The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-25
THE CHRONICLE AND THhf rRIB.

The University Chronicle takes up
the attack of our morning contempt
rary on the University of Utah, and
shows the injustice and incorrectness
of its statements and insinuations as to
the conduct of that establishment.
That paper tried some months ego to
depreciate the work done there, and to
misrepresent the students who had gra-
duated from its normal department.
Failing to make its charges stick, it
resorted to outright falsehood to bols-
ter them up, and was confronted
with the positive proofs Of its menda-
city.
Recently the Chronicle made some
objections to unprepared students TAX
ing special courses, on the ground that
they were a hindrance to pupils TAX
ing the regular courses. The Tribune
jumped at that criticism, and quoting
it construed the structures passed as a
confederation of its own attacks on
the normal department, which is an
other thing entirely. TheChronicle now
says:
We wish to remind the Tribune that
its chief objection heretofore has been
against the normal department, to
which no specials are admitted, and
in which all students are held strictly
to the required courses. And we re-
peat that the normal course here is far
in advance of any offered by other in
stitutions in the territory and is not
eXcelled anywhere in the west, unless
it be at Stanford University.
If the editor had been posted on edu-
catonal matters, he would never have
intimated that normal school is not a
necessary part of a university If he
had known anything at all about the
comparative standing of the Univer-
slty of Utah and its students, he would
have known, also, that we lack moth
ing but the support of the people We
challenge anyone to point to an insti-
tuition that is doing more under like
disadvantages. The university is not
only benefit to the people of our ter
ritory, but it is a necessity. Upon
TINS tact 1t can safely rest; and no
amount Of Quibbling can ever prevent
its merits from being recognized. 1t
has time on its side, and would come
out all right even if every newspaper
IN the territory should be arrayed
against it.
To this the Tribune responds that
There is no connection whatever be-
tween a normal school and a univer-
sity. nor is such school in any sense
Ia necessary, part of university:
which shows that the writer is as igno-
rant on that subject as on nearly
everything he undertakes to touch on.
Normal departments of universities are
quite common in this country, and the
Normal department of the University
of Utah is made an essential part of
that institution by law. One of the
requirements made upon it by terri
torial statute is that certain number
|of normal students shall be educated
to supply the district schools with
teachers.
These normals go through a regular
college course, which has no connec-
ton with or relation to the special
courses for special students, and on
the whole subject our added neighbor
is as much off its base as it is on the
industrial army question. the national
bank note question, the status of sill
yer money, and most of the economic
questions of the times. In fact, its
malice and its rashness seem to be
about equal, and are matched only by
its indifference to truth.