The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-25

University was suspended the aSSOcia-
ton generally turned over its entire
collection of apparatus and material to
the University of the state and
placed it's magnificent building at
the service of the University at the
nominal rental of 81 per year.
By later arrangements the building
together with the grounds and sur
roundings. comprising the whole of
the property heretofore known as the
Latter-day Saints College lot, have
been presented to the University Of
Utah as a permanent possession.
The lack of properly equipped high
schools outside of SaltfLake CITY has
Efnade it necessary to continue the pre-
paratory deoartments- The University
authorities are working for the en-
ceuFagement.-of high schools and it is
hoped that the preparatory school will
soon be a thing of the past.
The attendance is a hattering proof
of the popularity with which the State
University is regarded by the people.
They are learning that the facilities for
true collegiate training and for much
advanced collegiate work are here of
'fered in their very midst and every
year shows less and less need for the
youth of Utah to travel far to find ia
cilities for mental advancement There
were in 1928 enrolled in all depart
ments 1858 students; in 1s93-94. 1884; in
1S94-95, 454; in 1885, $40; and the pres
ent registration, which will be greatly
increased before the end of the school
year, shows an enrolment of 545.
PRAISED BY PRESIDENT SKIN
NER.
Visiting teachers are loud in their
praises of the progressive spirit mani
tested in university teaching and ad
ministrative power. Professor Skinner,
president of the National Educational
Association, and superintendent of pub
lie instruction for the state of New
York, visited the institution but
week ago, and declared that in many
respects the University of Utah was
doing its work in a way that would
place it on a level with many of the
great and older institutions of the east.
The laboratory method is adopted in
all departments. I'VE learn to do by
doing" is the motto of influence, which,
though not blaZoned upon the walls in
letter type is, nevertheless, declared in
all the classes and departments of the
great institution. From the first year
of the preparatory course to the senior
year in the collegiate department and
in all the postgraduate labor, prac-
teal application is demanded of every
student. The laboratory method means
more than the use of test tubes and
bottles in the study of chemistry, sim
pie machines and models in the teach
ing of physics. the handling Of min
erals. and rocks in the study of the
earth's crust; it is applied in the sem
inaries and library in the study of
history and languages and in the incul-
cation of the spirit of original re-
search and individual investigation
along every line of instruction. The
field work in the classes in natural sci
ence is at once one of the most pleas
ing, as ii is one Of the most important
and valuable means of Investigation.
The apparatus now owned by the Uni
versity for the teaching of applied sci
ence is valued at nearly $4,000, and
every student is furnished with the
tools necessary to enable him to do for
himself.
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.
The modern spirit of university ex-
tension has found a welcome at this
intermountain seat of higher educa-
ton The officers of the University de-
clare by their course that they believe
the institution should do. something for
the students out of school as well as for
the few highly favored ones who Sc
cure regular admission to its halls. The
popularity of the public lecture courses
conducted under University auspices
is evidence of the appreciation in which
this effort is held. It is no unusual
occurrence indeed. to find hundreds
turned away through lack OF seating
accommodations in the lecture halls
when these public courses are an
nounced. But beside work of this kind
done in Salt Lake CITY, the
members of the instruction corps
are laboring in distant parts
of the state. Not a week passes but
several of the faculty are engaged in
lectures on school work in places re-
mote from headquarters. The people
are realizing that the university is not
in name only the capstone and conse-
quently part OF the public school sys-
tenn but that it considers itself vitality
connected with every other department
of public instruction. There is spirit
of liberality and of cosmopolitan bro
therhood toward every worker in the
field of public advancement.
RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE.
While the university as state insti