Show SALT SAIT salt lare LAKE city april 2801 1873 editor deseret mems news some allusions to the tile education iri iry of youth signed J morgan appeared in your issue of april 23 and whenever questions concerning the education of youth are brought before the public it is the duty of every individual who has had the great benefit of study to some extent above what is generally understood to be the rudimentary course of common school education agno tl ti nulla cupido to raise ralso his voice against every tendency to the advocacy of ignorance because a few men without any particular education have been able to acquire wealth and by that means have entered upon the line of prominence and even le leading adint men in a comparatively new col coi country where as a consequence education generally must and does stand low the simple question is this and every man with common good sense seno can answer it Is it desirable that the common wealth of the community or that a few mens wealth only in that community should increase there can be no doubt whatever but the answer will be that the commonwealth common wealth of the community is particularly desirable can that common wealth be ob t tined lined by common ignorance cert linly not we do not need to call in remembrance the history of barbarous societies we have common ignorance close at hand and common poverty even aa ws near wherever common school teaching is limited to reading writing and arithmetic there is common ignorance and more BO so when the tile common school books contain very little but stories and tales to develop a country to some extent above a agriculture t requires positively more or less according to natural resources men of science and if the community do not bring them forth in time from its own schools those men will have to come from other place sand the progress willbe will be slow siow and very expensive ne we sutor ultra cre ere crep aidain idam let common school deachin teaching be limited only by the scholars P 8 natural ab ability clity not only 1 in I 1 I reading writing and accounts but also to read and learn the elementary parts of geometry mechanics chanice cs and drafting and also in many intermediate places the elements of physics and chemistry with experiments E encourage neo urage the acquisition of those most essential parts of education by premiums and badges of distinction and ere lo 10 long iong ng the community will have scholars that have llave got seed sown in their intellectual tel grou ground nd which will bring abundantly of fruit in their practical life every true mechanic it matter in what branch leeds leads those sciences more or les less the tile lawyers need them the agriculturists need them in f fact lct act every thinking man needs them thern because they are the very foundation of thought of truth of honesty and an ever burning ii light lit on oil the path of life in addition to this we vo need a technological college for the study of tile higher branches of the sciences but the expenses of such an institution would be too high for a population of one hundred thousand more so in jn a new country like utah and yet tile tiie place is here its isolation by thousands of miles alies from the common country its imagined wealth yet to be developed the well known soberness ks of its population in short everything speaks for this this place and it seems to me that it is not only a privilege but a pressing duty of the government to assist in carrying out such a desirable scheme appointed a government officer of sweden to visit the prominent in germany belgium france and england in th the e years 1857 1837 58 1 had the opportunity also to visit institutions of learn lilg ing and asa as a pattern for a technological college I 1 do not hesitate to set forth the royal technological college of stockholm sweden of which college I 1 am a graduate its course is three years and its students before being accepted as such are subject to examination and approbation bation in the elements of euclid euelid two degrees of algebra logarithms garith ms series serles trigonometry etc etc ite the diff lerent different sciences are generally divided among dif dit Terent different professors whose duty it is to alternately lecture for and examine ille pie stu denb dent and alark down the degree of a answers 4 the students are occupied about eight hours a day at the tile college and have to study tiie tile lectures at home flome in til may and anil december there is a general public lle lic examination of the students a week once forbach for each branch of that part gone through since the last general examination if any student through neglect or limited ability is unable to win approbation in any branch bran ell cli it does not matter how clever lie he is in all the other branches brandies lie he must stand back and follow those students who entered the college colle go one year later else he cannot get a diploma the time at the college includes six to nine hours a week on lectures and constructions drafting of descriptive geometry and drafting of blanches planches pl pian plan anches elles clies patterns and designs given in the lectures on mechanics chani cs mechanical technology kyj physics chemistry etc also some eight hours a week are devoted to practical labor in the workshops of the college in steel iron brass wood etc in making patterns and tools of every description of which patterns the college now litts has tens of thousands beautifully full fuli Y executed by its own scholars in consideration of the defective state in which the mathematical sciences as a general rule are taught and studied in this country it would be necessary to have a special place for preparing students for the college I 1 will conclude my iny remarks with a few words spoken by our great washington he says mys promote then as an object of primary importance institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge r in proportion as the structure of a go government vern gives force to public opinion it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened respectfully C L 0 i NAUVOO HANCOCK co ILL april 22 2 1873 I 1 arrived here this morning via st joseph quincy keokuk and montrose Mont crossing the mississippi river at tho tile last named point in a small skiff in a heavy gale of wind covering me with spray from the oars of the boatman the river at this point is early nearly two miles wide and very rapid I 1 learned on stepping ashore there was no livery team to be had in the city so I 1 had no trouble in deciding how I 1 would 1 proceed on my journey I 1 started for tile tiie temple block a distance of one mile from where I 1 landed and soon found myself lost in com eom cornfields fields and vineyards where once stood fine cottages and beautiful gardens inhabited by a happy people As I 1 strolled on I zed some of the most prominent places that I 1 knew over th thirty airty years ago among which were the residence of president brigham young fosters row masonic H hall hail 1 I nauvoo mansion tho old residence of f the prophet Prop ilet liet joseph still str standing anding on the bank of the river and orson hydes all except tile tilo last named bool looking ing old shabby and decayed at last I 1 reached the temple block but not a vestige of that once noble structure remains to mark the spot where it stood in instead a fine vineyard appears directly north of the temple block k 3 and adjacent to it stands a very large and beautiful catholic church built built bulit of brick with cut sio sto suone stone no caps ind and sills which I 1 supposed once adorned OU our r own beautiful temple there hame havo been V een but few houses erected in this city since the saints left it tj and old ones have generally been left go down which gives grives to the tile to an appearance or poverty anu ana I 1 am informed the city numbers nearly 1600 inhabitants with no factories no railroads no public improvements and in fact nothing else but cit eit city Y lots and old houses hard bard hardly hardis ly worth paying the taxes on I 1 was told that vacant lots lota of one aero acro each in the best part of the city could be bought for from to after min rambling bling about for a few hours I 1 thought I 1 would go to the grave of my mother who was burled buried in the old graveyard under the hill as it was called november Ko vember 1842 she had no in marble marbie irble irbie to luar iuar maik her 1 ast last resting place and if there had been one it tit would llave have been all ail the same for the glav graveyard ard has been converted lato ito an ore orchard zard sard and street and the tho crave grave of my sainted mother has been beeh desea fated by the tile plow of those who drove us from our once happy hon hou homes es I 1 will awill forbear or perhaps 1 I might say s some ome thin thing s that would seem harsh lr lester R J 1 ogden J junction |