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Show MORE HYSIERICS AT LOGAN. It Is difficult for candid-minded men in the State at large, to put themselves In touch with the hysterical attitude of certain peitfons at Logan in the matter of the Agricultural College. When at the last session of the Legislature It was proposed to put that Institution and the State University under one board of control and management, there was an uproar at Logan, and frer.zled protests; It was alleged that It was a proposition to destroy the college, col-lege, though why that unified control should work hardship (much less destruction) de-struction) to the college any more than to the University, It would be hard to point out. Both are State institutions, each fulfills a great function In the State's economy, each Is In fact Indispensable. Indis-pensable. It was simply a proposition for the State to do tho best with Its own, In the Interest of the whole population. pop-ulation. That is all there was to it, and the outcry from Logan was wholly unjustifiable. The claim that tho University, Uni-versity, or any friends of tho University, Univer-sity, desire to "crush" the Agricultural College, or in any way to impair Its efficiency, ef-ficiency, Is ludicrously untrue. Tho fact Is that the true friends of the University Univer-sity are Just as true friends of the college. col-lege. And now there Is another historical outburst, In view of changes that are expected to be mado today by the Board of Trustees. There seems, to be a contest on between President Kerr and some of tho faculty. A special from there shows that President Kerr intends to remove some of the professors, profes-sors, if he can. These professors, quite naturally, 6trlke back; and If It is to be a question of which shall go, they to see tho president go rather than themselves. Some indiscreet friends of President Kerr are trying to represent that the effort to dislodge him Is a part of what they choose to term the effort by the University to "crush the college. It Is a Wholly absurd view, both in general and In special, for there is no effort ef-fort of the kind on foot anywhere, and we fully believe that the adherents of each side In this contest between pres ident and professors are equally firm In their allegiance to the college, and to Its best Interests. It is, as we understand it, altogether a personal matter, with some differences differ-ences of opinion as to the stress of effort, ef-fort, thrown In as makeweights. It Is not in the least a question of loyalty to the college, but personal loyalty, that is In question. And whatever way the contest is decided, we have not tho least fear that the Interests of the college col-lege will be materially affected, much less that It will be "crushed." A spirit of calmness and even-tempered discrimination dis-crimination is badly needed In Logan, whenever nny question comes up that In any way affects the Agricultural college |
