Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-07

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stitution consolidating them with the
Logan school preserved on lts prescnt
site, and / think this VIII ultimately
lead 10 an end OF the jealousy ana
rivalry and bring the cuhtonVa'io"
problem to an end,
A VARSITY DEPARTMENT.
'.po YOU think the college will grow
as department OF the university
This from Senator Bullen,
Most assurediy. 1t Will eliminate the
useless waste of money. For instance,
Inc Agricultural college spent 81 500 adj
vcrtlslng It's merits up and down the
state last year and the university spent
81 POO doing the same thing student
who has once attended one school won
go to tho other because OF the rivalry
and bitter feeling
The question Of preparatory students
came up. and Senators Lawrence, Love,
Benner Y. Smith and others took
hand In asking questions, insinuatins
that the engineering courses at the
Agricultural college had been main
tanned for freshmen this year Bullen
answered that only students who hae
previously entered either the college or
the prep department could he listed In
these courses. and that they would soon
die out
Park SPEAKS.
senator Park had set speech pre-
pared. reviewing the history Of the
case and he started to deliver II after
FIullingswor1h amendment he'd car
ricd with only three negative votes
Commencing with the constitutional
convention, he came down to the pres,
Ont time, making Tathcr sensational
charges against both the university
81
these WAS one that the word college
and university arp Synonymous, ana
chat under the plea that certain col
lateral courses were necessary TO
proper education in agriculture. the
college had really tried TO expand Into
university. with all It's branches,
rIvaling the University 0f Titan, ana
through loose construction Of tho
rules, was educating men for other
purposes than that for which the In
stitutlon WAS founded.
"Yau claim To take men aud edu~
cate them for work on the farm he
Said turning 10 Senator Bulien, but
sou have been turning them out TO he
added to the cities as technical men,
educated in engineering and profess
Sional pursuits. The farm has not
got the benefits Of their education.
You have graduated only ] mon IN
agriculture In the past g years. and
] think the state. has paid dearly for
those I . men. There are I mon IN
rho college department At Logan or
these II arc graduates and receive
pay from the state as instructors and
assistants or the remaining SO.
there are only nine taking agricultural
work, and the rest are getting col
lege education in the collateral
branches, II Is easy TO make uni
versity oil; Of an agricultural college.
and that Is what has been attempted
In this Case.
HIGH sCHooI. FEATURE.
Il do not blame the people of Logan
for not wanting 10 lose the AgrIcul-
rural college," continued Park, bringing
in another new indictments Five
sixtbs OF the students at The Agricul-
tursI college are really high school stu
dents, and they como within y radius
OF so miles OF the college. not from the
state al large, But for this hish school
EDUCATION the sta tie an large must pay,
inst cad of the people OF Cache county.
Far more just 70 the state would II be
10 build up \ high school system. OH
which structure the university might
rest It's dome. But instead we have
created institutions which have gone
FAR from their purpose, and have really |
been preparatory schools ~ n large |
sense. we should drop the preparatory
work and make or the University of |
Utah college In fact as well as in |
ma me"
Calling attention to The y min tax in
the bill FOR high school purposes, Sem
ator Park declared that this should |
relieve the Salt Lake senators from .
amy iinputation OF selfishness in their |
attitude, Tor It put the money
saved from useless duplication In higher
education into high schools, which could
turn students out ready for the higher
work, instead OF continuing two high
schools under the ma nte OF an ngrlcul- |
tural college and University OF Utah; |
each striving 10 Guido the other In get |
ting ready to be a university In fact,
AZ the conclusion of Senator Parks
speech recess WAS taken on motion |
OF Hulaniski until . O'Clock.
Until he gets through with consoli- /
dalton Hulaniskf has decided against |
continuing sessions OF III land board |
Investigating committee 80 that II has \
noon next,