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Show 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. The University of Deseret had been revived while Albert Carrington was Chancellor, but in 1868, he was superseded by Daniel H. Wells, who began an immediate reform in the curriculum and policy of the institution. George Q. Cannon, then editor of the Deseret News, was advocating through the columns of that paper the establishment of an institution of advanced standing, and he in connection with Robert L. Campbell, territorial superintendent of public instruction, suggested a number of men who should take charge of a college department of the University. Chancellor Wells also lent his aid, and in time the proper man was found in John R. Park, teacher in the public schools of South Willow Creek, now Draper, in Salt Lake County. Dr. Park was, accordingly, hired at a slary of $1,600 per year, and on March 8th, 1869, the University was opened with Dr. Park as principal. The announcement of the opening had been made in all the ward meetings, and the following statement was made through the columns of the Deseret News: UNIVERSITY OF DESERET. The Board of Regents have secured the services of Professor John R. Park, late teacher at South Willow Creek, and have engaged him as Principal of the Institution, supported by such a Corps of Assistants as he may require. The Branches of Study to be taught in the University will be embraced in two courses-a Normal and Collegiate. The Normal, or Teacher's course, will include the following: English Branches-Orthography, Reading and Elocution, Penmanship, Arithmetic, written and mental, Geography, Grammar, Drawing, Composition, History, Object Teaching, Theory and Art of Teaching, Vocal Music. Mathematics-Higher Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry. Commercial Business-Theory and practice of Bookkeeping in all its departments, including Banking and Joint Stock Business. Natural Sciences-Natural Philosophy, Botany, Zoology, Geology, and Mineralogy, Astronomy, Chemistry, Physiology, Mental Philosophy, Political Sciences. The Collegiate Course will include, in addition to the above, the German and French languages, the higher Mathematics, the Latin and Greek, with the classics generally. TERMS, IN ADVANCE: For the English Branches.......................................................................................................................................$ 8.00 per term For Commercial Business....................................................................................................................................... 15.00 per term For Natural Sciences (including English Branches)....................................................,.......... 15.00 per term For Collegiate Course................................................................................................................................................... 25.00 per term The University will open at 9 a. m., on Monday, March 8th, 1869. ROBERT L. CAMPELL, ISAAC GROO, DAVID O. CALDER, Acting Committee appointed by the Board of Regents At the time that the University was placed under the presidency and direction of John R. Park, a Normal School was established in connection with it which "should qualify teachers that will be able to step forth into the educational arena, and with ability, dignify the position of Teacher." With the permanent establishment of the Normal School, there was organized a Territorial Teacher's Institute, which met in Salt Lake City as a general rule every summer after the close of the schools. It was for the purpose of bringing the several teachers of the Territory together, and to impart to them instruction along the lines most needed in their work. The Institute of 1873 was an interesting type of the meetings held. Page Thirty-two |