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Show THE SCHOOL CENTER. There is no doubt now that Provo is the natural as well as actual Bchool center of the territory. In this connection connec-tion we refer with pride to the fact that the eummer school is to be located here this season. To this school will ccme the ability of all our wonderous Utah system, besides many eminent educators educa-tors from outsie states. What a glorious glor-ious thing this will be for our Utah teachers. They should all be here for that six weeks session to a man, or a woman, if we are to be permitted to use the term. The importance of this session can hardly be over-estimated-If it is made a success it muet result in making this summer session a permanent perma-nent feature. This will give Provo an almost continuous session, summer and winter. Our own home teachere will have the vast advantage of comparison com-parison and interchange of ideas with the very best teachers of the union. It comes to us almost without expense. Indeed do we owe a debt of gratitude to our progressive and enterprising corps of schoolmen of high proportions. Let the citizenship of Provo testify their appreciation by some policy of material aid, which will strengthen the purpose of our noble teachers. There is no more noble enterprise in which we can engage, and surely none of more practical value. In this connection it may be said that the perverse and illiberal policy of the late legislature in lopping off the normal nor-mal attachment of the university, is likely to prove a blessing in disguise for Provo. It insures a large accession acces-sion to the working force and students in our own peerless B. Y. academy. In the future, as in the past, Provo will furnish the actual working force of teachers to Utah. We will gobble up, if the homely term is admissable, the normal business which the legislature thus recklessly throws down. While we deeply regret the injury their parsimony parsi-mony does to the territory, yet it is but human nature tor us to glory in the fact that our own grand school is to be benefited to that extent. What the university loses the B. Y. academy gains. Of course this view of the situation situ-ation is a somewhat sel.su one, but it will be remembered that we did not make the condition. We were for the full measure of the subsidy to the university, uni-versity, but as the republican legislature legisla-ture made the condition, oyer our protests, pro-tests, we are not adverse to accepting the advantages which are chucked to us by its pig headed, misplaced and contemptible economy. Thus do the circumstances serve to make of Provo the educational center of the territory, soon to be state of Utah. |