The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-29

top of the first floor, and the steel work
/ is in place for the second and third
floors The brick masOns expect to
have the walls completed in about
three weeks and the work of getting
the building ready for use will be
crowded as rapidly as possible. The
completion of this building viii add
very greatly to the equipment of a
D-'mber of the largest departments in
ia, institution, providing additional
room that the continued growth of the
| college has made imperative. The
basement story viii contain the ar
moFy and drill hall; the first story the
administrative offices and a number of
class rooms; the second story the IL
Drary, including Office, catalogue room,
stack room, and a large reading room;
While the third story will be used for
the commercial department.
The new cattle and sheep barns have
Just been completed at d cost of about
$4,000. They are strictly modern in
every particular. The cattle barn has
cement floor and hangers, and is fur
nished with the best iron stalls. In
addition to stable room for seventy
I'VE or eighty head Of cows and young
stock, there are hospital rooms, feed
rooms. a milk room and a cellar for
roots. besides room for storing about
$50 tons Of hay.
The old college barn has been remod-
eled for horse barn, and in addition
to room for the college horses and We
hicles. contains the seed and grain
rooms, the farm foreman's shop a
large room for storing agricultural ma
chinery and implements and a storage
room for feed.
Other Improvements.
Besides the additional buildings pro-
vided for, other important improve
mentS have been made. The dormitOry
has been repaired and thoroughly reno
waited, and has been furnished with
new bath rooms. Department museums
have been established, and the large
room on the top floor OF the main
building, heretofore used for the gen
eral museum, has been divided into
five well lighted class rooms for work
in mathematics and language. The
large rooms in the basement of the
north wing. formerly used for shop
work, have been equipped for the work
in the department OF agTOnOmy, includ-
ing soil physics laboratory and store
room, an agricultural museum, and
class room. The soil physics Iabora-
tory has been furnished with the most
modern apparatus, placing the work in
soil and agricultural physics on a par
with that Of the best colleges in the
country. Provision has thereby been
made for a most interesting and profit
able line of work, particularly in the
arid west that has never before been
available to the students Of the college.
Important additions have also been
made to the equipment Of the dairy and
of the domestic science, commercial,
biological and other departments. For
the work in athletics, the athletic field
has been enlarged and graded. and
bath and dressing rooms, furnished
with shower baths, lockers and other
cOnveniences. have been provided. Ad-
ditiOnal land has been purchased and
a vegetation house is being constructed
and equipped for the work in irrigation
Investigations q.
The present year at the college has been
one Of the most successful In the history
Of the institution. The courses of study
have been revised and more thoroughly
syst,matized. and the other improve
ments that have been made add very
much to the efficiency of the work. The
attendance is greater than ever before
at this time of the year. On Dec. %.
the registration was more than s. per
cent greater than il was in December,
1909 and over u per cent greater than
lne L0Lu registration OF last year, uot-
withstanding the fact that many Of the
students enter the college after the hOli-
day vacation. The increase in attend
mce has made it necessary to employ ad-
ditional instructors in order that the
large classes. particularly in the ele-
mentary subjects, might be divided into
two sections sufficiently small 10 enable
professors to give personal attention -
the individual requirements of the
students, thereby insuring thorough and
efficient work throughout all the depart
ments Of the institution. The faculty at
present including professors, assistant
professors, instructors and assistants,
numbers thirty-seven. In addition,
student assistants are employed in the
laboratory work in science, i'm the critic
work in English. and in the clerical work
Of the registrar and the secretary Of the
ooIleue