The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-13


A revolution in the educational sys-
tenn Of Utah viii take place before the
opening of the next school year, If the
plans now in the minds Of the leading
educators of the state are carried out.
The principal feature of the new order
Of things is the transformation OF every
minor college and every. academy in
the state into a feeder for the Univer-
sfty of Utah. This is to be accom-
phshed by having all these schools drop
all the work they are now doing in the
higher branches and confne their -ef-
forts to the preparatory work that VIII
tit students for entering the university.
To be in harmony with this plan, the
university is to drop all its prepare tory
work, and thus shorten the university
course two or three years.
This plan originated with the uni
started some two months ago, and now
the matter is being discussed pro and
con by all the leasing educators of the
state President Joseph T. KingsbuFy
and Professors William NJ. Stewart
and Richard r. Lyman are the prime
movers in the movement among the
university people, and their main con-
tentiOn is that it would be a. great saw
ing TO the people to have one. strong
institution, instead of a number of
struggling ones, while the results would
be much better.
President Kingsbury's Views.
The population Of Utah is not 3OO.-
eco, DR.. KinSsbury said: Just about
the population OF a good CITY, and il
would seem the height of folly to tax
Sucn a population Tor the support of a
nalE dozen institutions of higher learn
[ ing. The attempt must end in failure
Lit would be a great saving to the people
and the results would be so much bet
ter TO have general plan for the
state; to have the university discard all
its preparatory work, and have the half
dozen other institutions of the state
that~prOfess to do college work COnfine
their efforts to certain lines of work,
and leave the higher branches TO the
university. There are but two high
schools in the state that fit students
tor entry into college, the one at Ogden
and the one at Salt Lake. If we had a
dozen such high schools in the state.
would practically solve the problem.
The B. Y. academy at Provo and the
3. Y. college at Logan should realIY-l8e
high schools in those cities"
There is another phase Of this prob
lem that innpresseS itself upon the peO-
pie Of the Mormon church. and that is
the great burden it is going to be to
keep up three church schools in the
state that VIII give the young people
Of the church q college education, when.
at the same time, the stare is conduct
ing a. much stronger institution by gen
eTal taxa ton, in which all the branches
that are taught in the church schools
are taught, except the theological
studies. The church leaders are dis
cussing among themselves the advis-
ability of concentrating their efforts
on one of the institutions, and making
Of the others preparatory schools
Conference to be Held.
This whole matter win come up at
conference of the leading men OF the.
different institutions TO be held IN TINS
citv next week. A definite settlement
of the problem is expected 70 pc 0Ile
outcome Of thai. conference. II viii be
brought to the front at the meeting Of
the trustees of the proposed Brigham
Young university, at which meeting eAe
square in the Eighteenth ward IS 60 pc