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

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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

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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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Vo II Qlijg Ulitgnian Page II a result of all these causes, in 1851 tl1e University closed. During the inter- val of suspension, however, the Chancellor and Regents were regularly elected by the Legislature. In 1867 it wa.s re-opened as a commercial schoo-l under the direction of David C. Calder. An old Deseret News of about this time informs us that 'tThe Chancellor and Regents of the University of the State of Deseret respectfully inform the public that a school will be com- menced in that commodious and convenient building known as the Council House, in this city, on the second day of December, with Professor D. C. Cal- der as principal in the Mercantile Department, and Elder George J. Taylor as principal in Geography and Grammar. This school will form a nucleus for additional teachers and branches of education, until it shall eventually, and, we trust, at no distant day, be supplied with professors and teachers in the different branches pertaining to a University in all its completeness.