The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-18
AT THE B. Y. COLLEGE.
A Prosperous Career For this
Popular Institution.
A VERY LARGE ATTENDANCE.
The Finest Educational Building in
Utah. the University Excepted
Admirable Situation.

@The second term of the Brigham
Young College began at Logan on the
9Th inst. with the largest at
tendance tie school has ever
had. The whole north country, Idaho
included, has delegates among the
students OF the institution, while Salt
Lake County is we'll represented, and
they have come from as far south as
Payson, and from Summit County.
The B. Y. College is the finest build
ing devoted to educational purposes in
the Territory, the University of Deseret
excepted. AS is known, the late Presi
dent Brigham Young endowed the col
lege with 9,642 acres of as fine land,
taken all in all, as there is in Otah.
Despite this favorable condition, how
ever, the college has experienced many
of the difficulties encountered by all
our local institutions where an effort
has been made TO impart higher grade
of studies than is embraced in the dis
trict shoots. Something like $35 0C0 has
been expended by the trustees in fitting
the college for the requirements of such
al institution, and now that it is Civ
ing promise of success, every fort Is
beng made that it may more than de-
serve the favo- with which the people
are viewing it. Professor ]. M. Tanner
teachers embraces Messrs. Apperly,
Todd "oh1cfrnYo ond Miro Tow
ner. The attendance is about It's to
200, and portions of the building that
have hitherto been unnecessary, are
now being fitted up for use as the de-
mand requires.
Logan is admirably situated for a
school of this kind, where higher
grade of studies can be pursued and
valuable knowledge disseminated by it
through a large area that is rapidly
filling up, and which requires some in
stitution where not only teachers may
receive suitable qualifications, but am
bilious young men and women can fit
themselves for the worK of life. 1t can
not, therefore, fail of being successful,
and will prove a potent and praise
worthy factor in the imparting of
knowledge which the people of Utah so
earnestly desire, and which they are so
strongly encouraged to obtain. The
surroundings of the college are con-
ducive to study, and, with the con-
tidepce of the people, the growth of
the country and the successful lsbo1s
of those now conducting the institu-
ton, together with its endorsement and
the interest of the college trustees inis
success, we may look to see the B. Y.
Ole &c became one of the great and
recognized services of learning in Utah
and in the nter-mountain region.
Certainly it should be g matter of pride
with the enterprising people of Cache
that such position shall be attained
by the college. Their own credit,
through the position to be taken by
their children, is involved, and the
making of men who will WELD due
proportion of the vast influence this
Territory is some day to be the proud
possessor Of, will he in proportion with
the recognizati,n by fathers and
mothers, of the power Oh education
and its accessibility through the B.
Y. College. Young men who have
taken a course in this college will as
ume rank, in the main, above others
in their own settlements, not because
of SUPERIOR endoWnments, but because
Of greater advantages. and from the
settlement the power will extend to
the county. from the county to the Ter
ritory, and from the Territory to all
countries and among all e 1ples where
the existence of Utah is known. Not |
but in sober thought, should !
these matters be weighed, and as the |
influence of being for good, is widened |
as his knowledge Of the good and the |
nj ofT1l ~ f0Ilnmc Int ~ |
every father over his children and his |
fellow man, that the highest truth Re |
can have impaired to his offspring !
should be placed within tt e reach. A |
neglect OF this truth, or its forgetting is
not excusabie. 1t is one of the grand |
and sober considerations OF life, Those |
who have been uumindful or ignornanU
of its necessity, should awaken to it's |
truths, for opportunities ignored is an |
oHense against the Ali wise laws. It |
would be sorry thought to believe |
there were men who could oppose the /
'ful operation of such institutions |
as the B. Y. College; and it is sorry to
feel there are those who can forget its
va!ne. The love of children, the desire |
to fill the commands of the Almighty, a |
local pride. the wish for good for all
men, should conspire to excite the sup
port of all men for educational institu-
tons. and most of all for those where
greater power is promised because of
the imparting of higher truths.
Remarks were made by Apostle Moses
Thatcher, George ". Thatcher presi-
dent of the board. and by others, all ap.
to the occasion, all encoprag-
ing to the students, and all full of |
promise for the growth and success of
the Institution.
A great deal of work is being done on
the streets of Logan at present.
Grain is commanding higher price
than it has for a long time. the demand
coming largely from Colorado. With
wheat at 70 cents bushel on the heels
Of harvest, times should be lively in
Cache Valley.