The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-18
A VAIN ANTICIPATION.

! 1He SUMMER ScnOol oil the teachers
will be held in Provo this year, as it
was last year. The Dispatch seems to
think this will tend to make Provo the
school center of the territory. 1t is
perfectly proper for that paper to ad-
vocate the claims of Provo and TO build
it up by every legitimate means. But
we do not think the meeting of the
summer school at that place in 1894
will cause it to become the school cen
ter any more than did the session of
1898.
That paper also refers to. 1.-The per-
verse and illiberal policy of the late
legislature in Topping off the normal at
tachment of the University" and thinks
| it likely to prove blessing in dis
guise for Provo" And this is the
ground on which it bases that expecta-
ton:
| 1t insures large accession to
the working force and students in
our own peerless B. Y. academy In
the future, as in the past, Provo will
furnish the actual working force Of
teachers to Utah. We will gobble UP,
| if the homely term is admissible, the
normal business which the Legislature
thus reckleSsly throws down. While we
deeply regret the injury their parsi-
mony does to the territory, yet it is but
human nature for us to glory in the
TACT that our own grand school is to be
benefited to that extent. What the
University loses the 3. Y. academy
gains. OF course this view of the situa-
ton is somewhat selfish one, but it
will be remembered that we do not
make the condition. We were for the
full measure of the subsidy to the Uni
IVersity, but as the Republican Legis-
lature made the condition, over our pro-
tests we are not averse to accepting
the advantages which are chucked to
us by its pig headed, misplaced and
contemplate economy. Thus do the
circumstances serve to make of Provo
the educational center of the territory,
soon to be state of Utah."
We do not dispute the remarks CON
corning the course of the Republican
Legisla ture in reference to the Univer-
sity, and the evident intent to cripple,
if not close up. the normal department
Of that institution. But it does not fol-
low that all the normal students, or
any of them, will now go to the Acad-
envy at Provo. There is another view
to be taken. of the matter
1t is not many years ago that the
University received no appropriation at
all for two years. That occurred
through a collision between the Leg
islature and the Governor. Did the
University close its doors? No. indeed.
Nor did all the pupils go to Provo.
Public spirited citizens stepped for
ward in aid of the University, the nee
essary funds were obtained, and the
faith of those gentlemen in the honor
and good sense of the representative
people of Utah was not misplaced. The
money advanced was made up at the
next session of the Legislature, and the
difficulty was bridged over without ma
terial disadvantage.
1t is possible that a similar thing
may occur again. The University will
go on until its regular vacation, and
the normaia will continue their course.
Before another semester begins, it may
be that the needful help will be forth
coming and no disaster will overtake
the educational establishment in which
we all take pride.
1t is all right, for the summer school
to meet at Provo, as before. The teach
ers who attend will no doubt have an
other pleasant and profitable time
there. But neither that nor the par
simonious action of our late Rcpubli-
can Legislature will be likely to drive
the normal students of the University
to the Provo Academy.