The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14
JOINT COURSES
IN TWO SCHOOLS
University of Utah and AgriCuI-
tural College Prepare
to Live in Peace.
| WILL START BOOK STORE
KANSAS CITY EDUCATOR TO LEG.
TURE HERE.

The University of Utah and the
Agricultural college of Utah are plan
ing to live and work henceforth in
peace The catalogues of these two
state institutions, which are about tC
be published, will announce that they
nave arranged to give jointly courses
IN engineering and agriculture and in
normal work and agriculture, domestic
SCIENCE and art, and manual training
ana TO help each other in various other
ways The arrangements which have
resulted i'm this adjustment of the work
OF the two colleges to each other were
entered into and have been pursued
with great heartiness by the govern
ing board Of both the university and
The Agricultural college.
The strained relations between the
TWO schools have been of long stand
ing. They probably came about in
large part through the almost newt
able crowding on the part of each into
the feld which the other assumed to be
primarily its own. The school in Lo-
gan was the school of agriculture. do
lnestlc science and manual training.
Yet the university, especially in con-
nection with its normal work, needed
10 give at least elementary instruction
IN these subjects. The university had
engineering courses. Yet the Agricul-
tUral college, If its work in agriculture
was to be adequate, needed to give in
sJructiOn in engineering. Great dupli-
cation of equipment and instruction re-
suited, which the state was not able to
afford. The legislature two years ago
sought to settle the trouble by rigidly
limiting the scope of each institution,
fOrbidding the Agricultural college to
give courses in engineering, and the
university to give courses in agricul-
ture or domestic science and art, and
manual training. The last legislature.
after giving a large part of its session
to the problem, left it practically where
it had been left by its predecessor. But
the Agricultural college still declares
that it needs TO teach engineering to
its students, and the normal school of
the university declares that the mod
ern teacher must be equipped to teach
elementary agriculture, etc. The
scheme of combined courses in the two
institutions, therefore, seems likely to
prove the best that has been yet for
mulated.
According to the scheme, a part of
the work of the combined courses will
be done in the Salt Lake school and a
part in the Logan school. In the case
of the course in engineering and agri-
culture the first two years will be done
in Logan, and the last years in Salt
Lake. This course will lead to the de-
gree of bachelor of science in irriga-
ton engineering. In the case of the
joint courses in normal work and agri-
culture. domestic science and art, and
manual training, the students will first
complete the normal school course in
Salt Lake and will then enter the Agri-
cultural college for training in the in
dustrial subjects. The degree conferred
will depend upon the kind of work
which they DO in the Logan college.
most important part of the ar
rangement between the two schools is
that by which instruction in elemental
~ agriculture viii be given to the stu
dents of the state normal school by the
extension department of the Agricul-
tural college. This instruction will be
given every Monday, and will begin
with the beginning of the school year
next fall. Professor Stewart asserts
that it viii give the normal students
exactly what they need to become
teachers of elementary agriculture in
the schools; ii viii be a required sub
feet. President WidtsOe is confident
that it will result in sending a good
many students to Logan to get further
training in agriculture.