The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-20
THE SALT LAKE HERALD WEDNESDAY,. SEPTEMBER

Improving Its uleJnOQS, increasing US
facilities, charging its faculty and adj
vancing its standards of admission and
instruction, until il is now a college in
which the people of Utah may take pride,
and which is worthy OF the patronage OF
the best and most am bitious youth.
An examination of its catalogue and an
inspection of Its museums. laboratories,
library aud methods OF instruction would
convince the observer that 1t is not neces-
sary to await the building up OF new
institution to enable young people OF
Utah to pursue solid college courses lead
ing TO degrees.
have been bred in eastern schools and
colleges and have been connected With
several schools OF high grade in various
parts of the middle states and far east,
and years. experience in the University
of Utah enables me to assert that the IN
struction here offered is as thorough and
the methods as modern, and, SO far as at
tempted, as efficient as in many OF the
eastern institutions whose excellence IS
unquestionably acknowledged.
Respectfully,
Prof. of Language and Literature, Uni
versity of Utah.
The foregoing letter is given promi-
nent place that the views OF preceptors IN
the University of Utah may be known.
We think the gentleman is little too
sensitive over the remark from which ne
draws his rather strained inference.
There was certainly no intention to dis
parage the University of Utah, either on
the part of the HERALD or of the pro-
motors of the institution which expects
some day to render it unnecessary for any
students to go to eastern establishments
from this territory to gain the highest
educational honors.
1t is a fact that every year some of our
young men are entered at eastern colleges
and universities. Not few of them have
studied at our home institutions inclu-
ding the University of Utah. If there
was no necessity for this, it is a little
singular that they should go to so much
trouble and expense.
We think there is, perhaps, some truth
in the statement that many of the studies
pursued in the east may just as well be
had at home. There is no need for any of
our young men who desire to acquire an
advanced education to go east for degrees
IN letters, science, arts, or normal
course. The degrees OF Bachelor of Arts,
Science and Letters, have been given by
the University of Utah for several years.
The standard has been SO high, however,
that only a few students have been able to
reach those degrees.
But our correspondent Will scarcely
claim that there are no higher degrees of
learning to be obtained in the foremost
universities of the east than can be had
today in the University of Utah. THE
HERALD has never been among those who
at any time have sought to disparage the
University. From early times we have
advocated its cause and recognized
its merits. The very idea that TIE
HERALD is either Ignorant of the exist
ence of that institution or of the courses
OF study it offers to pupils, borders on the
ridiculous. There is more reason to
think that the writer of the letter, who is
comparatively new conner, is unaware
OF the championship OF the University by
THE HERALD, and the publication in it's
columns of detailed particulars concern
ing the progress and excellence OF that
progressive institution.
But we are pleased to see the gentlemen
connected with the University eager to
place its advantages before the public. 1t
is an Institution that should receive
hearty support and encouragement. 1t
can boast Of some of the very foremost
educators Of the territory among its
faculty, as we'll as highly accomplished
professors from the east. And it seems to
US that more OF our home advanced pre-
ceptors ought to be numbered among
them. And we expect to see the time
when the University of Utah will be ex-
clusively what its name implies, that
there will be no preparatory courses
within its walls, but that higher educa-
ton to the most advanced limits will give
it name and fame equal to any in the
land. THE HERALD endorses all the
encomiums uttered by the writer of the
above letter and only dissents ftom his
mistaken inference.