Show Editor University Chronicle THE editorials on the Preparatory School connected with the University which appeared appealed in your issues of November and contain a few points which are so specious that it seems r highly proper to present the subject to your readers from another point of i view The University of Utah is only t in line with with t the e. e majority o of Western i. i State Universities and with many f Eastern Universities of the highest to character in maintaining a preparatory school under the direct control of the University t Every University aspiring to have any students must have one or more Preparatory preparatory preparatory tory schools which may not be under its immediate control In the whole Territory Territory Territory Terri Terri- tory of Utah there are not more than four schools in which students can fully prepare themselves for University work Our University is for the whole Territory Territory Territory Terri Terri- tory not for a few of the largest cities and if it is to meet the needs needS' of three fourths of Utah it must supply some means of bridging over the interval which exists between the end of the work of the public school and the beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning of the University work A little thought will convince any anyone one that it is more reasonable to contrast Leland Stanford University with the University of Utah than to compare them Our University was founded to offer instruction to students coming from froma a definite section of country and it draws its whole support in the form of biennial appropriations from the people living in this definite section Leland Stanford on the other hand was not founded to benefit any special section and its support is wholly independent of those who patronize it or who may hope to patronize it in the future Our University is a contribution to the cause of higher education in Utah Leland Stanford is primarily a monument erected to Leland Stanford Jr and secondarily a contribution to the general cause of higher education The endowment endowment endowment endow endow- ment of f our University is the good will of the people of Utah Leland Stanford has an assured income reaching into the millions whether she has one student or five hundred A few words will tell the whole story The University of Utah must adapt it itself itself itself it- it self to the needs of the people of U Utah tah or they will cease to support it Our Regents and Faculty may well study the mana management ement of all other Universities but they must imitate none only so far faras faras as such imitation tends to place our University in harmony with our special special needs I heartily join in the hope of almost 1 every member of the Faculty that in inthe inthe inthe the near future the Preparatory School may have an entirely separate building and that a sharper line than is now possible possible possible ble may be drawn between collegiate and preparatory students but after a careful stud study of the whole situation I Ido Ido Ido do not believe that the time has ye yet come to abolish the Preparatory school Before that time comes high schools must be established in in nearly every county in Utah Let us all unite in hastening the day when that shall be bedone bedone bedone done and then the University Preparatory Preparatory t tory ry school may well be discontinued for forit forit forit it will be useless A. A W W. C. C |