The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
MONEY IS GIVEN FREELY
FOR EDUCATION IN UTAH
Magnificent System of Schools in the
State Receive Splendid Pub
lie Support.
One Rural County Pays Largest Salaries in Unon-Many
Sectarian Institutions.

| ing in fact the highest paid by any
| county IN the United States, still they
are not so far in advance of the other
| salaries i'm the state And fer such sal
aries none but good teachers are meet.
For an illustration of the efficiency
standard set for the Utah teacher, one
/ has but to go back to the last meet
! ings of the Utah and Colorado State
} Teachers associations. which were held
simultaneously. Colorado. it will be
remembered, has twice the population
of Utah. From her teachers associa-
ton came the following message to
the Utah gathering: Fifteen hundred
Colorado teachers send greetings to
Utah" Utah's reply was: Eighteen
hundred Utah teachers send greetings
| to Colorado" Colorado did we'll at
that, for a year before at a Montana
teachers association two hundred
teachers turned up. One reason for
Utah teachers efficiency in this matter
is this: Attendance at these associa-
tions is practically compulsory; half
rates are given on the railroads-or
have been in the past-and during the
! time of an association the teacher can
draw his salary in one way only-by
| going to the meeting. That the asso-
/ Citations are we'll worth attending will
| be recognized from the fact that the
/ forthcoming one in Ogden will be adj
dressed by Professor William James of
Harvard, one of the greatest psycholo-
| giSts in the world.
Fine Manual Training.
Utahs unique points do not end with
| her state normal school and her Grand
county salaries, but include her work
/ in manual training. In Utah county,
| the education of the hand is under the
direction of Professor EaStmond, a
Utah man and graduate of the Pratt
| institute of Brooklyn. of whose meth
DDS it is said he is giving as fine an in
depreciation i'm Utah county as can be
seen in the United States. UnlikeNthe
usual manual training work, Professor
Eastmond's is all done from raw ma
terials, accessible to the pupils. Man
ual training of d more industrial type
Professor Eastmond's is artistic for
the most parts carried on throughout
| the rest of the state, notably in Weber
and Cache counties and in Murray.
The teachers are largely drawn from
the state normal school.
Agricultural College.
Next TO the University of Utah the
states largest educational institution
is the Agricultural College of Utah at
! Logan The college through the Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, receives
| federal as well as state appropriations.
| 1t has an enrolment equal to that OF
| the state university, is housed in TWEEN
ty-two buildings on sixteen acres of
ground, teaches. besides agriculture,
such subjects as general and domestic
science, mechanical arts, music and
commerce, and has faculty consist
ing of nineteen American and one Eu-
ropean university graduates.
System of Mormon Schools.
The school system of the Mormon
church. which covers the intermoun-
tain country, is represented in Utah by
nine academies in the state and three
universities-the Latter-day Saints uni
versity in Salt Lake, with an attend
ance of approximately thousand, the
Brigham Young university OF Provo,
with fifteen hundred students, and the
Brigham Young college at Logan. Of
the academies, the Weber Stake at Og-
den and the Snow at Ephraim do full
high school work as well as covering
the Mormon religion. The other acad-
emies cover the main lines only of the
high school courses. The universities
give arts and sciences courses with spe-
ciaI reference to manual training and
domestic science and, of course, pay
particular attention to doctrlnal teach-
ing. Teachers for the academies are
also given normal training at Provo.
The church educational system is
mainly supported from the church
funds, and entrance fees are charged.
Resides the Mormon church, the
PRESBYTERIAN and Congregational
churches maintain school systems IN
the state. The woman's board of home
, missions of the Presbyterian church
owns a preparatory school. the Cole
giate Institute, which is subsidiary to
the Westminster college, also under
the direction of the missionary author
tiles of the Presbyterian church. The
two institutions give complete college,
course up to and including the sopho-
lmore year and do it in such a fashion
that their students can go from here
to such universities as Princeton and
, Harvard and take up junior year work.
: The usual enrolment in the prepara-
; tory school is 75. Both schools are CO.
educationF ] The Westminster college
will son time this year move into a
new bL ding. as yet uncompleted, but
which will occupy two blocks, or TWEEN
; ty acres, of ground, and cost complete
approximately 100000.
> The Congregationalists, through the
: congregational Educational association
; and endowments, maintain a school of
= high school grade, the Gordon acad-
i. emy. 1t was founded in 1873 and con-
z tains dormitory space for thirty pu-
pills. besides eight class rooms, chapel.
gymnasium and athletic grounds.
Catholic institutions include All Hal
lows college for boys and st. Mary's
academy for girls i'm Salt Lake, besides
schools in ogden and Park City.
! WHAT THEY TOOK.