The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-26
RIVALS COME
TO AGREEMENT
Agricultural College and Varsity
Representatives Confer.
DRAW LINE BETWEEN STUDIES
PRESIDENT KERR MAKES AN
IMPASSIoNED SPEECH.

All agreement was reached late yes
terday afternoon between representa-
tives of the two institutions which is
hoped viii put an end to friction
and settle what courses of study shall
be taught in each institution. Under
the agreement, the Agricultural college
is to continue its courses in civil and
mechanical engineering, while the uni
versity is to have the school of mines
and of electrical engineering. This
arrangement was made by James
Sharp, chairman of the board of re-
gents of the university, and w. S. Nc
COrnick, president of the board of trUs-
tees of the Agricultural college. 1t is
expected that the terms will be rati-
fled by the friends of both institu-
tons and that pending legislation will
either follow these lines or be dropped
altogether.
| Three measures are now before the
| legislature concerning the relations be-
| tween the two institutions One is
a resolution, offered yesterday by Sen
ator Harden Bennion, providing for
constitutional amendment consolidat-
ing the two. Representative Willard
Done has introduced one bill to con-
! solidate the arrangements of the two.
| and another defining the courses of
study to be taught in each. The last
named takes the engineering courses
! from the Agricultural college and gives
them TO the university
Governor Invites Two Boards.
/ Governor Wells has been working for
| some time to stop unnecessary dupli-
| cation of studies and friction between.
the two educational institutions. In
response to his urging, the board of
regents of the university and the board
OF trustees of the college appointed
! subcommittee to endeaVOr to arrange
the differences. 1t was finally agreed
| that the settlement should be left TO
/ Mr. Mccormick and Mr.. Sharp. These
/ two met yesterday afternoon in the
! governors Office and after protracted
session came to an understanding as
| told above. They will report, probably
today, to the respective boards, and it
1 IS expected that both institutions will
use their influence toward this end.
Senator BenniOn will be asked to
withdraw his resolution and Repre-
sentative Done his bills, or else the
, Done bill defining the lines between
the institutions will be amended in
accordance with the compact of yes
terday.
Before the Bennion resolution was in
troduced yesterday it was supported
and combated before the senate's COM
mittee on education by President w. J.
Kerr of the agricultural institution and
| Principal Merrill of the state school of
mines, the nrst named speaking against
us adoption. and the latter unloading
it The proposed amendment. which
would have to be adopted by the people
before going into effect, concentrates
the wiping out of the Agricultural COL
lege as an independent ingtitution and
making il subordinate to the universi-s,
as a preparatory institute and an ag-
riculture branch.
President Kerr favored the union of
the two institutions When he was a
delegate TO the constitutional cOnVen-
ton" said Senator Bennion in ex-
planning his measure to the committee.
Every day the union is put off it be-
comes more difficult to accomplish.
There should be one head to the edu-
cational system of the state. and that
should be the state university.
Expense Is Tremendous.
Between them these two institutions
one-third of the states revenue" assert
ed Professor Merrill. "A large part of
this expense is caused by the duplication
Of studies in the two Institutions There
is no need for this duplication"
If the two institutions can be united
on one site, | favor the union" declared
President Kerr. THAT was my position
III the constitutional convention At that
time the University of Utah was located
not be kept permanently. It was possible
then to have united the two institutions
on site far enough away from the city
so the agricultural course could be given
IN conjunction with the general educa-
uonal courses. Since that time the state
university has been moved to where sucb
a union is impossible and its magnifieent
buildings have been erected. That makes
the union now practical impOssibility.
struction in chemistry. mathematics. me-
chanlcs, domestic science, engineering,
English and history. Engineering for
instance, Is needed so as to equip the ag-
riculturist to attend TO irrigation His
tory is required to fit him in citizenship
Chemistry is essential to his knowledge
of the soil and its possibilities. And so
it goes. All these branches are taught in
the state university, of course. but they
agricultural institution in order TO be of
benefit to the student of agriculture 1t
Is folly to complain because these studies
are duplicated in the two educational in |
situations.
To Crush An Outrage.
THE agricultural institute is an estab-
lished educational school. 1t has students |
enrolled in its various branches and is /
teen students in engineering, and most of /
them are big successes in that line in 1
this state The university has graduated /
only three in the same BRANCH. To crush /
the Agricultural college in the prime of |
its growth, just to advance the prestige
of the university, which in those special |
standing of the college, would be an out /
rage.
Separated as it is from the university. |
both by distance and interest the Ag-
ricuIturaI college is entitled to main
tenance in it's independence. Congress is /
supporting ii and paying for the instruc-
ton the duplication of which is the cause
of this complaint. The department of the /
interior exercises a supervisory control |
over the college.
I can say positively that at no time I
has there been any complaint from the
friends of the University of Utah as to
this duplication until after the state uni
Versity has attempted to include in its
own course a branch of study that has /
been established long and successfully
in the Agricultural college. If there has
been any duplication it is on the part of
the university. The course in mining |
of which there has been so much talk |
has not been established by the Agricul-
tural college. 1t is merely catalogued so |
that if congress makes an appropriation
which can be obtained for our use in that
connection we can establish the course
then"
The house committee on education dis
cussed the Done bills President Kings
bury of the university and others were
present to urge their passage. 1t was |
arranged that President Kerr of the Agri-
college and others should pre-
sent that side next Tuesday.
THE WOMAN DEAD.
Spokane. Wash, Feb. 25.-Mrs. Hugh
Smith, who was shot by John Rjerkin