The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-04

vid Starr Jordan says: 1T is not true
that the agricultural college viii be
killed or injured by uniting the two,
There Will not be the slightest danger
of the other students looking down on
them with contempt. You find nothing
OF that sort at Wisconsin, where the
union of the two schools has been so
singularly successful"
President Northrop OF the University
OF Minnesota says: Ten or ntteen
years ago the argument was heard
here that the agricultural college would
be killed and that the young men would
be ashamed to enroll In 1t, but 1t 10
heard no longer"
President Morgan says; II have no
sympathy with the feeling that the
agricultural college students VIII feel
ashamed In association with other
course men"
Prof. Bailey, director of the college
OF agriculture at Cornell says 1T was
an old fear that agricultural students
would be looked down upon. The agrl-
cultural colleges Of the future are go
ing TO be connected with universities
or they are going 20 develop into In
dustrlal universities by themselves
Majority Insists Upon This.
This is exactly what the majority OF
The commissioners insist upon, and they
repeat. with President Wheeler of CAL
ifornia, that, the experience OF all the
states has been that an agricultural
college Will develop gradually into an
institution practically the same as the
state university" President Wheeler
adds: The Agricultural college at
Amherst, Mass, is the last of the
schools that have maintained exclusive
work in agriculture and this year 1t
relcnts and joins with the others in es-
tablishing rounded course
Some Startling Figures
BY figures and facts the majority re-
port declares to the Governor and the
legislators that II they do not consoli-
date now the stern hand of necessity
Will ultimately compel them to- 1t Is
an alarming tact, but the annual cost
TO the State per capita education OF
college students at the Logan school
is Sll1L43. while the cost for the same
grade OF students at the University is
out $274.6s. But even more alarming
than this is the fact that with contin-
ued separation the cost of education at
the Agricultural college Will Increase.
When asked before the commission II
The cost the next two years will be
proportionately greater than during the
past two, President Kerr answered. |
Yes. because of the small appropria-
lion, which did not permit certain Inn
provements that were needed" In 1908 |
the University Will ask the Legislature |
for Sill ,S34, to erect new building, and |
IN addition 1t ought TO have $4,000 for |
other needed structures. According to |
President kerr's biennial report the |
Agricultural college needs for buildings /
alone $252. 600. Combined the demands !
of the two institutions for buildings !
reaches the grand total of 1854 500. a |
sun equal to all the revenue at the dis !
posal Of the State, In case OF contin- |
ued separation, these demands must be |
refused, which means the crippling of |
the institutions, while, II consolidation !
is effected. there will be saved by the |
preventing Of duplication In buildings |
$152 500, and In addition one institution I
VIII be raised TO a standard of respect |
able efficiency.
Cache Valley-Idaho Institution.
Investigation by the commission into |
the distribution of the students attend !
Ing the Agricultural college was not |
unfruitful 1t developed the fact that
los come from Idaho, As from other |
States and 23S from Cache valley This |
makes the institution rather a Cache |
valley-Idaho affair than a Utah con-
tei H. clilSe lic eSlaDllSflfutnl OF the /
Agricultural college up until 1904 It's |
total expenditure amounted 10 one and |
One-quarter million dollars. Taking |
The present enrolment as a basis, and |
it develops that $4,000 OF this sum |
has been expended to educate students |
not of this State. SO per cent or $3.50 900 /
has been expended on Cache county !
students, while the remaining student |
population of the State has received !
only 80 per cent, or 100000 The COM
mission attributes this unequal distri- |
button to the location OF the Agricul- |
tural college, and declares that as long |
as that institution is hid away in the |
extreme north end Of the State the |
commonwealth of Utah can never hope |
70 receive any just proportion of the |
benefits of money paid in taxes for |
education.