Show OUR UNIVERSITY Not long ago in one of our Salt Lake papers an article was published publish q entitled University Fearing that all of you may not nott have read it and appreciating so much the sentiment it expressed we feel justified in ip reproducing it here The following is taken from Goodwins Goodwin's Weekly Up on the hill at the University a great work is going on There is being pursued not only the studies that acquaint students with the sciences as far as they have advanced but by experiment by analysis by fire by water by chemicals by the effects of heat and cold by light and the absence of light and every means of reasonable investigations the effort all the time is to wring new secrets from nature to find new properties in matter and new applications of what is already known The result will be beat beat beat at least the production of some dome independent thinkers and their lives will be an enrichment of the worlds world's knowledge and with them at least the breaking of some chains of ignorance that binds us all It will have the effect to make them more self- self respectful citizens than they ever would have been without that knowledge And the triumphs they may achieve will be incentives incentives incentives tives to still greater exertion and with many of them we may may h hope pe that what they obtain there may maybe be but the making of L L. L a If 11 f them perpetual students students and that their schooling as s may go on as long longas as their fac faculties be their may spared to them Further it will fasten upon them the belief that as all nature nature i is guid guided by fixed laws there must be a reason behind every re real real truth and they w will n all 11 their lives be slow to accept anything ass ast s real except that the laws that govern it can be traced out They will not accept the pretensions of men except those men who by their thoughts or deeds can supply a reason for their claims It should at once exalt and humble every everyone one of them They will learn there and will appreciate the fact that every new door of scie science ce that has thus far been opened has revealed new splendors splendors splendors dors and opened the minds of men to new wisdom And they h have ve been opening faster and faster during the past century and and with each has been the that one assurance there is ig much more behind What wonders in chemistry are still to be revealed What are the limitations of the knowledge yet to be obtained of that invisible fluid which men call electricity and which s seems seems to be the life of all matter And when these students complete their studies at school and enter that greater school the world to bring their accomplishments accomplishments accomplishments to bear they ought to be an exalting force among their fellowmen With their equipment they cannot afford to stoop to the methods of base men for that would not only dishonor them but it would dishonor the school in which their minds were into higher spheres And that school should be one of the of the state and of all its foremost citizens While so many men in inthe inthe in inthe the state are making great fortunes they should not forget that thata a tithing is due that school from them The facilities for study should be increased there if in the state there are young women and men men who have shown themselves especially worthy in the public or high schools and whose environments make it impossible without help to attend the University they hey should be helped Men build fair structures to minister to their pride or to please those they love or or orto to evince a proper public spirit and this is good But the fairest structures crumble the satisfaction of erecting them is but transitory at best but he who wha is the means of one sovereign mind one royal soul when will the splendor of that achievement pass away It is is' is recorded in the great ledger that is kept in the stars it draws interest of of good f. f r through all the years of this life and will continue to pay divi dividends t divi-t as the ages ebb and flow When President Andrew Jackson looked over the granite hills of New Hampshire he turned to Daniel Webster who was with him and asked What do men raise from this soil out of which to make make- a living The sullen fires in Websters Webster's sombre eyes for an instant flamed as he replied We build school houses and r raise ise men That reply should apply as well to the desert as to the granite hills of New England Indeed the application circles the world Behind it is the same thought which Tyndall gave expression to when he said As a land of gas and furnaces of steam and electricity as asa asa asa a land which science practically applied has made great in peace and mighty in war I ask you whether this land of old and just renown has not a a right to exp expect ct from her institutions a culture more in accordance with her present needs than that supplied by declension and conjugation And if the tendency should be beo beto beto to o lower the estimation of science by regarding it exclusively as the instrument of material prosperity let it be the high mission of our universe to furnish the proper counterpoise by pointing out its nobler uses uses lifting lifting the national mind to the contemplation of that increasing purpose which runs through the ages and widens the thoughts of men S |