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Show m , Thomas Jefferson lived In an era when the simplest rudiments of learn- r Ing were deemed sufficient for a farmer M and when none even of those rudiments had any 'special bearing on ' ills life work. Agricultural schools B and colleges were unknown The "classical course ' absorbed tho atteu- , Hon of collegians, and law, mcdlcino and diMiiity were the fitly pursuits deemed worthy of . graduate. Yet Jclferson then dreamed, as shown In Ills writings, of "Young men closing their academical education with agrl- culture as the crown of all other I sciences, fascinated with Us solid charms, and at n time when they t chooio thulr occupation, Instead of crowding the other classes would re- M turn to the farms of their fathers or I their own, and replenish and Invlgo- I rato a calling now languishing under B contempt and oppression." Ills dream BB Is rea'lked In the, groups of bright iBB young men now yearly attending our agricultural colleges The fruition of this dream tho University would destroy. de-stroy. Every farmer in this stuto should demand that the legislature of Utah resist the Importunities of, the sniveling horde of Salt Lakers whoso I every preteudedly sano argument for consolidation li knocked Into a cocked B U hat tn tho face of Tacts. |