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Show vote on the question they investigate as a committee of the whole, both schools,' get all the direct points they can and see wjth their own eyes the real situation. situa-tion. 'Our Relief is that if this is done they will sit down on the lid of the merger so hard that it will not be heard of again, for certain facts stand out so prominent that they cannot be ignored. "Among these are the following : " ., (1) The merger would mean an 'immediate loss of quite $400,000 to the State. (2) . It would destroy a school which is a great honor of the State, and from which more graduates pf distinction have emerged than have emerged from the University. (3) The change , would entail a great expense upon the State for land and .water, unless as believed, be-lieved, the agricultural and horticultural and live stock features of the college would be eliminated. (4) The cry that it would be a saving of expense ex-pense to the State can never be made good except at the expense of the teaching of agriculture, or as Prof. Price of the uhio State university says: "In many institutions where the two have been combined com-bined it has been at the expense of the agricultural college." (By the way, this was suppressed by the majority of the Cutler commission.) The matter was' fully considered by the Constitutional Con-stitutional convention when the Territory was poor and the two institutions it was thought were made permanent. "We believe that the Legislature will, on full investigation, reach the same conclusion that the Constitutional convention did. I THE SCHOOLS SHOULD NOT BE MERGED. w We note that Judge King and Prof. Merrill epoke last evening at Ogden in favor of consolidating consolidat-ing the Agricultural college with the University. fTHE TELEGRAM has given the University side of this question, prepared by one of its faculty. The argument, ar-gument, it seems to us, is not at all convincing, that it supplies no justification for the' State to give up - property which amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars as a preliminary, All that property in case of merger will revert to the city, of Logan, and will then be an elephant on Logan a hands, something some-thing to be eventually sacrificed for perhaps 10 per cent of the original cost. But the property is a small inatter compared with the practical destruction of a great school, for that is really what would follow. EThen the change cannot be made without a large expense ex-pense to prepare the University to add agriculture, horticulture and an experimental station to the University, Uni-versity, for about half the money received from the JGovernment is for use in an experimental station. The last University communication treats the lact that the Logan school is obliged to lease a few acres of land, near the Agricultural college, which is perfectly fitted for experimental work, as conclusive conclu-sive that the, farm at Logan is of no more value than a patch of the east bench behind the University. That assertion seems to us an admission that the faculty - Bt the University has no conception of the real needs ,of an agricultural college. The truth is that every State thatrhas an agricultural college, with the ex- - ,ception of Delaware and Nevada, has more land than ihe Logan college has. ' The same communication -scouts the idea that ' ' graduates for the high school of the State cannot enter the University agricultural course in case of a jjnerger of the two institutions. But it is true, nevertheless, never-theless, that all such students would be required to ijtake all subjects in agriculture now prescribed in the jhigh school course in agriculture at the college before be-fore they could be admitted without condition to the ilfreshman course in agriculture. 1 To make a showing of students the last communication commu-nication from the University cites the attendance at the summer school. That is altogether extraneous, for that is no part of a university course'. . The facts seem to be these: Both the University and Agricultural college were founded in Territorial jdays; the University forty years ago, the college , pome eighteen years ago," when the Territory was 1 poor. Both grew to be prosperous schools. Suddenly after the State had doubled in taxable property, the cry "arose that the two schools, for the sake of economy econ-omy should be merged. 1 Gov. Cutler appointed a committee to investigate investi-gate both institutions of learning and to report. The report of the majority on its face shows that the men making it did not intend to be fair to the col-lege, col-lege, for it emasculated reports which it presented to fortify its opinion that a merger should be made. fThat is, it eliminated everything favorable to the college and published the reports as complete. This merely shows that a sinister design is behind be-hind the plan to merge the schools, some design which has not yet been made public, and which when -' made public will show that the whole scheme was a ' ' trick, started with false appeals to the Legislature and to public opinion. We suggest to the Legislature that before they |