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Show IIIE MOIiXIXG EXAMINEE: AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE SHOULD REMAIN AT LOGAN With the Why That InxtiinHnn Should Not Be Consolida.ed University of Utah Facts and Figures by a Loganite. bait mill tax levy would not alleviate the difficulty in half a oratory If at all, and it would be difficult to secure a constitutional amendment to legalize auch a levy. The Preparatory Department. The nilaaion of the Agricultural college la to educate working men and women. Ita aim la to receive the nans and daughter of the inJua'.rtal classea. and to give auch instruction as w.ll best prepare them for success in their Its ideal man or woman life's work is the Intelligent U barer, not the pro In thie reepeci the spirit of , feasor. .lie Agricultural college la oaaantially Afferent from that (4 tba L'nlveraity: Is ths Agricultural college, than. Jus- tilled in giving High school or preparatory work, or even work equivalent to that given In the grades? Accord' lng to 8upt. Nelson's report for 1$'J3-10there were 11.084 children between tbe ages of six and eighteen ) Mrs who attended ao achool whatever during that )ear, and probably 12.bu would be a conservative estimate of the children of school age in Utah last year who were deprived of even the privilege of attending a district school. A great majority of these children grow io be men and women before they reallae the necesalt of attending achool; and because of neglected opportunities, or perhaps poverty, would you compel them to start out tn life without the advantage of an education? They are not prepared to enter the High school, even if iheir community boasts of one. To enter the grades la sow out of tba queaun. yet they desire to attend, school. Thi condliloa is k reality. It is true In all new states, where the majority of citiaent are of the toiling claaae. Even in Balt Lake City, Ttnh natural educational center, with it excellent system at cii school, this value condition exist. Prut. Byron Cummings of the University of Utah In 19u4 made this statement: ! rr University according to the catalogue for Oeaeral Chemistry, first General Chemistry and Qualitative T Utah. Aug. S3. 1996. Salt Imho newspapers of raceat appeared an addreaa from the Aland grtatina of the University of Utah, thiough their president, John C. McKay, in which the writer claims ta present "facU" eoaeerninr the ad Unlver-altrlanMlity of aonaoMdatlng the Utah of rf Aetfreultural Collage on one aMe at Balt Lake City. It becomes my uty as preaidant ef the Atonal Aaeodatloe of the CoUcgv of Utah, in compliwith a request from the executive ance committee ef the association, to expose seme ef the fallacleB in the of those enthusiastic members of (he University Alumni who are clamoring for A Greater University. to note that the It ie Alumni Association, many of whom are not even taxpayers, should he ei extremely eager to secure an economical use of the etate'a funds. Even after it has been clearly shown hat there ia no real foundation for the claim that the merger will result in great saving to the state, these same people, bent on mnooKlling the state's funds for education, to the aggrandisement of their alma mater, rlose their eyee to justice, refuse to cry recognise farts, and simply 19u-19i- half-yea- r. Ana ly ala, second half. Higher Alegebra. first half. Analytic Geometry, eeeond half, freehand and Meohanical Drawing. English CVmpositlou. y Carpentry. This the commission recognised a college grade wmk. Compare it with the following, which ia Freshman work In all courses at the Agricultural col. Agri-cnltur- argn-mrat- J: lege: General Chemistry, first hall ) ear. General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis, second half. Higher Algebra, first half. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, a second half. Mechanical Drawing. History of English Literature. PbjBlca. Uul-veral- tr This the majority of the commia-aioarbitrarily decided to considar aa High school work. The course are almost Identical. Even the same textbooks are used ta moat canes and the aame amount of work la accomplished. The English composition and carpentry in the university Freshman year are preparatory course at ihe Agricultural college, and the trigonometry and phyaica in the Agricultural college Freshman year are pieparatory courses at the university. To count nil who were taking the above course at the university a students of college grade and all who were taking the aame course at the Agricultural ooJIege as students of High school grade la not the boat kind of honesty. By this process of cluasiflcntlon the majority members of the commission found at the Agricultural college only 71 students of college grade, and 427 n t "Bait City has a school population of 16,000. There are eurolltd iu the schools at the present time 13,000. Where are the 3,000 of school age and what are they doing? Every community, and especially 'a city cotninunltv, ba numerous yoing men and women past eighteen who are atruggllng to economy! make up for opportunities that were It ia not surprising that Agricultural neglected or too often denied them by ina feel Alumni should deep College forre of circumstance In earlier life. terest in the present controversy and It was to meet this condition that be ready to expose any misrepresentathe Agricultural college of Utah estabin aid to the of intended farts tion lished ita High school courses in Agrly assassination of the foster mother. For culture, Commerce, and Domestic Scihas while been achool at the High student, years the Agricultural college ence. and It Manual Training course striving to assume tn the eyes of the university they were able to count In Mechanic Arts and in Domestic 484 stu512 school to and a distinct individuality, High college public Art, the two latter course, establishideals and traditions, and to dents. It la summarised na follows ed by legislative enactment, admitting men 23 and halls 24, her young majority report): (pp. gather within atudenta above eighteen years of age devoted to and women who are loyally "General fund for the uniwho have not completed their grade her and to all she stands for. Iiecause 1150,500.00 work. versity succeeded. they love her. She has General fund for the AgrDuplication. There were llmee who sneered when icultural college At the University' until 1901 the Psrimonth: Webster said in defense of In the university: courses of study were confined-tthree Hhe is a little rnllexe. but there are 111 student of High achool lines of work, and were designated as some of ua who love her.- - There are . . at $45 per capita grade classical and srtentiflr normal, many who will sneer now at the This taken from the general course. As stated In the minority rethought of student love for the AgriRind (160,MMii leavei port, "Tbe distinctive field occupied by cultural college. Rut It exists In the To ho divided . equally the l'nlveraity up to the time of the -' tuhearts of thousands of men and women 404 among .college establishment of the School of Mines throughout Utah, and to deprive them dents which would be for was In the general work of liberal arts of their college home would be an edueach student $274.8$. and pedagogy." Ths civil and mechancational crime that no true college In the Agricultural college: ical engineering courses were estabman would ever dare to sanrtion. 111 grade students at $20 lished at the university in 1903. The The Majority Report. per capita same course were organised at the school 427 of atudenta High Tho argument oat forth In the a Agricultural college when it first opengrade at $45 per capital.. referred to above are booed up-e- e ed tn 1890, thirteen years before, the statements made in the majority re University announced any work In Total $21,87500 these lines. These course had been port of the commUelon appointed by Governor Cutler to Investigate the This amount taken from given two years at tha University and the general fund (I01,25i fifteen years at the College when the operations ef (he University and $79,371.00 wail arose leaves to college and determine from the University that col71 what extent there (a unnecessary du- To he divided among Iheir work in engineering was being which students, lege plication ia the eouraee and equipment duplicated at the Agricultural college. t, would he for each of the- - two Institution. The report The department of finance and Com$1,117.43. should furnish a reliable basis for the merce was organised at the University The only reasonable and eqnitable In 1904. At the College It was establarguments of any individual or eo-cis- t a ion. The people expected the plan of determining the cost to the ished In 1891. Again the University to make an honest and slate of students of college and of was thirteen years behind, and now It effort ta secure reliable data High school grade would he to dis- Is claimed that the College la dupliand to make an unbiased report ef tribute the cost of buildings, equip- cating University work In this field. their Bndlnga. ment, heat, light, janitorial service, How long will be he before the Unlver. i Contrary to these expectations, the etc., equally among all the students In alty will establish courses In agriculcommlaston juggled with statistics to attendance, since all share equally the ture, domestic science and mechanic cover up facts and create false Impres-lone- ; benefit at these expenditures, then aria, and then declare that the Agriquoted only portions of several add to the average thus obtained the cultural college le wasting state funds letters received by them in response average cost of Instruction for atudenta by "duplicating" l'nlveraity work in to a letter of inquiry w hlch the secre- of college ami High school grade re- these lines? The Agricultural College tary of the commission sent out to lead- spectively tn asceVtaln the cost of each of Utah haa graduated a class In Ening educator, omitting such portion to the stale. A complete Hat of the gineering each year since 1894, and aa would tend to operate against the member of the faculty of the Agricul- haa engineers In charge of government movement for consolidation; and tn tural college with n statement of the work In the Reclamation Service and various ways proved themselves prejuwell aa teachers alary of each, and the proportion of Geological Survey, diced, and unlit to properly perform the time of each professor and In- In colleges and universities. From the the duties Imposed on them by their structor devoted to college grade and files of the University catalogues to High school grade work wsa sent to the present year It can not be found appointment. The minority members of the com- the commission, but for some reason that a single student haa graduated mission have dlaered'ted the report re- the majority membeis did not seem fmm any of the cmirsea In commerce ferred to as an unjust, inaccurate, and to think It advisable to include tt In or mechanical engineering, and only biased document, designed only to pro- their report. The statement summar- two from civil engineering. mote the Interest of those who favor ized show that the salaries paid for The Land Problem. comb nation. instruction in work of college grade la required for agriculland Mors Amount tn $17,176.44. to be divided Coat Par Capita. among 147 college atudenta. This la tural experimentation and for feeding An example of unfairness I experiment with rattle, sheep, hogs In the wav the majority of the $1 lfi.R". for Instruction for each student of The cost per student and poultry than Is available in the college . grade. t cost to the coujuiuclon esllipa'oi vicinity of the University. The soil Kiiiliiw of college fur building, equipment, Improve expert slate per capita quoted In the Alumni address lu'srellNncnu and ments, is state-mee- t expenses, The two at sa'uisd. the grade hsd not discovered a new world when fttl.Ofl. tu This rout the gilded of almost h being emphasized dally he decided that agricultural expericerl.'iln consc.llUatli nUis through i M,rl,'ll,n ($llilut uuikes $?iiii.!6. the ments would he carried on In different annum for vo,t students per of ,nVl tlia1 of the columns the newspapers of the state where Specific probparts la j college This somewhat leas grade. ssltuisl annuthe Agrli college spend than $'.117.43. It I an hones: repre- - lem suggest themselves for solution. ally Oi its college grade students t.he Hut luree trarts of land are required of tact. enormous mu of $1,117.43 per capita, for instructional purposes and must Wo don'l believe the firmer of the a same i. student of the while grade ' the school. For theae ri,,e K0 much stmiil this attempt le loeaied nearIowa th- - nr1veri.iv ccthe state $271.8$ the purpose Agricultural Colto funds on the a segregate j hypotheil-was The made each. ev.ir.iae by the c.vl use of 105A acres. makes lege good It Basis, that ninei making In appear commlaslxn this way: It eonreu tenths 4 the nionev ia spent on a Missouri has Gla seres. California d by all tba; the average cost of e.lumall percentage of th students. Stu-1- s found 276 acres entirely inadequate, sclio-a In the district r'ndont rating lust year an appropriation have the same privileges at ihe and Mr .Now $20 per annum. the Agricnlf $l5'ui"i) for the f land. In c their Agriculture, prepara-ahorj college 133 lural college has enrolled students Texas has 2416 acre: Colorado 960, or-I be.v enjoy In their that yMr school district age who had no. and Illinois 650 acres. Our Salt I.ake eighth grade work, but who j W' )'ara. They use the same li- friend assert that 16 acres are museum, class braries, laborrooms, some wanted training in agriculture, blit even If their 92 acres of models. The only real adcarpentry, blacksmlthlnc, or domestic atories. ami bench land were actually fprtlle in dij favor s the vantage of college art. Many of them were men and lies In the fart that the classes t'licuiih to eri'W lucent, how many head women ranging from twenty tn fifty r.idr.or ate snd juofessots instead of ef cufif. sheep and hops would it of age. They were registered year for Mitirn. in charge of the work. supijort snd allow room are tiisiruc uts for the technics work that they want H the students oT the tnatltu-iqulryard, feeding shed and other buildI,"r,l8 ed. but in addition to this they were a As matter of hnU for the estima- - ing. and campu? land to do some work in math- - ton un the University ha not yet he per capita, the records fact matics. English, or history which was ,,n a to lawn. grow What l"4t ,olal nmmint expended been made perhaps In some respects pot hevnnd ,ho" ' t!, of the departments of c",'rrP for maintenance, build would become the work of the eighth grade. Since Iinrticuituse. . animal in lus-tr- . an' pn,Ilpmcnt from th-- date or ticrcnnrn.' they were given these elementary sub- - ' ,nssFrom the stand and c.alrjlng? ,B cabllahment to July lBrtg. com has mission charged them up i, jecta.the pdnt of fertility and water supply lth a total enintimrui to theetate at only $20. The fact that ! h;n bench not to be l 133 105 oat of the ,ori(1 f 7.- - their barren were dntng technical ' with sot, Tbe Agricultural 2n3. which make wuld the cost wortt and spending moat of tbelr time per h- the majorfarm, repor'ed In well equipped laboratories end student $141.26. ity of tin- - commission as abandoned. High School System. hope using expensive apparatus and of yleldeJ heavy crops hav, grain an 1 Mr. MaoKay says: "Our plan supplies wee not taken into account. as It has done evio this vear, vegetable They were guilty of studying arithme- unite the schools on one s'te and under ery yar since the evtabllshmen of tic. sad arithmetic le a common school one hoard, eliminate High clioo work the ho d. There a.e also orchard subject: hence the cost of their work and out of the savings to g!ve stale with hundreds of tiers bearing differw estimated no higher than the aid to the High school throughout the ent varieties of fruit. It I true that coat of a year tn the district, state to the extent of one-hamMl tax tli- - inipaM.vi experiments are conductachool. Then it. it estimated that on the assessed valuation of the prop, ed on a farm one nii'e (not three) High school students, on an average, erty nr the state. if this I accom- nor'h of the college, the land the- - hecost tho state $45 each. The Agricul plished every hoy or girl who want to ir.: better than the bench lav.d for extural college offers two year of pre- receiva the benefit of the no-- k now periment Involving iirigation prob-1-paratory or high achool work. At the given at the Agricultural college would above tbe have to spend three year in the Norunlveratty three year In connection with the land requireeighth grade are required for admis- mal department of the nn'rerlt or in ment. allow us to pre sent tn fu I a ! sion to ihe TVeehtnen clast. So with- some other good High from K. l Price. TV.m of the Colout comparing the work, accomplished entering upon the technical work of lege of erirnlture and Domestic Scl- In the preparatory schools ef the .o his or her chosen course If nre In the University of Ohio. The go'll, l intotntioaa, the majority of the com- equipped High school wrr scs'tpred the University-Collegmission proceeded to classify the over Utah within easy tvsrh of vierv (itntndsaion of sollrlted Prof. Pitre's Freshman at the Agricultural college eighth grade graduate, thi goHMi-- of unlnlen. hut a portion of the letter giv. aa find eats of High achool grad or the ' problem might have soree :ns hi ideas was withheld from the merit. o Stretch our preparatory work over But under present uu I f.tr repot t. three yean. This clsaaification reduc- years to come, the majority of cudents majority Dear i?lr: ed the number of atudenta of college who desire work in Agriculture I Vv "My "1 have had some experience In Agrigrads at the Agricultural college from mestic. Science or Engineering, win he cultural colleges where they are efm- 147 to 71 The following routine of forced to spend three vear In w ith nected universities and also studv constitute Freshman wnrir tn inary preparation in 'he Normal prelimschool J where they are separate, having servthe Mining Engineering Course at the If Consolidation afr-d The one- - ed nearly three yes re as a member of o . Agri-ouluir- . atu-den- pro-r.en'e- jn-li- y j I pun-has- I l. sttt-deu- I rt I I - - I run-paie.- W-g- n 1 sv-ere- lf let-i:- ch-v- e eond-thms- . 1 . UTAIT, OGDEN, TUESDAY the faculty ut the Iowa 1 College, which represent the separation of Unand the the Agricultural college our own institution, are you iversity. are probabiv aware, cum blues tha two institutions.' , "Personally, j feel that where tha two institutions are combined and tha Agricultural college is recoguiaed aa un integra, pan uf me institution, and given it fall sbu:v u: the support and appropriation f.ir :he institution, that ths couiiUuu ms most ideal. Hut ia many instituUocs wuere tha two have been combined it ha been at the expense of the Agricultural college." (Majority report. Appendix p. 54.1 In tha majuriiv report the letter closes at this point, but not how Prof. Price Bummed up the situation: "You do uut state lu your oomut nicatioa the values of the real estate or the amount of your two institu'-lou- n of ground possessed by them. 1 would think that It wouiu be a vary serious mistake to move the Agricultural college anil Expertmriit station from Logan anJ combine it with the L'nlveraity at Suit Lake City if the amount of land available for it would be less than they have at present; and that it would be better to move the LTniver-sltto Logan thin It would be to alien: pi to suppmt au Agricultural collect on a limited area of land. "This question, of course, la purely a local one, and any suggestion that may be given from the outside are purely suggestive aud should Dot have any great weight In your deciding." "Your very truly, t digued) "H. C. PRICE. We do not know, of eouise, how many "lllumluaiiug extracts such aa the above have bren omitted from the letters appended u the report of tha majority. Effect Upon Agriculture. Mr. MacKay aisles that Utah should follow the example of tha larger, wealthier, and tuurt- populous slates of New York, Illinois. Wisconsin, Minnesota, California. Ohio and Nebraska. and unite her Agricultural college with the university. If Mr. MaoKay will go into the history of this matter and ascertain what a struggle the.lrienda of agricultural education have had in (he above named otatea to convince the university authorities of the importance of agricultural education and finally to demand that tha agricultural departments of these universities be given proper recognition, he will arrive at the conclusion that the good work being dona la these states in agriculture at present ia due largely, If not entirely, to renulto obtained year previously in sinter abates where those Institutions havo ueei kept separata Take Illinois, for example: In 1901. Dean Eugene Davenport of tho Colli ge of Agriculture of the University of Illinois, la aa address at tho univernlty, stated that la tho great state of Illinois there were enrolled in 1899 only twenty-on- e regular atudenta in agriculture. Ten years ago, there were practically no students pursuing agricultural work in the Uniervslty of llilnfii, while her slater state, Iowa, wears the Institution are separate, had for years previously been graduating students In agriculture. Even today, notwithstanding the tact that several state universities are doing creditable work ia agriculture, it Is tho consensus of opinion among government men who visit all these Institutions and Inspect their work that In moat rases where fhe agricultural school is a department of the university tha agricultural work ia of Interior grade and the oystem worn decidedly against the atudenta enrolled ia 4h agricultural courses. Professor brand of the bureau of plant Industry of the Department of agriculture, shlle visiting land-graInstitutions spent a few dsyn inspecting tha work of the Agricultural Cob lege at Logan. When naked bin views on tho advisability of consolidating tho Agricultural collega with the university, he had a statement to this efWhat do I think of tbe idea fect: of consolidating agricultural colleges with state universities? I don't think much of It. It sounds well In theory. The economy plea and the plea of broader education all sound good, but work out poorly. I am n graduate of a consolidated school (Tha University of Minnesota) aud my experience with agricultural colleges, generally, place me in a position to Judge. In our achool and every other achool where consolidation haa been carried into effect. It hss been my experience that it haa been the agricultural student who holds the sack. Take Illinois or OornalL At Cornell it la practically Impossible for an agricultural student to make a fraternity or to even join the better literary societies. They are Isolated from active participation In the student life of the school the instances cited tpe altogether. student geta good training, but It ba not worked out no here In the west. Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and Califor-ni- a nre conspicuous examples of western eons'jlidaiod 'schools. In the Institution of these otatea you will find very, very few agricultural atudenta. Idaho haa lps than a and few considering the California agricultural wealth and population of the e:ate. In fnct, my experience In the past ha taught me Hint about the only function of the agricultural department of univeraitiee seem to be tlieii u'dliy of obtaining ni'juey from the puvernmeni. General Effsct Upon Attendance. It 1; iilvn true that mure students are lu other courses where the im'iiii'.uu are maintained separately und In different parts of the slate. Or m other word a greater per rent of tit-- people are educated In slates wl'""i. the institution of higher learn: i . ire mnln'nlned separately than hti combined. President E. K. VicItoU if the Kansas State Agricultural college, says that the majority of stiidi uts attending any college live wirhm :i few miles of the achool, and therefore consolidation would result in depriving Luge number of bys and girls of tbe oppnrtuni'v of This acquiring a college training. opinion i given out by President Nichols In a replying in an inquiry madthe secretary .of the co!'ige mi! wn-i- f but In quo'ing this let ei- the majority of members suppre-re- d the paragraph which sets th.s ides. President Nichols u: a C'ipy of his lener to the president f the Agricultural college. The letter tolkias: Dear Sir. "In ns 'pinion haring the Agricultural co;i-fc- i and tbe university rep. rate in each state preferable. I think, however, that the work jn the i wo in' it :i: Ions should be aa separate and diwlnrt as ia posrlhle. It seem If'gial tha; the Agricultural and mechanical college should have all courses leading to industrial occupations. nsn-.i-lagriculture, varfexi murres. snd domestic science, ar.,1 mat the university nhoulil have the liberal arts and the professions! school. Until recently, at least, the agriculture colleg has ben y - , 1 half-doze- -d rcg-ioi- - v t 1 MORNING, AUGUST 1906. 2S, doing much more work in agriculture resort Hundreds of students have than where the ia a pan Acquired vicious habits, sacrificed of me university.agriculture . This may not tbesr possibilities for future greatbe no much lunger. Wiscon- ness, snd have ruined their live In sin, Illinois, Miuueeotn and Nebraska licentious dissipations because In nre duing good work ia agriculture their boyish weakness they were usnow.1- able to withstand the temptations that Thin to where the majority of the were constantly before them. Logan commission signed President Nichols' is practically free from such contamname, si if it were the end of his let- inating influence. ter. (Append, majority report, p. M). Another Itt-- that must not be overThe remainuer of the letter follows: looked to the tact Thar the greater Tbe student in any college uuw-earil- chnnees for obtaining employment in com irum a radius of a few Salt Lake City does not begin to commiles. The enrollment this year in for the additional cost of livthe three state schools of thin state, pensate Students ing in the "metropolis. university, agricultural college and who have attended achool ia Salt will ue normal, about l,7uv in eaca, Lake sad in Logan have estimator a total enrollment of over 6,vw). ed thatCity the cost of living per year to If theae institutions were all together, from $125.0$ to $160.00 less In tha 1 do not believa that the eniolimeat latter than in the former town. A would be more than half of that. prominent man ef fit. George who has Very truly yours, educated some of hi sons and daughK. K. NICHOLS. fdigned) ters at the university snd others at In support of President Nichols' the Agricultural college sold tost views, note the distribution of stu- week; "it coat me practically the dent ia attendance this year at the same each year to keep one of my university and agricultural eollegs of buy at the university as it did to our uwa mate: keep three at tbe Logan achool." In the university: Want Square DasL From Salt Lake county 671 At Alumni of the Agricultural ColFrom Davla county 45 lege of all we ak in this matFrom Utah county 5a ter to Utah, after that, (he people decide From all other eounties In Ut. ...172 what amount of the state's money From other suits 52 to available for higher education, our institution be given a just proportion. 976 Total The college at present to offering Observe that more than 71 per cent course in agriculture, domestic of all Utah atudenta at the university science, commerce, engineering and are from Salt Lake City and county, mechanic arts, all of w hich have been and mors (hen 91 per cent of the recognlxed as ha distinctive courses Utah students, or 7$ per cent of tho sine the etal).liahment of the instituentire attendance are from Salt Lane, tion. It to a source of great regret Davis and Utah counties. that two years ego the legislature dis. In the Agricultural college: criminated against our inatitutkm for From Cache county the upbuilding of another by prohibit Ill 22 Box Front Elder county.. lug new students from catering upon 47 any of the engineering courses. This From Weber county From nil other cm untie of Ut....l83 unwarranted restriction of the work 1st) pf the eollegs has saved the state not From other auiea one cent of money, but has deprived .Giil acorex of ita young men from receivIbtil ,,ii,i.-i.- . Forty-fivper cent of the Utah stu- ing instruction In iu clean rooms. Not dents in the Agricultural college are one per eent of the engineering stufrom Cache county, and nearly 63 per dents who left the college u scoouM or 47 per of these courses being discontinued cent of tba cent of the entire enrollment are from have entered the university 'to comCache, Box Elder and Weber eoun- plete their work. We believe (hat ties. A similar condition exists In nil (he people of the state can easily he states. It may bo safely predicted convinced that consolidation of the 1s that, If the two schools are consolidat- two Institution at Salt Lake City to The Greater University not. only impracticable, hut suicidal ed, the would not for year to come enroll the interests of Industrial education In to another danger at many students as are now attand-In- Utah. But there equally great. Limit the field of the tha two schools. If UUh wunta to save money hy fix- institution to one or two of ita Induscourse, and 4he number of stuing hr educational system no that trial the poorer people shall be excluded dents coming under ita Influence will from college hells and hy a toul aban- decrease to auch an extent that the donment of her agricultural Interest, object of the aggressive campaign tho merger may bo worth while, in that haa here waged against ua for other words, If the poorer people, tho the tost four years will have been acWe respectfully aak the majority In Utah, want It made more complished. difficult for their children to acquire people of the state to compare the an education, let them favor conaoll-datk- courses ef instruction offered by the two inatitutiona and the appropriations received hy each, end then decide of Students. Comparative Distribution whlrh to attempting to cover the It to obvious also from tho above whole realm of universal knowledge figures that the Agriruluiral college end dissipate the State's resources. la far bettor attended by atudenta from The Solution. counties remote from tha seat of the If local pride and prejudice and institution than to tho university, lu spite of the smaller total enrollment politics could be kept ont of this conthis year at (he Agricultural college, troversy, tbe matter could lie easily and In npite of Its larger proportion adjusted. In the first piece, the 'legof students from other its tea, the islature should define the functions number of Utah atudenta at the col- end prescribe the field to be occupied lege, exclusive of those residing in by each lnatitutioe. Thee provide Cache, Box Elder and Weber counties, for the support of each institution by n definite statutory levy In the form la 283; hnd (he number of Utah at tho unlrereity, exclusive of ef n mill tit. The difficulty to the result of a those residing la Salt Lake, Davla and Utah eounties, la 173, a differ struggle for large appropriation. In once of 110 atudenta In favor of the which each school haa fought for the And thin, too, lion's share. An eight mill tax to paid Agricultural college. notwithstanding tho fact that the at- hy the people for the total revenue of tendance this year at tbe college waa the state. Three mills of this to sal materially decreased on account of a eelde for the district schools. . The legislative enactment discontinuing the other five mills ere dlehuraed by the engineering course and u disastrous legislature In the form of biennial ap. fire which seriously Interfered with propria tione. Since (his power of disthe work in mecbanlfi arts. If a sim- tribution to given to the legtatature, ilar comparison of attendance were and the atate inatitutiona of higher maoo between tho two Institutions learning are dependent upon . that for the previous year, the remit body for their funds, why not act would he much more favorable to tho aside a definite portion of the taxes for the support of the two achooli. Incollege. stead of leaving it In an unsettled Two Good Schools. Mr. MacKay deprecates the fact that condition to be determined hy (ho college authorities asked the tost legislature. The esaeeaed valuation ia now about $140,000,000. legislature tor so much money. Tho of the state one-hamill tax on this university regenta asked tor a much A one and would yield $210,000 annually. greater sum. Yet it can not be de- property nied that each Institution haa the This would provide for both InstituIt? It mesne right to nsk for as much money as tions. Can we affordwould pay $1.50 Ita authorities think la needed for ita that every taxpayer matter on every (1,000 of assessed valuatlw proper development. It to for the legislature to decide, after tak- of his property for the support of the were decided ing Into consideration too entire two achooli; end if it ulna-tentamount of money nt Un disposal and (hat the university should have snd the Agricultural eollegs the needs of the different educational of a mill, it msans that and other institutions, how much monof tha $1.50 would go to cents to to ninety bo ey appropriated to higher the univernlty and sixty of ths support coo education. Wo ceded, too, that peat to ths college. Surely this legislatures hav been geceroua In ths cents matter of appropriations to tha Uni- would not be considered a burden. moveversity and ths Agricultural college, The people will not support a aa a result of which Utah haa two ment designed to destroy tha Identity achool splendid higher educational Institu- of their scientific and practical tions of which she ahoald be Justly until more substantial arguments can proud. Tbe Agricultural college to be presented for the merger. C. W. PORTER. President Alumni recoguiaed everywhere aa ranking high among land grant Institutions Association, Agricultural College of The univernlty. likewise, compares Utah. more than favorable with state uniLogan. Utah, Aug, 24. 1906. versities in older and wealthier stale. President Kingsbury to authority for SOUTHERN LYNCHINGS. (be statement that the University of Utah la ahead of many of the western A Southern New York, Aug. 27. state universities, and that its "stand- man's view of lynrhing waa the adard to pretty nearly as high aa the vertised topic of an addreaa delivered boai universities." Why. then, this in the Metropolitan Temple tost night ambition to build up "A Greater Uni- by Rev. Dr. Richard Wilkinson, of versity at the expense of the Agri- Monroe. Is. Rev. Wllklneod said that cultural college? The gra'Uying If lawyers and judges did their full growth and excellence of Utah's pres- duty there would be no need of lynchent (durational system to proof en- ing parties. Hs praised tbe stand takough that It is a good system to let en recently by Gov. Blanchard of I outlines and said that If the Southalone. A Comparison. ern people would only look at the subThe impression to conveyed that the ject as does Blanchard, there would In the South. AgrirtHural college haa been receiv- he few lynching! ing more than 1U share of the ap"Generally debilitated for years. Had propriations of tbe state, and that tho sick tacked ambition, was iinlvtrel!) ha suffered thereby. Let worn-ou- thrRdache. Burdock and nil ua compare the legislative appropriations actually received from the state Blood Bitters made me a well woman." Mrs. Chas. Freitoy, Mooetip. Conn. by these two Institution. From the session laws I find that for the COMMUTED SENTENCE. bienniums beginning 1901 and ending 1$07 the Agricultural college Washington. Aug. 27. The Presihas received a total of $369,863 from hs commuted the sentence of the B'ate, and the university, exclu- dent sive nt the .branch normal, $655,581, dismissalInto a loss of 25 files In line of rank the case nearly twice the amount received by Sydney Smith. Sixteenthof Lieutenant infantry, who the college. The university, you ear, waa by court martial In has many uire students. How many the recently tried on the Philippines charge of drunkmore? An average of about 35 per enness on duty and conduct prejudicent up to the end of the year to military discipline. cial tad note that the appropriations from ihe state to the university have BRYAN DECLINES. been a little more than 81 per tent to :han that the college. greater given New Haven, Conn., Aug. 27. Mr. These are farts, and facta worth Bryin haa declined the proffer of Freildent Mellen'n private car on hla Cost of' Living. from New York to this city. In trip I'. Is argued that Salt Lake City his letter he says: offer so many opportunities for a "I do not think It would be wise t t earn a living while attending accept favors from he railroad. Let scuoul that It would he greatly to the me pay my fare and ride a l usually of of atadenta limited do. advantage mea:: to go to the capital. 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