Show 4 A have been made recently A ATTEMPTS J by supporters of the Agricultural I College to show that the courses given here at the University are not in harmony harmony harmony har har- mony with the spirit of modern tion These persons show themselves t s to be ignorant either of what is the I spirit of modern education or of what is included in the University courses as outlined in its catalogue Everyone w who knows anything at all about the University knows that the courses given are thoroughly practical and suited as r nearly as possible to the needs of the people of our Territory Further most of its courses are as advanced as like courses in most other State Universities ties ties more more especially the courses in ini i physical science and mathematics There is to be sure a course in liberal arts and the latter is doubtless what the supporters of the college refer to slightingly slightingly slightingly slight slight- as ornamental education Here again either deplorable ignorance is shown or willful misrepresentation is resorted to We assume that no person r will deny that in any community there should be specialists in history social science political economy ethics anthropology anthropology anthropology anth anth- and psychology Allowing a. a f then that such are needful since all l these branches pertain to the study of 1 t man how can a knowledge of man and his relations be obtained without studying studying study study- c ing his language and his works in all ages Thought is always of more importance import import- ance than things and language is fossilized fossilized fos fos- f thought Man alone posses possesses es t. t language and through it alone can the thought o of past ages be studied just as i 1 the physical life of past ages is studied 1 through the fossilized forms found imbedded imbedded imbedded im im- bedded in the strata of the earths earth's crust But we fear that in assuming that everyone will agree as to the importance of the study of human life and human thought we have assumed too much since we must make an exception of those who have characterized University I il education as being principally orna orna- mental x With the same evident ignorance or intention to deceive it is claimed that most of the students here are in the theN N Normal courses an and therefore are not doing University work while a glance at the catalogue shows that the Normal courses are full college courses and that the normal instruction given is not surpassed in any institution in the West But modern normal education is especially practical hence in any case the opponents of the University prove just what they have seemed most anxious to disprove that disprove that the courses give in inthe inthe inthe the U University ty are modern and practical The fact is that no system of education education education tion is more scientifically perfect more adapted to all the needs of the growing mind or more likely to produce good citizens minded broad-minded men and women than the system of normal education as carried out in our best normal schools of to We assert with confidence that neither our normal course nor our courses in science and mathematics will suffer suHer by comparison with like courses of any university university university uni uni- of the same age and with like opportunities We notice these points because they the involve misstatements which are calculated to deceive As to the arguments they will not bear the test of the most cursory analysis They can be summed up as follows N Nea ea ly all the instruction given in the U University ty is classic and hence ornamental ornamental ornamental orna orna- mental if it is not it ought to be But it is not and since it is not by employing employing employing employ employ- ing two or three professors in classics the College could absorb the University The College is not duplicating any of the University courses bec because use it has only one instructor to each section of thirty students hence the U University could not take its stude students ts without taking taking taking tak tak- ing its professors also But the f- f 1 students who are studying classics at the University because they are not studying studying studying study study- ing agriculture and who are not studying studying studying study study- ing classics because they are could all be taught at the College by two or three professors in classics without j violating the rule previously laid down that there should be De at least one instructor tor for each section of thirty students for r 3 3 30 It is said that many students at the College fail in mathematics We should think they would |