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Show : af II' We have never opposed the merging of the Ag- - ill lii ricultural College with the University on any sen- '''m mk timental grounds. Neither on grounds of frlend- ' ffl III sllip for any one connected wItu tlle college. Nei- " u 1 f tlier have wo ever liad a dIspositIon to diffier wltl1 ' ; tu 1 I men whose lives are devoted to educational inter- i' ifl If ests anfl wno from education and training ought to ' ' H : . he better qualified to judge the question than we. , ;fl I We have thought there was a secret purpose r'r J: behind all this agitation, a purpose not yet dis- ;." - ; 1 closed, but which is friendly to neither school, and : 'I'm we believe that yet; but even that would not make "; i i ft, us fight the consolidation unless it was for the . . I : JL Interest of both schools that they should remain We take no stock in the economy plea, because ' Wtm ! tllG state is ricn enough to carry on both schools, '?fflH and would iE tne majority of the people were not USB more absorbed in sectarian schools. ' -w m Tlie nlost lloPeEul si5n In our country today Is i'fi m tne PrSress which agriculture as a science Is 41 1 Ifc is boIng avanced to the front rank of the ,; j f sciences, and men in high places are beginning to l see that It is more important than any other, for ! I the life of man depends upon it. When the sci- ' ' :;,f ' I , entists of the Agricultural Department mado It I: cloar that if farmers would alternate their crops, wL.. planting beans and clover in the alternate years, '; they would, hold the fertility of the soil, because ' i'li Hi 'ie eans and the clover would draw from the air i! f Wt and replace in the soil the nitrogen that had been Hi drawn from it by tho previous crop; that was a I IK, living truth which exalted agriculture to tho dig- f I hP nity of a science, by giving men glimpses of the i f M' possibilities which scientific cultivation might 1 1 Iffii nchevc. It was a triumph in the direction most : j WJ. needed by Americans, for it was calculated to H illf bring them back to a closer communion with i Vm I ' Mother Earth, something which Americans need '.He more than anything else, the communion which . i m i. has boon tho starting point for most of the great ' ' H Br ust now tne arguments are almost hysterical IS K that by merging the two schools there can be no . VHK subordination of agriculture, which we hope is !K true, but at Logan there is a subordinate j f ;; H everything else to the study of agriculture, which 'jjfflr s right, because that Is tho most important scl- i HB 01100 taugut tnore' w fear it; wl11 not be s nela mm if scll00ls ar morSGd. ' H' TJCv0 tho graduates from Logan have ,'HB.( done bettor as a rule than those of tho Univer- , V -j wm!. sity; that is, that more places are open to them, f " f R' We know that any man who Is accomplished Kf: ; enough to teach agriculture and horticulture need u ' IB' not be out of employment, at a high salary, for a lll IIS: week. The continent to the south Is waiting for iff just such men. 'lI'Bfif i The two most important branches of education point, are agriculture and horticulture and tho School of Mines. We" are told "that the combination of studies works well In several Eastern States. That may be, but that is not the way it is reckoned in the old country, either in France or Germany, where most care Is taken. We have no captious criticisms criti-cisms to make, but the boy who likes a farm will do well if he drops Greek and takes up Spanish and then thoroughly accomplishes himself as a scientific agricllturallst and hortlculturalist. This continent will be open to him clear to Patagonia. |