Show j I i i ± I I I The second monthly meeting of the I teachers of the city schools was held yesterday morning in the high school assembly room Superintendent F B I Cooper presiding The superintendent spoke first upon the advisability of 1 teachers taking up some professional work such as McMurrye General Method and In each founding the work Ito I-to be discussed in an informal manner I andat the general meetings a syllabus of Uie matter treated would be present I td by the superintendent and discussed still farther Mr Cooper would not make such a course obligatory out should time permit he stated that such reading would be very helpful The forthcoming meeting of the State Teachers association was alluded to by Superintendent Cooper who took the I position that it is the duty of every teacher in Utah to attend and give such aid as is necessary to make the meeting I meet-ing a success Economy in the work of teaching formed The theme of a brief address by t9ie superintendent allusion being made I particularly to the work of the pupil the teachers aspect of the subject to be reserved for acme future time All schoolrooms said the speaker should be carefully and thoroughly ventilated When this is not done the pupil becomes restless and uneasy and a waste of energy Is the result In conducting classes the fatigue limit should be carefully observed and daily programmes should be so arranged that the most difficult studies should be taught when the mental and physical vigor of the student is at the highest At 9 oclock in the morning the childs buoyancy is highest After that hftur he loses gradually until 1 oclock when he is in a better condition for studY From that time until about 3 oclock he is again more buoyant and gradually grad-ually loses during the remainder of the day but in the evening he is again on the ascending scale After the address of the superintendent superintend-ent Clerk Moreton distributed warrants war-rants for monthly salaries salUles I i Educational Notes A meeting of the principals of the I I Salt Lake county schools was held in the city und county building yesterday Superintendent Van Cott presided The I subject of Reading was taken up the treatment taking the form of an informal discussion There was a good I attendance Miss Chadwick of the Lowell school has returned from Montana and will I resume her duties tomorrow Miss Lindberg of the Jordan school was a visitor in the rooms of Misses Bowman and Pettit of the Lincoln school on Wednesday MiFjs Littley of the Emerson school visited Miss Duncan of the Limoln school on Wednesday During the past week Superintendent Van Cott has visited district 24 Murray Mur-ray district 23 Union and districts 2S and 27 Big Cottonwood Five new school buildings have been erected at Gunnison the past summer The Philomathian society composed of the eighth grade at the Sumner school has chosen for its officers Charles Spencer president MissMabel George vice president Nate Lewis treasurer and Oscar Hansen tat t-at rms Mr S D Jones visited the rooms taught by Mrs Chase and Miss Mitchell Mitch-ell Lincoln school on Thursday Mr JOnes lias two pupils in attendance thera Miss Reynaufl a teacher of French I from Denver is expected in Salt Lake soon and will conduct classes in that language The new building St George soon to be completed will be a fine structure struc-ture Colonel Henry H Adams addressed the eiglvth grade at the Grant school oil Thursday and presented to the class a neat flag His speech upon Patriotism Patriot-ism was much enjoyed The response to the presentation of the nag was mtxdo by Miss Qualtrough in a neat little speech Colonel Adams also spoke at the Fremont and Webster schools and gave to each of those schools the national emblem Miss Dora Jayne daughter of Rev G E Jayne has opened a kindergarten school in Logan Professor W H Tlbbals speaks before be-fore the Y M C A this afternoon Graded studies in Enclish from the press of H H Wheeler Co Chicago Chi-cago is a delightful treatise on first lessons 1 in grammar and composition and is sure to be immensely popular The gradation is skillfully done the literary I lit-erary character excellent and the illustrations illus-trations surpass anything of the kind hitherto published Every teacher of I the grades for which the book is designed de-signed should have a copy The work is receiving the highest encomiums I from some of the foremost educators of the country University Notes During the past week nineteen more students registered at tha university thus raising the enrollment to 590 The University Dramatic association met last Wednesday and ejected the following officers President W L Dunn secretary and treasurer H An gie Holbrook btsiness manager A E Pritchard Dr J E Talmage conducted devotional devo-tional services last week He dealt interestingly in-terestingly with the temptations of Christ drawing valuable l lessons from each The exercises were well attended at-tended Tne freshmen have met and elected the following class officers Will Ray president Ella Walker vice president and Jean Hyde secretary and tress urer ureProf r George Q Coray was called to Provo last Friday on account of the serious illness of his brother The college men will petition the faculty fac-ulty on Monday for its direct supervision super-vision over the practical work in oratory ora-tory which they intend doing In their society the Delta Phi during the coming com-ing year The second year class 02r met last I Monday and elected officers for the eh suing school year Those elected were Loranzo Elggren president Annie Erick on vice president Mabel Cow Icy secretary Harold Goff assistant secretary A N Grover treasurer and J B Forrester and Ethel Stewart members of the executive committee Friday afternoon the executive committee com-mittee of the Varsity club consisting of the presidents of all the classes met and decided to give a banquet to the class that by the 15th of December had paid up the largest number of membership mem-bership fees This step was taken to secure a large membership at an early date so that the clubs official organ may begin publication The competition competi-tion between the classes of the first four years will be a lively one as these classes are more nearly equal In regards re-gards to numbers The sophomore class has elected the following as officers for the ensuing year Nelson Dickerman president Mabel Wallace vice president and George S Gibbs secretary and treasurer treas-urer urerThe Dramatic association has taken steps looking to the presentation of some play before the Thanksgiving recess The match game of football between the junior team of the university and the senior team of the Collegiate institute insti-tute which was announced for last Wednesday will be played on the university uni-versity campus next Thursday after nooni at t p m The university meni have not been assigned to definite posi r1 < tions as yet but It is probable that these men will be in the lineup S J Standish Waldo Khigsbury Seorge Smith G Q Cannon John Lyman William Nuttall Ralph Watson Ben Harker Roy Patterson Arthur Murphy and Jay Groo Chapel exercises will be conducted next week by Professor Byron Cum mlnss Mr Jesse W Hoopes principal of the Brigham City High school was a visitor vis-itor at the university last week The Naughty Ones met last Thursday and elected officers Mr W T Ward was elected as president Miss Minnie Ray as vice president and Fred S Musser as secretary and treasurer The class will meet early next week to arrange ar-range for a class social The Zeta Gemma will meet next Thursday evening to select officers and decide upon a vigorous years work The class in elocution II will petition the faculty tomorrow for two hours of recitation Instead of one as at present The members of this clasS are doing practical work in public speaking During the past week the class of 00 this years graduating class concluded con-cluded its election of officers These are John Condie president Hallle Ferron vice president Jennie Davis secretary Lillian Horne treasurer u W Carlson orator and Ida Parrott class historian The faculty reception to students which was givenon Friday night was much enjoyed by the students of ally all-y hrs |