Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-01-06
KEEP THEM SEPARATEIz-
Tho Economy in Uniting Higher Educational institutions
is Largely Imag nary the Benefits to the Cause
Are Fui oily Flctlou5
$50


hU had In contemplation Ia the union Ut
that Institution with this the adoption
NJ the economical system of this insll.
tuition. reducing their palarits and la.
Cfeasiug their hours OF inhuf; but
a. they receive but little over
$4,000 annually, nm unable
to penetrate the genius OF his prop scd
methods. Equally uncandid, u am
correctly Informed, IA his quotation Of
tho htads Of universities In favor NJ
uniting these Institutions. Those letters
were written 10 the people Of Montana
when they had in contemplation the
organization VI their agricultural col.
iege. The professor In suppfessing tho
address leads the people 10 believe
that thoy advocate the union Oi these
twu Institutions already located. THIS
IA trillng with great question aui
with the people Of Utah. Had those
gentlemen been asked II Ia their opin.
ion the greatest national Institution VI
learning IN the arid region, rayo that
" California university, should be up.
rooted AMI amalgamatcd in large
city with On old institution Of learn
ing, It Ia not only possible bat probable
that quite different answer would
have been received. I DO not regard
President Low, within few miles Of
whose institution there are several
millions OF people and who IA without
knowledge OF our agricultural colleger,
proper person 20 advise. The quota.
ton u President White confirms my
position. Preaident Kingshury ssems
to have written urder ths blissiul
ignorance that the Uniyof6iiy Of New
York IL tho agricultural college Of
New York, or, Ia other words, that
II was founded by tho laud gfaut
act Of Congress. HU mu4t also
he ignorant of the fact, 9th srwiso ho
would not have quoted ~, that the
University Of New YORK, or the
agricultural college Of New York, was
fitat located with an old Institution OF
learning aud failed. IL was united 10
another iusiltutiOu o. learning uui
Hgsin failed. IL was last moved 10
lthsca a. n separate institution, AMI all
OF its departments started tOr ;her as
NJ one brotherhood iu fgattTnAl Toln.
tons on equal iootinka aud under the
national giant NJ a great industrial
college, the state Of New Nurk, aHUvety
state had the right ~ 10, giving IL the
name Of Univer6lty instcuI OF Agrl.
cultural college. lie has quoted in one
OF his pamphlets President Jesse OF tho
Cniverbiiy q Missouri. Be Il known 10
DIR. kiugsOury that that Institution Tor
DeaTiy two anu half years has not
issued a bulletin from ~ experiment
station, although 1t has received $50 $40
within two and half years TOT expert.
meniation anu for no other purpose,
thereby deiyiLg the law OF Congress,
which requires a quarterly bulletin.
That Institution IN under the charge
Uf having Incorporated the funds Ut
tho agricultural college, as JUDGED
nearly all OF the universities are that
have the land grant fund.
l repeat, that n the presidents OF
such universities favor such a union,
Il is Ia keeping with that which might
be- expected. Ho might have quoted
tbs president Of Wisconsin University
that has but one agricultural student
IN It's four yssri' eOurso, although it
has had magnificent fund from the
national land grant. He might have
quoted tho Uniyerslly Of California
whose Affairs have recently bseu IN.
vestigated by legislative committee In
Response 10 popular clamOr, lie might
hsye Investigated seven other uuiver.
stiles, every one OF which the people Of
the several states have In indignation
tOrnifrom them the state agricultural
college anu located II In separate places
aud 10, A. they believe, eaier hands.
Is UNION ECoNoNy?
Wish 10 take square issus upon the
economy o! union. He Gays that Que
president Will answer IN the univrf.
sity,in lieu OF two for separate colleges;
but the presidents OF universities frs.
quenily draw more than twice az much
lElary a. the president OF separate col.
lege-. FOR instance, the president ut
the University Of CsluOrnih receives
slO,0JO; President Harper, who has
been quoted, receives, | believe, So.
900, aud uo II goes. These gentlemen
usually do no teaching. A. this Col.
loge, IA the president u ils faculty,
not only teach IN clRsses, but act on
director Of the experiment station,
which ia other states requiFea the ser.
vice OF man, and have charge OF tbs
educational affairs Of the College. So
1t 10 with bell theagricultural college,,
they often got less Than one-hnlf Of tho
salary Of university presidents and 10
far more work as teachers.
He says that 1t saves great
llbsarie,, naming one hundred
thousand dollAb (hO has love for
great figures). such large libraries
are the efforts Of HpeCtnclel librarians
" hl hunt for every obscure hook IN
the universe. Ninety per cent, or
more probably, OF tue books read In "A
college library 10 comprised within
three thousand volumes. Often tnege
great libraries are monuments VI folly.
Inc same may DO said with less force
OF thu apparatus, Dr. kingshury IN
aware that the apparatus OF tue labora.
tories mu-t increase, much NJ u, IN the
ratio OF increase 0i students, az Indeed
this laboratory r0om murt Increase In
tue same ratio. Something might he
saved 10 = common museum and l adj
nit something IN "a common library,
but common museum ronialus an
imme Bse amount Of matgrial that
belongs to special department., anu AZ
/ know by years OF observation al
several Institutions OF learning hre
seldtm seen ana are unstudied save by
the special siuctuls.
But this ANAL saving, which 10
small Indeed, heare very small ratio
% the Increased G At OF Instruction In u
largo uniyeisty. Almost invariably
the salaries pail are hlghob the hduB
Of work are lever, the energy VI tue
teachers IL less forcibiy expressed ana
oilun the teNching poorer, because
without cem.slitiOn aud emulation,
with liza grsuuatus scattered through
a t.rpttnrN agnrtIuu a tu,vpffIl II fin.