The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-17

instruction in colleges is today prac-
! tIcally technical; that is to say, that
instruction is systematized into groups
Iof study; for instance, a classical
group, a historic and economic group,
a group of studies fitting for mechan-
lical engineering, for electrical en-
cheering, for agriculture, for medi-
| cine and for law So that a student
doing work in d modern college may
concentrate his efforts on one or more
| of these groups.
In merit these various groups cannot
De compared in such way as to say
that any one is more important or
greater than another. All are neces-
safy. All have their functions If a
STUDENT IS to become a lawyer he con-
centrates his efforts on the study of
law; II a doctor. on the study of med
lcihe- TX he wishes to become an engi-
neer, he does his entire work in the
proper department. If he is merely fit
ing himself for life of culture or gener-
al intelligence, his course will be largely
a literary one and he will make selec-
lions from the various literary and his
torlcal groups as may suit his tastes
but no one of these groups is any more
important than another; and 10 en-
phasize the necessity of one over an
other is improper
IN The earlier days, the higher insti-
tutlons offered one course. That course
was usually a classical one, and the
institution was very properly called ,;
college. But learning is so diversified
IN our own age, and each department
IS SO complete, that it is a poor insti-
luton indeed that offers but one course.
A university bears the same relations
70 these higher departments as does
1he general government of the United
states to the states. A university.
then, is an institution which offers in
structlon in many or all departments.
each one department complete in IT.
sell; and most of the better colleges in
America are more or less truly univer-
sites. For instance. Harvard, the
greatest OF the American universities,
oIters complete four year courses in
classics, IN science, in law, in medicine,
~ lheology, etc. Each OF these sep
dIale departments constitutes a COM
plete college within itself The term
university is thus applied to the
union OF these various colleges. Cor
nell University is organized in a like
manner. 1t has its school of mechani-
cal engineering, known as the Libley
coliege; school of history and politi-
cal science; school of architectnre.
school of philosophy; school of agri-
culture, etc. These are united under
one general management-the univer-
slly; The same is true, TO a greater
or less extent of all the universities
OF Europe and Of all the modern mi
versities of America. ''-''
IL SO happens that some of the ele-
mentary studies in several of these
departments or schools or colleges as
the case may be, are common to all.
and the same professor or instructor
may teach the same subject to a class
Oh students from the several depart-
ments or colleges. For instance tripo-
nometry is absolutely essential in fhe
study OF physics, of architecture. and
Oh al forms of engineering. Now. one
professor may instruct in trigonomett.v
S' 5rIl from all of these departments.
Inc advantages in having one mi
Versity under which all these denarf-
tneh's are controlled rather than hay
ing separate institutions located in
inherent places, may be readily seen
l. IS certainly less expensive and
equally efficient TO have instruction
III these common subjects given by one
t.Ilil, ldther than that as many diff
iefeht men shall be employed to teach
the same subject as there are different
ulsspartments or colleges. The appor-
Torment OF the money thus saved
could be added to the salaries of the
heads of these various departments
ana mus men of greater learning and
Gilt WIN De secured. 1t is certainly
do far better work than several 81 5oo
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~, otdh Is about to become a state
lnere are many things of which tho
peoI'is OF TINS new state NAV well he |
PROUD, and they certainly should not
Their intelligence by foste,iner
IN the territory an educational eu e.-a,s
that is defective. There rnust he eS ;,1i
Iutlons OF higher learning for the i'm
p,foFeinent of our own people. witbo,t
lIlem the state would receive tho 10
4Aeelliseht
Inc resources of the territory are
q. present small They will grow
greater. Her institutions no,,st eo w
course. have small BEGINNINGS h,,t az ~
foundations should be so laid thai The
Institutions themselves will keen nsoo
WIN the growing material DroSna,ity |
! ~ Keep pace with other states ana
iof her own good, there must event,
any De IN the territory a law school |
a hieuical school, school of civil en-, |
sheerlng and school of mecban;cal |
engineering, and a school of mines r. |
already has school of agrie,Ilture
anu u already has in the present I'm,
tVersiey a classical school and a schoo, |
Lor general science and literature ana
provides. partly for a school of mines I
An institution with all departments I
C aas-.u pe expected at once; but the
educational system under the star
should be so arranged that these de- |
partmentS may be added or esfa bIisb. |
ed as soon as required.
IS II wise that these coming institu
IONS shall have separate sets of build |
lhgs located in different parts of the [
lerfl1ory, each supplied with corps
~ professors who, in much of their
work duplicate the work of the other
institutions, or shall these institutions
pc combined under one efficient head9 !
IL Is folly to say, as before intimated
mat Inc school of classics is more i'm
portant than school of engineering /
10 some people the one will be more |,
TO some another. 1t is
1quaiiy fallacious tosay that the school
IL agriculture is more important than
another. Agriculture is not science Il
SET apart peculiarly by itself from all |.
other sciences. Tt merely takes rank
WITH other departments as one of
hem. 20 greater, no less than they.
Shall the forces of the territory or
state be dissipated, or shall they be
.ompined? This is the question that
aces the people and the legislature
I has two aspects-one of efficiency.
ne other of economy. The fable of
he bundle Of sticks would seem to |,
'oint TO solution of this problem.
We do not advocate the abolishing
either of the present university or Of
he agricultural college, ar the absorb
ION OF either by the other. But we
10 emphatically urge the union of all
departments or colleges of higher learn
ng into one institution, which could
hen rightfully be termed a univer-
ity. 1t was d seriouns mistake that
eparate institutions were ever estab-
ished. Every year of further delay
viii only make it more difficult to cor /,
ect the error. That anything but the /.
Inion of higher public educational in
erests is an error of the grayest ma
ure is the unqualified opinion of