Show LETTER OF LAW AND I INTENT DIFFER Attorney General Gives Opinion on Studies at the Agricultural Agricultural Agri Agri- I cultural College Colene LAYMAN IS CONFUSEd I I Engineering Must Not Be Taught but I Irrigation Etc Is Not Prohibited That the th strict interpretation of or the thur law differs from the intent of the tt 1 legislature Ilam that made It I. I I Is the thu opinIon opinion ion o of if Attorney General M. M A. A Breeden Breed Breed- en n. n given gien to Prof J. J A. A Bt secretary secre tary of th the hoard board of nf trustees of or the lie Agricultural coll college f Prof asked ask asic- d. ed 11 c the attorney r general what studies may be he offered by the Logan Logon Institution tion un under lr the th existing la laws governing governing govern govern- o ing the he hc curriculum of oC the colle college The rho opinion holds that while engineering Is prohibited at Qt the tl A Agricultural college col col- loge lege instruction n In elementary sUrVOY- sUrVOY UrY Ing and anil Irrigation measurement Is al al- al lowed The opinion r rendered to 0 th the board boad of oC trustees In response to tu Secretary tar request follows 1 I beg to acknowledge the tid receipt of or your favor n fa of 9 D. D In which you OU submit sub suh- til- til ing mutt mit ml for wit to my mr official opinion th the tho following follow follow- Ilif fl board huard of trustees tl of tl the Agricultural tural college of Itah atm desires an t opinion opinion opinion ion on no what studies tulle this Institution mi mn offer under existing laws law and ami particularly be hue S w wn we may muy not Orr offer In tn reply to 10 Ihl this request you are advised ad ad- ad- ad Ihal the hi la late laas w. w a as found In chapter 14 session E es lon Jon 10 laws of 1 5 permits tin tim tIl college to tn courses cours hr in il hort horticulture forNI forestry r an am mal rrai r veterinary science do- do to- to tic me-tic science anti and nd arts elemental elementary in In- In notions In litigation a applied el to ilio measurement di distribution and ap application ar P- P of for foi agricultural put piu- po poses g military science In and tactics his tuis- tory lan language and the arlou various es Os ts of oC mathematics physical and natural sciences ps ind anc mechanic arts arts antI and by hy thi this thiO chapter yoi 0 alC are prohibited from offerIng offerIng offer offer- orI- orI Ing courses In engineering liberal art arts pd pedagogy Gog or the professions of law m em fl medicine Task IaL To advise othise nd what t courses PS of studies are alp included and embraced d in the lie general subjects 1 H Is a very vry difficult If II not an nn Impossible task anti and anc perhaps th the lie edli- edli or 01 could more accurately determine what branches of or stud study might be hI protected under tinder these various general subjects than a 0 lawyer yet et we WI the educator anti and th the jur Jurist t crossing swords sword tin educational question flues ques q tion Vo We lind in this statute that the IMP college i 14 permitted to 0 teach elementary elemen tar tary y SUI sums sur eying Ing Instructions in in irrigation irrigation tion is as a applied to 0 the Ihl measurement distribution d and application of or water etc ftc and In iii the ur of this we that t engineering In Irig is us prohibited d from bein beIng taught in th the college It J Is i- difficult for Cor fora a la layman mun mun to draw time tho line lne in this thus cat case n. n mind n again all we We find lind that courses cours in lib liberal lb- lb lii- lii eral cral art are prohibited from rom the college cot col- lege b by yet 1 courses ir In Inh h ro nth and a arithmetic are allowed to taught to oil nil 01 of oC which to sonic some extent are me included and embraced embraced em m braced within the meaning of liberal ah art arts In n un an effort to arrive e at al the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose and Intent nt of or the th legislature h when n nI It I enacted the statute under tinder di cushion w vp e mu must tUt t Cx Ich reason and nl common sense The TIl purpose of ot the th legislature no doubt douht In enacting this statute was Wu to t confine the Agricultural college to the branches of study usually found in institutions of or its H kind Jt It J had d l reference to a practical te ed education ed- ed of the industrial classes and aimed at the tho t elimination of the lii duplication cation University of or studies taught tUp t in II Ih time the State You are RIP therefore r advised t that aL in m my opinion the time legislature Intended to tu per permit mit tiu tl A Agricultural I la 1 collude oll in 0 o ha have courses on all al general subjects relating In ing to th the education of tho the industrial clashes as us distinguished from th the higher high high- er or r academic or 01 collegiate classes arid and with wih this design It I lu huts bus prohibited courses courts in tn engineering MS ris S distinguished from 1101 elementary surveying fiul liberal art arts pedagogy time pedagogy the legal and anc medical In other oilier the thu college may 1 offer a Q court course of or studies Hudic in all al of time blanches except in en engineering 1 liberal arts pedagogy o or ou I tit hit prod I of law or Jr medicine I Iam Iam Im am m trill truly M M Io A. 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