Show A WESTERN INSTITUTION The histories of all of the western state universities have one common fe feature ture they are like the commonwealths themselves a g gradual a ual development develop develop- ment from humble beginnings In pioneer communities the struggle for daily bread is too great to admit of the elaborate social and commercial systems of a higher condition of civilization These come with more settled conditions and increase of prosperity V While hile still in jn their infancy most of the western states wisely and generously provided for the establishment of state institutions of higher learning which should grow with the states states' The splendid institutions of Michigan J Wisconsin and Minnesota J are monuments to the wisdom of those states In nearly every instance the university was at first a mere preparatory school often the only school in the state above the grade of a district school As population and wealth increased and life grew more complex other high schools and academies were established the university was enabled to do higher and higher work until it could discard its preparatory department and devote its entire energies aha and resources It to Ito college work Our own university is following th the same line of development Each succeeding year has seen her doing more and more advanced work until now she offers courses that may be favorably compared with those of eastern colleges colleges colleges col col- leges of acknowledged excellence The unjust and untrue criticism is often heard that the university is only a high school It does maintain a pr preparatory school but only to fit fit Jit students to enter the university proper ro er The best and most commendable work of the university is its college work The proportion proportion proportion tion of college students is rapidly increasing There are at present not more than seven schools in all Utah with courses sufficiently advanced to prepare students to enter the Freshman class of the university By a recent decision of the faculty graduates of a n number of these schools ho ls 41 the B. B Y Academy of Provo the High School Hammond Hall and Rowland 1 Hall of Salt Lake City and the B. B Y College of Logan will be admitted to the University Freshman class without examination This is an excellent move and will bring the academies into closer relation with the university and will emphasize the fact that the high grade schools of the Territory are not competitors of the university but feeders of it The university is the highest institution of learning between the eastern slope of the and the Pacific coast Its faculty is the most learned body of men in actual teach teaching ng in the mountain inter-mountain region Most of them are graduates of the greatest institutions in America most have done postgraduate postgraduate postgraduate post post- graduate work Harvard John Hopkins I Toronto Yale Cornell Lehigh Iowa Ann Arbor are all represented here by men of fine scholarship and zeal zealand zealand zealand and skill Degrees will not be granted for less work than would win a degree in good eastern colleges Surely there is no public institution in Utah of which should feel prouder or which they should support more loyally loyally loyally loy loy- ally both financially and in patronage It is no longer needful for graduates of the academies of our Territory to go east for a good college course when e facilities are at their very doors It was a wise move of the recent convention of county superintendents in this city to take measures looking to the founding of county high schools The more moie of these there be may established the greater will be the spread of a higher intelligence the greater will be the number of going college-going students and j CJ O the sooner will the university discontinue discontinue discon- discon ti i the lio preparatory Tr r-Tr department a ot 4 4 |