Show TUE THE agricultural COLLEGE A lengthy article relating to the agricultural college appeared in sundays tribune the correspondent says that during the course of conversation with president tanner that gentleman hinted that them had beun been influences at work in logan to defeat a successful administration on his part ever ef since nee lie he assumed ned office we trust that mr tanner was not dot correctly reported and if he was that it is ia a mistaken assumption As far as tiu tin JOURNAL is aware the people ot of logan and cache county have the most friendly feeling n for the agricultural college and would do nothing to defeat a successful administration of its all dira by any presiding officer lier nf it is their pride and the first thing thin a visitors attention is 1 5 drawn to is the college which is e enthusiastically lauded as the greatest and best beat educational institute in the state slate the correspondent cites apparently as confirmation of the charge of adverse influences the fact that while but forty nine students had re registered t from cliche cache county at the time he wrote at the same period dui ing professor paul s last year there were in attendance reference ference Ke to the catalogue shows that luring during president tanner s first year there vere 18 students from this county enrolled at the A C of U which would tend to show that some cac other than the one alleged must be sought for the falling off th this is year this cause should be sought and remedied it is true that the attendance from cache cacelie is not nearly as large as it should be the courses in scientific agriculture the mechanic and domestic arts should fill the college to overflowing to say nothing of its scientific and literary courses the people of not only cache valley but the entire state cannot fully realize the educational cat ional advantages offered by this great institution or admission would be a widely sought and highly esteemed privilege editorially the tribune assumes that politics are at the bottom of the trouble alleged by its correspondent but it is ia safe to assert that if the college collee colle e board of directors and its president steer clear of I 1 political preferences the fact that it is as far as its management is concerned a republican institution will be entirely lost sight of and their politics will never be thought of it in connection with their administration of the agricultural 0 college tile agricultural college will have like other educational institutes to stand or fall upon its own merits whenever there is a falling oft off in its attendance an introspective spec tive search for the cause should be made before possible extraneous sources are investigated and baseless charges are made |