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Show Looking ForwardITH what spreading trees and vine-covered walls, softened as well with age, should we be linked to the past if our University had lived her full fifty-eight years of life in this present home, overlooking city and valley and lake! Just now assuming order and attractiveness, these grounds and buildings are chiefly rich in earnest of the future. And the future, more real to us than the past, is also perhaps more powerful than the past in shaping our acts and in bending our wills in loyalty to our University.What then of our future? It will be one of greatly increased public service. A process of adaptation to the needs of the state will continue to mark our growth. As the state develops in her industrial, financial, commercial, civic, and educational life she will urgently need men who have a higher and higher degree of skill and knowledge. To meet this higher need the University must constantly increase her efficiency and constantly expand. Our newest undertakings, provision for instruction leading to the master's degree, for advanced work in engineering, for professional courses in law and medicine, are but indicative of what we are to do. Moreover, the tendency of moderneducation is to lead educational institutions from their centers into the actual life of the community. The extension work of our Normal School and our School of Mines will continue until we are actively engaged in working out on their own grounds all the great unsolved problems of the state. From her very nature our University cannot be self-centered or circumscribed. She will become a larger and larger collection of educational units, all vitally connected with the life of our state, united and controlled by loyalty to the state and to the high purpose of training for service.The attendance of the University will greatly increase. This will result not only from the growth of the population of Utah, but from the power of the University to draw students from outside the state. Our situation and equipment provide us with the opportunity to be distinctive. As we grasp this opportunity we shall become a place of resort for students from all parts of the nation.(13) |