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Show HIS FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL Dr. George H. Brlmhall, .who waa in the city yesterday attending the convention of the Weber Stake Mutual Mutu-al Improvement associations, said to a representative of this paper that bo was given his first day of schooling school-ing In Ogden. Ho says ho cannot remember re-member where tho school . houflo stood, but ho thinks it must have boon Bomowhero near Lcstor Park. He knows that it was "on the hill," as ho termed It, "It was a long tlmo ago, in 1855, I think," ho said, reminlccently, "and I well remember how frlghtonod my parents were. We, wero poor peoplo, peo-plo, and I had to take caro of the cows as long as there was any grasa on the hillside for them. I bad the chore of herding the cows, you know. That meant that I could not get to school very early In the fall of tho year. "On this particular day I went out with the cows, as usual, and when I got to the top of tho hill, near where Lester Park now stands, I met a boy, whose name I have forgotten, and ho persuaded me to drop tho cows and go to school. I finally consented and before I hnd been In the school room long I had forgotten all about tho cows, and I remained lu school all day, not going home for dinner. My parents were very much excited when I did not come homo at the usual time and they started out to hunt mo. They searched the hillsides and the liver, but never thought of looking In tho school house for me. Well, I have loved the school work ever slnco that day." Dr. Brlmhall is among tho acknowledged ac-knowledged educators of Utah today, he now being president of the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university. He la a pioneer pio-neer educator of this state, there bolng bo-lng none other, perhaps, to excel hlTn. He Is a great power In the university and Is considered the most magnetic man in the Mormon church In the mutual Improvement work among tho young people. In speaking of the Provo school, Dr. Brlmhall Ftated that the Institution has buildings and equipment that have cost In the neighborhood of a million dollars and that the prog, pects for the school this year wero never brighter. The average enrollment enroll-ment of th school Is about 1,200 and that number will bo greatly Increased In-creased this year. President Brlmhall states that the seven larger cities of Utah county, which are within a radius of IS mile of Provo, have established es-tablished high schools and that that will reduce the high school attendance attend-ance at the university, but the university univer-sity is nt prepent giving most of Its force and attention to colleglato and university work. |