Show 1 The College and the University THE question of combining the Agricultural Agricultural Agri- Agri JL cultural College and the Un University i versi ty tyis is now fairly before the public All of Salt Lakes Lake's papers have discussed the question and their arguments have been unanswerable Both of Logans Logan's papers papers' are favorable to the union with of course one condition attached to it The only paper in the Territory of any note which holds a different opinion is the Ogden Standard and it is hardly conceivable nay it is impossible that its editor writes those articles in all sincerity It is more likely that they are written simply to arouse discussion so as to have this all important matter thoroughly aired before the Legislature is ready to act upon it or perhaps they are written simply to show how weak and puerile is the argument brought against the union of the two institutions the writer in this case openly applauding what his private judgment condemns It is hardly worth while to go over the ground which has been heen so thoroughly and so ably presented by our daily papers The cause is gaining strength every day and it does not take any prophet to foresee that the union will be effected We wish to state to our Logan friends that it is in bad taste for them I to accuse the people of Salt Lake o 0 trying to rob them of their College tl J We Weare are certain that no conspiracy has arisen here that nothing has been done L Lin ij in an underhanded manner Delegate Rawlins has stated that there is no doubt at all but that the bill appropriating ing to the University laud land on the Fort Douglas reservation will pass Congress j and nd it is id then a question whether we shall go to work and replace the building in l' l which we now are by new ones in In a better locality and at the same time maintain an institution at Logan four- four fifths of whose work is a duplication of ours The Agricultural College was never intended by the Legislature which established it to be a rival of the University University University Uni Uni- but it exceeded its proper sphere and the course which it has taken will cause its downfall Moreover it does not seem at all reasonable that should be wasted annually by maintaining the two institutions separately especially so in view of the fact that neither the College nor the University can under t such an arrangement perform properly its high and noble mission The question then which is being agitated is one between right and wrong between good and evil I As to the matter of location there may maybe maybe be room for honest and dishonest differences differences differences differ differ- of opinion Both Logan and Salt j Lake can with equal propriety derive d support from the location of the different i universities throughout the country Out of ten of Americas America's greatest universities uni uni- five Harvard five Harvard Yale Columbia University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania are are located in cities the population of which in each case is larger than of Salt Lake while another five five Cornell Cornell Princeton U University University Uni Uni- ni- ni of Wisconsin Stanford and University of Michigan are are located in places whose population does not exceed We cannot see however how the Legislature re can very well ignore the adva advantages of having the University in inthis inthis inthis this city or how they can deprive Salt Lake of an institution which she has possessed and fostered for over a full quarter of a century Besides Salt Lake is an ideal university town and x- x one-fourth one of the population of the Territory can reach our college by street c car r. r Our studying must not become a amere amere amere mere slavish toil we need recreation y and what other place in Utah can offer such pleasant and stimulating diversions to the dull routine of college life To live in a city like Salt Lake is an education edu edu- ca cation hon n in itself 1 It is for the Legislature not us to decide this question of union and loca loca- tion We wish therefore to urge upon the men who will here assemble on the of next January to forget that they 5 come from this part of the Territory or from that Let them always bear in Ss mind the duty of the broad and unselfish patriotism which they owe the people at er large and decide this question from a general view not a local Let them not pursue a course which will retard the t. t growth of our University but one which C will make her grow greater and greater as the years advance and recede All rc honor to Governor West and may he not prove unworthy the trust which is f reposed in him k A |