Show PRACTICAL TRAINING 1 The rho Herald is i not inclined to credit t the intimation which has come from several Sever sources that less Its lon is g given given to tt industrial industria and agricultural training in the Agricultural college ot of Utah than to classical and cal 1 courses courser ou s Thee These departments should not and could not very ve While a liberal education is always desirable and instruction in the I classics sic and sciences is it required by y law Jaw aw to Ih agricultural cot col g gt created c ted and maintained in part by the he gen al gov guy it is nevertheless true that attention to practical education tion to industrial training is the main m tUn object ob t of or such Institutions Never Kever before ber in the history of f modern civilization were so eo many avenues open On and opening for tile tie of skilled hands Never was th tile the d do i j jm sand m so 80 great for tor a technical know knowl knowledge i edge ed e of the practical affairs t f life ftfe It rt Itis Itis j is lEI a commercial and indu t aI age t The day of cobbling and In manufacturing in tilling th Uw the s soil In solving the problems and supplying the I i s of 00 life Ufe is int U nip rapidly Idly Our public schools hool are that which was only found in the her in institutions of learning a half century a ago o Children are preparing for tor tim the realities of existence at an earlier er age I Ithan than once they did While the tie cot col colleges leges and universities are tt r patronized than ever and aDd they are deserving of even een more patronage yet yetI it ha been een deemed ed necessary to establish establish establish I lish manual training schools indus Jades industrial I trial U agricultural colleges where wherewith wherewith wherewith with mental discipline the student who can not afford a finished education may at least leaK acquire a practical one The demands of business the rapidity of industrial development the I scramble for commercial supremacy the t e necessity of entering the race as a aearl early earl PS es a possible in ones enes career has hits been widening the distance d tance between tween the standard of practicability J ad the t o oI i educational educations standard so long main I I Manual training instruction in hi the useful arts of industry does not mean mn i any more than t n classical i Instruction means the teaching of pupils to become poets But it has Its Us advantages vantages over a liberal education In Inthis inthis i this It Is within the tte reach of more I people it combines intellectual de do development dej with the development of sill through which the mind may i work it is s a war upon without permitting the mind to be Idle it brings the muscular and nervous systems to a mutual understanding it compels bodily exercise and preserves greater symmetry s In the growth of f men and women than work disassociated from study or book learning alone makes m k possible Agricultural and industrial colleges aw liM not intended however to supplant other 1 of learning bt bit they I were called Into being for a special pur fur purpose purpose pose they r have features distinctively their own n they aTe are an outgrowth ou of II the times they t ey are a part of the Ute na national national i they are an answer to toa toa toa a popular pop tar demand they are essential e to the masses the industrial machine hine jl can no longer be fed without dl Machinery has improved V d and aM andI I labor must keep pace with iL It Widen Widening lug Inc oPPortunities o and the ever evet in cremans creu responsibilities and anti require requirements ments ms of men who employ or o oversee versee labor call for tor manual training for fth f r in ip industrial education and the thi man or orI I woman who can answer that call and meet m those there requirements has a in reach If interest erest iq in the tile studies tudes of agriculture agriculture ture tare dairying housekeeping cooking and ancI other industrial arts or domestic I sciences s is ie i waning in the Agricultural college of Utah it is a mistake which 1 I the tb faculty and the board of trustees should lose no time in correcting I |