The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-28
DR.. Tyler Declares That East
ern Educational Institutions
Are Lacking in Hustle.
THINKS CONSERVATISM Is
REQUIRED IN THE WEST
Poor Boys With Grit and In.
teIIigence Make Up for Loss
of University Training.

What We need in our eastern col.
ie2es is more of that western hustle.
What the schools Of the west need is
some of our eastern conservatism. The
cduca tional institutions Of the west are
getting more men away from us each
year-mcn that we lion t like to lose.
and are holding thcm In few years
the schools of the west will have us
beaten in more WAYS than one. wish
| could get half dozen of these
husky Utah boys to 90 to Amherst.
We need them and their progressive
spirit.
The foregoing statements were con
tained in an interview given out by
DR.. John M. Tyler of Amherst col
lcge, Amherst. Mass. at his hotel Tues
day afternoon.
'To be properly educated the boys
of the west should attend school in the
east and our boys shond come out
at least continued DR.. TYLER When
they go out into the world. they will
understand conditions existing away
from home. They will be better fitted
to eight the battles of life and to be
come the kind of citizens that VIC want
them TO be.
"Thc west has hustle and hustle
of its own. Would thut some Of our
eastern boys could have little more
of this same spirit iustilled into them,
Our colleges would be that much better
of
Praises Western Schools.
''Tbr educational Institutions Of the
west arc growing stronger each year,
This is because of the great wealth Of
this section OF the country. think.
One hears SO much about onr eastern
schools being endowed. Tine schools of
the west don I need eudowments and
seem to he IN better shape without
them. | notice that when one western
state adds one mill lax for cduca.
'oual purposes. its institutions Of
learning derive moro benefit in that
one year than our endowed schools do
in FIVE years.
4" a college, ] believe, has an advan-
tagc over university in that it allows
n closer association between the pro-
fcssor and the student. Ninctcnths of
an education is this particular asSocia-
ton. From the start the student needs
the closest training and guidance, In
the large universities he cannot receive
this because there is not that close as.
sociation with the professors. as is the
idSt III lUf SlnulJfI StIOOlS. utl'lVIts
| contend that the paramount effort of
each college or university today should
not be to incrc ase the membership all
of the time, but TO turn out quality in
stead Of quantity.
81 don't believe in raising admission
requirements. They arc too high al
ready do believe. however. In more
severe sitting pf students. When
student shows that he is >loafing ON tho
Job pardon the slHng-hc should not
have place IN the school, The student
who is willing and worker should be
given every encouragement
Donations More Liberal Than Ever.
"Todav the people are giving money
ii orally for any good cause; more
in fact, than they have ever done be
fore Schools throughout the country
are receiving great assistance. Every
boy in tho land is being given an oppur'
tunity TO obtain a cheap educatiou.
However, there are many boys who
really cannot get the training at college
that they desire. When observe one
of these young fellows going out into
the world and making good, | feel like
him. He is doing the
best he can, and the world doesn I ask
much more after Mi.
DIR. Tyler, who will address the State
Teachers association. was Il teacher OF
the Rev. Mr.. Ransom F. Nichols, pastor