Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-06
|. D. S. UNIVERSITY
IS IN FINE SHAPE
School Opens for Registration
OF Students on Next
Monday.
FACULTY MET THIS MORNING,
Most Of the Old Teachers Are Back at
Their P0sts--Number OF New
Ones Engaged,

Today was O. busy day al the Lat
tcr-day Saints university The school
opens next Monday for registration Of
studenta. and as soon az that work II
done, which win probably continue for
two days. actual class work viii be-
gin. The first faculty meeting Of the
year was held this morning, and a
number Of important points decided
To representative VI the News
Principal Christensen of the high school
department said this morning we
have never had go bright prospects pc
fore as as we have this year oui
faculty is larger, our buildings ih pei
ter condition and We have eteetoI
facilities foy carrying on our WoIh 1uau
ever before This summer we nav
made a thorough canvass OF the CITY
stakes and the stakes qdjacent ana
we feel chat there ls "a favorable sehl
ment. in this city and county eApcciAl-
ly. concerning the work We IRE ooihs
in our Church schools A..
Three things [ should IKE YOU NJ
do bv way N correcting some ms
tnrcp pofiona I'm respect 90 our work
in this school" said Prot Chfls.on
sen. zone is that our tuition ls His"
We really have no tuition az az, eA.
cent FOR the business course 49,
professional training is gwen n ~
IS only a registration rec OF Nv, ~,
that charged by the state oHlNe's'''
and other institutions.
"Another misunderstanding copceth-
ing our work here is, that We nave
large classes. in which chcn lhulNlouut
nember receives but little htl.n'lol
as compared with what ne Woulo bot
in "a small class our classes are ny
large. on the contrary they are small
A. mThnnIH. me
regulations are that no teacher mas
more than % or 80 pupils in a class
And besides. no teacher has 80 many
hours that he cannot give indlViduaI
attention TO the students. When you
consider too, that nearly all OF our
teachers are college trained ana that
over 70 per cent are men, no rear
need oe entertained that the standard
OF the institution as 90 lis class work
Will be lowered
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
"A third point concerns our pre-
paratory school IL has somehow got
abroad that no one can get here
work preparatory 70 the high school
grade II is true that, at present we
have no regular preparatory depart
ment But Il IL the intention 90 give
20 mature young people who have not
finished the eighth grade. such work
AZ will prepare them for the high
school. Ia the stakes within our Held
there are a good many young men
and women especially young men.
who have passed the district school
age. but who are anxious 20 continue
their education and who therefore
should be given an opportunity 10 do
So IL Is our purpose 20 take as many
OF these as we can accommodate.
Il may add here that the general
Church board OF education has re-
Gently made q ruling that wherever
30 or more such young persons apTly
for preparatory work, a preparatory
department will be opened. We in
tend next year 20 have one regularly
organized"
Most Of the oiu teachers are back
al their posts. ano number OF new
ones have been engaged. students
have already begun 10 arrive