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Show . ! KEEP THE BOARDS SEPARATE. i There is a proposition before the Legislature to J have but one Board of Regents for the University ! and the Agricultural coHege. This may be all right : but it has a suspicious look, as though behind it was I a purpose to make it the firjt step toward merging 1 the two institutions. If that is the real purpose then the thinghould i be killed. There are other reasons. For instance, Mr. McCoraick has been a Regent of the Agricultur-. Agricultur-. j al college since the first appointment by the then ; Governor. He knows all about the college ; he knows ' very little ffboutthe University. To put him out would be a hardship on-the college ; to make him one of the new board he would at least begin his work 1 with his prejudices (if he has any) all in favor of the college Then what is 4.he need of any change? Are the salaries so -munificent that the State cannot staud it T Aside from the salary, what is to be gained by the proposed merger? To have a majority of the Board residents here? That would be an injustice to outside counties, a grave injustice to the northern counties who are more interested in the college than in the University. What is behind all this merger proposition, anyway any-way ? Both the. University and the college have done pretty well so far; why. just now that transformation transforma-tion for Utah is promised, a doubling up of her people, peo-ple, is the proposition sprung to unite the two great schools ? If they are to be united our judgment is that steps should be taken to amend the Constitution and send the University to Logan. Logan has the needed ground and such buildings as have so far been erected are ornaments. The University has neither the ground nor the buildings. The complaint is made that students pursue the same studies up to a certain point in both schools. That is no doubt true, so do the children in the public schools: so do the students in te Latter Day Saints and Brigham Young colleges. What of it? Is not Utah big enough and rich enough to support sup-port two great educational institutions? That is the real point in the case. Both schools have done pretty well for a dozen years past, have they nut Will they not do better with increasing people ;ind prop- rrty? Again, suppose the mercer is made, how is the money, land anl vater to he obtained to keep the present agricultural division of the Logan s.-1im.1 up to its present efficiency? Again, with the merger made, what will be done with the property at Logan? If sold, how much would it brintr? What part of its cost would it realize" There is enough legitimate business for the lK. Legislature to attend to. why not permit the tw. schools to remain what they have been an honm-and honm-and blessine to the ..State ? |