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Show U TO N I A NNineteen Twelvealgebra, surveying and higher mathematics, astronomy, mineralogy, geology, chemistry and modern languages.In the fall of 1867, the University of Deseret was again opened as a business college, with David O. Calder as principal. The school was conducted in the rooms of the Council House, where a good business course was offered. There was a model bank and mercantile house, and the "Deseret University Bank" issued a currency that circulated among the students in all their business dealings in the school. "This school," says the announcement, "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, connecting therewith, from time to time, instruction in agriculture and every science and art of use in our temporalSCIENCE BUILDING OF OLD UNIVERSITY OF UTAHadvancement. The mercantile department will embrace the following studies, which will be thoroughly and practically taught in all their commercial relations, qualifying the student to enter upon the real business of commercial life with confidence and intelligence: Bookkeeping, commercial calculations, penmanship, business correspondence, commercial and international law, banking, insurance, exchange, brokerage, commission jobbing, forwarding, railroading, expressing, telegraphy, and phonography." The full business course, "including grammar and geography," was $35.00.Mr. David O. Calder, who established the Business Department of the University of Deseret, and who directed the University for two years, was of Scotch parentage, having been born in G-lascow. He came to Utah in 1853, and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1860 he established the firm of David O. Calder and Son, dealers in musical instruments, and became the agent of the celebrated Steinway and Chickering pianos. Mr. Calder was also instrumental in establishing the Zion's Co operative Mercantile Institution, and for some time was general freight and passenger agent of the Utah Central Railway.Mr. Calder was active in establishing music classes not only in Salt Lake City, but in13 |
