The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-22

hewerS of WoodI What can
S. 900 per year do in support
ing a university, an institution.
for research and for instruction in the
sciences? To answer this question one
needs only to visit the Deseret Univer-
sity look through the building, and
glance over in the Annual, the list of
scientific branches each professor has
to teach. A pan may have giant in
tellect, and yet be shocked at the idea
of being professor of from seven to
eight different scientific branches. In
the Annual of this Territorial institu-
ton it is stated, as already enumerated
III The HERALD, that one professor
teaches algebra, geometry, trigonom-
etry. surveying, history, history OF
civilization, Greek, German and book
keeping; that another professor gives
instruction in physics, general chem
istry, including both inorganic and or
ganic chemistry, mineralOgy, hth-
ology, geology, civil government and
political economy, and that third
professor teaches zoology, physiology,
botany, astronomy, mental science,
logic, rhetoric, history of the English
| Ia guage, English literature, Chaucer
and Shakespeare and Cicero and Cesar.
Il ese three professors teach all but one
or two of the branches in the scientific
and classical cc urse, and in the course
of literature. The scientific cou. Sc ex-
tends through four years, and for the
com pletion of this course diploma is
given. The other courses are two years
in length. anu for these no diplomas are
| Issued. er 4y n -, ,
In this institution there is little or nc
apparatus, which is of the utmost i'm
portance in the demonstration of prin-
ciples. The library is greatly in need
of good works of reference, for they
are usually the most essential ad-
juncts of university, enabling stu
oents to obtain knowledge that other
wise they could not acquire.
/ 1t must be obvious, now that the
facilities for acquiring scientific edu-
cation in our Territory are certainly
very meagre, that our University is
scarcely worthy of the title of
high school. and that steps should
be taken Immediately for putting
it on higher and more useful basis.
Further, it is evident in order that the
University of De eret can have any
standing or Importance it must be sup
piled with five or six more professors,
better facilities for illustrating princi-
Piles. and rooms properly fitted up for
giving instruction.
There is then, DO institution at the
present in our Territory, in which our
children can OBJ ain a scientific educa-
ton that will properly fit them 10 cope
with the stern realities n life, and that
will fit them to bring into utility
natures products so abundantly stored
up in this section of the United States.
Furthermore, there Is not single
public high school in the entire Terri
tory in which young men and young
ladies can be prepared for collegiate
course.
Surely our legislators comprehend
the advantage of an advanced educa-
ton. They must understand that there
are great benefits derived from such
educa ion, financially. socially, morally
and intellectually, and consequently
they could not withhold their support
in the furtheraDce OF course which is of
the utmost Importance to the whole
people of this great commonwealth,
when they have fully learned the true
condition of our educational matters.
Our Territory is certainly able to sup
port q scientific Institution sufficiently
equipped for three or four thorough
courses of four years each, if the Terri
tory of Wyoming can maintain uni
versity. If, however, our Legislators
think we are too poor to uphold an in
sritutio of three or four collegiate
courses, they certainly cannot interpose
an objection that there should be an
appropriation made sufficient in
amount to finish the Universjt build
ing and to provide the institution lib
orally with apparatus and professors,
that fair scientific course may be es-
tablished. Five or six well-aualified
men, in addition to those already en-
pioyed in tie University, enough money
to- nish the building, as already stated
inaTHE HERALD, $1,000 for apparatus
and 81 900 for library, would be sui
fcient means to establish such course
A course of this kind should be es-
tablished with q view of giving as
much technical instruction as possible,
especially in applied chemistry, eco
nomic geology, metallurgy, and miner
alogy. The knowledge acquired in q
course of this nature would aid materi-
ally in the development of the resources
of the Territory. Our Territory is rich
in such of natures products that can be
utilized by man. She aboands in coal,
iron, lead, sulphur. EPSON salts, nitre,
glauber salt, gypsum and many other
substances. which, altogether will, with.
out the least doubt, make Utah, not in
the far distant future, one of the most
important States In the Union. Let us
then give our children an opportunity
of being numbered among the import
ant men of the State by giving them
liberal education, and establishing for
them an institution in which they can
also acquire tair amount of scientific
learning.
With an appropriation by the Legis
lature and Governor of 81 coo for appar-
atus, 1000 for library, and $4,000
year for current expenses, besides an
appropriation of a sufficient sum to
finish the University building there
would be means adequate to accomplish
the present desired end. and one Of the
most praiseworthy objects OF human
necessity.