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Show Published Every Saturday GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager Ip GALLAGHER, Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal BY PQ PQ Pa Pa be. Ing. Sera, lion, $4.50 per year. 8ingle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay able to The Citizen. , , Address' all communications to The Citizen. . Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at 8alt Lake of Act under March 3, 1879. the City, Utah, 3111213 Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 8alt Lake City, Utah. . i f t . " .1 b ti I tVHA T KIND OF MAN SHOULD HEAD UNIVERSITYt .1 of a president for the state university has tax the wits of the wisest. This is due to the trol they gave us something less than a university of the modern that one element of our population seeks to make the uni-rsinothing more than an agency of the dominant religion. The f spicion was intensified when Mr. Widtsoe passed as if by a natural cess of promotion from the presidency of the university to an iostleship in the church, We are not desirous of stirring up strife by stating frankly the j c se as those not of the dominant church profess to see it. On contrary we wish to make a suggestion which we deem to be in d Utahns. ord with tlie aim of all The suggestion is not new. In fact a committee has been jrking for some time with the idea in mind. It has been trying I choose a capable educator from the outside who would be per-n- a be- grata with the principal elements of our population. We ve that the committee has done well and that if harmony and intinued good feeling are to prevail an outsider should be placed the head of the university. The main difficulty, we fancy, is to id an educator of the right kind who is willing to undertake 'the C licate responsibilities. We want no fawning hypocrite, no petty )lomat ; we want an educator of liberal tendencies who is big ough to envisage the situation in its entirety and intricacy and C urageous enough to cope with it effectively. We fear there has been a tendency to consider the state uni-- t uni-- 7 Tsity as a church asset. There is such a thing as- a church rsity, but it is quite a different thing from a state university in a country where state and church are separated by a fundamental law. educatTjie church university has its proper place in the scheme of uniion, but its province is quite different from that of the state versity as we know it in the United States. j Without having studied the question profoundly we venture to )' that one of the main reasons for founding state universities was to provide a of a comuniversity which would conform to the ideal monwealth in which church and state were kept apart by a basic kj"'. Only by this method could the needs of our polyglot population mct and their rights protected. Only by this method, however defective on the moral side, could a university for the whole be provided and operated with comparative justice to all J Hie interference of church influence in the management of the versity a few years ago led to a revolt among the staff and we lijpt many of our most capable teachers. The church folk had their py and were smugly satisfied, thinking that they had a right to illiberal con- CQntrol by their dominant power, but in gaining this We wish to think that the same spirit does not prevail among the regents today, although the majority of them belong to the dominant church. In fact, the little information we have gleaned leads us to believe that these gentlemen would be glad to solve the problem by getting an outsider of the proper kind. And certainly no element of our. population wants a man who will be unfair to any other element. ' All of us should wish to have at the head of the institution one who understands just what a great modern university should be and who would strive unremittingly to bring the university up to the A university should have, at the very least, a proper standards. spirit of liberal culture that stamps it as worthy the efforts of our better intellects whether they be students or professors. To affix the stamp of any churcji Upon a dniversitjr may be to give it a dis- tinctive spirit, but it is not the spirit ithait. i desirable at a state university. We shall not attempt tile task of defining just what a liberal American university should be. Most men of education know what it should not be. They know that it should not be controlled and molded by any religion unless it is a denominational institution. We have in this. country many state universities that meet our general idea of what such universities ought to be.. Men of liberal minds in Utah, no. matter what their religious affiliations may be, wish that Utah may realize an ideal of that kind. But. an institution that is conducted for the benefit of any church and which is an uniagency for the propaganda of any. church is not an ideal state university. On the contrary it is so far from being what a state versity should be that it drives many of our brightest young men and institutions of learning. women to far-o- ff the Our university never can be. the success it should old fogies are made to keep their hands off. And when we use the term we are not applying it to any particular element. We arc intellects that fail to achieve applying it to all of those a glorious and inspiring ideal of a university. We have no doubt that most of our regents cherish a bright conception of an ideal university and would be glad to obtain a president who, after much labor, could evolve such an institution. On the other hand there arc men of petty minds who are using their influence to perpetuate an intolerable condition at the university. exercise mandatory powers They would have the dominant church over the university by right of conquest, so to speak. It is a vicious In Utah come a task to the-selectio. K i ty spicion ent, HUB . right-minde- . j - com-nionwoa- in lth type- - . r 1 : be-until- dry-as-du- . st -- |