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Show J. E. Carlisle Writes About College Editor Tribune Ii apucars that the side most frequently presented to the public on the collcgc-unlvcrslty question ques-tion la that ol tho professor who desires de-sires an educational ovironment more congenial to his feelings and ambitions ambi-tions than the present Institutions offer of-fer In their separate capacity; as also the sentimental side of the university alumni, who at whatever sacrlllce of other educational Institutions, desires to see a great university. In the treatment of the question, howevcr.tlui thing that should receive the deepest consideration is, which would be for the greatest good of tho gaeatest number of the citizens of the State, the consolidation or the separate maintenance of the two institutions? . The uplifting of thu masses of tho young people to a higher plane of citizenship is the aim and purpose of State Institutions devoted to the work of education. It Is, no doubt, the purpose pur-pose of the public free school system and under that system work is frequently fre-quently duplicated in the various 1 common and high schools, the aim I being not one of economy, but tho general good of the community, Thus wo have In cities In tho East Side and West Sldo high schools, when, no doubt, a combination would bo a saving sav-ing In a material way, but a vervgicat loss In an educational way. The same principle holds good In tho development of the higher education and especially In a pructlcal education when opportunities of tho very best character should be atTorded the young people of the State for a useful citizenship. The proper distribution of the State's efforts In this higher Held for the general good in the important matter. One tine educational Institution Institu-tion with a great big IT as the beginning begin-ning letter would look well to professors, profes-sors, visitors, and to the people; but would results be as generally beneficial benefi-cial to the State? Would tho attendance attend-ance of students in that Institution bo as huge as the combined attendance of the college and university separate-j separate-j ly conducted as at present. I Walter II. Page, In a recent article I on a 'Comprehensive View of Colleges, In tho World's Work, among other things says: "Most of tho pationago of all colleges col-leges N local, In splto of the cheapness of travel and it always will bo local. Their proper distinction therefore is of fundamental Importance In fact, tho proper distributions of colleges Is tho llrst law of tho successful developments develop-ments of higher education In the Unl-ted Unl-ted States. In no other way can they becomo strong, and In no other way can they beaccesslblo to all the youth who would prollt by them." After presenting a table sustaining this argument, ar-gument, showing that tho larger percentage per-centage of undcr-graduates attending Columbia and a numberof other representative repre-sentative colleges live within fifty miles of the respective colleges, tho writer makes the further statement: "If a siralllar anayisls were made of all the colleges In the United States It would show that 76 per cent, If not more, of the students live within the neighborhoods or the colleges. " Taking this agreement to be well founded, It Is readily seen that to unite the Agricultural college with tho University at Salt Lake city would cut out a large number of students and curtail the development of higher education In too State, and further, tho class or students thus cut out would be from rural districts. The very ones more than others that should recelvo the benefits of education educa-tion In the agricultural lines. With the University at Salt Lake city, the Agricultural colflgo at Logan, Lo-gan, the branch of tho University Normal Nor-mal department at Cedar City, there seems to bo a fair and equitable distribution dis-tribution or the State efforts In higher high-er education. And thus located, the University affords the firty-mlle opportunity oppor-tunity to Salt Lake. Ogden and Provo and Intermediate region, while the Agricultural college, located in the next largcsttlty of the State, Is a'so lu one of the Unest agricultural valleys of this mountain reglou.thus affording a splencild environment for an institution institu-tion of Its purpose and character The State Is rapidly growing In population pop-ulation and wealth. The need for these two Institutions will be greater and greater as population Increases. Salt Lake need not covet the Agricultural Agricul-tural college, for a school of mines Is more fitting to her present and future prospects What builds up and bone-Ills bone-Ills other parts of this great Stato Indirectly In-directly tends to the growth -ot th'j, business center, and hence Salt Lake need not lend her Inlluence to kill the Agricultural college. The college Is a credit to tho State, and ought to bo a matter or pride to all her citizens. Without doubt It is the best Institution of Its kind within a radius of a thousand miles, and left alono with tho support that the State can and should give It It will continue to grow lu Its great field. Unite It with tho University and it will lose much of Its identity, bo dwarfed In Its usefulness and crippled In the purpose pur-pose of Its founding, and tho Held of tho Stato higher education will bo largely narrowed to those who live witnln tho llfty-mllo region of Salt Lake city. Considering tho' general good, the Stato can not afford to do-thls do-thls and break up tho greatest found-atlon found-atlon for a broad and liberal futuru giowth In its higher educational Interest. In-terest. .John K. Oakum,!:. |