Show UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PLANS A BETTER MUSEUM With a bundle of new ideas and an inexhaustible supply of enthusiasm Prof Levi Lev Edgar Young head of the thed d department of archaeology at the University University University Uni Uni- of Utah has just returned to work at the school on the east bench Professor Young has been in San Diego for the past two w weeks investigating investigating gating the government exhibit in San Diego and several of the ideas obtained obtained ob ob- ob- ob tamed on the visit will w he reports be embodied in the work for fer the coming year at the state institution To the end of making the museum at the university the biggest and the most complete In the intermountain states Professor Young is getting in touch with some of ot the leading museums museums mu mu- of the world During the past month he has exchanged specimens with the museum at Rio Janeiro and the famous museum at Buenos Aires By this constant exchange of specimens sped sped- mens and the buying up of new ex exhibits exhibits exhibits ex- ex hibits it is hoped to make mako the university university university sity museum and the department of archaeology the finest that Utah has ever possessed While in San Diego Professor Protessor Young met several of the professors of ethnology ethnology ethnology eth eth- and archaeology of ot the California Call Cali fornia San Diego DIEbo he re reports reports reports re- re ports has purchased one of ot the larger buildings at the fair and is at present engaged in buying exhibits with the view of ot establishing a permanent school of ethnology and archaeology The Tho Utah archaeological work at atthe atthe atthe the state university says Professor Protessor Young will be concerned with preserving preserving preserving pre pre- serving the cliff clift dwellings an and l the ancient ancient an an- dent remains of early Utah history In addition It is planned to make the university museum a depository for all the manufactures and remains of ot arts and crafts cratts of the ancient InhabItants inhabitants inhabitants of the state The department is now V busily engaged in gathering specimens from the various Indian tribes who live Uve in and around Utah to today today today to- to day for tor the purpose of contrasting the types and habits of the present Indian with the Indians of the decadent History says the professor is no longer taught by tracing the Civilization tion Uon from earliest times Umes to the present In fact the system has b been en radically reversed and we treat first with the objects at our hand and trace from the civilization of the present the older deeds of the past Utah Is happily blessed says Professor Professor Protessor Pro Pro- fessor Young in the matter of ot material ma ma- for tor archaeological study and it will be the aim of ot the university museum museum mu mu- seum scum to be no more a mere depository for relics but to be an institution of learning for students By collecting old relics and comparing them with the I present manners and customs of people the tho museum will play playa a most important part as an educational factor in the I school |