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Show View From the Campus Schools were maintained in all the wards of the city and the settlements of the Territory, but the University had a struggle for life due to the need of proper facilities and means. Advanced students continued to take studies until 1857, when all the schools were closed, owing to the move south. After the first two years, the old Thirteenth "Ward Schoolhouse became the center of the students who "were aiming at courses beyond the ordinary grammar studies. Historical and philosophical courses were given by the respective professors, and a laboratory for chemistry and physics was fitted up by Professor Orson Pratt, "who also gave an extended course in astronomy. In 1860, the University was -continued in the opening of the Union Academy, which was housed in the large building built for hotel purposes and owned by David Wilcken. It is now the Salt Lake knitting factory. The academy "was under the direction of the Chancellor and Board of Regents, and was formally opened by President Brigham Young. It took the name of Union Academy from Union Square, just opposite, which in time became the site of the University. The principal of the academy was Orson Pratt, assisted by Orson Pratt, Jr., James Cobb, and Mrs. Randall. They offered courses in algebra, surveying, higher mathematics, astronomy, mineralogy, geology, chemistry, and modern languages. James Cobb was an eminent classical scholar and had his degree from Dartmouth College. . In the fall of 1867 the University was advertised as a first class 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 given. There was a model bank and mercantile house, and the "Deseret National Bank" issued a currency which 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." 10 ' \\V V |