Show Will RAVE HAVE NO GRADUATIONS EIGHTH GRADE PUPILS WILNOT WILL WIL L NOT HOT NOT GO HIGHER EIGHER Professor Cooper Thinks Promotions Promotion s Impossible e This Year Mew Plans Plan s ss to Raise Baise Funds Pursuant to a request made by Su So Superintendent Superintendent Cooper the teachers of o othe othe f the eighth grades of the city schools school s met yesterday y to receive suggestions as asto asto 5 5 to plans for continuing the work of that tha t grade and anti the most effective measures measure s by which under the unusual circum dream circumstances circumstances stances existing the work of 01 the year yea r may be completed As to the work in United States his history history history tory Mr Cooper suggested that in of teaching Isolated facts he h e would teach subjects with reference re rence to t o eo their continuity The slavery question n should be treated from its it incipiency y ny through our national history to its cul culmination culmination culmination Similarly he would consider r the pioneers of ot history political parties partie s should be continuously traced as well we ll as the educational financial commer commercial commercial cial cia Industrial and literary develop developments developments ments and brief histories of ot great men me n who vrho represented the various phases In i n our national life The ordinance nce of ot 1789 1 was spoken of or ofas oras o oas f as having a meet important bearing bearin g upon the th educational development and an d should be carefully treated In spell spelling ing i g Mr Ir Cooper would discard the aver ave average average r age speller and teach the spelling of 01 o f fy words in the connection in which they the theare y are used and would eliminate from fro nt spelling lists such words as are foreign n to the vocabulary of 01 the teacher or pu pupiL pupil p u I piL Mr Cooper stated that It would he be b e I unwise to endeavor to graduate pupils pupi ls from the eighth grade the present year yea ear r especially within the time When the he t schools are expected to close which it itis itIs is now thought will be May 11 instead ad of or early eany In June as heretofore He in indulged inI Indulged the hope that some same s me effort will willbe he be made by bj which the eighth grade at I least may be continued until the usual time for the schools to close for the year Among the schemes now under con consideration consideration for fox this purpose are the re subin to the people of or the proposition tints tion to raise the t necessary OOOO a aplan aplan aplan plan by popular subscription and In Ia Inthe Inthe the event of at the teachers losing the suit for salaries now before the supreme court the money thus saved would be used to prolong the year y ar arThe The plan pIan of having an afternoon re recess recess recess cess was Dut put in operation yesterday and was waa a a source of treat great pleasure to Du |