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Show taxed themselves for their support. This was before the days of the railroad, when travel was different. But the system of local taxation was always maintained, until the State taxation took its place. The following is a statement made to the Author by Samuel W. Richards concerning the work of the Board of Regents: "We are always expected to look after the welfare of the schools of the Territory and this we did as the opportunities afforded. It was no easy thing to get to remote parts of the Territory but we insisted on the brethren sending reports to us of the conditions of their schools' We realized that the University could exist only in name until we had prepared our children for advanced work. In those days, a boy or girl did not have time to spend as now. He had to work on the farm and everyone took an active part in the betterment of the town. One splendid feature in early Utah history, is that the home life was developed, and the boy and girl taught that life's interest should center there. We had schools always, and for those who were interested in pursuing advanced thought, and reading books, we had the associations, where the inhabitants one and all, in the town would go and take advantage of every opportunity that was available to learn. When the University was opened again in 1867, there were students prepared to enter upon higher I If 6c DESCRIPTION OF CAMPUS IN 1850 courses of study. One may say what one wants about the early education, one thing is certain, it was far from the inculcating of the superficial knowledge that we have in our schools today.'" RE-OPENING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DESERET-1867. 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 temporal advancement. The mercantile department will embrace Page Thirty-one |
