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

Numerous high schools and also several
colleges or universities, the greatest
I 5000 TO the working men and women.
would require the concentration u the
higher Institutions into one efficient
school and the dissemination " the
hish schools throughout the state.
On Feb. 10. 1906. the commission
round but nine students iu agriculture
IN the Agricultural college above three
years OF hlgl school grade. They found
l50 college students percent I'M the
school OF mines al the university the
day before. Who is willing 10 say
mat there would he half as many II
the school Of mines existed alone in
some other town Of the state? Nh
Porter apparently fears that the indus
Try OF agriculture would lose is dig
nifty II the study We're associated with
the study OF other industries Would
not the opposite effect be produced?
Would not more men study agriculture
and certainly with more pride. Il. in
stead Of retiring 10 a small corner Of
the state they could study II IN a
greater school side by side with men
who are studying other industries.
Agriculture II not dignihed by isola-
ZION. The Assumption that the uniyer-
slty would operate against the educa-
ton OF working men and women. is
utterly without a knowledge ~ The
facts. The university exists for the
state. Its own students. drawn from
the homes OF the state, are largely OF
the industrial classes, and receive a
practical training for practical, useful.
and intelligent work
MORAL INFLUENCE.
The fact that Salt Lake City offers
many more opportunities for the needy
student 10 earn money. the college
alumni does not attempt 10 controyert.
But they retaliate with an attack upon
the moral influences OF a larger city.
Travellers often compare city and rural
groups Of young people similarly train
ed, under the same home influence and
church lie In personal life. refine
ment. self control and freedom from
compromising situations, the adyan-
tage Is invariably In favor Of the city
groups. There Is evil IN a city or I'm
a small town. which a student or any
body else may find II he seeks Il: but
the influence under which the student
naturally comes IN a city is the infiu-
ence OF culture, religion, and Of truer
sublectlon 10 law than IN rural town.
Educators Of keen observation have
declared that the morality Of students
IN the larger town Is superior 10 that
OF students In the smaller town, but
the plan proposed Is TO eliminate hish
Ghool students from the university and
10 Keep them under their own home in
1uences during their youthful years.
It the college alumni sincerely ques-
lion' me ability OF students OF col
lege grade 10 conduct themselves
properly In city. they question the
ptopriety Of the existence Of such uni
yersiiles as Harvard Yale. Columbia.
Pennsylvania. Chicago and Others. The
supposed increase IN the cost OF board
IN a city as compared with a rural
town, n Il be a fact, is exaggerated
In Mr.. Porter's letter. and In any
event would be cheerfully paid by the
college student FOR the educational adj
yantages Of city.
DUPLICATION OF COURSES.
Mr.. PorteTs letter revives a matter
Which was fully considered and set
iled by law during the last session OF
me legislature. While the school OF
mines ala not by separate name exist
as a department Of the university til
1901 yet courses in engineering were
gwen N the university as early as
$50 by the Enabling Act approved
JeIl ~ 1888. the university was grant
ed 100000 acres Of land for the estab-
lishment and maintenance OF a state
school OF mines which was established
with mining and electrical engineering
courses in pursuance Of that provision.
The courses IN civil and mechanical
engineering grew out Of the courses
IN mining and electrical engineering
because OF the absurdity OF leaving
them out Or, Merrill. director of Inc
school or mines. proved before the
legislature that the additional cost 10
me university OF courses In mechanical
and civil engineering after il had been
equipped to give courses in mining and
electrical engineering was not more
man $500 per annum for the reason
that the services Of not a single adai.
uonal professor or instructor would be
needed. II was further shown thai
with the single exception Of q three
hour subject in irrigation, all the en-
glneering and other work prescribed
py the Agricultural college In It's
courses IN civil and mechanical engi-
heerlng was given az the university.
II II be insisted that the engineering
courses are older In the college than
IN the university, then We have this
interesting TACT: The school Of mines.
AFTER only nve years according TO Mr.
torte) has l65 college students:
where the Agricultural college in all
us departments, after Is years. has
only lfI college students. and third !
OF these would not rank as college |
students In the school Of mines
LAND FOR AGRICULTURE.
The college alumni assert that II
combination were effected the univer- |
sliy would not have enough land FOR |
the work OF agriculture. The Agricul- |
tural college now has Ill acres OF |
partly billy and gravelly soil In cl- |
mate that Is not representative Of the |
state; the university has 80 acres, ey-
cry part but one or two acres level |
all Fertile, available for any agricultur-
al use whatsoever, and nov supporting |
substantial lawns and thrifty trees OF /
many varieties. Mr. Horace Cum
mings, director Of nature study, states
that the soil Is Of the highest fertility.
wei adapted 10 oil purposes OF expert
ment and investigation.
THEIR PLAN EXAMINED.
The COLLEGE Alumni say In conolu-
sion
The assessed valuation Of the state
II nov about tlio.O060O0 4 one ana
one-half mill tax on this property
would yield $4,000 annually. This
would provide for both Institutions
Can we AFFORD IT, II means that every
taxpayer would pay 81 SO on every