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The deed of trust states that "the beneficiaries of the College shall be members in good standing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the children of such members, and the students who take a full course shall be taught, if their physical ability permit, some branch of mechanism that shall be suitable to their taste and capacity-and all pupils shall be instructed in reading, penmanship, orthography, grammar, geogra- phy, and mathematics, together with such other branches as are usually taught in an institution of learning. And the Old and New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants, shall be standard text books in the College; and further, no book shall be used that misrepresents or
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speaks lightly of the Divine mission of our Savior, or the Prophet Joseph Smith, or in any manner advances ideas antagonistic to the principles of the gospel as it is taught in the Bible, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Cov- enants."
The parties named in the deed of trust met August 7, 1877, accepted the trust and organized as a Board, with the following officers: Brig ham Young, Jr., President; M. D. Hammond, Treasurer; Miss I. I. Cook, Sec- retary.
Although President Young had been very anxious to have the college opened in September, 1877; and to that end had arranged for a building which could be used for school and boarding institution, owing to the unavoidable delay in renting the land and the transaction of business before any income from the land could be handled, it was not opened until September 9, 1878. The Board rented rooms in the Logan City Hall, where the college was opened, with Miss Ida I. Cook as Principal. During the year 1878-9, seventy-one pupils were enrolled. During the year 1879-80 the attendance was 198, of which forty-nine were of primer and first reader grade, admitted for the purpose of giving normal students practical experience under supervision of the principal. Rhetoric, natural philosophy, physiol- ogy, United States history, bookkeeping, algebra and ancient history were added to the subjects enumerated in the deed of trust, and the services of W. H. Apperly engaged for three quarters of the year.
The enrollment for the year 1880-81, was 160 pupils, lowest grade, Fourth Reader. Mr. H. Cummings, assistant.
The endowment designed for the support of the college could not at once be made to yield revenue sufficient to justify the carrying out of the wishes of the Trustees in respect to capacity and facility, and as regards other matters. The growth, however, has been very rapid all things considered; and to-day the college rests on a broad and solid foundation. In the summer of 1883 work on the new college building was commenced, one of the best possible locations for the purpose having been secured. The building is of modern design, and while centrally located, is yet retired and peculiarly adapted to the purpose for which it was chosen. The cut published here- with gives an excellent idea of the structure as it stands at present, though but one wing is completed-the east. The west wing is yet to be finished, while the centre-most imposing and most costly portion -- is also untouched, but will be constructed as occasion and the attendance of pupils demand it. . The portion already completed affords ample accommodation for immediate and demands likely to be felt for near period. The construction of the remainder of the building, when necessity requires it, will not entail any great additional cost, while its absence does not attract attention from any absence of symmetry or completeness on the part of that now standing. The college is situated on the brow of a hill skirting the principal part of Logan on the south side. Near it, the Logan River breaks into two streams and forms what is termed "The Island," now being built up rapidly. The site of the college commands a magnificent view of the mountains to the east, of the Logan River, and of the valley on the south and west, while the north of the whole valley is open to view, and a scene commanding admiration reveals itself from the top of the building. It is expected the cost of this wing will be $20,000, and it is to be opened the approaching September. It will have a capacity for 300 pupils, and will undoubt- edly be well and numerously attended for a variety of reasons. The grades run from the intermediate to the academic or collegiate, the tuition fee ranging from $6 to $12 per quarter, including all branches taught. Food is unusually cheap; the city is one of the most pleasant and healthiest in the Territory ; and the College is located in the centre of a large, a very prosperous and a rapidly growing country. It is certain to become a
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splendid institution with a wide and popular reputation. Its ground dimen- sions are 36x70 feet, and it contains the equivalent of four stories. The basement will contain a kitchen, dining-room, bath rooms, laboratories for boys and girls, and the heating apparatus. The two stories above will be used for recitation and study apartments. D. C. Young is the architect.
Students, to gain admission, must be at least 15 years old and healthful, in addition to the other conditions. Those who do not live in Logan City are required to board at the College and be under the direction of the Faculty, so that a strict observance of the rules may be enforced, and in order that parents may be satisfied that their children will be properly watched. Every price is put at the minimum in order to give every possi- ble advantage to the pupil; and to make the cost come as light as possible. The primary departments have been discontinued, they being no longer neccessary to the success of the College, while the extensive country, for which Logan is a central point, will afford an abundance of material for the College, while the confidence of the people, strong in this institution, and likely to grow with each succeeding year, will make it popular and successful from the day of its opening in the new structure.
The course complete is four years, divided into preparatory and aca- demic periods. The first year studies embrace arithmetic, grammar, geography, reading, spelling and defining, writing and composition. The second year, in addition to the above, embraces United States history, draw- ing, writing, composition and familiar talks on elementary science.
The academic course for the first year provides instructions in algebra, English analyses, physical geography, elocution and bookkeeping, compo- sition, geometry, zoology, physiology, natural philosophy and mineral geography. In the second year of the academic course the studies are astronomy, universal history, rhetoric and English chemistry, mental and moral philosophy, Constitution of the United States and civil government.
In addition to these studies, there are special instructions in theology, in Spanish, French, German and Latin, in music and drawing, and in industrial pursuits. Every detail has been carefully provided for, and those who enter do so conditionally upon the faithful observance of rules calculated to insure good order, discipline, the best results as to studies and the pro- motion of good morals. The Board of Trustees chosen by President Brigham Young is the same to-day. Vacancies are to be filled by the heirs of Presi- dent Young and the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The present board is composed of Apostles Brigham Young and Moses Thatcher, Presiding Bishop of the Church, W. B. Preston, Miss I. I. Cook, George W. Thatcher, Esq., President of Cache Stake, C. O. Card, and Bishop M. D. Hammond.
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DESERET UNIVERSITY.
This is the State institution of learning in Utah. It is entitled to the benefit of governmental appropriations of public lands, but up to date has been unable to realize this aid, for which reason the Territory has been com- pelled to give assistance. There are set apart for the University of the Territory, by the United States government, two townships, or 46,080 acres of land. This land has been selected, but a previous Commissioner of the Land Office held that these lands could only be utilized when the Territory became a State. A later Commissioner holds a different view, and asserts there is nothing in the law making the donation which prevents the imme- diate realization of the lands to the use of the University; provided the Territorial Legislature passes an act to the effect that the rentals from these lands, or proceeds from sales, shall go to the maintenance of the University of Deseret. This endowment, when it is secured, will place the institution on a footing above and beyond the power of individuals to harm.
On the 28th of February, 1850, about two years and a half subsequent to the settlement of this Territory, the Legislative Assembly of the then Provisional Government passed an act incorporating the "University of the State of Deseret." This act, among others of the Provisional Government, was ratified by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, October 4th, 1851. According to the charter thus obtained, all authority in respect to property, government and administration was vested in a Chancellor and Board of twelve Regents, elected by the Legislature, who, as provided, were to hold office for the term of one year and until their successors were qualified. The first meeting of the Board of Regents, presided over by Chancellor Orson Spencer, was held March 13th, 1850. At this meeting three members were appointed as a committee to select, in connection with the Governor, a site for the University building, and also locations for houses for primary schools. From this initiative action of the Board it may be inferred that its powers were more comprehensive than what seem to be defined in the charter, or even implied in the name University, for it is not customary that universities have jurisdiction over primary schools. Cir- cumstances, however, are sometimes made to interpret the most definite enactments. And as, at this time, no Common School law had been passed by the Legislature, and as the future patronage of the institution would depend in a great measure on the existence of preparatory schools, the Board might very reasonably assume an active interest in their establish- ment. Moreover, subsequent legislation plainly shows that jurisdiction in some degree over Common Schools was intended to be given to the Uni- versity; for in the act of the Legislature of Utah approved October 4th, 1851, the Chancellor and Board of Regents of the University of Deseret were authorized to appoint a superintendent of primary schools, to be under their supervision and discretionary control, and to award him such salary for his services, at the expense of the Territory, as they might deem expedient, provided, such salary should not exceed $1,000 per annum. That the Legis- lature, when incorporating the University, had mainly in view a practical institution of learning, is indicated by one section of the charter, appropri- ating $5,000 annually for its support; and it can signify nothing contrary to this idea that this section was subsequently repealed when a separate pro- vision had been made for common schools and the patronage of higher education was found to be very limited.
On the second Monday in November following its incorporation, the University was for the first time opened for the reception of students under the name of the "Parent School." Dr. Cyrus Collins was placed in charge, but was succeeded during the same year by Professor Orson Spencer, M. A., and W. W. Phelps. Owing, however, to the immature condition of its
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finances, as well as the limited patronage it received, notwithstanding it had been made a free school institution, the department of instruction was soon discontinued, the " University " continuing for many years in abeyance and having but a nominal existence until November, 1867. The department was then reorganized under the supervision of Mr. D. O. Calder, but was con- ducted chiefly as a Commercial College until the 8th of March, 1869, when, under the superintendence of Dr. John R. Park, a graduate of the New York University, it received newness of life and was rapidly organized for scientific and classical instruction.
Upon the resignation of Mr. Calder, Dr. Park, having been elected by the Board of Regents to succeed as principal, opened the school with additional courses of study, making in all five, viz .: commercial, prepara- tory, normal, scientific and classical. The patronage, however, during the first year, which amounted to 223 students, male and female, was divided chiefly among the commercial, preparatory and scientific courses, the clas- sical course being too advanced for any preparation found among the students, and the business of teaching not having attained sufficient promi- nence as a profession, or legitimate calling, to encourage many to make it an object of special training. At this time a preparatory or Model School, as it was then called, was organized with the double purpose of supplying a graded course that might fit pupils for entering any of the more advanced courses of study in the institution, and to afford the means of exhibiting the best methods of teaching, discipline and classification in connection with the Normal Department of the University, the principles taught therein being practically illustrated and an opportunity given to Normal students for observation. This school was divided into three departments of three grades each-primary, intermediate and academic-and proved to be a valuable adjunct to the University.
The number of pupils was more than doubled the second year, aggre- gating 546, of whom 307 were males and 239 females. During this year Professor Karl G. Mæser was added to the Faculty as German professor, O. H. Riggs as professor of Mathematics, and C. L. Bellerive as professor of French. F. D. Benedict, M.D., took the chair of analytical chemistry and metallurgy, and Professor John Morgan assumed the charge of the Com- mercial Department. During the third year the number of pupils increased to 580, with a slight excess of females.
In the fall of 1873 the primary and intermediate divisions, being thought no longer necessary for the patronage of the institution, were abandoned, since which time three courses-a preliminary, a scientific and classical pre- paratory-have been successfully conducted and encouragingly patronized.
In accordance with the provisions of the charter, a beneficiary founda- tion is connected with the University, youth of both sexes who are unable to bear the cost of tuition being admitted free of charge, on application to the President of the Faculty. A daily record is kept of all the students in such a way as to afford a full exhibit of their habits in regard to attendance and regularity and punctuality in their duties. The government of the institu- tion is mild, yet decided and firm, seeking to maintain harmony and pre- serve order rather by an inculcation of the principles of morality, honor and self-respect, than by the infliction of punishment. In the departments, especially of modern languages and chemistry, every effort is made to render these studies as practical and interesting as possible. The laboratory is well supplied: practical instruction in qualitative and quantitative analyses being given by Professor Kingsbury. The mathematical, philosophical and chemical apparatus in possession of the University, costing several thousand dollars, is sufficiently complete to illustrate, with a good degree of fulness. the subjects of natural science, and a cabinet containing several hundred specimens forms a valuable aid to illustration in this important department.
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Literary societies are organized among the students, for training in oratory, debate, composition and parliamentary usage. The library which President Park has attached to this institution, and which forms one of its most attractive features, already comprises some 3,300 volumes of standard and miscellaneous works, while the tables of the reading room are furnished with the principal popular and scientific journals and periodicals.
The aim of the conductors of the University has been and is to make it an institution suited to the current needs of the community, so that whatever high purposes may be implied in its name, they will only be approximated or reached practically as demand is made for advanced education. While the facilities of the University now exceed any it has heretofore offered, and are fully equal, it is believed, to present requirements, further advancement only awaits the certain growth of encouraging sentiment and the material prosperity of the country.
A department of instruction has been established in connection with the University of Deseret for the purpose of giving special training to such students as may design to teach in the common schools of the Territory. The want of competent teachers for our schools has been sorely felt, and the demand for them at present cannot be fully met. The essential pro- fessional training for teachers is provided for by the establishment of a normal department in connection with the University. The department provides a two years' course, the special study being the theory and practice of teaching. The studies in the first year are, vocal music, penmanship, geography, grammar, bookkeeping, arithmetic, orthography and punctu- ation, reading and elocution; in the second year, free-hand drawing, physics, rhetoric, psychology, zoology, civil government, botany, geology and history of civilization.
Besides the Normal, there are also Preliminary, Winter, Scientific and Classical Preparatory courses. The Preliminary course embraces all the common school studies and a successful examination in each must be passed before the student can graduate in any of the other departments; while the successful examination in the Preliminary course is the test by which the scholar gains admission to the Scientific and Classical Preparatory courses. The Scientific course (which includes Latin and German) embraces studies, to complete which and graduate, requires four years of constant study. This is the time usually allotted in the best institutions of the country. Not only have new studies been introduced, but those formerly included have been so extended as to give the student as complete information on the various subjects as can be expected in such a course, without making spe- cialties of them. Every effort has been made to arrange the course so as to place the studies in the natural order, and thus each new one becomes in part a review and supplement of the study just completed. But in cases where no such natural relation exists, the studies have been so arranged that when a knowledge of one will be of any assistance to the aquisition of another, the order in which they occur will secure this end. When the student has passed a successful examination in all the studies of this course, he will have conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Science and will receive a diploma.
The Winter Course is specially arranged with a view to the accommo- dation of students who can attend school during the winter months only.
The Classical Course is intended to prepare students for entering the freshman year of any of our best classical institutions. While this object is a primary one, and has served as a basis for the selection and arrangement of its studies, still the course is complete in itself. It furnishes an amount of Latin and Greek sufficient for ordinary philological purposes, and of great practical utility in the study and application of the sciences, as well as in the study and pursuit of the higher professions.
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Prior to 1880, efforts were made to secure from the Legislature an appropriation with which to purchase suitable grounds and to erect a build- ing for university purposes. The effort was partially successful, and the sum of $20,000 was appropriated for the object named. This amount being scarcely more than sufficient to purchase the necessary grounds, an appeal was made to the Municipal Council of Salt Lake City for aid in this direction. The result was a generous donation to the institu- tion for university purposes, of the finest public square in the city. The appropriation from the Legislature, or the greater part of it, was immediately expended towards the erection of the new building, which it raised to the height of the basement story. It was confidently expected that an amount sufficient to complete the building would be appropriated by the Legislature at its next session, in 1882, but a bill for that purpose failed to receive the Governor's approval. The officers of the institution were thus left without means to continue the work begun. In view of the facts that the school was suffering through the want of sufficient room to accom- modate its students and to carry on its work of instruction, and that the unfinished building was in danger of waste and destruction through exposure and want of care, and that the entire grounds donated conditionally by the city, together with the work done upon the building, were liable to forfeiture, they determined to make an effort to raise means to relieve these unfortunate conditions. In this effort they were successful. By loans and voluntary contributions from citizens, a sufficient amount was raised to erect the entire walls and roof the building in, and even to prepare two rooms in it to accommodate a large class of students during the winter just passed. It was again hopefully expected that the Legislative appropriation would come to the relief of the institution in 1884, and not only re-imburse those citizens who had so generously contributed to aid the institution, but pro- vide a sufficient fund to complete the structure. Executive disapproval, how- ever, of a bill for that purpose has again left the school without that much- needed support. Nevertheless, the chancellor and regents have decided to go on with the work of constructing the building and to look for a material endorsement of their course from those who favor liberal education and free institutions. The new building, therefore, will be occupied by the school at the beginning of the academic year of 1884-5, though not more than a sufficient number of rooms for this purpose will be completed.
The attendance at one time last year was 290, and it is steadily growing. The new structure, a cut of which is here given, will accommodate a larger number, and provision for additional room was necessary in view of the rapid increase made yearly in the attendance. Following are the chancellor and board of regents:
Chancellor, George Q. Cannon; Board of Regents-William Jennings, James Sharp, Robert T. Burton, David O. Calder, John T. Caine, Horace S. Eldredge, George J. Taylor, John R. Park, Joseph F. Smith, Feramorz Little, Henry Dinwoodey, L. John Nuttall.
Faculty and Board of Instruction .- John R. Park, M. D., President, English Language, and Theory and Practice of Teaching; Joseph B. Toronto, Ancient Languages, Mathematics, and History; Joseph T. Kings- bury, Physics and Chemistry; Orson Howard, B. S., Zoology and Botany; Joshua H. Paul, Elocution and Grammar; George M. Ottinger, Free-Hand Drawing; Evan Stephens, Music; Joseph L. Rawlins, Law; Don Carlos Young, C. E., Architecture and Mechanical Drawing; Alfred Andre, French.
DEAF-MUTES.
At the last session of the Utah Legislature an appropriation was made to the University of Deseret to assist in establishing in connection with the
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Institution a department for the reception of students on August 18, 1884. It cannot yet be definitely announced to what extent instruction and train- ing will be carried in the department. The provision to be made in this respect will depend upon the probable patronage the school will receive at the commencement of, or during the year, of which nothing is yet definitely known. It is quite probable, however, that two classes will be organized, one of children, say those under fourteen years of age, who have had but little or no instruction of any kind; the other, of those over fourteen years of age, who have acquired some facility in communication and who may have some knowledge of the common branches of study. It is hardly probable that at present or during the first year, instruction will extend beyond training the pupils in methods of ready communication, and giving them some knowledge of the elementary branches of study as taught in the common school, that is, reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, geography, and grammar. Parents or guardians of deaf-mutes and others interested in behalf of any of this class of persons, who wish to avail themselves of this provision in the University in behalf of their wards or friends, should com- municate with the President of the University at once, giving the name, age, and sex of the deaf-mute, and stating whether or not he or she has received any education, and if so, to what extent, and such other informa- tion as may seem important. The Institution provides only instruction for the pupils, so that the parent or guardian must see that they have suitable boarding places and other necessary facilities while attending the school. It is proposed, however, to establish a boarding place or home for the pupils of this department to be under the strict surveillance, if not control, of the officers of the University, and to have the teachers of the deaf-mute classes also live there with their pupils. This arrangement, if effected, will be of great advantage to the pupils, since they will be under the constant care and tuition of their teachers, and so be secure, in a great measure, from any evil influence that it might not be in the power of the University otherwise to prevent. This plan carried out will also avoid the inconvenience that must be incident to a mute associated with those with whom he can have little or no communication; and, at the same time, it will no doubt, considerably reduce the ordinary cost of board. However, before any definite steps can be taken in this direction by the officers of the University, they must know how many will probably avail themselves of the arrangement if made. The President of the Institution, therefore, should be advised at once on this point. It will be understood now, from what has been said, that this provision in the University for deaf-mutes is not for an asylum to support the unfor- tunates, nor to furnish them medical treatment, but is for a school for their instruction only. Candidates for admission into the department should be of ordinary intelligence and constitutional vigor, as no one will be received who is imbecile or idiotic, or affected with any offensive or contagious disease.
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