Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-03

| university on the same basis would be
/ N26,00Q from ne state and about 500
600 from the land fund. total Of SIG
/ 900, Yet the Agricultural college has
/ one school and the university has
| three In Colorado these schools
/ are separate For the two years pre-
| ceding January. 1906 the Colorado
/ university received $3.50 00o the state
school OF mines. sis9.554.S6. the state
normal school 10000 total FOR
the three schools Of i5i9,554.S6. The
funds Of the three schools OF the uni
versity Of Colorado have 10 the funds Of
the Colorado Agricultural college about
the proportion Of four 70 one O3QS44l.
Yet the Utah College Alumni propose
incomes Of $4,000 % the university
and $4,000 10 the college, The uni-
yersity ~ not one school but three
the college Of arts and sciences, the
state school OF mines. and the state
normal school Either OF these should
be- as important IN this state AS the
Agricultural college. while the third
should be more so
COMPARISON OF INCOMES.
Mr. Porter maintains that the uni
Ncrsity. while II receives from the
state nearly twice the amount received
from the state by the college. has only
had an average OF 80 per cent more
students than the college Both state
ments are misleading The second ig-
nores the distinction between the
grade Of students, considering when
the university has six times as many
college grade students as the college
has. The first ignores the amount re-
ceiyed each year hy the college from
the federal government $4,000 Tor
Institutional purposes. $4,000 for et-
detrimental purposes. and over S6.0OO
In interest from the land fund--a total
Of $4,000 annually, while the amount
from the last named source Will rapid
ly Increase. Add this total TO the
amounts received from the legislature
and Il is clear that the college has
had far more IN proportion TO It's work
than the university, which has never
vet asked the state for as much rs II
has reasonably needed for higher edu-
cation, but has done It's best with
what the regents have estimated the
state could reasonably afford.
AS TO MOTIVES AND HONESTY
We dsprecste the attempt Of the adj
yocates Of separate maintenance to
cloud the plain issue BY the arts OF de-
traction and SANDER They Try 70
make Il appear that this movement
originates In alleged hypocrisy ana dis
honesty Oh the part Of individuals, or
IN the imaginary lack Of honor In the
state commission. on in the asserted
greed Of the people Of Salt Lake, or IN
the supposed hostility Of the university
20 the college We beg 20 assure our
esteemed fellow-alumni Of the college
that we are not enemies, but friends.
and that II we knew ~ or suspected
any attempt 10 "assassinate" OF even
10 injure the college. we should resent
q quite as emphatlcally az they them
selves do. Nor do We believe that the
proper training Of college students is
consistent with arousing in their minds
the worst Passions Of jealousy and
rivalry 10 which young people are sus-
ceptible. We regard this question as
the greatest Yet placed before the peo-
pie OF Utah, since the results Of the
decision they make viii be far reach
ing. and will Increase with the years.
We therefore welcome all informa-
lion. from whatever source II comes,
that will enable the people justly ana
well to decide question Of such me-
ment JOHN {. MAChAl'
President Alumni Association OF the
University OF Utah.