The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-27

Michigan. Andrews of Nebraska. Houston of
Texas, Hall of Clark, Babcoch OF Arizona,
Slcdd of Florida Tisdel of Wyoming, Drop
pors OF South Dakota, Prof. Chamberlain OF
Chicago ex-president White OF Cornell. Mer-
ri6eld OF North Dakota. Judson OF Chicago,
Dean Vincent of Chicago. Schafiler. president
~ e A.. Tight OF New Mexico Purinton
OF West Virginia, Abercrombie of Alabama
Mclean Of Iowu, Gilman of Carnegie lnsti-
Agricultural college. Henry of Wisconsin
Agricultural college. Director Hilgard OF
California Agricultural college. President
Gibbs of New Hampshire Agricultrral col,
lege. Director Bailey of Cornell Agricultural
college. President Patterson OF State college
Ga c., Kentucky; Price OF Ohio Agricultural
college, Scott OF Oklahoma Agricultural col
lege, Lntta of Indiana Agricultural college,
Hardy Of Mississippi Agricultural college.
Director Hills Of Vermont Agricultural col
lege. and Morgan Of Tennessee Agricultural
college,
AS to Separation.
Ten agricultural college presidents favor
separation, five favor either separation or
combination, according 10 the local circum-
Whenever agricultural college presidents nd
vocatc separation, the presidents OF the uni
vcrSities advocate combination.
2S. 1t is shown by the State School OF
Mines that consolidation is chcapcr-that
ii costs $4,000 per year 10 conduct that
| school with tho university, while separately.
efficiency, il would cost S69,777 per year, be
sides s25o,oo i'll buildings.
20. Tho State Normal school, combined
| with the university, costs tho State annually
| $4,000, while with separate maintenance at
its present efficiency, the cost would be $685.,
000 besides expensive buildings,
80 In fifteen years tho State will save
| by combination moro than n million dollars
aud the work will BIO better done.
81 In collecting libraries, museums and
apparatus, II costs twice as much to provide
| two institutions (their books. apparatus,
etc. being mostly technically i, does to
equip one; and since these are largely tech"
lr,.r a,A ut and hry tho al L.
| there is advantage convenience in
keeping them separate,
SO, The loss OF tho buildings at Logan,
which some sny tho State would suffer by
| the roversion OF these buildings and grounds
10 Logan City (s total of s276. 263 SO, ac-
cording 10 the last college biennial roporD.
| would bo saved out Of two legislative ap-
| propriations TO the Agricultural college il
| tho institutions united
80. There arc thirty-nnc States and Ter
| ritorics that have these two institutions or
these. nineteen have them separate, and
| twenty have them combined. There are nine
other Stntos whore the policy has been 'com.
| binnuon, and tho name glyon TO tho high
| est educational institution instead of univer-
sity or agricultural college, State college,
etc Combination does not cut OF any of
the funds received from the United States
Government.
s4.. The largest separate agricultural col
| lege in the country is that OF Iowa, and it
| is more OF a university than our two insti.
tutions would be combined
35 II makes very little difference whether
| tno lnSlltutlpn DC called university
cultural college. President Van Hiso OF Wis.
consn says. Where they are maintained
separately, the State will have to maintain
two universities In Indiana thoy nrc sep.
arated. one being called tho University OF
Indiana and the other Purdue university
The Two Schools.
For about lvo hundred students above
three years OF high school work. nine tenths
of whom nrs in the University of Utah and
onc-tenth in the Agricultural college. this
State cannot maintain moro than ono higher
educational institution The Agricultural
college courses containing students above
three years Of high school work on February
10, 1906, when the school is the largest
were: Agriculture, o; domestic science,
nocring. 13, and general ocicnce, "a total
OF fifty students above three years in high
school. There were in addition few spc
Gals in music and other subjects, and in.
cuded in the fifty were several teachers
drawing salaries from the college. The
commission has shown tina, tho thirteen stu.
dents above three years Of high school ia
the civil and mechanical engineering courses
OF the college could bu distributed through
the corresponding four years in tho university
student TO the ycnr in each OF tho two
courses. The students in domestic science
o, and in agriculture, O. would DC provided
Tor by tho expenditure in these special line.
OF the entire amount received from the Gov
ernnent and from tho land fund. in place
OF the smaller portion OF these funds now
devoted 10 this by the Agricultural col
lego.
The students in the other lines-com
morce, 15 and general science, O. would be
distributed through the four years OF cor
responding classes already organized in Tho
University OF Utah without the ovsrcrowd
ing OF any class.
ae. Combination docs not mean subordi