The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-27


the science and the various arts
of agriculture TO the position and in
fluence of the other professional lines 81
work that require university training fol
their successful application.
Economy viii Be Worked.
"Fourth-The state would have only one
university to support instead of two, since
experience in other states has abundantly
shown that if 0isassociated from other
lines of university work, the agricultural
colleges do not thrive.
''Fifth-Duplication in higher work is
very expensive, and combination will ell
inmate all duplication.
Standardization will put an end %
that Objectionable and deplorable biennial
contest which comes before every legisla-
ture-the rival lobbying for appropriations
FOR the separate institutions
Consolidation will enable the
state to engage stronger men and such
men will be more willing to accept posi-
lions in one great institution than in
either of two smaller ones.
"Eighth-In modern higher education
the trend is wholly toward concentration
not only here but in other states; and il
is much cheaper to combine even after
the schools have been established than
TO maintain separately the higher institu-
tons.
'Ninth-The moral and intellectual eff
feet on students of membership in large
student body devoted to various phases
of higher education is found to be uni
formally beneficial both to the students
and to the standing and influence of their
respective callings or vOcations.
'Tenth-Such arguments as may be
urged for separate maintenance are fully
answered in the success of the combined
schools of Wisconsin. Minnesota, Illinois.
Ohio California, Cornell, Missouri and of
ether states.
"Eleventh-Separation, except in two or
three special instances, in which rich and
populous states have not combined these
schools has proved detrimental to the in
terests of agriculture and is very expen-
siVe as we'll; and even in these states
there is much dissatisfaction owing to
great educational and heavy financial
losses due to separation.
''Twelfth-It is impossible in separation
to prevent the duplication of very expen-
Sive apparatus.
Thirteenth-Combin would attract
the sympathy of wealthy men who would
be inclined to make endowments to a
strong institution.
''Fourteenth-TO support the schools
separately. the mill tax OF all taxable
property in the state to each school would
not prevent the present friction due 10
biennial contests for appropriations for
buildings.
Observation-Disclosures would save to
the state for buildings alone, needed now.
$l62, 600 and similar amounts would be lost
to the state in duplicated buildings from
time to time hereafter.
New Buildings Needed.
"16 At the Agricultural college there
is as yet no suitable building for agricul-
ture. and President Kerr says that a
building to cost 100000 or s125.000 should
be built in the near future biennial re-
port to trustees). Therefore an agricul-
tural building necessary in either case
would not be an extra expense of comol-
nation. The only extra expense in COM
bining would be $4,000 for barns, coops,
etc.
az. Really, there would be no extra
expense in combination. The buildings
needed can be put up and the moving
done on the amount asked for by the
university for separate maintenance, plus
from the state On the basis of what the
college asked for in 1905 president Kerr
saws this amount will be increased next
time) at least slS2, 100 would be saved out
of the appropriation to be made by the
next legislature. On the basis of what
was actually granted by the last legisla-
ture. $40. 800 would be saved at once, be-
sides getting the agricultural building
which the college would probably fall 10
get for considerable time to come, con-
the present and prospective rev
enues Of the state, besides both the saving
(s152, 500 and the gain due to the imme-
date use of the woman's building. the
armory and gymnasium. and the hydrau-
lie laboratory From the answers made
TO the commission by President Kings
needed, it is evident that the immediate
outlay from consolidation would be
smaller than the outlay for separate
maintenance After the schools are once
from the state can be saved
Progress at Provo.
us. It has been demonstrated by pri-
vate school nearer the center OF popula-
ton in the state (the Brigham Young
university at Provo that the people of
Utah believe in agricultural education.
In one years time this school has en-
rolled more than double the number of
students reached by the Agricultural col
lege at Logan.
"19 Combination will release some of
the money unnecessarily spent in dupli-
cation and this money, or a portion of 1t,
could then be used for the benefit of the
public schools, and especially to dissem
mate a knowledge of agriculture through
out the common. normal and high schools
of the state.
900 II costs the state almost double
the amount to maintain these institutions
compared with what Ii would
cost to maintain them combined.
"21 If all the government appropriation
to, and the interest on the land fund for,
the Agricultural. college were reserved,
as they could be under combination, for
in the technical lines of agri-
culture and manual training and also in
work these lines would be
better provided for than ever before,
since the specialists, assistants and ste
at the Agricultural college
draw only 800 205 from the present total
of S51 600 per year from the government
and the land fund Much of the remain
ing OF this income Is devoted to the teach
ing of languages. mathematics, history,
English, economics. sociology. law. min
eraiogy' physics. etc. subjects regularly
taught in the University of Utah and in
other institutions of higher rank: while
of the SO, 200 designated for special sub
1ects in agriculture at the college many
of these subjects also are given in the
and in all other universities.
These are such subjects as bacteriology,
zoology. chemistry botany, etc
"22. The testimony OF President Kerr,
President Kingsbury and Professor
Widtsoe. before the commission in jan
uary, 1906, is to the effect that the eff
smaller If the institutions were under one
and on one site.
''23 The Agricultural college land is
relatively worthless for experiments, and
has been abandoned long ago as far as
this work is concerned The state is now
renting five acres of land in Greenville,
north OF Logan. and has had to buy six
acres more.
"24. In maintenance these two schools
separately. the cost per capita is too high
for the state to afford The rate for col
lege students at the University of Utah
Is s27465. and at the Agricultural college
81. 117.43
''25. 1t will be better for students of the
ctofa NarmoI School ~ fhav oap uat 90