| Show SOME university ECONOMICS the ogden standard is inclined to question the propriety of uniting the agricultural college with the university of utah IT tub in ID suggesting buob buch a course blomn dayn ago we felt assured that chat the grounds for boing so BO were the very best beet aua and while not disposed to 10 rueh voluntarily into a newspaper new controversy tro versy on this or any 0 her subject we shall have to take occasion occa bion to mention a lew few important impo pointe which the standard Wan dard seems beema to have overlooked the grounds upon which protest against gai nit the union its is made ire re 1 that the schools airier in aim and design tu to an extent which renders impracticable the scheme of uniting them under one management and it in one locality 2 that tte tie agricultural allego ol lego has haa now been at heavy expense to the ferri territory tory and to move it from logan for the purpose ut of bringing institutions tuge lher would be bad economy we might have answered anaw ered the first object objection iun with more if the standard writer had bad been more explicit in defining defini den diug ug what he considered to be the aims aima of the two schools here la biu bitett the agricultural college is a special school combined with an experiment mia elation tion it is or should be a place where baere the youth may receive manual training it is a school for the masses where the pupils should be taught matters pertaining to practical affairs and receive a training in every day utility the college is established tor for practical purposes the university lor for classical we are unable to decide from this language just what to ie meant by man ual training it it la is to teach the larmer buye boys who go there with the expectation of petting getting practical knowledge how to ald h ild a plow or harness a bores bone we have only to say eay that either the NEWS or its esteemed la is slightly off color as a to college economics if it is a r f chool of technology which the standard has baa in mind while such could not consistently be assumed to be comprehended in the name agricultural college we would still be prepared if occasion required to advocate the uniting of suca BUCO an institution with the university as unconditionally as we do the uniting ting of the agricultural college Ool lege but that is aside from the point in every public transaction where a diversity of personal pers oual interests exists here are sure to arise an array ot or many sided arguments so vast as to preclude all possibility of dien di en tangling ling them with profit we believe the agricultural college n as discussed in other states utah has baa been more than usually fruitful ot of this sort of political product but stripped of verbose definitions notions and other worthless attendants we find that the only difference between an agricultural college which offers a compe competent tout course cauree of study for the granting of degrees decrees and any other competent educational concern having the same grade of instruction instructions ie Js its experiment stat station jon all outside of that thai department is fie straight y work and the greater part of the instruction inside is given in any capable institution of higher learning for the sake of exact we have been comparing the courses of study nw n w offered by the agricultural college pour four fifths if not more of the studies exhibited in its register of courses are exact duplicates of work laiu laid down in the university catalogue if the latter institute was fitted up its as it should bes be with its coun couie and apparatus aj co complete molete as are afforded by bv several other western institution a ol 01 I 1 he same grade the ratio of duplication would not beas be as four to five but rather as nineteen to twenty the greatest agricultural university in america supports not more that four fou r instructors whose work to Is distinctively agricultural RA its entire corps of teach h ers erg scum number one hundred and fl alty ty or more As to the question of what studies are practical and what ornamental we incline to tie ti e opinion that the only competent judge of such matters is the student he it ir anybody knows know what lie be hopes to do with himself in real life rod d any study which in his particular lioe lice would aid in the r of happl nose ness we presume would i a a practical study anu and that definition would apply as well to the study of greek lu all ohe obe case as to the chemistry of pa ent fertilizers fertilize ru in knotner an otner for thin reason a is not as an the standard ve beems ems to think simply an ment for the application of a higher p polish to persons whose sole mole end in life is to bc b cultivated but lor giving com peteet instruction in any of the higher branches of learning learn i tig which anear an ear est eat student might desire in to pursue andee and we will say further that whatever theory ol of practicality would tend benj to rem remove 0 ve the h 0 science of agriculture from the plane of higher education simply degrades dex rades the must most noble of human pursuits it is oot not sentimentality that platies places agri cultural science among the higher brand branches bes of learning its place there has been determined by the long line of sober and exacting labor in the class room and laboratory which every student stu ilent must traverse before he Is competent to begin the most essential branch of agricultural study this maybe foregoing the advantages of education for the sake of practical training but it doe boef not so 80 appear in the books the second ground of the standards protest we have heard nothing of in this quarter the simple point of con tro versy veray no DO far as we know has bean the uniting of the two schools we w will ill say may this much however for the benefit of our opponent when you yea come to place the more mere cost of a college building of the dimensions of either the one at logan or the one in salt lake city over against the constantly increasing expense of keeping suen euon an institution abreast with the times your bunding building cherished for what it cost will very awn a n n go out of sight it is it not only professors profess ura urs and buildings which you duplicate by such a scheme it 14 libraries museums gymnasiums laboratories physical and engineering gi ginee rinK apparatus all of which are quite as essential to ito a university as its pro evasions or president prel dent the territory coutu could better afford to put the cue borca torca to one of the extra iban to t support it as a parallel institution of learning in five years yearn or jess it as the treasury would S be clearing good money out of the savings by such a destruction |
