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Show i Governor cutler talks j w TO GRADUATES AT LOGAN jf f Chief Executive of State Defends Position He Has 1 . Taken in College Squabble. . . tmi i Tight to hold and even to (xpreca their opinion, opin-ion, without being mbjected to criticism at the hand, of tboM who ar. recclvlns of their bounty. Deserving1 of Eebuke. If I wsr to attetid the exercises of ' anr Btata institution and chsrres should be made asalnst the AcrtcultursJ college, I should feel it to be the duty of th president presi-dent of that Institution, or my duty a. Gov- ; rnor, to correct and rebuke such offensive language.' Your patriotism for the' Institution Is commendable com-mendable when expressed tn the right way, but It Is at least probable that the siatrlot-lam siatrlot-lam of the taxpayer, of the State expressed by the giving of money to the support of the schools 1. as great as yours, and their opinions. opin-ions. It seems to me, are also worthy of consideration con-sideration and should ba treated with respect by you. - The prestige of the Agricultural College of Utah must be enlarred and its field of usefulness use-fulness thoroughly cultivated. Nothing short of this wlll satisfy those who are supporting it. If personal feeling, enter Into Ita management man-agement and policy, they must be expelled. There must be a broad and patriotic ' grasp of the true needs and work of the college, and a united effort on the part of all concerned to see that this patriotic Ideal la fostered. Citizens of the State will not be satisfied until the college, by virtus of the eminence It shall reach In Ha appropriate field. Is In the front rank of the Industrial Institutions of the country. coun-try. - ; W - V , ! After thd exercises - President Kerr gave a luncheon, which Gov.- Cutler, Senator Smoot and Bishop Whitney attended, at-tended, together with Trustee McAllls- ter and Bishop Owens, members of the board. Trustees Stohl and Smart Were , In Logan at the time, but did not at-tend at-tend the luncheon. ;, . . y t -; - . - ,1 - (Special to The Telegram.) ' ' LOGAN, Utah, June 1. The commencement com-mencement exercises of the Agricul-' Agricul-' tural college were held yesterday. Mel- in Clarence Merrill and Joseph Edwardv Taylor were gTadualed from the agrl-f agrl-f . . '.' i cultural course; Blanche E- Calne, Ella : Maughan. Hazel Love and May E. Rudolph Ru-dolph were graduated from the domes- ' ;tlc science department; the commercial department graduates were James E. , . "arrack. John T. Fredrickson, John L. Coburn and Samuel G. Rich. Richard S. Ballaatyne. James H. i Smith, James Jardlne and John H. Tut-! Tut-! tie were the graduates from the civil . f engineering department. " - - ' ''' Eujfenlo S. Pierce received a diploma . V from the mechanical engineering de partnient The general science depart-I depart-I ment graduates were Verna P. Bow-" Bow-" I- man, Charles W. Porter, Eva Farr and :Koy E. Rudolph. . - . CertWoatee of grartfatlon were given to i r .Tonn Siepherr, Edna H. Maughan, i t- joser.h A. Eritkion. Aaron B. OJson. el- ! f lie Deschampa, Wllierd Gardner, Archl- " - f baM W. McKlnnon, ICnoch R. Mortenaon. ' t Robert A. Payne, Mattie Barson, Nellie :! t Bennett. Mellxsa Bybee. Nora Egbert, T Louvcrnla E. Taylor. Effle E. Smith, Mrs. . ' Alice Tomlinson, Orla E. McClcllan and i' AusUn H. Shaw. - Those who appeared at the exercises were Gov. Cutler and Senator Reed V i Smoot. Charles "W. Porter delivered an j: address on "The Sphere of the Land i Grant College," in which he treated of ' the issues between the Agricultural col-- col-- lege and the University of Utah. - Gov. Cutler read a speech in which he .tronly defended the position he had taken in the matter at issue. Gov. Cut- lr said In rart: . It s expec ted that . all concerrJ shall work ' - . . ;'' ' ' ' '- "- together for the accomplishment of the best Interests of this college. There should be no pulling apart, no Injection of personal ambition, am-bition, or theories as to th. object, for which you are laboring here. In educational matters, mat-ters, as in all ether thlnss. union 1. the (Teat mean, of accomplishment and progress, lteratdlng differences of opinion aa to th. policy . and scope of the Agricultural college. I wish to aay here that the law under which the college was founded and la sustained must determine Its policy. He then read section 2074 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1S98. Continuing, he said: ... Ton' will perceive from that quotation and from section 2087 that there is no real ground for difference of opinion ss to tthe work of the college and the natur. of the aerrlce expected ex-pected from It- It is to teach, first and foremost, fore-most, agricultural science and kindred subjects. sub-jects. That is the one reasnn for the existence exist-ence of the Institution. Without that purpose, pur-pose, th. Government and the State would not expend -the money necessary to support the college, because other Institutions In the Bute are founded for the purpoew of teaching the other branches. . Must Not Be Encouraged. No sectional prejudices are to be cnou:--a-ed and no particular-section of the ta:e Is to be looted after to the exclusion of oler pens. All the Institution, of, the Sute belong be-long to the Stat, as a whole. I say further, that no particular party, either political or eccleslsstlcal. is to be served or favored In the administration of any . State Institution. Both party and sect must be jarred from th. Agricultural college-and the other public Institutions In-stitutions of th. State. I ssy thla emphat- Irally, in the nama of the people of the (State and in accordance with the sentiment of th. ' people of our great Nation. The prestige of the Agricultural college must be enlarged. I desire- here to Impress upon you student, an ethical principle suggested by the thought that this institution Is supported by all the citizens of the fctate. Because they give to the school financial and moral support, they have certain vested light, la It. Among these is I the light to expert the gratitude and respect re-spect of those wbo are partakers of the benefits bene-fits for which these cltlxens pay, even thoush aome of them may differ with some of you aa to the policy of the college, they have a - I - , , V |