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

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N. ANDREW JENSEN ............................................................... Bookkeeping and Arithmetic HEBER C. KIMBALL ......................... .. Typewriting JOHN D. SPENCER ....................... . ................................................. Lecturer in Salesmanship OSMON JUSTESEN, A. M. .................................................................................................... English ELIZABETH ROBBINS ................................................. r ...................... English SUSIE A. CLAYTON ............ . ......... . ..... .. .................................................. Burroughs Calculator Sage Twentyiwc

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THE KNOCKING AT THE DOOR. Beyond all controversy the very, very hrst scene in the life of our school occurred in the fertile brain of our Patron SaintaWilliam B. Dougall. So it seems from all the rec- ords 0f the institution. He had sent some of his children to the Brigham Young Academy, at Provo. Other men had done the same thing. And he had observed the good effects in both cases. So he said to himself: ttWhy cant we have a Church school in this city'V That moment the gate was opened, and the eager Blue Bird flew out and into the boat Which was to sail earthward. Meeting Dr. Karl G. Maeser one day, he put the question to him. ttCertaihly, Brother Dougall, replied the sympathetic Superintendent. ttThat is? he added, w1th a worldly wisdom not of the school room, uif you can raise the necessary means? He promised, moreover, to send up from the Provo school a capable teacher. And our Patron Saint went away to ask himselfeand otherSesome more questions. y WM. B. DOUGALL EAGLE GATE SCHOOL HOUSE, 1886 THE SEVEN WISE MEN. The question, Can we have a Church school here? was therefore partly answered. Or, rather, it took on another form: How can we raise the money to start one? Mr. Dougall put this question to Angus M. Cannon, then president of the Salt Lake Stake. And his answer was- ttDraft a subscription list, and take it around to your friendsft A good idea! But flI'St Mr. Dougall wished to sound some possible subscribers. So he called a meeting in the James Dwyer Book Store, on Upper Main street. Now, the night before the day on Which the meeting was to be held, a fire visited the book store, as if on purpose to undo the work of Mr. Dougall. But all the men met anyway. And there they sat on boxes, in a burnt-out store, with the water dripping