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

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4 . Page I2 The Qlitnnian V0 H The- Legislature of this year, 1867, made an appropriation sufficient to insure a. successful run of two years. The school continued as a commercial college until 1869, when Dr. John R. Park was ma.de president. Under his management, it began upon a steady, systematic growth that has continued unchecked up to the present time. In 1884, the Legislature granted to the University the power to confer degrees, and, in 1892, changed the name from the University of Deseret to UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS FROM THE REAR the University of Utah. After twenty-three years of service, Dr. Park re- signed from the presidency in 1892, and, from that time until 1894, Dr. J. T. Kingsbury was a.cting president. In 1894, Dr. Talmage was elected to the presidency, but resigned three years later. Dr, Kingsbury was chosen to suc- ceed him. April, 1894, witnessed the iirst endowment made to the University. Dur- ing tliat year, the Salt Lake Literary and Scientiiic Associa.tion endo-wed the chair of Geology to the amount of sixty thousand dollars. The second gift came when Dr. Park willed his entire estate to the University.

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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.

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V0 II The Tllitnnian Page 13 The successive homes which the University has occupied indica.te the na- ture of its growth. It opened, as before mentioned, in the old Pack house, was moved from there to the Council House, then to.the knitting factory on the corner of First North and Second West Streets, then to the present Salt Lake High School buildings, and, iinally, to its permanent home on the east bench. This new home is situated on' a grant of sixty acres of land secured from Congress through the efforts of Senator J. L. Rawlins, a former teacher at the University. ' S Q H H' . - The growth of our State University has been slow, but steady and con- sistent. The several Legislatures have supported it generously with the means at their command, for its prosperity has been a wish dea.r to the hearts of the people of Utah. Its most seriously hopeful graduates look forward to a continuation of that same healthy, sturdy advancement which has marked the entire course of its p-ast development. l W-A ' Af -v an ' 0 -' Q -9, -YN' R 'A S.. 2' f: !V 7 VAS'-. 7 55 cusgfgfii-Y' . gg er ' e A i- --' . . ,. .T H. ,..pT,,,-.Ei Q, L, , -