Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-02
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state for buildings alone needed now.
$4,000
"l6. There Is no suitable building Tor
agriculture and President Kerr says
that building az a cost OF $4,000 on
Sl25,O000 would have TO De built there
fore an agricultural building would
not be an extra expense Of comhini-
ton. The only extra expense would
be $4,000 for barns, coops. etc.
II There Is no real expense IN conf
bination. The buildings needed can
be put up and the moving done asked
for by The university for separate
maintenance. plus the Agricultural col.
lege appropriation from the state. and
on basis OF what the college in 1905.
which President Kerr says viii be- ln-
creased next time, $l82. 400 can be- saved
IN the very next appropriation on q
basis OF what was actually granted.
$o,5)1 can bee saved. After the schools
are once together the entire Logan
appropriation from the state can We
saved-S2S2 600.
rs II has been demonstrated By a
private school nearer the center Of pop-
ulation 10 the state that the people be-
iieve iu agricultural education. Ia one
years time this school Brigham Young
university. Provo has enrolled more
than double the number Of students
reached By the Agricultural college at
Logan.
10. Combination will release Some
Of the money unnecessarily spent, and
this may De used, or a portion OF Il.
for the benefit Of the public schools OF
the state
'2o. II costs the state almost double
the amount TO maintain these institu-
tons separately 20 what n would cost
10 maintain them combined.
FL II all the government approph-
alton and the interest on the land fund
were reserved for instruction In the
technical lines Of agriculture and man
ual training and the experimental work
these lines would he better provided for
than ever before.
q The testimony OF President Kerr
President Kingsbury and Prof Widt-
soc before the commission I'm January,
1906. Is 20 the effect that the efficiency
would De greater and the expense
smaller II the institutions were on one
site.
"23. The Agricultural college land IL
worthless for experiments. and has been
abandoned long ago soNar as this work
Is concerned. The state Is now renting
five acres I'm Greenvllle. north Of Lo-
gan, and has had 10 buy six acres
more.
COST Is TOO HIGH.
"a IN maintaining these two schools
separately, the cost per capita is too
high for the state TO afford. The rate
for college students al the UNIVERSITY
OF Utah is t21+e9, and at the Agicul-
tural college {l,liLi3.
"2j. IL will be better for the normal
school II its students can get a course
In agriculture 10 help work out the ma
tional idea In the convention Of norman
workers In Louisville IN January, 1906.
'26. II would be better for agri-
culture TO have the teachers OF the state
prepared to disseminate this line OF
work among the masses.
'2l. Some Of the greatest men in
agriculture, as well as IN other lines.
urge combination.
''2s. II is shown by the state school
OF mines that consolidation is cheaper.
IL costs s25o0 TO run that school with
the university. while to run It separate
~ on an independent site. with the
present efficiency. II would cost 500 900.
besides S250,000 In buildings.
''2s. II is shown by the state normal
school that consolidation Is cheaper.
To conduct this school combined with
the university costs the state $4,000.
separate maintenance with present ef-
hciency would cost S55 900, besides ex-
pense Of buildings.
go. In 10 years the state viii save
more than 100000, and the work VIII
be better done
81. In collecting Libraries. museums
and apparatus & is cheaper 10 furnish
one school than two.
In closing, the commission. In ac-
cordlnce with the law creating IL, has
found:
o. That there Is duplication m The
Agricultural college and the University
Of Utah, much OF which Is unnecessary.
iu GAP course and subjects. CbD appara-
tus and equipment; (c) Institutional
service; tdl scope and purpose.
q That this duplication Is expens-
i've, involving needless cost running
into many thousands Of dollars. as spe-
Gifted IN this report.
3. We recommend 20 the electors OF
this state the desirabiiity and. consd-
erlng the future, the necessity o.
amending the constitution Of the safe
jsectiou 4. article lol. so that where
y now provides FOR the separate main Z
tenance Of the university and the AgrI- I
cultural college. Il shall provide for Z
their maintenance on one site"
Appended 90 the report are letters 7
fayoriug consolidation. from many edu- I
Gators throughout the country who
were asked 90 express opinions con- Z
corning consolidation,
MINORITY SUGGESTIONS.
The minority report, signed by I
Messrs. Bulen and Walters. does not I
agree with the figures given by Prcs- /
dent KiresbIry as 20 the saving by I
II also challenges the /
statement that there would be a great /
saving On equipment as both lnst.tu.
lions now have sufficient equipment % I
last for several years. u is coniendea ]
q.