Show STUDENT LIFE lege with a straggling listless dent body there would be some sturea- for striking it out of existence but to deprive a loyal vigorous student body summarily of their college home would be an educational crime no true college man would ever dare to sanction hit they could simply transfer their allegiance to the University Ob yes They are actually yearnLike the ing for the opportunity little maid in “Little Citizens” they “have over her all the time those kindly feelings” There is no need to conceal the matter The feeling among Agricultural College students toward the University is pretty tense just at this moment The University cannot understand this and professes to be greatly grieved and hurt at it But until the College is conceded its proper place a rank equal to that of the University and there is an end to this exasperof snobbish insult and ating patronizing condescension until it is made manifest that the University is not aiding and abetting an educational assassination this feeling is bound to continue Even if there were no such a radical change of instructors conditions and environment would he detrimental to any body son I ! see-sa- w ill-feeli- ng It is all right of undergraduates for a graduate student to change his residence and profit bv the methods and facilities of several institutions But his real college life is behind him and he is now in the workshop It takes the novice about a year to grow into the atmosphere of a par 209 ticular college but once in he craves and deserves to enjoy an unbroken experience of its opportunities Individual circumstances throw obstacles enough in the way of Utah students It is hard to justify the State in placing more there There is a general breaking of obligations involved in the merger that was contemplated The Agricultural College has been in existence for fifteen years under the sanction and patronage of the state and during that time has turned out 86 degree graduates and almost as e certificates many with W here shall these people now turn for alma mater? To whom shall they look for the assistance and inspiration that a man is likely to want so often from his college ? There is a slight obligation to members of the faculty who have been giving to the college their most devoted efforts only to find their positions suddenly wrested from them There is a decided obligation to Logan City and Cache Valley however paltry and benighted they mav seem to their city neighbors It may be true that this region received the college in the first place because nobody else wanted it But they received it with the promise of permanence they have rallied nobly to its support and found pride in its successes they have laid their plans and made their investments with the understanding that the college on the hill would be allowed to profit by its own successes and continue to draw to it those who ap- short-cours- |