University of Utah - Utonian Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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Vol. II A Mba Ulitunian Page 9 ilaisturp ni the Tllinihersitp uf Tllitab HEN MASSACHUSETTS was sixteen years old, a.ppropriations were made for the support of a seminary at Cambridge, now known as Harvard College. WVhen Connecticut was sixty-tive yea.rs old, ten ministers brought together a number of books for founding a college in - Connecticut, now known as Yale College. Wlien Uta.h was two' and one-half 13. R ' ' years old, the Legislative Assembly of the Provisional Government passed an act incorporating the University of the State of Deseret, now known as the University of Utah. If figures are not interesting, they are, at least, sig- niiicant. Cn Monday, November 11, 1850, the University, called by the press of the time, the Parent School, was opened in Mrs. Pack's house, situated on the corner of First North a.nd VVest Temple Streets. The Deseret Even- 1

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Page 8 The Qlifutlidn ' V01- II Qin ZIII tu whom This Bunk bball Qinme-Greeting: I The UTONIAN Needs no Preface i ONCEIVED in a spirit. of loyalty to University and Class, it will do its mission well if it serves our classmates as a record of a pleasant and profitable year, the Alumni as a reminder of happy college days, and the general public as an indication of the greater University that is slowly but surely building on the hill. If the book pleases you,-if you turn through its pages with a. smile of pleasure and appreciation, the editors will be more than repaid for the time, worry, and midnight oil they have spent upon it. And if there are shortcom- ings, no one kno-ws them better or regrets t.hem'more than the editors. Acknowledgments are due to all those who have given of their time and - talent to make this book successful. n Our bow is made. Now your indulgence!

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Page IO Qlfbtu Uiftlliidli Vol II ing News of November 16, 1850, says: HThe Parent School commenced on Monday at Mrs. Pac-k's house, in the Seventeenth Wa.rd, under the direction. and supervision o-f Professor Orson Spencer. The Board of Regents have employed Dr. Cyrus Collins, A. M., for the present, who will instruct in all branches taught in High Schools. Dr. Collins taught. for one term, for which he received 3200.00 At the expiration of this term, the University was moved from the old Pack house to the- State House, afterward ca.lled the Council House, on the corner of Ma.in and South Temple Streets, where the Deseret News block now stands. Orson Spencer, A. M., was made presi- dent, with W. W. Phelps and Apostle- Orson Pratt as assistants. The following yea.r, poor crops checked the financial support of the school, men and women were needed in the fields, and of those few not needed scarcely any were ready to do high school or University work. As lIH ,H