Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-01-16
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Prof Sl1bOTl.
MERRY BLOWS AND HARD ONES


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Tie peugal OF Prof Sanborn's article
In your issue Of Jam oh, aud some ieei'
ings ofHghteous indignation at hagmn'
miss,atcmonts, induce me to request
space for a partial reply This reply Is
pfepared without consultation or com
munieaiion with any one. The writer
alone Is responsible for IT,
Prof Sinbou says, Nov, as we
teach four hours a day at the College I'M
stead Of three as a, the University.
This rcmar, Is not only grossly false IN
fact but would be misleading . true
because OF the lower grade OF work
done at the College. ! know that some
University professors have taught from
four to five hours per day since their
connection with the University and are
now teaching that number OF houn'
Prof. Sanborn cannot De so ignorant a'
no, to know that the labon Of 100 IN
stmctor cannot be fairly measured by
the number OF hours OF class room SER
vice. Three hours Of such service in
some subjects require as much labor as
six In some others More advanced
work requires, as a rule more labor out
side the class room than lower work
does.
Prof sanboms malicious fling about
salaries Is almos, beneath notice and
contempt. In the first place, u be Is no
more correct in this than he IS concern
ing hours Of labor his statement is
utterly yaluelcss. In the second place,
1.-THE faculty OF the College receive from
forty to fty per cent less than that Of
the University then they are no, getting
enough to secure and keep good men,
competent for first class college work,
even though the cost Of living Is some
what less in Logan than in Salt Lake
City. There are various ways Of max
ing figures lie, and strongly suspect
Prof Sanbom OF some Juggling to arrive
~ his conclusion. For example, an aver
age obtained by combining salaries rom
1--WE hundred up to twenty five hundred
might be much less than even a two
thousand salary at some other instltu'
ton. The value OF any educational In
stitution depends chiefly upon the char.
acler OF It's corps OF teachers. Economy
at the sacrifice OF efficiency here is most
emphatically penny wisdom and pound
ioolishness The best policy for an insti-
tuition Is TO get good men and then treat
them so that they can be content TO
Loyalty devote their lives TO their work.
Pref Slnborn makes some gross mis-
representations concerning the pupils
attending the University and is Prupara-
tory aud Normal schools, The Uniyef.
sity has for the past two years pursued
the policy OF RELOCATING as much as pos
sible to the Salt Lake City High School
the preparation OF city applicants for is
freshman class. This policy has been
attended with such success that for the
year iSgJ-4 there are but eleven regular
preparatory students from the city with
a few pursuing special subjects, as
against sixty.lhrec In 1894 5, the number
quoted by Prof Sanbon. Not only with
regard TO the city but also the rest OF
the Territory, the University advises
applicants to prepare IN local schools
when they can do so. The University
considers that IN the lack oiliigh Schools
throughout most Of the Territory Il must
maintain a Preparatory Department Of
High School grade TO serve ls terri
toual High School until this defect IS
remedied. But II Professor Sanbom
will arrange with the city to "lake the
children Of the state free OF tuition into
her High School" the University Pre-
plfatory School will no longer b. nee.
essary. II the Professor will kindly
attend TO this little matter before the
close OF this school year he will doubt
less confer favor upon the University.
Prot. Sanborn need make no apology
Tot the existence Of hls Preparatory De.
parlmcnl but such a department as he
maintains needs more defense than he
has vet made for H. To receive pupils
from the fourth grade OF district schools
because they come from districts that
furnish nothing better Is TO encourage
the rcmssncss OF those districts. BY
uniting with the University in demand.
ing better preparation, the College can
render the best service 10 the schools Of
Utah, not by catering TO educational
negligence and Indifference
But il Is not so much the low grade Of
the College Preparatory Department as
the subsequent courses and their pggtan-
siOns that are reprcheuslbic. This
matter was clearly treated IN an article
10 be found in the IJlbIHs OF Dec. lIst.
! with many others have q lively cufi0s,
ity to know by what educational slgighl
Of hand Prof Sanbom and his lagu a.
are able TO take pupils from the fourth
grade and in five years graduate them
with degrees in science and civil and
mechanical engineering, a work which
would require from ten TO twelve years
elsewhere In the world, Unless the
process must be kept secret pending a
patent, will he not confer upon the
public the favor Of an explanation
Seriously Prof Sanbom To- this matter
runs a great risk OF being considered mn
educational chlrlatan, aud the College
is exposed to the imputatiun Of being a
mill for the manufacture OF bogus de-
grees and diplomas.
As TO the Normal School, those nc.
qulinted with school work know that
the ordinary public school does not give
those preparing for teaching as good
instruction as can be obtained iu % good
Normal School Special subjects and
methods are required for good Normal
School work. Ont Of the a1l Normal
pupils in 1895, about thirty graduated
from the three years course and Isis from
the four years course, Since the third
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