The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-02
MACKAY REPLIES
TO A. c. LETTER
County Commissioners Argues
for Uniting the Two Big
State Schools.
DEFENDS The COMMISSION
RESENTs ATTACK ON MEN
NAMED BY GOVERNOR.

County Commissioner John c. Mac
kay, president of the Alumni associa-
ton of the University of Utah, has
written the following open letter in ia
Vor Of consolidation Of the university
and state Agricultural college, in reply
TO recent open letter issued by The
Alumni association of the Agricultural
college:
To The Salt Lake Herald:
,lne answer OF the Agricultural college
suHhi 70 our recent address claims that
the college has 147 college students The
commission found II college students en-
rohed and "a in actual attendance on the
Day OF the official visit at the college
Inc alumni contends that the commission
erred IN not allowing that all students IN
the college above two years OF high school
work are college and not high school stu
dents; and attempts 70 prove this conten-
tlon oy showing that the college freshman
course Is somewhat Identical. as to the
names OF the studies pursued with the
y freshman course at the university, which
requires three years Of high school work
for entrance.
But the showing is Of no consequence.
unless the aim is to prove that in the
Agricultural college preparatory school
the students learn as much in two years
as they do In other similar schools in
tnree years. All school men know that
three years beyond the district school is
barely sufficient (most universities and
colleges require four years. for admission
10 real college work; and to contend that
the Agricultural college students. with
only two years of preparation, should be
considered college students before they
are really such, is 10 beg the question as
10 the number of bona fide college stu
dents in each school, which was all the
commission aimed TO show.
Cost Per Capita.
The college alumni quotes the follow
ing from the report of the commission:
General fund for the university $50. 500 90
General fund for Agricultural
In the university:
OBJ students OF high school grade
at $40 per capita. .$2S. O4O 90
This taken from the general fund
u5O.5OO. leaves $127. AGO TO be di-
vided equally among AGA college
students. which would be for
each student ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. pa go
In the Agricultural college:
lSs grade students at $50 per cap
4s7 students Of high school grade -'''''''
at $40 per capita .................. 19.215OO
Total ............. ................s 21, $500
eral fund, S101.25O, leaves $40
375 to be divided among n col
lege students, which would be
for each student ..............s 1f17 AZ
Mr. Porter proceeds to criticise these
AAbNlNo VI Nit CpLlAuloSlOLl DN III attempt
10 show that the cost per capita for col
lege students in the Agricultural college
Is only S206.95. The answer maintains
that:
The salaries paid for instruction in
work of college grade amount to SILICA
to be divided among 147 college students
This is S1l6.s5 for instruction for each stu
dent Of college grade. The cost per stu
dent for buildings, equipment improve
ments and miscellaneous expenses is 800
This added 10 the cost OF instruction
0116S5) makes S20695. the total cost per
annum for students Of college grade
This Is somewhat less than $l11743. It
IS an honest representation Of facts"
Defends Commissions Honesty.
The insinuation that the commission is
dishonest and that the college alumni
alone is honest" In its representations