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Show GOOD SCHOOLS AND ONE-IIOKNE COLLEGES, COL-LEGES, i. For years the school system of Utah has proved sadly deficient in accomplishing accomplish-ing good results. Handicapped by church and state, and crippled for tbe want of national help, such as new states of American mould have received m generous gen-erous donation of school lands, the mud-walls mud-walls of territorial school houses were emblematic of shabby internal equipments. equip-ments. Denominational enterprise and eastern generosity, in connection with an influx of first-clans teachers and the erection of well equipped school houses have given an impetus to a general interest in-terest in the direction of reform in school matters. The Territorial University ,with new life infused into its management, is assuming assum-ing its proper function at present, in fitting fit-ting persons of both sexes as qualified teachers of common schools. Great improvements im-provements in Bchool buildings are seon in our larger towns, and their internal appliances for imparting knowledge are being perfected. School taxes are paid more willingly and on a larger ecalo, and the outlook for free schools with compulsory com-pulsory attendance is encouraging. encourag-ing. With the growth and perfection of a free school system the denominatial common ana tngn schools will naturally pam away or be merged into institutions of a higher grade. Already, the question of colleges and universities is under discussion. Is not such a discussion premature at tho present time? Does the present advancement ad-vancement of the rising generation in Utah justify the expensive establishment establish-ment and erection of so-called collegoa and universities, or even one in Utah? The question has arison in connection with the prosont and future prospects of one of the best of the high schools above mentionod, tho Hammond Hall school under tho able management of Prof. E. BenlVer. This school, with a fino building, centrally located in a very desirable part of the city, is tho only institution so far as we know, that combines a department of manual training train-ing with mental and classical studies. A well endowed and thoroughly equippod institution of this kind, in connection with first class normal school instruction at the Territorial university, and a well graded free school system throughout tho territory, will fully meet the general educational want xn Utah for years to come. There may and will be, individual individ-ual cases where tho children of exceptional excep-tional families will avail themselves of tho superior advantages of colleges and universities at the East, but let us discourage dis-courage the multiplication of one-horse colleges hero. |