| Show THE UNION OF THE SCHOOLS the news is in favor of the union ol 01 tho utah university with the agricultural college our contemporary takes occasion to mention a few points which to havo overlooked STANDARD protests against the union of the two educational institutions because 1 the differ in aim and design and each has its distinct field of usefulness 2 because if united the cost of maintaining the union combined with the cost of removal will be about equal to the cost of supporting the two institutions and 3 because more benefits will derive to the public with them separated than with them united the news wishes a better definition of the aims of the schools than we gave in the following the agricultural college it a special school combined with an experiment station it is or should be a place where the youth may receive manual training it is a school for the masses where the pupils should be taught matters pertaining to practical affairs and receive a training in every day utility the college is for practical purposes alio university for classical an agricultural coll cee as wo understand it is a school where tho studies of agriculture and the mechanic arts are pursued by tho students the latter of course including arts in which the hands and body are more concerned than the mind in other words the practice of agriculture which by the by includes the very necessary know ledee of knowing how to hold a plow or harness a horse it includes many other point of course of greater importance viz a knowledge of domestic animals drainage irrigation fertilizers implements and their uses soil rotation of crops and many others kow wo admit that an agricultural education includes instruction in geology zoology botany and chemistry also and these studies up to a certain stage might ag well be taught in the university but no one will deny eliat the farm and not tho city university ia the proper place to learn their application to farming in the university the theory may be obtained but in the agricultural college on the farm that theory must be put into practical use there the study must bo accompanied by discipline and manual labor alie principles cf book learning must bo illustrated on the farm and in the garden hence the agricultural college is a special the university general having passed through tho university courses a pupil is prepared to pursue any special course lie may desire the broader the foundation of his general course the better for him he shall decide upon his calling where ho must learn to place study and labor side by side and teach them to walk together there is no need of quibbling over what is meant by practical pra and ornamental studies all studies may be eaid to be ornamental until put into practical use at which time they become practical says the news whatever theory of practicality would tend to remove the science of sericulture from the piano of higher education simply degrades tho most noble of human pursuits it is not sentimentality that places agri cultural cal tural science among the higher branches of learning its paco aas been determined by tho long line of sober and exacting labor in the class room and laboratory which every atu 1 dent must traverse before he is competent to begin the most essential branchi of agricultural study this may bo foregoing abo advantages of education for the sake of practical training but it does not so appear in the blobs boobs that is all very true and as beautiful as it is true but we have many poor boys who can not afford to get this haeher education and rather than leave them as they are we maintain it is better for them to forego the advantages of an or higher education than not to receive the practical training which they can or should get in the agricultural college but which it is utterly impossible to obtain in the university in other word sit ia better that they should forego the science than the practice of agriculture we have never argued to remove the science of agriculture from the plane of higher education much of the science may be learned in the practice with proper teachers but never tho other way about hence if one must be dispensed with let that be the science the poor boys and young men leave as much right to demand of the territory a practical agricultural training in the college as have the normal students etu dents the pedagogical education which is given in tho university the general foundation or higher knowledge is just as necessary in the one cano as in the other but it can not always be obtained now there are several hundred students in tho college they combined with those in the university there would necessarily be more expense in teaching and accommodating them in that institution than there is at present very little if anything would bo saved the public would not be bene fitted as much with the combination as with the schoola separate because many could not go to salt lake city alio can go to logan we do not think that the public would receive as much benefit by spending all the appropriation which it can afford in one institution as by giving ic to the two we aro than ever opposed to the combination and furthermore are not in favor of their beins parallel institutions of learning since each lias its distinct field which the other cannot cover if the territory can not afford an agricultural college that is another question but let us not make the mistake of uniting it with the university with the hope of saving expenses for it can not be dono IDAHO is still keeping up a war upon an obnoxious school history of the united states right let the rebels gain no ground OCR frienda fri endi in idaho are coming down to democratic times the city council has just decided to reduce the city marshals salary to sixty cents per day HEBE is a piece at from the sun grammar and all were it not for the fact that tho democratic party was now in power and congress would meet within a week there would be no hope j for the future FROM chamber of commerce of I og angeles we are in receipt of the official report of the international irrigation congress held in that city in october 1893 it ie a valuable document on irrigation covering pages tho title page motto reads and a river went out to eden to water the 1 garden gen 2 10 THE avy thinks that the more raw materials we brine to this country tho more work will be furnished the workingmen in turning out the manufactured article it would bo interesting to know by what procesa of reasoning the sun can explain how it would benefit tho workingmen to have free coal and iron or any other material of which this country hag an abundance in ita raw state |
