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Show Utah's Prospects Sj, F. W. REYNOLDS ITHIN the year a superior court has rendered the opinion that the Act of Congress admitting Utah to Statehood apportions the saline lands of the State to our University. These lands are now worth millions of dollars. Confirmation of the opinion of the local court will, therefore, give us place among the most richly endowed universities in the country. Within the year also, through legislative authorization to the University to borrow from its own land fund, there has appeared the prospect of a new building, to be not only commodious, but rich in architectural qualities. From the Legislature also has come the largest appropriation which the University has thus far received. As to material resources, then, the record of the year for the University is one of unusual strides ahead. Does legislative interest in football also make this year distinctive? The defense of this great undergraduate sport came from those who, knowing our athletics best, found in them neither the element of danger to life which was urged, or any element hurtful to the ideals of true sportsmanship or to the high purpose of education. Our student activities have always been healthy, commanding the interest of participants and public, showing victory at least as often as defeat, serving not only the purpose of exercise, but also of teaching us loyalty to Utah and personal and college honor. What suggests the contribution of the year to our intellectual life? By Legislative enactment the University may become a beneficiary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Learning. This means that our conditions of entrance and graduation meet the requirements of the Standard American University. In other ways, opportunities for professional and graduate study, success in conducting research work, efficiency and general tone of intellectual life-we also are a Standard American University. None of these achievements have come abruptly. The Act of the Legislature is bat official notice of the extent of the accumulated achievements of fifty-nine vears of life. Training for public service is the concern of the University-not merely for positions of public trust or for the important work of developing the natural resources of the State, but for efficient and righteous private life. Utah, just now, is on the threshold of increased greatness as a commonwealth. The year shows that the University was never better able to justify herself by service than now, nor surer to rise to the needs of the State, however complex and far-reaching those needs may become. (10) |
