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Show Mmmm T RU T H. Educational. The annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the last fiscal year shows that in the school year, the number of pupils enrolled in the elementary, and secondary schools in Utah was 73,052, and the average daily attendance was 50,595. There were 1466 teachers in these schools. The enrollment in the city schools was 16,574, and the average dally attendance was 13,364. The report of Superintendent Christensen of the city schools, for the past month, shows the total enrollment to be 12,044 pupils, the number of teachers, 290; the percentage of attendance, 951; cases of truancy, 53; visits by patrons, 630; visits 'to patrons, 181; 1230 pupils were 1899-190- 0, tardy. Preparations are being made for an exhibition in the teachers room at the city and county building; of the best drawings from all the schools in the city. This will Interest the visitors who may see them and give an opportunity to teachers to compare the work of various schools. Under the direction of Superintendent Pinney a molding has been placed for the hanging of the larger pictures, this adding much to the effect of .the display. much in The girls are manifesting used from time to time, being placed The sophomore in the rooms winning the separate con- terest in basket-bal- l. had two tests. teams, organized first, have freshmen teams practice games. TwoMiss as have formed, with JuniorsBurling organized The first parents meeting of the year Last week the Monday ?wo will practice teams They was held at the Webster school last 3.15. For afternoons week. Over 150 patrons were present. and Friday class teams will play A short preliminary programme was the present the each other, and later one from given by the pupils and Superintendent against each class will be selected for the genChristensen gave an interesting talk. eral tournament. Ill The following officers were elected for the current year: President. Mrs. E. Mrs. Teas-dal- e, Mrs. Henry Bassett; secretary, treasurer, Mr. Keeler; auditor, Miss Davis. The retiring president, D. R. Thompson; vice-preside- nt, i The art class formed by the teachers of the Fremont schgool is proving vtry successful. The meetings are every other Monday and the papers given have been most interesting and instructive. l Miss Kate Moore of the Longfelow school left yesterday to accept a position near her home, Vancouver, B. C. President, Hazel Kenner; George Richards; secretary, Grace iKng; treasurer, Harry Young; programme committee, Helen Burt and Diana Fallantine. vice-presiden- t,' ? The pupils of the eighth grade at the Lincoln school gave a very creditable Waller Scott prpogramme yesterday. . The Washington teachers are . to organize a Shakespeae reading class similar to that of last year. The pupils of the Waterloo school are preparing an operetta to be given during Thanksgiving week. Mr. Spencer has been substituting during the past month, and has now been added to the city's corps of About fifteen or more of the county teachers are taking the course in The History and Science of Education, under the Instruction of Prof. Milton Bennion. Two works of art are to be the awards of the victors, The Horse Fair and The Chariot Race. These will be Jsasaes3gawi,a.' - oi. feeling has j.; VUjie(j sentiment over the expressed i two editorials in the last number the University Chronicle. The in chief of the paper is Georp- snow Gibbs. For a long time the indents of the University have felt th.it they have had a grievtance and thi v have was lunchroom charged certain members of the faculty the On Monday with austerity, severity and manv other of theu"io opened in the basement that were not caleulnird to school, where good accommodations things cement the bonds of friendship behave been provided. tween them and the students. The offending editorial appeared und.-- sevthe most objectioneral Considerable - i sub-headin- gs, able being the following excerpi: This year the Chronicle will not be published to please the faculty, m- anyof what an ideal college bodys ideas to be. Being the official paper ought organ of the student body, the Chronicle shall be fearless in championing their rights, their privileges, and their interests, and as such we shall be expected to be at least listened to. At the same time we hope to show a keener appreciation of the facultys efforts and intentions than has often been displayed heretofore. We could wish, did it not perhaps involve an impossibility, hat the Chronicle might do something to stimulate the faculty to show, a greater interest in the students personally and collectively. Dr. Kingsbury is not disposed to view Miss Pollock had a third grade meet- the matter with harshness, but it is ing Wednesday afternoon at the city not yet known what action, if any, the faculty will take. - ' v A 4 ,JS ' - sv . Miss Sidoways class in Spear numself-possess- K ion 1 ar ns s if. : sun-bat- h, vice-preside- nt; h. ar SMITH-LUND-WINDE- :- -Dear The pupils of the Sumner school are taking great interest in the spelling contest in progress there. The school is divided into sections, the first section consisting of the grades below the fifth and the second of the four higher gfades. e - HOUSES THAT ARE ALIKE. the for ber work gave an exhibition benefit of new teachers. The members I have heard of a man who left the The enrollment of the high school has of tte class gave evidence of much Oxford in the at 2 o'clock in the morning and and individuality now reached 720. The examinations in work. who couldnt find his own door, to say first-yeEnglish, given last week, nothing of the keyhole. This was beshows great improvement in the prepahe lived in a terrace and the hour The truant boys are repentant and cause ration of pupils for entrance to the was which was pardonable. But late have been reinstated in their various these houses that are all high school. On Monday Miss alike are liable first year Latin classes had grades. to cause live in one of trouble ' I yet. a general review of the first month's these I other mornawoke the myself. work, and on Tuesday a contest in far well. from ing feeling vocabulary construction and rules. Much interest is shown in the Unisaid I, as the warm Ah, a Stella Howard Jones, and McIntyre came beams an the window and Dramatic club, through exceptionally were leaders of tht first division, and versity on reflected the I was soon encarpet. of students desiring Grace Lyon and Fred Gundry in the large number half almost obliviand joying it, asleep second division. membership in the club. It has been ous to my surroundings. decided to put on at least one play this I had left the front door ajar. Sudwinter, probably two. The following denly it opened, and in came a neighThe senior class meeting last week officers have been elected: Business bor who lives several rods away, but Will Dunn; president, Leroy in the same kind of a house. He saw elected the following officers; Nicholas manager. Sanders; secretary and treasurer, Miss me first, and it must have been a shock Smith, president; Lewis Sowles, Pearl Van Cott; members of the execu- to the poor old fellows nerves. Mabel Dailey, secretary. tive board to act in conjunction with "Wh-a-a- -t are you doing here?" The president, who has the distinction regular officers. Miss Babcock and Miss "Oh, just taking a sun-batof holding that office for two successive Holbroqk. Get out of my house, he demanded. years, gave a short address on Honor I laughed. in the Schoolroom. Go home and leave me alone, dad, The debating clbu is negotiating to I said, good naturedly. meet the Denver University club in an But, d it, man, I am home," he inintercolegiate debate during the Christ- sisted. Miss Dukes third-yeclass in mas No; you live three houses further up holidays. English literature has finished the first the street. He rushed toward the back ' of the house, presumably for a hoe, or three periods and on Monday had a an ax, but got review from Beowulf to Elizabethan as far as the next The girls basket-ba- ll team is en- room, when he only times, each member of the class having discovered his mistake a different topic. and went on thusiastic. have home, looking like a small had some They who had been caught stealing jam, boy vigorous practice games under the but minus the satisfaction that usually of Mr. leadership Rippeto as coach. attends such escapades. The pupils of Miss Corbin's second- He told me the day afterward that he was year English have done some excellent going to the rear of the work in the study of Shakespeare's life A number of the students are de- house really fur a weepon, as he misunsirous of organizing a club for the derstood my cordial welcome to what and times. study of the mandolin, guitar and he considered his home. THE TERRACER. banjo. One of the subjects under discussion in Mr. Traviss civics class is the State and local government of Utah. As there are no text books on this sub- garding an article contributed to ject the pupils are doing original in- paper last week. It speak3 for i It is now up to Oliver Old Facts: vestigation in the Utah statutes. Those who know the above three . Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 21, 1! heads of the Mormon church will recog. Editor Truth SIr:-nize in them a trio that is strong as e so kind as to convey to your C Principal Eaton has kindly placed in could be formed in the Mormon church. the library for the use of students his Old Facts my cordial invitatio It is, without doubt, the strongest flrsj set of the Worlds Great Master- visit our high school and learn presidency that the church has hadamtvL?neTV acs that are taking late years, at least. Smith, active, pieces. These volumes, thirty in numam sure the poor fellc bitious and energetic; Lund, solid. pr" ber, are edited by Harry Thurston mIsaPPiehensio tne Peck, and contain extracts from the what the Und?r gressive and painstaking; Winder, anu real status of the schoc best writings of all ages and nations. We have no such youngest old man in the church, cour conversant with presena Military drill, Mondays, Wednesdays he indicates, nor commercial thoroughly has it ever bee and Fridays, is a required study for vogue as laid down duties and able to grasp such others on the old all the boys in the classical and scien- gramme. We fire ar.se. may glad for criti tific classes of the first and second President Smith has done his churcn a but is service In elevating to or selectm years, optional with those of the third and fourth years. Messrs. Lund and Winder for the po I shall be glad to make any tions they now occupy. Bu-channa- The Uintah fifth and sixth grades have organized a literary society, to meet once a month. The officers are: sun-uo- n. The Zeta Gamma society of the UniMrs Hancock, received praise from all sides for the painstaking ability which versity held a public meeting last characterized her work in the society evening. The special feature of the prolast year. by gramme was the address given Gov. Heber M. Wells. Other numbers on the programme were musical selecand a Room 17 of the Lowell school is to tions by J. R. and Joel Parrish Holbrook. Miss Angie have a new sort of historical society. recitation by The work will consist of the rendition of famous orations, the giving of bioPrincipal Eaton resumed customary graphical sketches, writing of historical essays and the memorizing of poems of duties on Monday. He received a historical value. puhearty welcome from teachers andhimmuch and pleasure expressed pils self in getting back to .work. Special efforts have been made toward attractiveness in the rooms and hall of the Riverside school, for which Miss Gettings of the Hamilton has much praise is due to the teachers and gone to Anaconda to enter upon school pupils. work there. . provement and follow any that Oliver Old Facts can giv, GEORGE A. EATVery truly, Principal high f Will R. r i I : |