Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-17

Noise Nail.
The question of higher education
in Idaho Is attracting considerable IT.
tention st present, and il i vel! that
il should. Idaho i IN advance of
some Of her sister States in this re-
gard. While the people of Montana
are discussing the question whether
the State institutions Of higher learn
ing should be separated Or united
and whore they shall Be located, -
in Idsho have already 6tats Uni
vsrsity sstablishsd and Aoufishing.
Some Of the questions now being dis
cussed in Montana are, however, be-
fore the people Of this State = we'll.
Shall We have one institution Of learn
ing situated at Moscow Or several
scattered over the Statef Or shall
We have ono grand university with its
different departments in different pls-
oes? These are questions Of very
great importance and worthy Of care
ful consideration. On their correct
solution depends the success Or par
tisl failure Of the States system Of
higher education.
In Michigan tho State authorities
acted wisely and the University Of
Michigan is one Of the great univer-
stiles Of the country. In Ohio the
Legislatures OF the State acted
unwisely and some thirty or forty re-
ligious sects founded colleges, most
Of them 'jim-crow" affairs, and when
at last the State undertook to estab-
lish real university, nearly every
preacher in the State was the enemy
Of the institution and it has grown tc
greatness amidst hardshlps. Il is the
duty Of the Legislature of Idaho, now
while the field is open, to establish
such . system Of higher education
that no sectarian or private colleges
unless we'll endowed and Of higher
standard, can compare with the State
institutions.
There Is no doubt Of the honest in.
tentions of the Legislature in this
matter, but the way in which to &C,
complish it is question on which
men who have studied it carefully
differ. It was only by small major
ity that the Montana State Teachers
Association recently passed a resolu
ton in favor of consolidating the in
stitutions of learning which that State
proposes to establish.
| 1t is noticed that where agricultur
al departments have been attached t
literary institutions IN Eastern State'
the agricultural departments hav.
suffered while the colleges have no
been benefited apparently. In Yves
tern States, on the other hand, wher.
State university and an agriculture
college have been established sepa
rately, both institutions have -four
ished. Technical schools and litera
ry and scientific schools appear tt
i help each other when joined in on'
institution, as in the case of Cornell
and the universities of Michigan, Illi
nois and California.
}, Governor Mcconnell, it appears t.
us, has the correct view when he pro
, poses that all of the institutions b
parts of one great university con
, trolled by one Board Of Regents, th'
whole forming the head of the public
school system of the State. We are
however, inclined to the belief tina
while the schools of engineers, me
, chanics, medicine and law should il
time be established at Moscow in con
nection with the university alread.
{ there, it will he better for all con
cerned if the school of agriculture b
esta ablished elsewhere, although un
, der the control of the University Re
gents. The experience of othe