Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-02-28
WHERE CAN IT RETRENCH?
Chancellor HaTkloss, Of The UlIYsF.
silly, Submits The Question.
a Comparison of the Usvenuss of the
College and University. New
Compare their warhi
SALT LAKE CRY,
Fob. ~, 1891.

SALT LAKE CRY.
Fob. y, 1894.
Ediii0r Dsssrst NepG
! am Informed that there IL u PROPOSE.
ton to reduce tho Univorsity appro.
prlatlon for 1874 o one.half, or to about
$4,000.
Whether the Unlyersliy shall To-.
main open 0f be- closed IL Of no more
Importance 10 the regent, than 10
other citizens, and II IL not agreeable 10
be continually urging IT, Importance,
or IL claims 10 support.
Assuming the removal OF the Deaf
Mute school, the University will have
remaining 10 many departments Of
education that II will DO impossible To
continue them with any such sum A.
$4,000.
The Normal school with 200 pupils
aud courses VI three anu four years
cannot be- separately carried on Tor
much, N any lees than that sum, Tor
the lighting, heating, repair aud nur.
nishing the buildings, also the cost Tor
lauitOr, Insurance anu various general
expense, are about thn same Whatever
may be- the number of pupils.
A mining school cannot be separate.
ly carried on for much less than go, OOJ,
anu while Tor want Of means that
school IL not fully developed, the
progress n satisfactory anu tue attend.
ancu he the classes large. II this ~
continued, the branches row taught,
geology, minerslugy, zoology, metals
luTgy, etc, cannot be dropped AMI
mining engineering should be- added.
We. must assume English literature,
including history, civl government
aud political economy; In tue Ian.
guagos, Latin, Greek, French aud
GeTman, also physics, chemistry aud
mathematics. These are only thu most
general subjects; and which Of them
can DO druppu12 Tno classification re-
quifui can easily be- conceived, anu
until the classes become bO numerous
that division Is rsquired,a great saving
In expense IL made by chasing 10.
gethur pupils M different departments
pursuing the same study aud IN the
same grade.
Tho expenses OF the University are
now on basis VI shout 100000, anu
II II be- assumed tho DuAl Mute school
kAAtH saNtNNNf AAN ANAAAAAAtA "NhAA 70
for other departments. AZ the oud OF
tho present aOado uiO year July /,
1891 the Uniyefsily viii owe about
s2S, 900 Tor tho frsl six months OF tue
year, which viii include tho expenses
VI tue deaf mutrs Tor ok Of tue ten
months u tho academic year, guu this
sum will DO on Interest until tsNus ato
COLLECTED, aud perhaps longer. IL Will
get, n there T. no decrease VI attend.
anco, about 5000, for entrance fees,
curing the Two year., and In 1894
about $500, anu la 1888 perhaps
81, 200 10 81 900, interest from the IN.
yeslment OF ITO land iuuu. The In.
terest paid by purchasers OF lands guu-
into tie luud, anu the University eau
only use the interest on the FUND iu'
vested by the Tegouts,
The comparison with the Agricul.
tural College IL unfaiE The liburality
OF tho Legislature IN past years has
given the latter more than u rtquifrdl
or nc least more than u expended. its
report shows Il carried over Ia 1872
nearly twenty thousand dollars from
prior appropriations. There were given
it IN 1892 Tor building $50 900, for
maintenance $4,000, IL cafuud over
from appropriations " 1890 slO,7li6s,
received from tuition anu Otuef
sources s0,752,5i, from the government