The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-03
THE UNIVERSITY.
1T HAS ENTERED UPON A MOST
PROSPEROUS YEAR.
Large Attendance of Students TAX
ing the Higher Courses-The New
LabOratory-Dr. Ta1mage's Work.

Considering the many disadvantages
under which the University of Utah
began the present school year, that in
stitution is in a very flourishing con-
dition.
In conversation with Herald re-
porter yesterday, President Talmage
stated that the attendance of teachers
who are taking the higher course is
very large, while a few years ago such
students were obliged to attend east
ern colleges to obtain the higher learn
ing. The use of the building formerly
occupied by the L. D. o. college, do
mated by the Literary and Scientific
association, is especially beneficial to
the university. This building has been
fitted UP in the most approved manner
for laboratory work. and is equipped
with the latest improvements in APP
paratuS, together with many ingenious
devices, that, we presume, can be &C
credited to DR.. Talmage, and conyen-
fences for the practical work of the
minerology, chemistry, geology, ply
sizes, assaying and metallurgy classes
are on a, plane with the best institu-
lions of the east, and some very good
work is being done by the students.
In fact, this department might be said
to be in an prosperous condition
The present attendance, exclusive of
the deaf mute, training school and art
department, is about $50, and including
them, about 500, the largest enrolment
the university has ever had; and what
the institution most prides itself upon
is the fact that the students are all
ambitious and painstaking. The
sophomore, senior and junior classes
are larger than ever and the freshmen
number over the high figure of so.
The scope of the work being done is
very extensive. there being thirty in
structors employed directly and in
directly and one hundred and ninety
hours of reeitations and lectures being
given weekly. The removal of the
laboratories to the new building has
left considerably more class room which
is being used to good advantage. The
library is now open daily and of course
is a great help in all branches of study,
as are also the University museum, be-
longing to the school, and the Deseret
museum to which students have ready
access, it being situated on the top
floor of the laboratory building.
1t will be news to many of The Her
AIDS readers that DR.. Talmage has
been one of the over four hundred edi-
tors of the new work entitled 1.-THE
Standard Dictionary of the English
Language" the most complete and best
work of the kind ever published. Only
the first volume is now out but that is
so complete in every detail and so
clearly superior to any other that any
one who may be fortunate enough to
procure the two volumes that make
the complete book, may be sure they
will have the best thing in dictionaries
that will be published for a long time
to come. A few statistics will prove this.
Take the letters commencing with "A
The total number in Webster's was
S,35S; in the Century, 1881, and in the
Standard there are 1875. The total
number of all words in Webster's is
125, 900; the Century, 225, 600; while in the
Standard there are 100000, which is
5000 more than in the Century, and
ITS, 900 more than in Webster's. The IL
Illustrations and genral Complementary
work is so superior that anyone cannot
help but marvel at the vast amount of
work necessary to carry such a thing to
completion.
Everything that pertains to any
branch of knowledge has passed
through the hands of specialists in that
knowledge, so that the information is
sure to be correct and the best obtain
able. An instance of this will illustrate:
Nothing whatever in relation to the
Mormon church, even in the remotest
sense, has been accepted until it has
passed through DR.. Talmage's hands
1t is the same in regard to architecture,
medicine. law, etc.
Every thing in and around the Uni
versity seems to be run on a most ap-
proved plan. If some backwoodsman
should knock at the presidents door
and have it fly open almost immedi-
ately upon his touch and behold a GEN
tleman sitting at desk at the further
end of the room, but no one else near.
he would no doubt be considerably sur
prised. However. the mystery would be
solved if he watched the next visitor en-
Ter A touch on an electric button I'M
derneath the edge of the desk. connect
ing with battery and a slip catch ON
the door, and the thing is done in less
time than it takes to tell If