The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-09
The Brigham Young College

The Brigham Young college will open
on Monday, the 18th of September. The
following courses are offered:
1. Course in general science, four
years.
2. Course in letters, four years.
3. College preparatory course, three
years.
4. Normal course, three years.
3. Business course, three years.
6. Advanced normal course, one year.
The first two of these courses lead
to degrees; the others, to certificates
of graduation.
The college preparatory, the normal
and the business course are open to all
qualified students over Is years of age.
mitted without examination to the
courses in general science and letters;
graduates of the normal course are also
admitted without examination to the
advanced normal course.
In addition to these courses there is
offered a special ID ! A. course, which
extends through twenty weeks, begin
ming November ) and ending April g..
A preparatory school is also conducted
under the direction of the college fac
ulty. The object OF this school is to
prepare students to enter the college
preparatory, the normal and the bust
ness course, and to provide training for
the normal students.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
In addition to the work in the pre-
paratory school and the NJ l. A.
course, the college offers:
Eight courses in biological science,
including botany, physiology and Zool-
ogy; six business courses, including
bookkeeping, photography, typewrit-
ing, commercial arithmetic and COM
mercial law; five courses in chemistry,
extending through three years; six
courses in the science and art of teach
ing, including Kindergarten; nine
courses in English language and litera-
ture; three years each in Latin, French
and German; three courses in geology
and mineralogy; fourteen courses in
history and political SCIENCE seventeen
courses in mathematics and astronomy
three courses in physics, extending
through three years; eight courses in
in drawing, elocution, vocal and instru-
mental music and physical culture.
FACILITIES.
| number of changes have recently
been made, which will greatly add to
the facilities of the institution for ad-
vanced collegiate work The prepare
tory school has been removed from the
! laboratory building to rooms secured
in the stake tabernacle, and the large
room which has heretofore been used
for it has been converted into physi-
cal and biological laboratory. The
chemical and physical and biological
Laboratories are furnished with cases,
desks and necessary apparatus for
practical experimental work in the
natural and physical sciences. A large
room in the main building has also
been fitted up for a museum, and the
extensive collections of minerals, geo.
logical specimens, smelling products
woods, shells and curios, which are
being thoroughly classified, are of easy
access. For practical work in survey
ing and astronomy, there is an engi.
neer's transit, with solar alta chment
and all accessories. There has also
been provided kindergarten and other
materia! COR practical work in the de-
partment of pedagogy.
| The library has been removed to one
of the largest and most pleasant rooms
in the main building. This room
which has. been furnished with new
shelving, reading slopes for current pa.
lpers and magazines, and with reading
tables, will accommodate one hundred
students. 1t is well lighted and venti-
lated, and is provided with steam heat
and electric lights; it will be open tC
the public as a reading room. There
are in the library upwards of 15O(
volumes, including encyclopedias, sci
Ientific, historical, general and statisti
cal works, and additions will be made
during the year to meet the require.
ments of students in the different
courses. Prof Miller's valuable collec-
ton on history and political science
will be placed in the library, and the
students will also have access to the
presidents private library Of about 400