Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-01-11

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other section. The city students iu the
| normal school are lust ns sincere In
| thOir intunii1n TO become bona fidu
teachers as those re- isiefei from else
where. The experience with gradu.
niei Of the normal department shows
lhiP. Ia the normal school 10 given
technical Instruction not provided In
the high school o. Salt Lake or my
other city.
Let us examine the Agricultural
College with reference ~ IL relation
10 preparatory schools. A casual purussl
Of the catalogue will show taat it IL
least becoming 10 President Sauusrn uf
/ nli school uillCers in the Territory 90
bring the accusation against the Uni.
vcfaiiy that /, BE- folafgtly preparatory
school. The astounding fact Is there
discovered that M ttc t0rsss oBorcd ~
Ms dgrioWtWGt collage. HiueH ~ tie
ig0rk ~ Ms JSeslma1 and sJphDDi0ro
/ years Is preparatory sotYOi Work. A
c0mparitJu Of the Catalogues Ui the
/ two iuHtitutiOrs Will show this. Which
b. tho more feprchcuslblr, 90 Offer pre-.
| pngat ~ instruction as preparatory m.
stuctiOu, or to offer preparatory iu.
HiruCiiOn M college work leading TO
Z
sgnuOfu does. Not a studcnt taking
/ the freshman course a. on Ouucci by
| thu Agricultural College, would be Az
mitlud further than the lowest year o.
/ the Univefsity preparatory school. In
the sophomore year Of tho Agricultural
College course is offered Instruction
when, Ia the University, IL rslvgated
| TO the preparatory school.
Further, " II IL wrong for the Unit.
vUfsity u maintain Il pfepAfatOfy school
| Of the rank VI high school, what shall
/ DO said Of the Agricultural College, i1f
| ~, too, supports preparatory school,
/ the work Of whioh a laid down in the
catalogue, 10 only tho work VI tue com.
/ mon district schools2 The stu Ients nf
the preparatory school OF the Agii
/ cultural College afu not sufficiently
advanced 10 be admitted 10 the pI0-
] pafatofy school Of tho University.
! Those who nave finished tue a gricul.
/ tuul preparatory course are admitted
directly 10 Tho freshman year oi that
! college; those same atudrn,B would be-
admitted only to the lowest year Of the
Univeriiy preparatory school ami
would have % do two years moro OF
work before being admitted ~ the
| ffrBliman year OF the University.
Which, then, IL In truth, mUfe nearly
preparatory school, II all students
OF both institutions doing preparatory
work, whether called preparatory work
Or incorporating under the uuwarTant-
ably assumed name OF college WORK,
were excluded from both Institutions,
there would be LEFT In the University
l2s students. WIN President SaubOFn
give the corresponding enrolment VI
the Agricultural College?
Let US examine a little further into
the preteusion, Of tho Agricultural
College. According q the catalogue
VI the University % Mlnnt-OtA, N NJ
OF the work laid down 40 college woTs
ia the Agricultural College 10 done ia
the ugrouinrdf school ~ Alinresltn
whiuu 10 only preparatory 10 tue ifssb.
mau class VI tho Uutvcrsily clurst
leading 10 degrees Ia agriculture. A {
Cornell, the applicant Tor admission 10
the freshman year VI tho course H.
agriculture must have completed nrith-
metic, grammar, elementary rhetoric
anu literature, plane geometry, one
year Of Algebra, anu two Htullea &C.
leoted from these four Onn year Of
German, One yehr OF French, two
years OF Latin, aud solid geometry,
plane trigonDmetiy anu higher algebra.
These studies arc regarded ~ pTrpuTa-
tory AT Cornell, anu with the exception
" tTlgouOmstry and solid geometry, are
taught In the preparatory school Of the
University oi Utah. In the Aghcul-
tutAl College these studies are taught
in the JiIH oJliC0s courses
Pfvslleal 5AnbOrn may object 20 this
comparison as being with great Rud
strong Institutions. hut President
SAuboTn Ia his latest catalogue, page %,
makes the pfesumpiuOua aua untuu.
able assertion that his "four yeats
course IL now one Of the very strongest,
II not the strongest, technical course in
agriculture la the country" Those
facts afe their own comment, no further
are needed.
Again, at Minnesota, English gram.
mar, elementary ThsIorio anu liteTs.
tuTo, arithmetic complete, elementary
anu higher algebra, plano AMI soiii
geometry, physiology, n certain amount
VI physics, chemistry, botany AMI
drawing, and "A year Of French or
German are regarded rs preparatory
aud must DO finished before the student
may enter the freshman class VI any
engineering course, civil VI mechRui-
cal In tho Agricultural College at
Logan these 5u Hltgta are taught In tho
college as cJ4g.g studies, Most Of
these studies Arc taught Ia the prBpgr-
slOTy school VI the Uuiyersity vt salt
Lake. Al Cornell, Euglish grammar,
elementary rhetoric aud literature,
arithmetic, elementary and higher
algebra, plane anu solid geometry,
plane anu spherical trlgOn1mutry, aud
one year Of French or German arc re-
garded a. preparatory, and must be
passed by any student before ho can
enter tho freshman class In mechanical
engineering. rhesesubjs cts are taught
rs college studies ia the Agricultural
College. Except lrigOuOmstTy anu
soli1 geometry, they arc taught m mere
preparatory studies In the University
VI Utah.
Owing to tho lack OF space, only two
eastern Institutions nave been brought
Ia evidence 10 snow that Presldeat
SAnOOrn Is doing preparatory work aud
calling IL college WORK. Many others
could DO compared with the snidCOllege
with the Same result, In the face Oi
all this knowledge, which, ms college
man, President Sanbofn must have
possessed, he has tie etlfonteTy 10
charge the University with being 50
largely preparatory school.
To recapltulste' The Uuiyeraity has
81 college students, 3 OIL the freshmen
being graduates Of the Salt Lake City