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Show I isis. FJiswora I AT SUNDAY NIGHT CLUB 7, I Mrs, R. S. Farnsworth, of the facul-h facul-h ty of the Ogden high school, address-fi address-fi ed the Sunday Night club last night f In the Guild hall of the Church of the jj Good Shepherd on the subject of f. "The Stud? ot English in the Sec-f Sec-f ondary Schools." In her talk, she said that the sub-$ sub-$ jcct Included composition, oral and written, reading, spelling, public jj speaking, dramatic training, debat-,'( debat-,'( ing, book reviewing, journalism, . rhetoric, mythology and English and j American literature. These, she said, jj present a wide field for the culture of the pupil. "I do not agree," she said Turther, jjj "with the idea that secondary school English should be called a feminine. K- subject in the same sense that it is chosen more by girls than by boys and taught more by women than by I men and that it is a less vital subject than physics or chemistry, although It Is claimed to be so by some educators." edu-cators." In considering English In its comparative com-parative importance with the sci- Iences, she said: "If yon say that you consider the superior equipment of the sciences due themi because they are more vital than English, I should like a definition defini-tion of the word. Such subjects, 1 believe, are more practical not more vital. The whole groat history of the English race is the answer to tha; I question. Man cannot live by bread alone and modern schools must glv& each child a vision every time .they prove him a fact. Or rather, they must show him that a fact is no more true than a vision that each is im-t im-t portaut, practical and vital in a true , education-'' i nn. |