agricultural roots. Detractors in Salt Lake City feared that such an expansion would come at the University of Utah's expense and pushed consolidation as a counter.
In 1907, an agreement was struck to strictly limit the Agricultural College's curricula to agriculture, domestic science, and mechanic arts. This meant closing all departments in Logan, including the music department, which did not fall under that umbrella. Consequently, the University of Utah became solely responsible, for a time, for courses in engineering, law, medicine, fine arts, and pedagogy, despite the Agricultural College's initial charter in 1888, which mandated that it offer instruction in such things. The Utah State legislature lifted the bulk of the curricular restrictions during the next two decades, with all restrictions on Utah State's academic growth being officially abolished in the 1990s.
=== Widespread growth ===
The Agricultural College grew modestly amid the tumult, adding its statewide Extension program in 1914. A year later, …
