Latter Day Saints Business College - S Book Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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SMITH ll'llCMORIAL BUILDING NEARING COMPLETION 0 UR NEW B lil IADING' Our Ottoman half moon is rounding out to its full. One more kingdom has been added to our empire. One more building graces our University circle this year. The new building will supply commodious high school and business college offices. The new class rooms will reliev the congestion Lhilt has come With our increased en- rollment. A thousand new lockers will make it possible for every student of the school to have it little nook all of his own in the school. The new building also supplies what our school has needed more than anything else to put its work on at high plane of universal excellence. That need was proper housing for our Science Department. Cmiditionsiin the past were such that it has been impossible for the Science Department to do the work and make the showing which would bring it up to the high standards of the L. D. S. U. Our school, due to its location, is the most representative church school :md must represent to the world the Virtues and faults of the church school system. Our standards must be high. The opening of the next school year Will find the Science Department at home in the new' building. No school in the intermountain west will be better prepared for its science work than will ours. No school will have laboratories more carefully fitted out for the work that is to be done in them. The most interesting feature of the building, however, is the Deseret Scientific Mu- seum. This will occupy all the west end of the third floor. It will contain most of the material that was in the Deseret Museum, when it was located in the Vermont building, and other material as well. Skeletons of prehistoric monsters shall stand forth in all their sepulchral majesty. Minerals, bugs, birds and animals will abound. We will, witli- out doubt. have the Iinest museum in the intermountain west. Probably, if :1 money value were placed in it, the museum would be worth more than the building. To have such a treasure house of learning at their disposal would be beyond the dreams of the larger uni- versities of our land. We are indeed blessed. The roof garden theatre has been talked of so much and so thoroughly inspected by students this year that it hardly needs mention here. The Grecian style of this open- :1ir court seems to appeal to everyone who sees it. Equipped as it is, With a large stage and movie machine and plenty of sunshine and moonlight, it ought to be the most popular place in the school. We are proud of the fact that our school has been considered worthy of such a buildihg as the Joseph F. Smith Memorial Building. We are proud of the fact that we were considered worthy to be the repositors of a memorial to so great a man. May we show Our appreciation by our good works till another building-eand yet another building eis added. May We continue until we attain what the Turk fell short of-the complete circle. -Thos. Howells.