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Show TRUTH. Educational The High school art pupils have been offered increased Incentives for good work by Mr. Culmer, president of the Utah Art institute, as follows: A prize of fory the best piece of work in any $6 medium, and one of $4 for the next best. The work entered will be examined and a decision made some time Prof. Allen is doing photographic work for the next year's annual. It is Intended to have the work of the University fully Illustrated. He is also using his camera as a valuable aid in illustrating lectures. The subject of a lecture thus Illustrated was The Moral Value of Practical Education, given last night at Heber City by Profs. Stewart and Allen. previous to the opening of the "Utah There are now 645 students registered art exhibition on November 25th, when in various departments of the Univerthe pictures winning the prizes will be sity. of work by pupils exhibited. Any piece now enrolled in the art department can be entered in this contest. Prof. Acree reports that there are more than 170 students now doing work The art classes are Ailed to overAow- - In the chemistry department. Since the beginning of the year Prof. lng and another room is needed for Acree and Mr. Wilcox have Atted up their accommodation. The pupils evince the chemical laboratory for advanced great interest in their work and have work with electrical appliances necessome excellent studies. Good water-colsketches of carnations were done sary for making analyses by electrolast week by George Barratt and Owen lysis. Some of the students are doing Quantitive analysis and assaying and Sheckell. are now using electricity in making their determinations in addition to the The Shadow box now contains the usual wet and dry processes. French Peasant Children, by G. H. Tage gart. A very picture, especial-lystronin the study of expression. Machinery for the new workshops continues arriving and soon an equipment costing more than $6000 will have been placed. The civics class have organized a debating club. The plan Is to have debates on current topics, coupled J. with practice in parliamentary drill. now F. Hoffman of the class of 1901, A similar organization last year continuing engineering work at proved Columbia School of Mines, writes Prof. very helpful and Interesting. Lyman that he has received full credit for all work done at the University and prospects are good for future work. Principal Eatons office has ben effectively decorated with pictures and casts done by the pupils of the art deProf. G. T. Thornsen of the Trainpartment. On the south wall against ing school has prepared valuable outa background of dark red are a num- lines for this years work. The sylabus ber of reliefs, some in white and others h,Is,t?r and geography is entitled, in bronze. On a bracket is a bust of Social As a Basis for the Child's the Venus de Milo, modeled by Anna Life in Work School. Hunter, and presented to the High school by her last year. On the north wall are sketches of Aowers and fruit in water color, and drawings In charProf. D. R. Allens class in plain coal and pen and ink. Some effective spent the hour on Tuesday in water-colstudies of the American ageometry Aeld lesson. They used the transit In Aag are grouped on the east wall. The artistic arrangement of the decorations laying off triangles, parts of which is due to Mr. Harwood. were Impractical of measurement, and worked out the results of their surveys. or life-lik- Arst-perl- od The pupils in Mr. Glllilans psycholGolf is becoming a popular sport at ogy class have written some creditable essays on "The Uses of the Study of the University, the club lately organPsychology. Several received mention ized having admitted several members ror their naturalness and outside the school. The club has let originality. contracts for the improvement of their links, new green will be secured and new- teeing grounds made. The sophomore basket-ba- ll team is composed of Louise Jennings, Ida Hartwell May Wade, Pearl Clark, Dora The domestic science girls gave freJ?rtvn wth Minnle Rhodes, Nellie Lambert, Eleanor Engler, substitutes. quent demonstrations of their progress in the. art of cooking and the second year normal girls who are sewing unThe rest of the new typewriters have der Miss Eastwoods instruction speak arrived and been put Into place. There of their work as delightful and interesting. twenty machines ready for JJ! r,s Many of the pupils improve the and after school by extra The students interested in banking nrsii01 typewriting. met on Wednesday and organized a University bank, under the temporary leadership of Prof. Acree. Miss Moffett, who has been at the located at Fords hotel, wwl alS no.w Miss Burllng has recently Mr. R. L. McGhle addressed the seconmoved d-year students on Wednesday. -- Mr. James y vice-preside- nt; Sharp, chairman of the Prof. R. L. Lyman went to Eureka kpard of regents, conducted this week. during today to address the teachers of Juab county, President Kingsbury has gone to ashington, D. C., to attend the Joint e National Association r States Universities and the Associa-o- n of Agricultural Colleges.Among for discussion is one of nWt mportance to Utah a Govern- apPJoprIatIon for the School of abo ?'tTh0 President will be gone weeks and will visit several EastPi-rTree-. universities. - An excellent organization has been effected in the forming of a Parents club, the parents of students attending seed, giving illustrations of life on a cotton plantation and all the phases in the of cotton cloth, also the making of paper from cotton pulp, was the subject of an interesting lesson recently, in Mrs. Larsens room at the Oquirrh. . The Oquirrh is having close and exciting spelling contests; so also is the Washington school. The appointment of Mr. W. A. Wet-ze- ll as supervisor of music in the public schools, was received with much The sixth and seventh grades of the satisfaction by the teachers and pupils franklin have organized a literary soalike. Mr. Wetzell began the duties of with officers as follows: Presiciety his office on Monday. He is well qualident, fied for the position, having made Leroy Hales; the of music a specialty and has Luck Krebbs; secretary, Martha Colestudy en 84 much of his life as a music teach- - man; treasurer, Charles Ferguson. Their Arst programme was presented er. yesterday. vice-preside- nt, Mr. Nelson of the Uintah school succeeds Mr. Wetzell as principal of the Riverside school. Mr. Adelbert Par- ratt a teacher of the Bryant eighth grade succeeding Mr. Nelson as princiof the Uintah, both gentleman enpal tered upon their new duties last Monday. g or chanpi"Si-i- and the following officers of the club were elected: Mr. Charles Baldwin, president; Mr. Ferguson, Miss Mary C. May, secretary, and Messrs. Walton and McKnight, executive committee. The next meeting of the club will be held on December at the University, and all parents 6th, of the students of the training school are cordially invited to attend. As a Atting climax, to the study of ."Hiawatha. Miss Engilman of the Lowell, had an Indian day last week on Friday. The children wrote invitations to their parents, about of whom attended. The roomthirty was adorned with pictures of Indians, wampum, bags, baskets and rugs. The children quoted selections from the poem, told of the making of baskets, and sang songs beAttlng the occasion. The teachers of the Riverside school gave a theater party last Friday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wetzell. The teachers and of the RiverThe Jackson school parents meetside express deep pupils over losing regret Mr. Wetzell, yet rejoice In his ing of last week was a most enjoyable tion and cordially welcomed Mr. promoand David Interesting session. Room 14, Nelson to the head of their corps. where the meeting was held, was beautifully adorned with potted plants and Aowers in while the teachers The pupils of Mr. Parratt at the room, in profusion, which refreshments were Bryant, presented him with a hand- served, was also decked with palms some volume of Whittiers works as an and chrysanthemums, easy chairs, divans, rugs and tables added to the expression of their esteem, and regret appearance and comfort. The special at losing him, and extended feature of the afternoon was an adcongratulations on his deserved promotion. dress by Superintendent Christensen, who spoke of his visit to Germany and about the schools there, comparing to ours. He urged a closer relaThe teachers of the Uintah express them tion between the home and school, and keen regret in losing Mr. Nelson as the of teachers and patheir principal, though they are glad rents. of the promotion which came to him. The members of the eighth grade litOther changes in the teaching corps. erary society of the Wasatch school, Is that of Mr. Bells transference from have started a paper which they have the Sumner to the Lincoln to take the named the "Crescent, the staff is as place of Mrs. Carruth. Mrs. Carruth follows: Editor, Arthur Stenhouse; goes to the Washington to All Mrs. reporters, John Howell, Clara Dwyer, Cassidy's place, while the latter takes Paul Boise, Edyth Midgett, Will Bain; the eighth grade at the Sumner. Mr. manager, Clara Williams. Hoff has been permanently assigned t o the Bryant school to All the vacancy caused by Mr. Parratts promotion. The girls of the Wasatch eighth grade have presented the boys of the football team with a beautiful silk Aag Room 8 of the Sumner won the Aag of the school colors, orange and black. last month for the highest record in attendance. The per cent of attendance was 98.3, probably the Each room in the Grant has organreached in the city. The Aag is ahighest handized a military company with a capsome silk one and has been draped in the room where the pupils intend it tain, Arst lieutenant, second lieutenant and sergeant. The purpose is to assist shall remain. in the marching, and at the same time have the pupils get an idea of military tactics. The second spelling contest at the Sumner resulted in a victory for room 8 in the Arst division and room 9 in Cannons book store has offered a the second. prize to the pupils of the seventh and eighth grades for the best composition on the subject of the "History of the Miss Knudsens room in the Oquirrh The composition is to be have organized a literary society, with Alphabet. accompanied by designs of initial letthe name, "Progressive Lights. The ters showing The plan, colors of the society are purple and prize is a beautifulcolor and form. edition copyright white. The officers are: James Lynch, of Lowell. president; Francis Newcomb, vicepresident; Mabel Clayton, secretary; Dergefs book store has made a simiEthelbert Shores, treasurer; Amy editor, and Margaret Parsons, lar offer to the Afth and sixth grades, assistant editor. the offer being made for a letter design only. The prize is McWhirters "Landscape Painting in Water Colors. The lessons In drawing from life, have been full of interest at the Second Hand Sewing Machines Oquirrh, where the subjects have been many and varied. and Repairing. - Mc-Derm- id, the training class of the University meeting last Friday night in the kindergarten room for the purpose of forming themselves into an association. During the evening addresses upon the WILES & JOHNSON, The study of cotton in its growth, work of the training school were made by Prof. Stewart and Mr. McKnight, development of plant, blossom and 29 Bast First South, Salt Lake City. |