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Show A. JOHN R. PARK, M. D. President and Professor of Natural History and Chemistry. ORSON PRATT, Sen., A. M. Professor of Mathematics, Astronomy and Moral Science. BBRNHARD H. BERGMAN, A. M. Professor of Ancient and Modern Languages and Literature. WILLIAM RIESS, Ph. D. Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Metallurgy. LOUIS F. MONCH Professor of German, Drawing and Penmanship. HARMAL PRATT Professor of Instrumental Music W. D. JOHNSON Assistant Instructor of Commercial Department. JOSEPH L. RAWLINS Assistant Instructor in Preparatory Department and Mathematics. VOLNEY KING Instructor in Telegraphy. M. H. HARDY Instructor in Phonography Dr. Park had but one object and that was the establishment of a great University in Utah. Orson Pratt was known as a mathematician and astronomer of rare attainment both in America and England. William Riess was one of the first men to make a careful study of the geology and mineral deposits of Utah, while Joseph L. Rawlins took up the study of law at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was graduated, when he returned to Utah and eventually was Utah's representative to Congress and served one term in the United States Senate. Mr. Rawlins was instrumental in obtaining through Congress the grant from the U. S. Reservation, which became the permanent home of the University. Mr. Monch was actively engaged for years in teaching, and it was through his efforts that the splendid school known as the Weber Stake Academy was established, and Milton H. Hardy became one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons of the State. The catalogue gave somewhat in detail the courses of study, and announced the establishment of a first-class library. A literary journal was to "be established in connection with the institution, to which all students will be required to contribute." Instruction in the University included a classical, normal, commercial, and preparatory course, and for the first time, a Model School was opened in connection with the Normal Department in which boys and girls "would be prepared to enter immediately the College Classes, and thus exclude the necessity of the present preparatory course." Military training and physical culture were also to be prominent features of the school. Literary societies were to be organized, and "have for their object a theoretical and practical training in Oratory, Debate, Declamation, Composition, and Parliamentary Rule and Order." In speaking of the Museum the catalogue says: The Museum of the University, is yet in embryo, containing but a small collection of a fey hundred specimens; yet. it is designated to increase it until it shall fully represent the Mineralogical Geological Formations of our Territory, its Entomological Life ani its Flora, and thus form a valuable adjunct to illustration in the department of Natural History. Aid is solicited from the friends of the University in different parts of the Territory, and also from missionaries and others in different parts of the world to assist in collecting s^ch specimens of value and curiosity as they can obtain. In referenpe to graduation from the University, the catalogue said: Students completing the Classical Course will receive a Diploma and the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Those complejing the Normal and Scientific course will receive a Diploma and the degree of Bachelor of Science. Those completing the Commercial Course will receive a Diploma with appropriate honors. While the! Territorial Legislature appropriated some money for the support of the institution, stidents were required to pay tuition. Mention Has been made of the editing of a college paper. This was done, and the first issue of the "LANTERN," the name of the first publication, was April 7, 1870. The editors were Willard Young, who later was graduated from West Point and rose to a high position 'in the United States Army; Enoch Farr, Henry Lee, Miss Juliete Little, Page Thirty-four |