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Show fl AGRICULTURAL HIGH 8CHOOLS In a recent lssuo of tbo Dcscret Evening News H tho following from tho pen of President Kingsbury H of tbo University of Utah appeared in Its editorial H i columns: Editor Dcsorot News -Of greater Import- H anco at present than tbo University, according H to my belief, Is a correct public educational pol- H Icy for our stato; I therefore, feel that I should H bo shirking my duty as n citizen nnd educator H if I did not mako tho following statement. H It seems to bo in accordanco with human na- H ture, In Its progress of development to go from B i ono extromo to another so that I do not make H J this statemont In tho spirit of faultfinding. There H ' Is n fooling now that if our oducatlon Is not In- H duBtrlai, it does not amount to much and should H "' k be abandoned, and theroforo demands aro begin- H nlng to bo mado for agricultural schools from H different parts of tho stato. If theso demands H aro met, wo shall sooner or later have a parallel Hl system of high schools with our present system H -,. of public schools, differing slightly from tho lot- H tcr only In tho ract that agrlculturo might bo H( emphasized n llttlo moro In theso schools. Any H ' educator knows that In art : grlcultural high Hf school It is nccossary to teach tho English Inn- H guage, Bomo mathematics, chemistry, physics, H botany, etc., and that If theso subjects aro not H taught it would do just as well to go out Into the H fields nnd show tho boys and girls how to do H ,,, things on tho farm without any scientific knowl- H edgo on their part at alt. No agricultural high H school would last long or accomplish very much H without theso formal subjects, and therefore H should an agricultural high school at first bo H established and conducted on such n plan It H would not bo long boforo nearly nil the format 1 subjects of tho common high school would be, from necessity, Introduced into ttho agricultural H school. In short time, therefore, tho only cliff- H erenco between tho agricultural high school and H tho common high school would be in the nihil- H tlonal Bubjcct of agrlculturo given In tho form- H cr. From tho fact tbnt nil our public high H Echools u ro now' Introducing agrlculturo Into their H curricula, sooner or later thcro would bu prnc- H tically no dlffcrcnro except that tho stato agrl- H cultural high school might bo better maintained H than tho public high school. If tho stato wishes H to Bpend moro mcniiH for high schools, why not H glvo ft llttlo more to tho present public high H schools that they might do moro work in ngricul- H turo and prevent tho nasto of money through H duplication of buildings, teachers, apparatus, H books and libraries by tho establishment of agrl- H cultural high schools? Ueforo entering upon a H now public school policy, would It not bo better M I to stop nnd think for u short tlmo nnd ascertain m , Just what is to bo tho outcomo of this now policy H and to determine whether wo aro not about to H !i Baddlo upon ourselves nn unucceBsitry, extra bur- H II den without any extra returns. This Is not writ- H I ten to opposo tbo changing of tho Branch Nor- H mat to tho branch of the Agricultural College. H . Hcspcctfully submitted, J. T KINOSIIUKY. H In commenting tho Nows snld: H If tho Idea In merely to bnvo a llttlo moro fl agrlculturo taught than Is now given In high H schools, that can bo brought about without fur- H ther legislation; It Is a mere mutter of a llttlo H moro money. Hut If nn agricultural high school H means moro uxpenso and moro duplication of the H educational forces of tbo Stato, tbo change should M not bo made H Wo agree with 1'rcBldcnt Klugsbury and tho H Nows that It would not bo wisdom, In fact It would H bo oxtravuganco to luaugurato a uyBtem that would H practically parallel tho present Hjatcm of cducn- H tlon.. Of course no school, bo it nn Agricultural H school, or otherwise, can maintain without lnngu- H ngo, mathematics, botany and such subjects. It H would appear to bo tbo part of wisdom to add to B tho already established to stem of high schools such M . subjects as will mako them adorruato for tho times H j and mako bucIi changes ns will best conservo tho r education Interests of tho statu, and at tho same m j tlmo not IncrcaBo tho burdens of tho tax payers. ( And in adding such subjecs as r.ru uucvssury and which at tho present tlmo appear to bo In tbo In- Ph dustrlnl lino wo want to empliaslzo horo tho TpV direction of such subjects should conio from tho pjpjJ Stato Agricultural Collogo. Let tho boys ana girls pjpjpT havo tbo liencllt of tho knowledge nnd sorvlces of pjpV tho trained experts at this great school and thcro pjpjj by mako It of uso to tho greatest posslblo number pjpjj' throughout tho stato. pjpjj' t Whllo wo stand opposed to n doublo system of pjpjj high schools wo aro also opposed to u doublo ays- pjpSi tern of Agricultural Colleges, Wo notice that tho pfpW University of Tlali nro asking for appropriations pjpjj under tho "Normal School" for Domestic Arts, Do- pTpjJ incstlc Science Mechanic Arts, nnd Agrlculturo. pjpjJi Now It would nppcar that all of this work could TpTJ bo done, nnd dono woll at tho Stato Agricultural Hpjfl College, and In granting on appropriation of such pH chnractor to tho University 1b n duplication tbnt pjpS could well ho avoided. It ill bo argued that such pPa conditions must maintain at tho Stnto Normal pjpV School. Woll how about It when moro monoy Is H expended, ns tho Nowtt suggosts, and when tho I i. . : PPpVi (,pVpppH WM"""MW" present systom of high schools are made to meet tho present demands, as President Kingsbury suggests, sug-gests, in tho Interests of agrlculturo and other Industrial In-dustrial subjects? Will not tho high schools then glvo Just about as much Instruction in these subjects sub-jects as tho University proposes to do at tho present pres-ent time? And to mako a long story short is not tho present drift of things towards an amalgamation amalgama-tion of tho Stato Normal School with tho Agricultural Agricul-tural Collego? Would It not bo a money saver to tho state, and would it not be a 'thousand times better for tho boys and girls, opening up opportunities opportun-ities that they havo not had before and giving bettor bet-tor satisfaction and efficiency all around? "Wo think so. |