The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

lished by separate. legislative acts, and
that it is to them that the various de-
partments look for support
The university proper offers regular
college courses in arts, science and
philosophy. In the curricula of these
courses physics and certain branches
of English and mathematics are re-
quired, but by far, the greater part OF
the work is elective with the student,
the only requisite being that given
proportion of work be done in Ian
guage, science or philosophy, depending
upon the course in which the student is
registered.
The state school Of mines aims to
give thorough practical courses in min
ing engineering and electrical engineer
ing. The studies of these two courses
are definitely prescribed, and are very
practical in their nature. Abundant
practice is given in the physical and
electrical laboratories, in the shop and
in the field Part of the summer vaca-
ton is spent in field work, making sur
veys of mines and mining claims.
THE NORMAL SCHOOL.
The state normal school is by far the
best patronized department of the uni
verSiJy, the enrolment in this depart
ment being about three-fifthS OF the
total registration. The normal school
offers two courses, a four-year and
seven-year course. The studies of the
former are all prescribed, the studies of
the last three years OF the latter are al
most entirely elective. The facilities in
these courses are ample and very prac-
teal. Normal students have access to
the university library and museum,
and also do work in all the laborato-
ries. In connection with this school
department for manual training, KIN
dergarten department and a training
school have been established; the
branch normal school at Cedar City is
also a part OF the state normal school.
In the manual training department,
students learn to know and use the
carpenters tools, to design work in
cardboard and paper, to make simple
pieces of school-room apparatus, ana
above all to love and respect manual
labor The kindergarten department,
under the direct supervision OF MISS
Mary c. May, offers a thorough four
year course, and is designed for the
training of kindergarten teachers. The
training school resembles any OF the
public schools of the city. 1t consists
of nine grades, in each of which a pro-
fesSional critic teacher has charge, and
the children that attend 1t are almost
all city school children. The school is,
however, under the mana gement OF the
university authorities, and in 1t the
pedagogical ideas of the normal school
are put into active operation. The stu
dents of the fourth year of the normal
course spend part of each day in prac-
tice work in the various grades, and
during the year each training teacher
has an opportunity Of inStructlng IN
each of the nine grades, so that When
students graduate they are able TO go
into the school room and do good work.
The demand for normal work in the
southern part of the state led to the
establishment of the branch normal
school at Cedar City. This school is
parent school, and offers four-year
normal course, a parallel of the four
year course offered in the university.
There is, in connection with the uni
versity, preparatory school also. This
school takes the students as they
leave the common schools, and pre-
pares them for the university proper.
The lack of high schools throughout
the counties of Utah makes this school
a necessity but it is to be hoped that
more high schools will soon be estab-
lished and the university thus be re-
lieved of this additional burden.
ADMISSION AND GRADUATION.
The requirements for admission to
the university today compare very
favorable with those of larger institu-
TONS The prescribed subjects for en-
trance include three years work in
English and mathematics; the elective
requirements are sixteen in number,
and from these a given number must
be chosen, the choice of subjects de-
pending upon the course to be pur-
sued Students who have completed
the preparatory course and graduates
Of accredited high schools or acade-
mics may be admitted without further
examination. The privileges accorded
to university graduates are evidence of
the quality of work being done in the
university. Each year graduates are
admitted to the oldest and best uni
versities in the country, full credit is
given them, and they are allowed to do
postgraduate work. The demand for
graduates from the normal school in
dictates too clearly the excellence of the
work of that department; each year
the demand for normal graduates in
creases, and even now the demand eX
ceeds the supply.
The facilities for practical work at
the university are very good. The stu
dent of geology, mineralogy, zoology
and botany need not lack for either
native or foreign materials, the gen
eral reader has access to the best Ii
brary in the state, and the student of
physics and chemistry finds ample OPP
portunity for applying his theories in
practical ways. During recent years
the university museum has been great
ly enlarged; in 1894 DR.. John r. Park
enriched it with his own private cabi-
net, and in 1895 the Utah Worlds Fair
commission presented the university
the entire mineral and mining exhibit
which had been displayed at the Co
lumbar exposition. The rich and eX-
tensiVe collections of the Deseret mu-
scum are also of free access to univer-
Sity students. These two collections
now comprise over 10000 specimens,
and furnish material for research IL
almost every branch of natural sci
ence. The university library is the
largest and best in the state. The ar
rangement of books into departments is
complete, and the fact that students
have free and easy access to all the
books does away with all the incon-
VenienceS of the wait-until -you-are-
waited-on arrangement. The various
laboratories are all well equipped. In
the biological laboratories opportuni-
ties are offered for both elementary and
advanced work in animal and vegetable
histology; in the meteorological labO-
ratories students are supplied with APP
paratus and material necessary for ex-
tensive and thorough class work and
for original investigation. The chemi-
cal laboratories afford facilities for
work in general chemistry and quaint
tative analysis, organic chemistry and
assaying. The physical laboratories are
also we'll equipped for both elemen-
tary and advanced work; one of these
is especially fitted UP for electrical en-
cheering, and so practical are its