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

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BUSINESS COLLEGE INSIDE OF TABERNACLE critical year, he reported to the board that he had collected enough money to pay the debts of the institution, and that he had eight thousand dollars, including an appropria- tion of six thousand five hundred dollars from the Church, promised toward its expenses for the coming year. He therefore moved at this board meeting that ttthe Latter-day Saints, College be continued as a school as it had been theretofore, and the motion ttwas carried unanimously. The Templeton building was obtained as a temporary home; Dr. Joshua H. Paul was elected president; a faculty was engaged, and in September the school opened with a larger attendance than it had ever had. Presently the Business College building was erected on land which the Church had deeded over to the board of trustees; Mrs. Matilda Barratt gave twenty-six thousand dollars to build what is known as Barratt Hall; the heirs of President Brigham Young deeded to the institution the 01d Eighteenth Ward Square, for the erection of the Young Memorial building. Dr. Paul resigned his position as president in 1904, and was succeeded by Colonel Willard Young. During most of Colonel Youngts administration it was found necessary, on account of lack of room, to close the doors of the high school after the enrollment had reached six hundred. Attention was- therefore given during this time to internal growth. The courses of study were revised, with a View to eliminating non-essentials and to giving the pupils of the institution greater freedom of choice by greatly reducing the prescribed studies. In the suceeding administration-that of Guy C. Wilson, the present head of the schoolethe policy of limiting the number of students was abandoned, and as a result the enrollment shot up, in 1917-18, to more than two thousand, including night school and the missionary class; and as a result of this increased attendance a new building, one .of the most modern school buildings in the West, was erected, in 1918-19, and addi- tional land acquired by the school to the east of the buildings for a campus. The Latter- day Saintst University, therefore, now occupies eight buildings, including the Deseret Gymnasium. Special attention next year will be given the post-war necessities in edu- cation. All these later facts in the growth of the school go to prove the prophetic nature of Dr. Maeserts words, IVs future shall be more glorious than the past? rE-p-niisa-wpgaigzmlkwrs155' J ., i amerxsxmwgm r .195. m OUR SCHOOL TODAY Page Twerutyeetg 1',

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