The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

4 state legislator once won great IA
vor with the students of the university
by a comparison in which the state was
a company of soldiers in battle and the
university a color sergeant who had
rushed the flag far in advance of the
firing line. Here. you shouted the
soldiers, bring the flag back to the
company Not So shouted the SER
geant, bring the company up TO the
flag"
Utah's growth has been by strides. 1t
is enough praise for the university to
say that her growth Las kept pace with
that of the state.
A state university exists primarily
for the state. Adaptation TO the needs of
the state must therefore be chief
characteristic OF the life of the unlver-
sity. To say that the changes at the
university during the last dozen years
or so have been so marked that one
would hardly recognize in the college of
today the institution of yesterday is
merely to say of the oldest public
institution Of the state what everybody
SAYS of the state itself and of the chief
city in the state.
The transformation first to strike the
old graduate is that which has been
wrought in the grounds. Unsurpassed
in situation by those of any other
american college and equaled by eX-
tTenely few, they are just coming to
realize their possibilities. The insight
~ stretches of weeds and brush have
given way 10 broad spreading lawns.
trim hedges, Towering shrubbery and
well kept cement and graveled walks and
drives. Within the last few years sew
eral buildings have been added to those
first constructed. and now a suitable
central building is all that is necessary
10 give the group an impressive appear
anCe.
Much more significant than any
change in outward appearance is the
change which has been effected in the
organization Of the university. A high
school course of four years is now re-
quired for entrance to anv of the
schools of the university. Preparatory
instruction Is still given, which is de-
signed Tor students from high schools
Wnlch DO not as yet give a complete
TOUR years course It is retained so that
no person in the state who desires a coll
lese education shall be held back
lhrough want Of opportunity to get the
heed1ul preparation. No student. how
ever becomes a student of the uniyer-
S'y until he has secured credit on the
university records for four years of
S~-4opA ~ VI n furthermore. no STU
tent may become a graduate of the
university until he has done four full
years OF college work. To SUNNY the
constant need of the state for teachers
SliS 'ioIHlal school viii grant certifi-
Cdtes LOT shorter periods of study. which
are legai licenses to teach in the schools
OF the state without exan,ination The
STUDENT must return and comnlete his
Iour years Of work for graduation
The result of this orsaniza+to,, i,
Wnlch four years of high school worl<
are required for entrance and fo,,- az
OF college work for graduation ie ~ r,,+
me university upon an equal $500
with the best colleges of the co,,,, -
NO student of the state need lesr-a ~, ,
state TO obtain a degree. and no s, III
uent from outside the state need baS,
.ate 70 attend Utah through fear that
me Utah degree Will have inferior -
ue Students and graduates Of Irtoh
Withoat loss Of credits. have enteraS
1ornen- Columbia, Pennsvlvania go
harvard, and students admitted So
other institutions to advanced standins
N Utah have rarely found thai tbnt,
1ao preparation to spare.
another change of the year has bear
me introduction of considerab HE "a
sShced instruction. which students wbo
alresdy hold the bachelors degree fror~o
Tue university or some other institntfo-,