Show FOR YOUNG AMERICA i Another Educational Season Opening I I i THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS READY 1 Superintendent JlillspausU is Anxious to Make the High School an Object Lesson Les-son of the Entire 5 stein I The educational machinery of this city will soon be set in motion for another i > years work j I Mr Millspaugh superintendent of public schools is one of the busiest men in Salt Lake city just now For all that he snatched a few minutes from his duties yesterday to talk to a HEUUD reporter concerning the work for tho coming school j year He said We are preparing for a larger attendance this year than last We look for an increase of our numbers from the denominational schools and from the rising generation who were too young to attend last year The teachers employed and to be employed em-ployed are the best that can be secured We had over one thousand applicants to I select from and were very careful in our selection t > o that we are confident that we have a strong corps of teachers Wti are laboring under the same disadvantages L disad-vantages as last year which makes the work doubly hard We have insufficient buildings and rooms to accommodate the pupils and to cnaole us to make a proper classification Wo nave already secured as many rooms as are available and more will be secured after the schools open In connection with the regular work wo have secured two music teachers We propose to teach in the public schools tho rudiments of vocal music The development ot the vocal organs while the papil is young is very important ana vocal practice in singing is tho best means of obtaining this end THE HIGH SC1IOOL Mr Millspaugh is making special efforts to luerease tne oluciency ol the high school He bam in regard to it The purpose of C the boar is to wake the high school department depart-ment ot the public schools a credit to the educational system of the city The in iluenco of the high school in elevating the general standard of education in the grades is felt to be most important Its existence at the summit of the students course furnishes fur-nishes a double incentive and stimulus to continue his studies until the high school is reached and in general to render his work more thorough and to arouse his ambition It is expected that the high school course will enable the young people i of the city to prepare tnemselves at homo j lor entrance to the leading colleges of the I country The faculty 01 the high school will consist of five teachers The new 1 principal is Mr K W Malone a gentleman who has had a long experience as principal of high schools in Onio and comes to us V with high recommendations an to successful success-ful The special teacher of modern languages lan-guages Miss Davis comes to us from Oberlin college where she has been employed em-ployed as teacher for many years French and German will be included in the curriculum curri-culum at present and in case there is a demand de-mand Spanish will be included in the course The public schools begin next week Tho day is not yet announced on account of Monday bein labor day Tho young people of our city said Mr Millspaugh may enter school this year with the confident assurance that every advantage ad-vantage will be offered them which can be secured in any high school or college preparatory pre-paratory department This morning at S oclock begins the examination ex-amination of all pupils who desire to enter the high school but do not possess certificate certifi-cate entitling them to it The examination will be held in the Fourteenth ward building build-Ing and will not be formal but only to satisfy sat-isfy the teachers of the fitness of the pupil to enter and pursue the studies of the Hih school DRAWING THE HEKJLLD reporter in company with Mr Millspaugh went to the Fourteenth I school building where about thirty of the teachers wore gathered receiving instruction instruc-tion in drawing from Mr Augsbury who i has been employed by the board to teach that special department This said Mr i Millspaugh is an innovation in ihe public schools of Salt Lake and we want to do good work for we consider drawing as a most important part of a students education educa-tion tionThe The board is to be congratulated in I securing the services of to efficient a I teacher as Mr D R Augsburg He is widely known in his department of work In the east He obtained his general education edu-cation at the Syracuse University New York and took afterward a full course and graduated at the National Academy of Designs in New York City Since then he has spent three years as teacher in the Keystone State Normal institute Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and two years as teachers institute insti-tute instructor of the same state For several years he has been a regular contributor con-tributor to the drawing and art department of the Popular Educator published in Boston and the Teaeioa Institute published in New York City He is also the author of several well known works on tho subject Easy Drawings for the Gel raphy Class is one of his books which is now in the third edition This is the first part of a series of three Easy Drawings for the History Class and Easy Drawings for the Physielogy Class are the others of the series ana are not yet completed He has also written First Years of the School Life which relates to the reading class andAlso Drawing Simplified Mr Augsburg is also a blackboard and I crayon arti tand gives illustrated lectures the most successful one being Heads and f Faces Ho is also an artist with the brush In an interview with the reporter he said I have come to Salt Lake not alono for the remuneration but because I considered con-sidered that a new field offered a better qhance for the development and nutting into practice of the new theories which many years of study have made apparent to me are the proper methods of teaching drawing I propose to make drawing an auxiliary to every study instead of teaching teach-ing it to the stuaent as a distinct branch and thus leaving him in the dark as to its application |