Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-12-23

the combined institutions; that i8, for the
cNpcn 'Iturc OF given amount for
books double the library facilities will
be provided, ifthc Institutions arc united.
Or, hy uniting the Agricultural COLLEGE
aud the University u Utah. the same
library facilities can be provided Tor lust
half what they would cost. % these Iusti.
buttons are maintained separately. This
Is also true Of museums and c0nsef.
vatores. For. one museum and one
conscrvatofi will serve HliliHsuiutiaus.
ii together; while, u apart. two museums
and two Conservatives would bee re.
quIred, at double the cost for the same
work
While Il Is true that more laboratory
room would be required I1r two hun.
bred students in chemistry than Tor one
hundred, yet the same General equip
ment would serve aI., aud tue additional
expense Of providing room would be
comparatively SMALL IT, Tor example. q
chemical and physical laboratory which
viii accommodate "a certain number Of
students can DE erected and equipped
TOT My or seventy 1--WE thousand dollars,
TIE addition OF "a few thousand dollars
viii double Co. capacity; the same Is
true Ia geology mineraIJgg biology,
etc
And, notwithstanding the statement
OF President Slub1r that 60 have
added these students LOT the Agricultural
| College 90 the University. although in
the same studies, would have made u
absolutely necessary TO add teachers to
correspond with The number oi stu.
dents, there would also be q great save
INK in the salaries OF prolc sln aud
instructors. To prove tiis ] need give
only one Illustration, as the same is
largely true in all the departments. In
the mathematical department there are
~ the University This year about three
hundred students; one professor. one
assistant professor and two instructors
DO the work, 40 an aggregate salary Of
s5.soo year Now, since the classes iu
the advanced elective subjects, such as
modern geometry, quateruions etc,
are mall, no new sections in these
subjects would need TO be organized,
and, assuming ,hat there arc three hum
bred students TO the same department
Of the Agricultural College, just three
additional Instructors would DE required
for the University 20 do the work OF
both departments. there being, as at
present, from twenty to forty students To
each section. The salaries OF
these instructors would be about
$500 20 5000 year. The
saving, therefore. in salaries alone iu
this one department would bee about
s35o1 to SsS11-thc salary Of one pro.
&c sur and ihe difference between the
salaries Of au assistant professor and an
instructor Then there would b. q
saving IN the mlnagement.n the salaries
OF president, secretary, and treasurer
Hence repeat that though the cost
OF either the present site OF the Agricul-
tural College or OF the University Is Of
great Importance and should be made the
best possible use Of, yet b sinks into
iusignilcancc compared 20 the annual
waste OF maintaining these Institutions
separately. AS the resources Of the
state develop and the population in.
creascs. more means will be- available
for higher educational work. New
departments, such as philosophy law,
and medicine will be required, and Il
established as separate institutions IN
different parts OF the state this waste
will then, indeed, be an ever increasing
quantity, and such separation will be a
blundcr which, as President Jordan
says, time Will deepen into a crime
M this Institution agricultural
College had been united with
the University" says President
Slnborn, 'the classes Boo agrI.
culture, mechanical and civil rngi.
ucCrug and domestic arts would have
remained exactly the same, and would
have required iden,ically the same
number Of teachers, as the University
does not instruct in either one Of these
great departments" But from an exc
animation OF these courses, as given in
the catalogue OF the Agricultural College
for ISg3-gt. and OF the work " the Uni
vcrsIty, Il Is found that 40 the courses
Ia mathematics, general aud political
science, language and history, which
together constitute, IN the course iu
agriculture, more than twothifds Of the
work; In mechanical engineering, Just
thrce'iourlhs; and In civil engineering
about two-lhrds, are all being taught IN
the University. In these ratios, there
fore, the above COURSES arc a duplica'
ton Of the University work.
Moreover, IN these three courses In
the Agricultural College, just five
seventies Of the work Of the freshman
year, aud "a little less than half that Of
the sophomore year. Is actually done in
the bycyaydf0yp school OF the University;
aud al the subjects Of the Agricultural
College preparatory course are below
the intermediate grade Of tho Logan
district schools. Yet President SAN
born asserts that 'thc University Is
university only In namr," although the
sophomore students OF the College
could not enter the freshman class OF
any course in the University. Contnu.
iug. he says that the University had last
year "ouly some thirty or forty actual
yscsj init ysiqde0ls." The catalogue Of
80 ltF,ttslty forJg33.gi gives just 0Hs
htgayCI and EgcHty students, including
normal and special students IN the COLI
legc courses, as follows.
Graduate students, FIVE; seniors,
three; juniors, FIVE; sophomores,
twcnty-eight (slX, iouuh'year normals);
freshmen, seventy Thirty, third-year
normalsl; and mining students, nine.
His whole argument, therefore, on the
merging OF the University students into
the courses OF the Agricultural College
rests upon a hilacious basis II Is
obviously true that 10 send the prepara-
tory pupils Of the a, c. TO the splendid
schools" Of Logan and, as Ear as prac.
iClbic, the students OF the University
preparatory school, TO the Salt Lake
CITY and other high schools, would be
In the economic and educational inter
c3ts Of the Territory. Bot this Is
foreign to the subject in hand and Is
brought in to this discussion only by a
seeming attemp, TO place the University
IN q false light before the people.
That by a concentration Of our higher
educational institutions we avoid the
duplication Of Libraries, apparatus, and
laboratories, and save large sums In the