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Show NEW YEARS, 1893. 47 through the introduction of physical culture are provided with physical exercise equal to that offered the young men by the introduction two years ago of mili tary tactics. The people of the Territory should look toward placing the University upon a better basis, making its instruction more thorough, expanding its courses, and broadening its field of usefulness. With such an institution at the head of the public school system, as our University ought to be, the Territory would realize benefits far beyond any thing thought of by most of our people. In it should be concentrated all branches of higher education. Rigid and thorough courses in English, ancient and modern languages, art and sciences should be maintained. The University should be provided with workshops fitted up with all kinds of machinery, where students in could become thorough mechanics and the appointment of its first President early in the year 1S90. The first scholastic year began September, 1890, and closed with an enrollment of 139 students The second years enrollment reached 296, and at the present writing the number matriculated is 313, and is likely to reach 400 for the college year, making an unparalleled growth among the national institutions of its kind at a similar age. Its financial resources began by an appropriation of $25,000 by the Legislature which founded it. This appropriation secured one by the national government of $15 000. for founding an experiment department of agricultural colleges. The first payment, however, was but $10,000, as but a fraction of a year remained after the appointment of its first director, who is also President of the College. There immediately followed it an appropriation from the general treasury supplementary date $264,500. That is, it either has received this sum, or it is due on or before This substantial re January 1, 1893. is represented by the splendid material growth of the College, without mentioning the splendidequipment of the extension, 243 feet long, with its varied and useful departments, and only referring, for want of space, to the domestic arts., and the commercial departments, each strictly practical and complete in every detail. Associated by the organicdaw of Con gress with this work is that of the Experiment Station proper, which expends from the national resources $15,000 annually, strictly for thepurpo.se of agricultural investigation. This has required also the construction of an experiment station building of some 34x44 feet. All of these features of the agricultural department are well equipped with the apparatus es- - courses in mechanical, electrical, civil and mining engineering. Only men of ability and moral rectitude, of energy, and who are considerate of the interests of the Territory and of the people, should be in any way connected with so important an institution as the University of Utah, which indeed ought to be the crown of the glory of our Territory. to the national act of 1862, which brought to the treasury $16,000 for 1S90, $r5,ooo for the previous year, as the law was made retroactive, and $17,000 more within four months after receiving the first $15,000 and $16,000, as the act was passed at the close of the government fiscal year. This sum increases $r,ooo yearly until it reaches $25,000. For the present year the College receives $iS,ooo from the national treasury. It will receive from the act of Congress ol 1S62 90,000 acres of land on Utahs attaining to the dignity of statehood The Legislature of 1891 appropriated $48,000 for its instructors and for apparatus. The Legislature of 1892 appropriated $108,000. From the Territorial treasury, and from the national treasury for instruction, and from the national treasury for agricultural experiment work, have been received up to sential for investigation, and with machinery necessitated by modern farming. It is safe to say that this department has an equipment that already ranks among the best of those possessed by agricultural colleges of the country. The group of College buildings includes a boarding house that accommodates something like seventy five students. This building has thoroughly ventilated rooms of ample dimensions, with associated closets and a fine large reception room for social purposes. These buildings are all supplied with water from the canyon in the rear by a system of water works, so that running water, of the purest and best qualTo reity, is supplied to every building. count the apparatus would make this article prolix and wearisome to the reader. Suffice it to say that upwards of $30,000 has been, or is being, expended for Agricultural College. ILL readers of the News may not be familiar with the steps that UP t0 founding of the tO'" t Agricultural College of Utah An act off the Legislature of 1SS9, in acceptance of an act of Congress in 1862, founded this institution and was followed by the com-pletion of the south wing of the building 1 |