Show REGENTS AND PRESIDENT REPORT TO GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE Propose An Act by Which Central Building and Gymnasium Gymnasium Gym Gym- Can be Obtained On the tenth of this month the Regents of the P University of Utah m met t to give final consideration to the report of the Regents and President to the governor and legislature While the report dealt deal t exhaustively with all matters related to the University University University Uni Uni- it stressed two two the the need of a central building and the advantages of a legislative act by which a definite percentage of the state funds may be set aside as a means of support for the institution That work in the University is seriously hampered hampered hampered ham ham- by want of room is app apparent rent to every student student student stu stu- dent that the growth of the institution is further further further fur fur- ther retarded by the indefiniteness of appropriations appropriations appropriations is also common knowledge One glaring condition due to cramped quarters is that no room can be spared for the use of the faculty which is sufficiently adequate and aside from the positive discomfort which the members of the faculty endure endure en- en dure lure stoically enough is the humiliating fact that t there here ere is no place to which a visitor may be con- con ducted For students interrogated almost daily by bar visitors in search of members of the faculty have jave noticed that these visitors unequal to waiting waiting wait- wait ing ng about in halls which are as crowded crowd d with students at the end of class periods as are bargain bargain bar- bar gain jain counters with Christmas shoppers often depart depart depart de part without seeing the person desired Or as it sometimes happens the professor desired by the visitors has so many hours of class work that he helas has las no time for extending slight courtesies to visitors visitors visitors vis vis- in behalf of the University of Utah Students Students Stu- Stu dents lents also weary of the search for empty classrooms classrooms classrooms class class- rooms in which they may hold committee meetIngs meetings meetings meet meet- ings frequently congregate in the halls to the ann annoyance an- an n yance of everybody including themselves Yet in spite of a crowded library over-crowded over classes classes work-crowded work professors and instructors the the University has made a splendid advance in inO O he e last two years as the original work alone Accomplished 4 in all of the departments will tes tes- Of popular interest is the immediately beneficial beneficial beneficial ben ben- research work relative to the public health w which ich has been accomplished in the departments of zoology and bacteriology in the medical school Since the University has accomplished splendid did results under hampering conditions is it not fair to assume that with adequate facilities the University Diversity of Utah would make faster and greater strides A central building would be possible if the legislature would pass the special act as proposed by the Regents and the President The following extracts from the Regents' Regents report give the details of this act and touches also upon the question of needed room with a r review view of the history of the institution tu n 0 |