The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-21
BIG ADVANCE MADE
BY UNIVERSITY
Institution Increases Teaching
Force and Raises Standard
OF Admission to Courses.
INCREASE IN REGISTRATION
SCHOOLS OF LAW AND MEDICINE
STRENGTHENED.

The catalogue of the University OF Utah
for 1907-l90S has just been published and
VIII he distributed this week The SUM
mary Of students shows total registra-
tion for the past year of 1909. OF these,
$50 were college students. 442 preparatory
students and COZ summer school students
OF those OF college grade. 233 We're regis
tered in the school Of arts and sciences.
iJ7 in the state school of mines. and 175
in the state normal school.
Save in the case Of preparatory stu
dents vino are being rapidly eliminated
from The university. these figures are
greater than ever before. A year ago the
total number enrolled was 1.1S0 of whom
5i2 were OF preparatory grade. For every
preparatory student who has been turned
away about two collegiate students have
registered. A university with LOCO col
leeiate students is expected within a few
terms.
New Men on Faculty.
The faculty list includes eighty-five
names, not counting the assistants, Pro
lessor BabcOck. who has been on leave
of absence for a year, is to return. Miss
May, director of the kindergarten train
ing in the training school, and Mr.. VIII
liam Blum, instructor in chemistry, are
recorded on leave of absence. Miss
May r. Fox will substitute for Miss May
and Kenneth Williams, b. s., 1907. Uni
Versity of Pennsylvania, for Mr.. Blum. A
professor of anatomy and an assistant
professor of engineering have not yet been
selected Since the last catalogue few
members of the faculty have been pro-
NOTED.
Innovation for Year.
One Of the most interesting innovations
announced for the coming year is the
joint courses in agriculture and engineer
ing and in agriculture and methods OF
teaching to be given by the university and
the Agricultural college at Logan. Fur
Their evidence of the intention of these
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henceforth is the announcement of eX-
tension work in agriculture to be given
I'm the university every week by the in
structors in agriculture of the Agricul-
tural college.
Another improvement in the university
which promises TO be far reaching in its
effects is the provision made for ad-
vanced work in mining. Students of abil-
ity will be urged to stay on after get
ting their bachelors degree to work out
technical problems in the mining and mill
ing OF ores. To make it possible for them
to do so, several valuable scholarships
have been subscribed by the wealthy mine
owners of the state who are anxious as
the students to find better means of hand
ling ores.
Big Field for Progress.
Mine owners and mining engineers both
declare that no other field of learning
offers such chances to the technical stu
dent. AS yet the methods of mining have
only begun TO profit by the application of
higher scientific knowledge For this ad-
vanced work the masters degree in min
ing engineering will be offered.
Another change which also looks to an
increase in the efficiency of the university
Is the raising of the entrance require
ments. After 1907 only those students will
be admitted who have completed the
equivalent of q full high school course of
four years. This is an increase in the
requirements of about half a year. The
subjects studied in high school must in
clude English algebra, plane geometry
and history, if the applicant intends to en-
ter the school of arts and sciences; if the
school of mines. solid geometry, trigonO-
metry and physics are added to these re
Quired subjects.
To make sure that graduates shall not
be one sided, students are required to
take a variety of fundamental subjects
in college, and must make their work
conform to a unified plan. To help stu
dents plan their work the catalogue out
lines professional courses in commerce
and industry. government and administra-
ton, journalism, methods of teaching, and
In the various kinds of engineering.
Law School Strengthened.
which were begun two years ago have
been expanded. To the law faculty. JUS
tice D. n. StTaup of the supreme court
of Utah and Attorney S. l.. Richards of
the Salt Lake bar have been added as in
structOrs. and Senator RaWlins and
added as lecturers. combined course in
arts and law is laid down which will pre-
pare students to enter the senior year of
the leading law schools of the country.
The department of medicine has been
strengthened by the appointment of DR..
medica and of W. Ross Anderson as pro-
faOSOr Of haptpTiOIOgV and pathology