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Show PROMISED HOMECOMINGS MAKE DAY " JOYOUS DESPITE MANY RESTRICTIONS ais Stil Yuletide's Joys Marred for- Kiddies by Stern " Edict of Board of Edu-cation; Edu-cation; Hour Added SKATINW. sledding and many of th joys of former Yule-tide Yule-tide seasons will be denied Salt Lake kiddies this year uudei plans being formulated by the city board of education. For. with the exception of Christmas and New Year's day, there will be no susnen-s susnen-s ion of school work for the holiday season, according -to Pr. Ernest A. Smith, city superintendent of schools Time lout during the eight or nine weeks that t he influenza ban has kept the kiddies away from the class -room must tx made up. One way in which this time can be made up is by the abandonment of any regular t'hrlstmas vacation this year. This plaiA has been followed out in Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. I'litcuK". 1'hiladelphta and other Kastern cities, it is asserted. Twn navft raved Once the Influenza ban Is lifted the schools will reopen and work will continue uninterrupted by a holiday vacation. However, the youngsters will be allowed to spend Christmas and New Year's day as they see fit. Kavorable consideration Is being given by the city board of education , to the lengthening of the school day by an hour. I'nder this plan, which prohahly will be adopted, the schools will open a half hour earlier In the mornjns and close a half hour later : in the afternoon. LAST YEAR IT WAS "GOODBYE"; NOW IT'S "WELCOME HOME" REARRANGE COURSES. City educational officials have leen busy for the past two weeks In rearranging re-arranging the courses in the. city schools. Mimy courses have been shotyened and others changed. In order or-der that the tim lost during the Influenza In-fluenza epidemic may. Im made up with the .least possible delay on the part of both teachers and pupils. HOLIDAY" ON SATURDAY. Many cities In the East have ahan-. doned the regular (Saturday holiday, temporarily, in order to make up for time lost. This plan will not he put into effect here. r. Smith asserts, I since it will be too much of a tax on the strength of both teachers and pupils. pu-pils. The children, after working liard five days in the week, need the ri'laiation of ah ohday on Sat u rd ay t and to abolish the .Saturday holiday, I even for a time, Mould be inadvisable. |