cra aE gma Z, University of Utah’ toby oly a Centennialof IY SF 82 ry.” One hundred years ago today the general assembly of the state of Deseret passed an ordinance incorporating the University of Deseret. A month later the board of regents announced that the university “will teach all nations all useful arts and means struction by sciences ... inotherwise or lectures of will be brought to the level of the laboring classes ... It is neither arrogant nor extravagant to say that this institution is forth- with prepared to teach more living languages classically than any other university face of the earth ... intelligence every from will be more stitution than Onee on the Facilities for acquiring portion of the globe perfectly secured to this into any other of our acquaint- a we Classes ‘opened in ,the Pack’s adobe cabin. There parlor of John is a legend that Brigham Young himself registered for schooling. In 1851 the legislature, though without funds, appropriated $5000 for the school and asked congress for a similar sum. was abandoned in 1855 because money, but was revived again The school of lack of in 1867. Dr. John R. Park became the president two years later and one of the leading institutions of the west began a period of steady progress. Utah, noted for its fine schools, is justly proud of the achievements, services and growth of the state university in the century. Every resident of the where he to went state, school or regardless of regardless of whethér he went to school at all, can feel a surge of pride on this notable centennial