The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-10

The citizens of Salt Lake City have
but to span a few brief seasons when
one of the finest educational institu-
lions in the guise of a high class uni
versity will rear it's noble head and
grand proportions in their midst. The
college in question will be on the order
Of such grand collegiate institutions
as Princeton, Amherst, Dartmouth and
Williams and will be located on some
commanding site now selected but not
finally settled upon financially
For over a month past General John
Eaton, famous in educational and hu-
manitarian annals, has been colaborat-
ing with Rev. DR.. McNiece of the Pres
byterfan church, on the most import
ant educational theme ever suggested
west of Chicago, and they have reached
such decisions as will guarantee The
Herald in making the positive an
nouncement that this great temple of
learning will be reared and become a
fixture in Zion.
General Eaton is the representative
of DR.. Sheldon Jackson. of Washing
ton, D. c., who has an international
reputation in the educational world,
and is a man of vast wealth who seeks
youth such grand and noble colleges
as will be the venerated alma matters
of future generations of illuStriouS
young America.
Dr. Sheldon jackson was the very
first fastener who came into the pio-
neer west as a Presbyterian mission
airy. When he first knew Utah it was
before the rose Supplanted the thistle.
and the honeysuckle the grey-broWn
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future of the golden and vari-colored
glories of this land of Deseret. Having
thus lived beneath the opalescent skies
of the fairest domain that man has
ever fallen heir to, it is not so strange
that he should build here a monument
of learning that will perpetuate the
fundamental principles of all there is
in life worth the living, emong the
higher aspirations and fitting emolu-
ments to pre-eminent success. To ar
range for the very foundation of so
grand and immense a scheme no bet
ter man could have been selected to
promulgate it to successful issue and
ultimate reality than General John
Eaton
General Eaton first came into ma
tional prominence by being appointed
by General and President U. S. Grant
as commissioner of the National Blu
reau of Education, which was founded
by General Eaton, and which position
he held for eighteen years. At the
close Of the war General Eaton found
ed the Freedman's Bureau, and fur
thered many of the schemes of the
martyred president and emancipation of
the slaves. Four years ago he was
elected the president of Marietta, O.,
college, which position he now fills,
and likely will during his tenure of life,
fill. During his months stay in this
city, aided by DR.. McNiece VINO is
president of the board of trustees of
the projected college, elected a year
ago, such arrangements have been per-
fected that ground for the new univer-
sity will be broken just as soon as
General Eaton can reach Chicago and
New York, for which places he starts
tomorrow night, with all matters con-
Guided except the question of site,
any one Of several in view being salts
factory
Just at the present time General Ea-
ton did not feel disposed to recite par
ticulars before he laid his affairs before
Dr. Jackson in the east Rev. Dr.
NIcNiece was inclined to be non-com-
initial but said enough to allow The
Herald readers to know that the great
college is an assured thing, and that
100 acres of ground was at their op-
ton for the site in a most desirable,
part of the city
The college will among other chairs
contain mines and electrical engineer
ing, science and the arts. 1t will be
non-sectarian, but is receiving it's first
start from Presbyterians. Several Salt
Lake City capitalists are interested.
This is glorious news under the cir
cumstances.