Show PRESIDENT RESIDENT SANBORN has fallen fallenI I- I about per cent in our estimation estimation estimation estima estima- tion since the appearance of that article of his in the Deseret News of the The first column seems to be written written written writ writ- ten in a spirit of vindictive mendacity and can be taken as nothing less than a direct insult to President Kingsbury to every every Professor and to every student here It is a serious matter if the funds appropriated to the University have been wantonly squandered in needlessly raising raising raising rais rais- ing the Professors' Professors salaries President Harper of Chicago made an estimate of the average salary paid to Professors in inthe inthe inthe the United States The exact figure we cannot state but it was pretty close to 2100 The Regents aim to pay our Professors 2200 we believe Chancellor Chancel Chancel- lor Harkness stated to the writer that it itis itis itis is the the policy of the Regents to secure first-class first men and pa pay them good salarieS sal sal- aries arieS arieS- They have done so Is this false economy Poor men could be secured for small stipends but such a policy would drive away good students and bring contempt and disgrace upon the University Does President Sanborn uphold such a policy He seems to lament the fact that the Professors here are paid forty or fifty per cent higher than the Agricultural College Prof Professors That a large number of the University students could receive just as good if not better instruction in Salt Lake schools is paying a handsome tribute to the teachers engaged but is an offensive fling at our Professors and at us and cannot be passed over in silence What about the Agricultural College and its Professors President Sanborn may sincerely believe that the Agricultural College is a second Harvard its Professors Professors Professors Pro Pro- counterparts of Harvard Professors Professors Professors Pro Pro- and himself a second Eliot President Sanborn says he has satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory evidence that President Kingsbury Kingsbury Kingsbury Kings- Kings bury and the Faculty as a self committee are working for union and Salt Lake City He knows more than anyone else does then The spirit of President Kingsbury's articles shows that he conscientiously believes that the union of the two institutions should take place both for the sake of economy and efficiency and that he owes the territory and the higher educational interests a duty in advocating this union Union is all that he advocates and nothing more yet President Sanborn seems to think that he is actuated by sinister motives or working for personal ends Throughout his whole article President Sanborn has tried to belittle the University University University Uni Uni- and has indulged in some calumny regarding her students As the official organ of the students we feel it it our duty to reply to a few statements with which we are connected leaving the main question to its proper province proy-ince |