Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-26
NEEDS or THE UNIVERSITY.

Two years, and, IN addition thereto
$4,000 for new building. The lat
ter is to cost s25o,0Oo but the regents
suggest that 100000 be borrowed from
the University Land fund and the
Legislature appropriate $4,000.
The total is large, perhaps too large,
in the estimation OF many, in proper
ton to the resources Of the State and
the demands by other great and im-
Tortant institutions. And yet, When
tho details are examined, they seem
to be very conservative. Through the
courtesy OF President Kingsbury we
are in position to present the follow
Ing data.
For the University proper, the state
ahool Of mines, the State normal school
and tho medical school for the two
years from July /, 1909, to June 80, 1911,
these are the estimates:
For maintenance salaries, fuel,
printing, insurance, janitorial service,
light and power, state fair library,
summer school, and general improve
ments--s 100000 This is a fixed ex-
pense and admits of comparatively
little variation.
The special equipment, supplies,
books and apparatus necessary Tor the
4 work Of the several schools during the
ensuing biennium have been closely
itcmized by the heads Of departments
4 ana are shown at length to be as fol-
lows: School OF arts and sciences, SIS
400; medical school, ss,11s; school Of
mines, s3S, 424; normal school and nor
NAL training school, s4,952.
n In the way of new buildings, the
Regents find that the present OVER
Z crowded conditions of all the depart
1nents makes necessary the erection Of
the main or central building on the
University grounds. AS tho institu-
ton proceeds to q more exclusive coll
lege grade of work the needs for room
and equipment increase. More La
boratories, art-rooms, music rooms,
Z and better library facilities, are now
the most imperative media. But addi-
tona1 room for legitimate student af-
fairs, seminar and class rooms, are.
also needed for without sufficient
floor space in which to accommodate
hefstudents at their work, the institu-
ton cannot make progress or even
maintain its present standing. II is
especially noticeable thatltite space al
lottedfto the biological departments Is
entirely Inadequate, while the nature
study department, consisting OF three
large classes, have not even a recita-
tion room, and must make use Of 9TH
ers, changing rooms from time to time.
The museum specimens are crowded
into many rooms, boxes and cupboards,
and are neither fully available for in-s
g spection, nor properly housed. 1t
follows beyond question that the great
need OF tho school is moro room and
= that another building is the only solu-
ton OF the present difficulty, And
since it will require about two years
to convert the loans into money, 1t is
Z not possible, if begun next summer, to
complete the new building inside of
two years from now. Hence, if the
Legislature fails at this session to pro-
vide for the new building, 1t must be,
at least four years before one can be
erected.
The next most pressing need is that
of a larger teaching force. Additional
teachers are required for student I'M
Htruetion alone, but 1t is also highly
desirable that some OF the specialists
be doing research work in aid of the
state as a whole. The benefits to be
derived from a. university are not con-
fined to the students who recclye the
instruction. Field work in geology,
for example, in the form of surveys
3 md reports on the geology and miner
ais of Utah, should be undertaken at
once, Such work would be Of the
greatest direct value to the mining in
dustres, but would also be OF benefit
TO the state Industries as whole,
Similarly, an experiment station In
connection with the school of mines
ought 10 be established for the advant-
age of public road-making and public
sanitation as we'll as for the aid of
utah's great mining and milling in
terests The University already has a
fine metallurgtcal plant, a large me-
chanical laboratory and other similar
facilities. With these equipments
thorough Investigations could be con-
Quoted in determining the character
of, and the best methods of treatment
for, our more abundant ores; In test
ing the durability of cement, rocks
and other road materials; and in de-
terrrining the strength, durability, ans
relative values of the greater classes
e OF common building materials,
Such investigations would easily save
every year to the builders of homes
and roads throughout the State more
than enough to pay the entire cost OF
& the experiments and their publication
Together with the medical school, tbs
most approved methods of sanitation
could be both tested and made known
ard various important problems re
lating to the health of the people could
likewise be investigated. All this could
be done at a small additional cost
devoted TO expert Investigations in tbs
laboratories already established.
The immediate Improvement Of tbs
University grounds chiefly by tbs
planting of forest and shade trees If
quantity, is q step that all citizens