The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-10
SCHOOL STANDARD
WILL Be RAISED
Important Step Is Taken by the
Faculty of the University
of Utah.
WILL ELIMINATE FIRST
YEAR OF NORMAL COURSE
Faculty Also Appoints a Com
mittee to Have Charge of the
Arbor Day Work.

At regular meeting Monday after
noon, the faculty of the University of
Utah decided to raise the college en-
trance requirements to the same stan
dard in force in all large institutions
west Of the Allegheny mountains.
This means that hereafter all stu
dents who wish to enter the school
must have the equivalent of four.
years highschool course rs contrasted
with three years of highschool work
previously required. Such action is d.
rectly in line with the policy of the
school recently announced by President
kiugsbury on several different occa-
sions before the members OF the State
Legislature The benefits that will fol-
low this action are not to be over es-
Jimated, The standing of the school,
as compared with all other big institu-
tions of learning. will be raised. Stu
institution to any other ip the coun-
try without being required TO pass
SPECIAL entrance examinations.
The method of counting entrance Gre
dts was also changed to conform with
the methods used elsewhere Hereto
fore 1T has been the custom TO require
a set number cf hours of work, but
hour courses throughout the year. The
method now in force requires that the
credits shall be counted as units. Each
unit shall represent n four or five hour
course pursued for one year. The new
method will eliminate the passing i'll Of
short credits on different subjects Per
sons desiring credit for certain work
will therefore be required to have
more thorough knowledge of the same.
Three units in English two units in
mathema ties and one in history will
constitute the required entrance credits,
while the remaining nine credits Will
be elective. These requirements apply
to the school of Arts and Science. For
the engineering school they are some
what modified. In the medical depart
ment, which was established two wears
ago, entrance requirements similar to
the above have always been in force
but not more than one hundred students
have been affected by them. In the
future, however, more than five hun
dred students Will be affected by the
new ruling.
An Important Feature
OF great Importance also is the de-
termination of the faculty 70 eliminate
from the local institution the first wear
OF the normal course and also the sec
ond year or the preparatory course
Ihls action is in line with that taken
TWO years ago and recently reaifirmed
before the legislators. when the first
year of the preparatory course was
dropped from the school. There is no
special work which differentiatcs the
first three years of the preparatory and
the first three years of the normal
courses from high school work AS long
as the work is given throughout the
State, II has been decided not to re-
peat II at the States expense with
money intended for higher learning.
Prominent members of the faculty de-
clared Yesterday that it would be but
matter Of few years before the en-
tire preparatory and the first three
wears Of the normal courses would be
eliminated from the Institution and the
entire time of the faculty be occupied
In carrying on college work
In order that the State normal schol-
arships that are yearly offered should
not be destroyed by the removal of the
first year of the normal course, it was
decided TO introduce a ninth grade in
all such persons. The number of stu
dents in this grade will be limited TO
fifty. These students will not be rated
as college students.
The faculty also appointed a com
mittee 10 carry on tie Arbor day work
next Monday with the assistance Of the
students. This committee consists of
Profs. Bennion, Cardiff and Allen. Prof.
Bennion is an agriculturist. DIR. Car
ogy and Prof. Allen handles the funds
of the school. so the committee will be
specially qualified to look after all Ar
Dor day work. The executive board OF
the student body will also meet this
week to consider the Arbor day plans