifornIa has reached a hIgh degree tf d development and Los Angeles stands second to no other city In this line The courses of In the public schools school II hate groan to correspond very closel closely with those of educational centers such Ruch as C St Louis end l Philadelphia Pupils coming from the I East alt usually take tako their places to In the grades which they y would occupy at the tho same age In Inthe the Eastern schools Wh White careful to conserve all that has hAIJ been round found best belt In the pant the study of advanced method and thought which receIves the most earnest a attention of both prIncipals pals als and teachers causes the work to keep well abreast with the times J A LIN J I IlI tile the disposal ot of the regents As AI this building is II indispensable for the prest eel nt work or of the there seems to la bf be little doubt that our next legislature will make the necessary ar ap approprIation for tor It its erection The faculty Is made thade up ot of experienced men and women lath both from UtAh and the East Kast all 1111 having obtained either all allor allor or some of oC their education In the tho large oCth East EastIn In regard to Its normal training and kindergarten work tl tbs University of Utah Is somewhat like Columbia Uni University In whIch the college students can receive In training to become teachers teacher In all the Trades including the kindergarten through school work end the high school hool courses It Is beIng found foun where wiler chaIrs chair ot of pedagogy In In lions art are t established that It is IN cry ry to ha have the kindergarten and the grades provided as al laboratories for oh ob and work for forthe nl the benefit of those thole students who lire are studying for tor the th teachers profession Such laboratories for pedagogical work In are all as essential u laboratories In chemistry physics mineralogy etc and this Is becom In lag more and more recognised As Aa the POPulation ot of the State In the demands made upon the University will 1111 be greater Its courses cours will have bac to be expanded It Its field of Work widened and its Ita faculty anti fa a duties will have hwe to be Increased No doubt on one ot of the main features of the tho University In the future will be Its mining school hool fixed x by the enabling net act and nd the Constitution of the State to be bea bea a department or of the University and connected with It mf tal works In charge of II a competent original In whom the com community cnn can put Implicit confidence nce There Is probably no other place In the west so well situated for a school of mines as Salt Sail Lake City It Is In the hurt heart of n a mIning district and Is near lear smelters reducing plants anti and most of the modern methods of treating ores Besides this the city Is the largest esl In Inthe Inthe the whole IntermountaIn regIon which adds great greatly to the fitness of the tho place for tor n a school of oC nInes mines It Is thought that even een now a course In law should be established In the University as there Is nt at present quite a d demand mand for such sueh IL a course Every person Interested In the ot of the people will be pleased 1 to see the time when the young oung men and women fomen of the State can obtain n secondary sec secondary or high school education near Mar home and when the University ot of the State can cun devote ell all her energies to higher education and not be compelled to do preparation work for her college courses The future of the University looks brighter now than ever eer before yet its ItA future wholly lies with the people of oC the State and judging from the past notwithstanding Its struggle at times In Inthe Inthe the put past for existence and the obstacles It has had to confront It Is safe to say the Stilt State will see that the will live and progress |