The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-13
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH.
THE LONG VACATION Is DRAWING
TO A CLOSE.
Preparations For the Years Work
Made at the Institution--Some In
teresting Information Regarding
the Various Departments.

The long academic vacation is now
drawing rapidly to a close and the
next week will witness the reopening
Of many institutions of learning, and
among them that of our state univer-
sity. On the 18th inst. entrance ex-
aminations will be held; on the 21st
students will be registered; on the 22nd
instruction is to begin. The applica-
tons that have been made by students
from all parts of the state, as well as
many from beyond the borders of
Utah, point to an attendance even
greater than that of last year, which
was itself unprecedented in the history
of the institution.
1t is pleasing TO contemplate that the
position declared by law to belong to
the state university viz: that as head
of the public school system in Utah,
is being generally recognized. The
high schools of the state, both public
and private, are putting themselves in
harmony with the university SO as 10
make their courses of study cover the
entrance requirements for the fresh
man year of the state institution. Many
of these schools have been placed upon
the accredited list and their graduates
are admitted to the university on the
strength Of their certificates or diplo-
mas from the lower cources and with
out specific examinations at the time
of entrance.
The instructing force has been en-
larged by the addition of Richard r.
Lyman, B. s., a graduate from the
University Of Michigan, who now be-
comes instructor in engineering and
oe,1on ,,;o = -i,,cr n To-
A. B., a graduate from Johns Hopkins
university, who becomes instructor in
physics, and Mr.. Alfred Bond, a grad
uat4 from the State Normal school,
and also from the Cook County Normal
school, who is installed as instructor in
manual training and assistant in ply
steal culture. The president, professors
and instructors remain otherwise as
during last year, except the instructor
in mineralogy and geology, to which
Robert H. Bradford, formerly instruc-
tor in physics, has been appointed.
The material equipment has been
very greatly extended during the vaca-
ton interval. The most important adj
dition consists in the acquisition of the
large west building on University
square which heretofore has been de-
voted to the work of the School for the
Deaf, and which now becomes the
State Normal school, a department OF
the university. The training school, so
essential to the work of the Normal
school, is now established in this build
ing, whereas last year the training
work was done in connection with the
Fremont school, four blocks away
from the university grounds. The
training school will be under the eX-
elusive charge of the university au-
thorities, as far as instruction and dis
cipline are concerned, while it will re-
ceive all the advantages belonging to
the city schools. Its principal and
corps of critic teachers have been
selected from among the best talent OF
the city. The building has been thor
oughly remodeled and it is one of the
best structures of the kind devoted to
normal and training work in the
country. Nothing has been spared in
the effort to make it as commodious,
convenient healthful and serviceable
as possible An extensive assortment
of furniture has been procured, while
the apparatus and material used IN
the work of teaching has been greatly
increased. In connection with the
Normal school department Of manual
training has been established, and
workshops and apparatus are now n
readiness. Another important addition
to the equipment of the institution is a
gymnasium, which, although estab-
lished on a moderate scale, is very
thoroughly supplied with apparatus re-
quired for the work announced.
The main university building, uni
versity hall will now be devoted al
most entirely to the work of the col
legiate courses. A very clear line Of
distinction will thus be drawn between
the sub-freshmen work and the col
legiate work proper. In the main
building proper there are the biological
labora tory, meteorological laboratory,
the museum, the library, the art de-
partment, besides class rooms for a
number of the courses and private Of
fees.
The laboratory building, commonly
known as the Deseret museum build
ing, which has been at the service Of
the university for term of two years
and this through the courtesy of the
Salt Lake Literary and Scientific asso-
citation, has now been transferred to
the university as its permanent proper
~, and with that building, the plot
of ground on which it stands and a
number of other buildings-these lat
ter including the building heretofore
owned by the Latter-day Saints col
lege The institution is to be particu-
larly congratulated on acquiring this
new and ffnely-equipped laboratory as
it's own possession. During the last
Two y'aarS-lne Tune curing when the
university has used this building-the
laboratory has grown so rapidly as to
make it absolutely impossible for the
institution to continue it's present
courses without such an addition. The
chemical and physical apparatus, ex-
tensive as it was before, has been in
creased for the work of the next year
Every true citizen of our new and
great state. without regard to political
or other affiliations, must assuredly re-
joice at the phenomenal growth which
characterizes the state institution of
higher instruction.