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Show NEW YEARS, The 1893. have been enlarged and otherwise im- L. D. S. proved till it is believed they represent as thorough a training and as broad a cul-ture as the young men and women of the AITUATED in Salt Lake City and holding the dual position of a Territory are, in general, prepared to Stake academy and a general undertake. The buildings are thorough-- ! ly fitted up; the apparatus and school normal college of the Church, this worthy institution is the youngest of its nature appliances, extensive and valuable. The location of the College within and grade in the Territory. On the 15th easy reach from all parts of Logan City; of November, 1SS6, a school of interthe low cost of rent; the cheapness and mediate grade was established in this excellence of board; the healthful loca-- j city, under the title of Salt Lake Stake tion; and the high moral and social tone Academy. At first there was but one of an excellent community these are; department, conducted by one teacher. some of the more important considera The increasing demand for such instructions upon which a liberal patronage has tion as was then impaited rendered enbeen obtained in the past and upon largement necessary, and soon anaddi-- j which a still greater patronage in the tional department and another teacher were provided. future are confidently expected. At the opening oi the third academic The faculty consists of eleven teachers ten of whom devote their entire time to year the grade of the institution was the work of instruction. Occasional or raised, Dr. J. E. Talmage being appoint- - College. 1 students graduated in the junior normal course, as also a few in prescribed academic courses. The normal work has now been made one of the essential features of the College, a number of students being admitted free to this course under the Church appropriation; still others each year avail themselves of this opportunity afforded to pursue the branches of this course as paying or independent normals. In the early part of the sixth academic year the College was moved from the Social Hall to more suitable quarters at No. 233 iV. First North street. Here facilities of a greatly improved character were offered, and the students have profited in intellectual advancement and bodily health through the change. At the opening of the'year 1S92 Dr. Talmage resigned his position in the institution to take a more advanced station Prof. Prof. Wili.ard Done. special instructors, of whom there are a number, are, therefore, not named in the following list: Joshua H. Paul, Ph B., president, mental science and philosophy, Latin, and practice of teaching; principles Douglas M. Todd, physics, chemistry, geology; William H Apperley, bookkeeping, Spanish, early English; Frank K. Nebeker, English language and literature; Francis Bannerman, phonography, drawing; W. Fogelberg, vocal and instrumental music; Lacy Hov ing, methods of primary teaching; Ephraim G. Gowans, mathematics and astronomy; James H. Linford, physiology, general biology, botany, zoology; Bertha Wilcken, German, ladies work; Jacob F. Miller, history and political science 45 ed principal and chief teacher in the academic department. Under his administration scientific teaching was made most prominent, and adequate attention was given to other lines of advanced instruction. During this year the lowest department of the school, the prepara-- ! tory, was discontinued. This step was rendeied necessary as well by the crowd-- j ed condition of the institution as by the for moffc earnest attention to In the higher courses of instruction. same year the name of the institution 'was changed to the Latter Day Saints College, in anticipation of the still higher grade of work expected of it. A normal department was added in the fifth academic year of the College, and at the close of that year a number of Joseph Kfison. in the Church school system, and was succeeded by Prof. Willard Done, the present incumbent. Perhaps a review of the work being periormed during the present year would serve to show forth the history of the past of this institution as well as its present condition. There are now three departments in the College the normal, the academic and the intermediate. In the last named only the common branches are taught, special attention being paid to the subjects of greatest practical value. Here, as in the higher departments, theA winter ology is made a specialty. course is now in progress, covering in a period of twenty weeks the most essential features of grammar and arithmetic, together with a short survey of other |