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Show I The Brigham Young College I jj? !!!! life Mechanic Arts Building, Brigham Young College. The Brigham Young College, Logan, is probably one of the best known institutions in the state. Located in the south end of Logan City, the college is easily accessible, ac-cessible, as it is within two blocks of the lower end of Main street. There is a campus of about twenty-three acres. The lower campus furnishes ample space for athletic sports, an aquarium and horticultural horticul-tural gardens. The college buildings comprise the cast building, the west building, the laboratory building, the Mechanic Arts building, the president's residence, and the new and imposing Niblcy hall. The latter is nearly completed and is a substantial structure. It js one hundred and eight feet long by sixty-five wide and will contain an auditorium and stage, with six class rooms and offices. The east building, constructed of brick and stone, is seventy feet front by thirty-six wide and four stories high. This building contains the library and reading room, the general museum, business department, depart-ment, kitchen and diningroom and sewing and dress-making rooms. The library occupies the second floor and is furnished with reading-slopes reading-slopes and tables, sufficient to accommodate one hundred and twenty-five twenty-five readers. The roorri is well lighted and ventilated ; supplied with steam heat and electric lights. It is furnished with current periodicals, period-icals, and the most important magazines and newspapers of the ' United States. There is a large number of standard books of refer ence, about 5,000 volumes and 1,500 pamphlets. The museum contains con-tains specimens illustrative of general geology, mineralogy, lithology, Paleontology, metallurgy, botany, zoology and archaeology. There are eight hundred specimens of native plants, four hundred of flora. cases of Utah minerals and specimens, fossils, coins and aboriginal relics, shells, corals and specimens illustrative of life in the Sandwich and South Sea Islands, one case of birds and amphibians, amphi-bians, one case of skeletons and miscellaneous materials. This building build-ing also contains the business department, bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, telegraphy, etc. The west building is one hundred and eighty feet long by eighty-six eighty-six feet wide, three stories high. It contains the general assembly halls with a seating capacity of about eight hundred ; five offices, fifteen class rooms : the physical and biological laboratories and the gymnasium, including bath and dressing rooms. Tn the assembly room the students meet each morning of school session, where devotional de-votional exercises arc held, and addresses delivered by prominent speakers. , The Laboratory building is fifty feet long, thirty-eight wide and ' two stories high. It contains the chemical and biological laboratories ind lecture rooms. The training-school building is a substantial brick structure, two stories high and contains eight class rooms. The i Mechanic Arts building is a brick and stone structure, ninety-five feet long by fifty wide and four stories in height. In addition to I two large shops for forging and carpentry, it contains fourteen class I rooms suitable for classes in drawing and domestic science. All ' buildings arc well lighted and ventilated and arc provided with steam heat, water and electric lights. The Amusscn building is also used by the College as a Nurse training-school. This building is a handsome two-story brick struc- ! turc, in keeping with the other buildings. The college is equipped with apparatus for illustrating the courses in natural and physical science. There are all kinds of important in-' in-' struments, scientific appliances and the like for the use of the stu- i dents. The gymnasium contains all the latest apparatus, and being H large and commodious affords every facility for indoor exercises, sports and the like. The College offers the following advanced courses of study: Four-year Art Course; four-year Civil Engineering Course and four-year four-year Domestic Science Course. The course of art corresponds to the usual course of the leading American colleges and universities and leads to the baccalaureate dc-gree, dc-gree, A. P. The Civil Enginering course corresponds to the usual civil engineering course of the various colleges and universities throughout the country, and leads to the baccalaureate degree, B. S. The fjomestic Science course leads to the degree B. S. It is offered to meet the growing demand for teachers who wish to prepare them-selves them-selves for positions in high schools and colleges where domestic science is taught and also to encourage young ladies to pursue a college course, at the same time giving them an opportunity to do some work that will prepare them for the practical duties of home. The college also offers the following courses of high school grade: Classical course, four years; Science Course, four years; General High School Course, four years ; Normal Course, four years ; Business Course, four years; Agricultural Course, four years; Mechanic Arts Course, four years; Domestic Science Course, four years; Domestic Arts Course, four years; Course of Music, four years, and a three years' course in preparatory engineering. The Business Course is one of the attractive features of the col-lege. col-lege. It is designed to prepare students for commercial business pur-suits pur-suits and furnishes the necessary technical training in penmanship, bookkeeping, stenography, typewriting, commercial arithmetic, com-mcrcial com-mcrcial law, political economy, civil government, telegraphy and the other branches usually offered in a business course. All the other courses arc thorough and comprehensive, and the large numbers of graduates throughout this and adjoining states who have emerged from this institution of learning, speak eloquently of its finished work and aims. A number of track meets arc held each year, at which the larger institutions of the state compete. In some instances these events arc pulled off on the campus of the B. Y. C, again the students engaged in the various contests go to other cities. But in every way the college is equipped to satisfy any exact-ing exact-ing requirement in relation to physical exercise and mental demand. Board and room in Logan is very moderate in price, thus mater-ially mater-ially aiding those not of affluent circumstances who yet aim for a higher education. Tuition is free. All students, except missionaries, pay an annual entrance fee of $10 and all pay an annual library and gymnasium fee of one dollar. Alumni arc permitted to do special work upon payment of such proportion of the entrance fee as the number of hours taken is to a year's requirements in the art course. Others who desire to take a single subject will be permitted to do so on payment of $5 in addition to the library and gymnasium fee. The college cordially invites inspection and all the students and mchibcrs of the faculty extend a hearty greeting to both visitors and students. Anyone desiring further information will be gladly given it by addressing the college. East Building, Brigham Young College, |