, 1896-03-16
WYOMING UNIVERSITY.
The Denver News Gives 1t a
Write-Up.
ADMIRABLE INSTITUTION.
The Faculty an Earnest Body OF
Ladies' and Gentlemen Devoted
10 the Work Of lnslrucuon
and Scientific Research

and Scientific Research.
A staff correspondent Of the Denver
News pays a glowing tribute to Wyo-
ming's university and recites the fact
that the per cent of ~illiteracy in this
state is very low. After giving a brief
historical sketch of the institution, the
correspondent speaks as follows of the
faculty:
President Johnson impressed me as
a man admirably fitted for the position
he holds. He is a practical man as well
as a scholar. He has had large expert
ence in building up schools, and his
record at Fort Worth stamps him as a
man of creative educational genius.
Such a man is needed in the founda-
ton period of all universities. He
could very early swamp the institution
by branching out in directions which
would require large expenditures of
cash, but President Johnson is too
level headed for that. While making
the best use of all the faculties at his
command, he believes that the first
duty of the university is to aid in the
development of Wyoming, to assist in
building up its industries. and in at
tracing immigration, and in the Gre
which in time will reflect on the
growth of the university in giving it a
larger renown, a larger number of
students, and increased facilities for
the education of Mornings youth. 1t
is the correct idea. and will make the
university an influential factor in the
industrial as well as the educational
growth of the state.
l find in. the faculty a body of ladies
and gentlemen earnestly devoted to
the work of instruction, and giving
whatever additional time they may
have to scientific research within the
lines of the state. Thus the flora of
Wyoming is being arranged and col
lected, and to it 1,500 specimens entire
ly new to botanical students have been
already secured. A collection of fos-
sill remains is also being made. and al
so a scene of representative rocks, and
in this department some discoveries
have already been made, and are now
being mounted. which will give to the
museum Of the university a character
and a standing among scientists which
older and more noted institutions will
envy. So also the soils of the state are
being analysed, and her mineral as
sayed, and her oil examined
and determined. Whatever tends to
give a broader, more accurate, more
complete knowledge of Wyoming, to
that work does President johnson and
his faculty gladly lend themselves. 1t
is a work that is certain to tell on the
future of the state, as well as that on
this university.
l do not know what more can be said
OF this institution OF the work it is do,
ing, except to assert that it is in all re-
spects worthy of the confidence and
support of the people of Wyoming.
The foundations of a great and infiuen-
tial university have been we'll laid.
With Wyoming 1t is destined to grow
and to increase in usefulness and in
fuence. and become a power in the
commonwealth for scholarship and cul-
ture, and for the industrial training Of
its youth. To afford 1t an ample reve-
nue.. consistent with the increase of
the state, is a duty that Wyoming leg
i%slators owe to the cause of higher ed
u%cation as well as to the present and
future welfare of their state