Show arix ir for this POP paper THEY MUST COMBINE SALT CITY nov NOT 24 1893 there ban baa been considerable said of late in public and in private in regard to combining college and the university of utah formerly lor merly bol varsity of deseret the aed educational interests of the territory are or vital importance to every citizen lend and are worthy of due consideration by the brightest and best minds of all classes there is ie no one who would not speak in words of commendation for the people or of utah for the he zeal seal they have displayed in late years for education but zeal xeal without careful thought sometimes leads to grave mistakes aud and precipitates measures which result in enervation rather than in strength dissipation of forces weakens and renders futile what otherwise would accomplish a vast amount of good every mn who tander understands the needs of a university and of an agricultural college sand and what are required in a thorough agricultural course and who has given any thought to the matter of maintaining such institutions separately or combined will agree that our legislature six aix years ago made a very serious mistake when it established the agricultural college as a a separate parate and distinct institution irom from th the university the questions which confront us now are does the territory desire to correct this great error which was made alx lx years sta since osand and to put th the higher interests on such a basis as to give to the people of utah real values for monies expended expend eo do the people of utah desire to have an institution in which their sons and daughters shall lye be provided with ample facilities to them broad anti and practical men and women woman do they hey want an knuti gutlon where their sons can become billed in machinery as electrical mechanical anu and mining engineers engine ere as ae al metallurgist mineralogists geo masters ot oi a hundred industries dus d ut ries tries which through its mineral resources besides silver lead and gold our territory might be iu in possession posses eion oi of or will the people of toe territory be sabit fled fied with two institutions in if which there will be poor facilities for the accomplishment ment of these desirable ends the great masses manes of this territory who are unable to send their sonis mud and daughters to eastern universities want to have their children deprived of tahe abe excellent advantages educationally which could be provided tor for them at borne bome by concentrating their heir higher educational interests in one ina institution titu no one who has made university matters a study will deny the fact mat it if we attempt to build up two unior r ailt eldies les it means neither une will be efel cledt thac mat both will lack in those factors and facilities which characterize a good university only those who are well to do can got get proper university instruction and have the advantages offered by a thoroughly equipped equip peti university tor these great privileges 8 will not or ORD can ut nt t bo be pro vitious fur for at home those well to du do can go elsewhere to get these advantages but the farmers artisans and all of those who are only moderately comfortable will not have the means to go ellew elsewhere here hence will be com compelled to remain at homeland be obliged to put up with disadvantages oi 0 i ly because the territory in IB duplicating in its higher education its ita buildings laboratories libraries apparatus professors instructors and almost all its work in all lines line in striving to maintain two universities instead of one to provide lor for a general scientific flo course ina in a university atas it is necessary to give instruction in mathematics physics chemistry mineralogy ge gy languages botany zoology physiology and economics and these are the mun foundation dation work of nearly every university and nine tenths oi of the be work in most any educational institution sti tulion ution technical or otherwise the day when books and lectures alone are needed iu in universities hau has long since passed it is practical work in mathematics mathematical practical work in the laboratories in physics chemistry mineralogy geology botany zoology and physiology it is in practical work that characterizes today even the poorest of our universities and without which efforts in education would be indeed futile and the institution without it relegated to ages long ago to where it ought to be consigned if we wish to establish an agricultural course in an it to Is necessary to provide for instruction in mathematics physics chemistry mineralogy er geology botany zoology some bomb of the languages and certainly lor for some economics all these subjects must be studied but they appear to be the same as we find iu in the general scientific course in the agricultural course there to is the analysis ut bay wheat corn etc but this work embraces one part of chemistry and before reaching special work ot this kind we must have had general chemistry qualitative and quantitative analysis hydraulic engineering might be given as part of the course tut but it la 18 one ol oi the applied brar caes ot 01 mathematics and before anything can be done in this line we must know algebra algebra geometry trigonometry etc in other borus we must have studley the ordinary mathematics iu in a general scientific course again we need to apply iu in the agricultural course minor miner not only to farming the soil formation format loo horticulture but we D must bat know theme subjects in order to apply them to anything in a well equipped university where th there ere are scientific classical and literary courses two or three extra professors a and a little land would be all additions needed deeded in order to provide for a first class clan agricultural course to have mining science classics and literature provided for in the and agriculture and engineering done in the agricultural college collego as a separate institution from the university it la is absolutely necessary to duplicate at least nine tenths of the work and to go to nearly double the expense necessary essaiy to the same hauae ends in view in an institution result resulting ipg from the he union of the college and university it would pay the territory to destroy either the university or the college should it be necessary to bring about a union ot the two for in five years the loss lose incurred would be easily saved we are wasting forty or fifty thou sand dollars per year now by carrying on these two institutions separately and in a short time if the territory at all provides lor for what they shall need seventy five to one hundred thousand dollars collars will be annually thrown away besides this means will be necessarily squandered by each in booming and advertising its advantages it if one institution ution sends mends out men to work up its interests the other must mast do the same it one advertises extensively the other will be also forced to do so scheming and struggling with legle lason to obtain appropriations that hut each institution may in the main do the same work must necessarily go on that the peoples people a means will be squandered simpy simply through rivalry for patronage and support must be un dunavold avoid ably the outcome to all this I 1 sin am firmly opposed and I 1 am free to announce that my position to is that the union of the agricultural Auri cultural college and we the university of utan utah is of primary importance and that the question ot of location to is secondary Furtner furthermore more JL I strongly endorse the statement made by president ki harper arper of the university ol of chicago that every effort should be made to bring them meaning the A g and the U university L Ivern ity of utah together not only for the sake of economy but for this the sake make of t the pl aln n employed in some oi 01 our desern states in distributing their educational institutions in different places is suicidal lual ual 1 I I 1 shall lurther say it if we desire to accomplish com for the people anything of real worth in higher education all our higher educational forces muss muse be oo co i binte it we desire to develop and utilize the resources of the territory we must provide the university with well equipped laboratories and employ men having ability and time to carry on some original investigation but bub to put a single university vitY on a good basis for doing valuable work tor for the territory requires a tabt sum of money with the right kind of a university our areat suit bait lake with it its resource ar c uld be thoroughly investigated and its minerals made to produce a vast valet amount ot wealth mineral resources in other parts of the territory Terr ilor r in the hands of expert with time and means at their disposal unfold many paying industries J T kingsbury acting president university of utah |