Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-01-11
WHICH is PREPARATORY?
II tho University, Then What Of Tho
Agricultural COLLEGE?
An Answer to Some statements aud
statistics Givcn BY President
tnnbarn.

! statistics tsiVeu ~ President
tHnbarn.
ilt is only proper 10 state that the
following article was written In an.
swtr to nn earlier article Of President
Sanborn's-uot the latest one, watch
will receive notice hrroaileLl
10 recent number OF the NEWS
appfaTsd a communication from Pfrsl.
dent Saubotn Of the Agricultural Col.
lego relative 70 tho union Of the Col
ifgc with the Uuivefsity. 10 this
were made mauv Indicating state.
fu'u w zen, Dr. HI. rHd foreman un.
noticed, wo iil tend h create OF per.
t..t... $3.50 it4f ,..a,a n- regarding the
University. 1 snail not roply 10 oil
the vulnerable assertions therein, but
EMAIL answer low having reference
10 the relative number " preparatory,
normal AMI college students, aud tie
advancement Of the coIfses o. study
Ia tho two schools.
IL h unfortunate that President San.
born did not have at hand H C0uy Of
the latest number u the University
catalogue, Otherwise be- might have
saved him,eli thu humiliation OF maxi
log W considered statements. lie Haysi
Tho University Il university only Ia
name, having as 1 remember n nave
misplaced my cainloguoI only some
thirty ~ forty actual academic students,
the balance hoiug normal students, many
81 whom are nom salt Lake City aud APP
pnrnnuy taking tho course because they
prefer 10 go thuro AZ the expense ~ tho
ftato rather than 10 tho splendid schools
OF salt Lake C.ty.
Interpret his word academic" 10
mean college students, In distinction
from preparatory students. For
greater cloRrncss ! shall use figures
instead Of words iu expressing num-
Dor.
Now, a. An SEXUAL fact there were,
excluding normal students, 81 AGA.
dcmic students IN tho University last
year. or these, 81 were registered In
full regular courses or werO pust-gtadu-
stes, ~ were special students doing
WORK In the colleges courses, anu BweEe
doing work pertaining 20 mining. The
W0fS Of these courses n not preparatory
! school work, but college wOrk-w0rk
not provided In the High School. A
furtner examination .. tbs Universally
catalogue would show an attendance
! OF 81 preparatory students. Eighty.tpuf
| college stude l. compared with 81 pre-
! parat0fy tluiouB uOcu not look ~
though the preparatory school pre-
penetrated 40 greatly.
The work VI tho third aud fourth
| years OF thp normal department mr..
ranged iOFlast year cOrIssp on isd 10 the
iroshmAu ANA sophomore ycafs OF tue
Al 81 "a
nOfmal claEss thtrs we're SO
students. Thus In all, there were IA
tue UniyeTsity last year, doing college
work above the grade OF tho pfvpals
t,ry school, 10 students.
Those statistics were for last year.
! IL would have bpsu more 10 President
Sanb0ru'a credit had lac Investigated
tNu condition Of the University this
! j.aT before mnkiug rash assertions.
S,utH last year tue STANDARDS Of al.
| i1lssiou have been raised anu tho
| nature OF the work vi the University
hAs been advanced. While the stand.
ards VI admission are In one or
tFo particulars not quite ns 80.
we're Rs they should be, still In most
DEPARTMENTS, English, modern lac.
guago, mathematics and all tho com.
mon branches, they arc the equivalent
| OF similar requirements In most Of tho
| colleges Of good repute In the East
Just ~ soon AS tue preparatory schools
| are increased la number anu excel
lunce ia tue Territory, whatever 10
lacking In this respect will be TemediBd.
There are registered In full reg.
ulAT courses, 81 Students, also ~ O.her-
taking incomplete c0urses, uaging IN
al 81 doing college work, not high
| school work. There ars but ~ pre-
pAratOry stu dents. Elgnty-Onu college
| students, as against ~ preparatory
students - this looks still less an
| though thu University were mere
preparatory school Oh the ~ pTsIATa-
Tory studenp, but % are register In
| fuH course; - aiefeg iileTed as specials,
many Of whom, aD0utOno'thiri, ATE uaun
| taking one or two studies selected from
the college cDumrG rhene figures are
exclusive OF ,he normal students. The
work OF the third year uOrmals corres.
ponds Ia grade 10 tho work OF the
| freshman year. Adding the forty.
seven thiru year nOrmala 70 tue eighty
/ luo college stute Its, mskes l2s students
Gv.ng college w.tE oboUe tue pfvgafa'
| tory work
Ia regarJ 10 the preparatory school,
/ NAtlAHANn OF WV ANA AAAl NNllAAAlANhAI ~
| should DO said that most Uf ths
students attended the University be-
| fore the stricter lines weru drawn, o are
over age anu ineligible 20 attend the
high school, and several have With
drawn during the year. OF those
regularly registered only II ate regis
tered from Salt Lake CITY Of these 3
arc over age aud several have attended
tue uulver8ity before, as above stated.
There are NJ present enrolled on the
University books STOUT 30 students;
| IDS are college s,uIouts, tho remainder
being Of preparatory grade, AZ being
| Of the preparatory school proper ana
! the remainder being nutmH!s'
The abatement Of rresldeht Sanborn
| that many OF tho normal students are
from SAT- Lake anu apparently prefer
| 10 take a normal course al Tue expense |
OF tue state rather than 10 attend the |
spleudid city schools, Is a charge |
wickcdly uujuat, Ia It's inference al
least The city contains about one