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Show OUR HIGHER SCHOOLS. The rivalry between the Utah University and the Agricultural College is natural, but out of It no heart-burnings should grow. We do not believe be-lieve that to put both Institutions under one board of governors would cure any present troubles. It is inevitable that both schools should follow, in some studies, the same lines. Students have different dif-ferent aspirations, but there are fundamental studies stud-ies which they must acquaint themselves with. They are all along one road until the forks of the road are encountered. There one takes the road to a practical, another takes the path to the purely scientific, still another desires to mix the scientific with the practical, and the schools have to be adjusted to meet the wants of all. Both institutions in-stitutions are straining for the best results and , both should be alike encouraged. As yet the very rich men of Utah have not come forward to help either institution. The state Is not very rich and all the help it can grant will not meet the full needs of either school. But the best results possible pos-sible should all the time be aimed at with such means as can be commanded, until the day of groat endowments comes. It will come, after a while or with the increased wealth of the state bigger appropriations can be made. The legislature should take a deep interest in both institutions, a committee of its most enlightened en-lightened members should try to grasp the real wants of both schools and should try to see If they cannot be met. It is the most important matter now before the legislative assembly, and should bo so considered by the members. The great schools in the eastern states are not relaxing in the least in their efforts to bring out along all 'M lines the highest attributes of students, but they M all agree that no education can fill the full re- jfll quiremonts until a great deal that is purely sclen- B tiflc can be given a practical character that will M onable students to go out from them fitted for M some needed calling. M It was for this that we two years ago urged M the legislature to help the school of mines of the M University. Mines extend northward to some point under the Artie circle, southward to Ar- H gentine, and the boys now at school should be M the ones who are to open the new mines and re- M duce the ores. Again agriculture and horticulture H have in the past very few years awakened a won- H derful interest in the minds of educators and fl the whole people. It Is realized now as never be- fl fore that when man was turned out upon the fl breast of the world and ordered to make a llv- H ing for himself, he was given a field broad enough S for the ambition of anyone. The man perfectly fitted for a farmer and horticulturist, has a bet- S tor chance for immediate profitable employment jH than any other. Both the University and Agricul- jH tural College should have all possible encourage- fl ment, and both should be filled with students and jfl that, too, without going outside the state. And jfl while preaching the utmost economy to the Leg- jH islature, we at the same time say that the people fl of the state hold that all possible assistance to S their higher schools, is the best possible econ- fl omy. Harvard and Yal have shod a vast amount 9 or reverence and respect upon Massachusetts and fl Connecticut. There was a time when neither fl was as good a school as Is either our Agricul- jfl tural College or our State University. |