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Show METROPOLITAN POLICY. Tbe good Herald will pardon us il we again refer to its article of last Sunday morning under the caption, "A Vain Anticipation." So far as we gather from that article, the Herald agrees with us that the policy of the legislature legisla-ture in lopping "off tbe normal branch of the university was perverse, illiberal pigheaded. Thus far the Hearld runs neck and neck with us, and our pathways path-ways only bifurcate when we arrive at the conclusion that though not intended, in-tended, the policy actually throws a great advantage to Provo. Just why this Ehould Btir the bile ot the Herald we are at a Iobs to know. Surelv if Salt Lake may not have the normal by reason of this pigheadedness, there can be no valid reason why Provo should not, JN or is the summer normal we are to have any reason why the state Lor- Imal may not be located here permanently. perma-nently. Is the ambition of Provo to become the enter of education of the new state of Utah, in any way un worthy, wrong or unjust to Salt lake or any other city oi village in the territory? ter-ritory? Now we are perfectly willing to accord to Salt Lake the excellence excel-lence ehe claims, but does it therefore follow that we must debase our own Importance by agreeing with the Her-; Her-; aid that Provo is not quite up to the dignity of the state normal or the school center? Will the good Herald eay tnat normal students shut out from tho uiTof"tp Khali nnt.mav npt and ought not to come to Provo? It is Uue the Uerald does not actually eay J bo in bo many' words, but what it does eay is tantamount to this. Public spirited spir-ited .citizens may again step forward in this emergency and fill the breech made by the legislature in not providing provid-ing for the normal, but it' is hardly likely. Indeed it is just ' what they ought, but it is also just I what they will not do, on account of the stringency of the times. This thing of educating the teachers of Utah is so pressing, so important that it cannot wait for better times or for the coming of a more liberal or a more in-- in-- telligent legislature. In the meantime Provo'e greatcademy says: Send along your normal students, we can and will do all for them- that the university could have done with the assistance of the legislature. There is no need to intermit this great work because cf the inability on the part of the legiEla-ture,or legiEla-ture,or tha effects of the pinching times upon the aforementioned liberal-minded liberal-minded citizene. But there is one thing quite certain, that is if Provo gets many or few of the normal students thus turned adrift, she will bold on to them and from this nuclear and the session of the summer sum-mer normal will effect a etart which will and ought logically to distance Salt Lake, the university, or any other city, town or school in Utah. The Herald makes a braye and cour teous fight for the interests of Salt Lake, but does so under great disadvantages. disad-vantages. We doubt not that the stu-" stu-" dents and their parents will appreciate appre-ciate the advantage of placing fieir, boys at Provo rather than flibject them to the great temptations and distractions always present in a large city. Our green, shady, cultured and refined little city is just the place for the permanent ncrmal echool, where the maximum of progress may bfl secured. In Salt Lake they do not and cannot go beyond the minimum. |