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Show Ill THE STORY OF UTAH ^ UR ALMA MATER has had its great educators; men of J^S*^^^, broad schooling and fine tastes, of sympathy and under- f=^f/^=^^zh standing. They believed in the perfectness of humanity ^m I M |[ as an end. They saw greatness in the boy and girl, and ^^ \-----^g B were the teachers of the minds and spirits of youth. ^S£*SfS0!^fi^ There were William M. Stewart, Dr. Orson Howard, Dr. X^ ~]r Joseph Toronto, Joseph L. Rawlins, Dr. Joseph T. Kingsbury, Dr. J. H. Paul, and many others. They seemed to have realized Plato's Ideal: "Lovers not of a part of wisdom, but of the whole .... of a well proportioned and gracious mind .... noble, gracious, and friends of truth, justice, courage and temperance." The life of the University of Deseret during the career of Dr. Park centered about the Normal School, which was organized as a department of the University in 1869. Throughout the years this school has been an important factor in the educational activities of the State. During the period from 1888 to 1913, the one man who came to be the leader in educational effort and the training teachers was Dr. William M. Stewart, than whom no greater teacher was ever connected with the University. His life was cut short by death in 1913, but hundreds of University alumni throughout the West hold his memory sacred. A chair of mineralogy and geology was established in 1890, and in 1892, while Dr. Park was still president, a bill was introduced into congress by Senator Shoup of Idaho, providing for sixty acres of the Fort Douglas military reservation for a University site. This bill was the result of a memorial, introduced by Representative Lund of the Utah Legislature on January 27, 1892. In 1896, through the efforts of Joseph Rawlins, the present campus site was obtained by an act of congress. At the same time, a bill was introduced to change the name of the University of Deseret to the University of Utah. This bill became a law at that session of the legislature. Interesting is the fact that this tract of land given by congress is the identical tract picked out by Brigham Young in 1850 for a university. |