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Show FK0F. WITHKUKLlS SCHOOL DoubtUsa our readers are not unacquainted un-acquainted with thu fact that a free school has been in existence for eorne time pat iu this city. The idea ie Captain Witherell's, and putting it into execution he baa eucceeded in , establishing a free school here that ib not only well attended but appears to be productive of very satisfactory results. re-sults. The plan on which the school is conducted by Prof. Witberell ia this: An invitation id extended to all to attend this school and those who desiro to pny can do so, and tbey can py any amount they choose. Tbo fact that some1 pupils are unable to pay anything makes no diiWeuce; they are still welcome and tre just tbo eame as tiiose who ti in penmate in some manner kr the ii struction received by them. Exhibition me frequently ifiven bv the school children nod means ure thus raised to assist in defraying uectesary ctpmees; nid is also best iwed hy many of ih citizens, principally merchants on Main etrtei, which ia applied to keeping the school in successful operation. There are at present enrolled the names of 315 etudents, with an actual attendance of over 100, and these come not only from all ntrla nf rho clip, but. thfro ftrp ntudente attending from Bear river and Parley's Park. At first the school was held at the Liberal Institute, but it has since been removed to the old Seventies' hall, where it ia now conducted. con-ducted. This has been fitted up with tables and benches, at the expense of tbe professor, until theiplace ie very confortably arranged. The school is partially graded, there being classes that embrace lessons all the way from primary instruction up to the academical etudie3. The primary prim-ary department is conducted in a separate - room, under the charge of Misa Maggie Preece; and a couple of the larger pupils are generally delegated to assist the lady in her labors. The other scholars occupy the larger room, and in this department, under the direction of the principal, the pupils are instructed until they are taught the higher branches such as higher geography, Bcience of government, history of the United States, grammar, philohophy, and penmanship and bookkeeping. The order maintained is very good and the system of drilling the whole j room on the elements of writing of I which tbe professor has a system of hisown and arithmetic, would seem to ba fraught with gratifying results. Captain Witherell has also a method of teaching addition and subtraction to children by which he claims, and reasonably, that pupils can learn as much in two days as they can in a week by the older and more general method. : Considering the short time that the school has been running, and the difficulties under which it has necessarily neces-sarily been compelled to labor, the enterprise has met with exceptional success, and the institution ban, in all probability, been placed on a permanent perma-nent foundation. It ia certain that it has done a great amount of good and baa thrown tuition in tbe way of some children, willing and anxious to learn, who migbt otherwise have been without Buch instruction. |