Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1910-06-03
Friday. June ,. 1910.
ADVANTAGES OF A COUNTRY
COLLEGE TOWN,

We very often hear people dis
cussing the schools they would have
their children attend. In this part
of the state especially, many of the
inhabitants think that no one can
get an education without going off
to some far-famed institution locat-
ed in some far off city. We have
all heard such remarks as the fol-
lowing: IF send my children TO
school, it will be TO some large city
where they can learn something.
What can they learn at these small
country high schools where the To-
cal conditions are practically the
same as they are at home, and
where they come in contact only
with country life and country peo-
pie.
If such persons would visit some
OF the country high schools, their
minds would change considerably
in regard to these matters. There
are some advantages, of course, in
city life that are not TO be had in
the country; but taking everything
into consideration we are inclined
TO think that the country high
schools afford more real advantages
for country boys and girls than do
the city high schools.
In fact, there are many objec-
tons to sending young boys and
girls who have just completed the
common schools off to large cities
at so early a period in their teens.
They are not stable enough; their
characters are not formed; they are
eazily led. Besides being left usu-
ally 10 their own counsels on ac-
count of being so far from the par
entail roof, they are taken up with
things that are not always the best
for them.
We of the country schools are
away from all the vice so frequent
in larger cities. We are away from
those temptations that tend to de-
moralize the young, temptations
that either should never be known
at all, or which should come later
i'm life when character is more sta
BILE. Our fathers and mothers have
little cause for worry while we are
at a country institution, because
companionships are generally those
formed at school, and consist of
those who are striving TO make a
mark in the world and who are the
very flower of the towns from
which they come. We have the in
spiration and association of the
brightest young people from this
section of the state. Besides the
young people who leave their homes
are almost invariably lodged with
people who take a keen interest in
the welfare of the students living
with them and give them whole
some advice when it is needed or
solicited.
Cedar, the home of the Branch
Normal is not large town as is
well known; but il may be said to
he an ideal college town in nearly
every respect. The town has near
ly every modern convenience such
as telephones, electric lights, wa
ter system, public library and pub
lie gymnasium. Moreover the
town is undergoing many changes
for the benefit of the Normal stu
dents. The sidewalks are being
widened, some paving is being done,
and hundreds of dollars are being
spent every year in maintaining
good pathwalks and streets. Trees
are being set out as old ones are de-
clared nuisances, till at present
there is scarcely a city anywhere in
the state whose streets and side
walks are more regular or more ar
tistically decorated. In addition,
many new houses are being built
expressly for the benefit of teach
ers and students of the Normal. In
few weeks, the new water sys.
TEN, which will bring into town an
abundant supply of water from one
of the mountain springs, will be-
completed. AS a result Cedar vii
he forever free from the effects o.
impure water, as the spring water
with which the town will be sup