Show l 1 R Superintendent N T Porter pf Davis county was a caller upon Superintendent Van ott Friday 1 A meeting oi the principals section of the Salt Lake County Teachersl association associa-tion was heal in the city an < county building yfcstrda j I It Is a misfortune that the city schools are to lose the services of Sli s Roxy + Cummings of tHe Franklin school It is earnestly hoped that her absence is only temporary j Miss Thomson of the state uiiver ity visited Miss Mann rg of the Lincoln on Friday It is loomed that Superintendent C Nelson of Sanpi to county is throat led with a disease of a cancerous nature md that an Operation to check and curd Its progress may Iw necessary The first halt of the years work in the schools of this city will he completed fan 27 At that time the midyear promo ons will bt made I The Collegiate Institute has enr lied several new students > since the ho day vacation Trustee Giauque of the board of education edu-cation has so far recovered from hs recent re-cent severe illness at to be able to rtume I his duties > One hundred visiting days are o be given the teachers of the city during the t present school year Mrs Outcalt Is teaching at the Franklin during the absence of Miss Cummiurs s i I The committee that is acting fl conjunction con-junction with State Superintendent pIn p-in considering some necessary changes m the school laws is making Sajisactory progress and expect to conchde its work at a meeting to be held in tie office of Dr Park on Tuesday next The recommendations recom-mendations will be submitted to he legislature leg-islature thn present week Dr Talmage of the university addressed f the teachers of Summit county or Saturday Satur-day last The doctor was accompanied I I by Miss Maud M Babcock who also took part in the prugt ammo of exercitf I Miss Bertha wilclcen formerly ti vner of physical culture in the B Y college i Logan is now in Colonia Dublan Mexico I St Alarjs academy opened its winter I term with an attendance of 100 students an Increase over the same term last year The young ladies of the school are arranging for an excellent programme commemorative of the life and services of Washington the exercises to be held on I the birthday of that statesman A meeting of the Principals association I of the city schools was held on Friday I afternoon Miss Holton was present and arrangements for the usual mid ear promotions pro-motions v ere made and matters pertaining I J pertain-ing to the internal workings of he school I discussed C A Short formerly superintendent of the Park City schools is now w the employ I em-ploy of the Equitable Life Insurance company com-pany < I High School The 55000 mineral collection so generously gener-ously donated to us by Mr Rictard Mackintosh Mack-intosh has been nicely arranged in three I cabinets by Messrs J W Cashing and J B Jensen of the Pioneer sampling works Sandy o They seem to be experts In thte business judging from the artistic manner in which they have done their work Our minds often revert to the donor for his openheartedness and he can rest assured that he has the good will of the school as evidenced by the many Kindly references to his name by persons while viewing the hands > m < exhibit On Tuesday last in sctiooi assembled we welcomed back to our city our old schoolmate school-mate Harry Hunt Atkinson who enlisted in the Utah volunteer cavalry left the city with it and when mustered out he was sergeant We were pleased to hEtr A O Clark anro CP th it our valedictorian valedictor-ian would address us On arising he was warmly received and commenced b > saying say-ing that he regretted that he could not give an account of the battles of our country coun-try at Santiago and other places spoke of Camp Merrltt being a place unfit for a camp as the tops were 10 dense that it caused much sickness told us of the hours of drill and the exercise of the horses in which they taught them many tricks and became much attached to them referred to the great amount of guard duty they had to perform also of the dress inspection on Sunday The people I peo-ple of San Francisco were very kind in bringing them all manner of nice dainties while there Spoke humorously of their duties at the Presidio In having to drive I off cattle and sheep in place or lighting Spaniards Gave a descrIption of their travels to the park at 250 miles in heavy I marching order averaging about twenty miles a day Tho dust on their journey was so dense they could not recognize their comrades who would be riding by I their side It was extremely hot no shade which made even the horses sick On their arrival at the park they had a good place to camp While hunting the sand s-and cattle they would have to ride in hold I dangerous places not only having hold on by tho bridle but also In many Instances < In-stances havIng to hold on by the horses j tail as well to keep frdm falling off I In sneaklnp of the Presidio barracks i which were built in iiK > one ot ther frea j est tasksrhue there was to salute oui f cers these same officers not forgetting to I remind you to do so if your own memory failed in that respect There was great I rejoicing Vvhen they heard of Senator Cannons success in getting them to be mustered out And when the 23rd of December De-cember arrived we were all dressed fit to kill as at 1020 a m that day we were lined up in front of Captain Caine for the last tinfe to be mustered out when we would be once more free from having to salute any one as ouT superior During the week the seniors and Juniors perfected their organizations The officers selected were Waldemar Young president presi-dent Miss Hallie Iferron vice president Miss Jasmine Young secretary and treasurer treas-urer The following are the officers of the juniors Percy Berkley president Pearl Weiler vice president Beatrice Davis secretary Fred Leonard treasurer treas-urer Mark Brown chairman of arrangement arrange-ment committee Mr Cummings is much in demand at present teaching at training school High school and also a member qf the legislature legisla-ture his time is fully occupied in attending at-tending to these various duties On Friday Principal Sanborn of the Murray school visited us The students of the art department under un-der Mr Harwoods direction are engaged in clay modeling Classes in botany geology advanced algebra plain geometry general history bookkeeping constitutional history and review of common branches will be organized or-ganized to begin the second half years work on Monday Jan CO An aquarium has recently been added to the equipment in the biological department depart-ment which is much appreciated by the students and the efficient director of this work Miss Stokes A students lunch room is being fitted up in the basement University Notes During the past week eleven new students stu-dents have been enrolled at the university uni-versity thus raising the registration mark to G2S the highest mark in the history his-tory of the institution Rev Herman Hoffman pastor of the German Lutheran church acted as chaplain chap-lain at the university last week On Thursday he visited the normal and training schools Numerous school trustees from the schools of Salt Lake county are visiting the training school and the kindergarten and manual training departments of the normal school All seem well pleased with the work they see and are using the t I training school as a patter for their district I dis-trict schools Dr Orson Howard professor of natural historr has been invited to address the teachers of Sevier county at Richfield on Feb 4 The next lecture of the faculty series of free public lectures will be given in the laboratory building tomorrow night at 8 oclock Mr C K Edmunds the instructor In-structor in physics will discuss the life and works of A Forgotten Hero of Science Mr Edmunds has gone to I great trouble and expense in arranging experiments and obtaining lantern slides with which to illustrate the life work of I I Thomas Young an English scientist contemporary con-temporary with Sir Isaac Newton The wave theory of light the burden of kwUfh i J i Iy i Younjrs work will be fully illustrated r both with the stereoscope and by means of experimental f I Professor Maud M Babcock was in Ogden last Thursday attending a meeting of the board of directors of the state school for the deaf and blind t Professor George M Marshall addressed ad-dressed the teachers of Morgan county last Saturday The Utah Microscopical society held its regular meeting at the university last Friday night and erected the following officers for the coming year President Dr J E Talmage vice president Dr J T Kingsbury secretary and treasurer Mr R H Bradford members of the council Dr C F Wjlea and Mr C R Savage The night of meeting was changed from tire second Fridav in each month to the first Thursday The hour of meeting was changed from S oclock to 7 the next meeting will be held Feb 4 at 7 p m The society then thoroughly thorough-ly discussed tho desirability of establishing establish-ing a state academy of arts and sciences the academy to be a union of all persons I I and societies interested In the welfare i of the various branches of art and I science I The Delta Phi fraternity give their next I ball at ChrIstensens oIL the evening of Friday Jam 23 Unique crimson and silver I sil-ver invitations hae peen issued announcing an-nouncing as a special feature the enlarged en-larged orchestra secured lar the occasion The programme committee of the Delta Phi has arranged a very attractive pro gramme for the 12th of Februarv the anniversary an-niversary of the birth of President Abraham Lincon The sneakers of the evening will be Messrs A J Ridges H I Claude Lewis and S L Richards Nephi Teachers Plan I Special Correspondence Nepfci Jan 14Il1e Teachers association associa-tion of this city comprising all the teachers of the city and district have started out with the laudible effort to bring about a closer relationship between parents and teachers They Inaugurated I their campaign last evening with a choice programme at cue Central school at which Principal Bcown and several of the teachers read papers and made addresses ad-dresses All parents were requested to be present by special invitation and the large recitation room was filled The several papers read were prepared with care and aimed to impress parents with the importance of cooperation with the teacher in furthering the intellectual and moral wefare of the children It is intended to make these meetings a feature in the future and a programme of exercises will be arranged for every Friday evening during the balance of the school year The principle papers read at last evenings even-ings meeting were Education as a Factor in Life Miss Harries Importance of Cooperation of Teachers Teach-ers and Parents Miss Perkes How Many of the Boys Spend Their Evenings in Recreation T L Foote Why Excuses are Required W C Andrews A recitation by Miss Bessie Harries entitled The Beggars Revenge was affectingly delivered after which Professors Pro-fessors Brown Smith and Trustees Grace and Park made appropriate addresses The innovation promises great good to all concerned B Y A Notes Special Correspondence Provo Jan 14President Cluff went to Beaver last Thursday in the interest of the Branch school at Beaver It is reported re-ported that there is considerable sickness I at that place which interferes somewhat with the school Over thirty new students entered school this week I Although the college auditorium cannot be used any more for dancing a good substitute for the same purpose has been made Room D the assembly room of the old building will hereafter be used for parties The Polysophical society under the direction di-rection of Professor J C Swenson has arranged a season programme which will undoubtedly prove interesting The I main feature will be the lectures to be I delivered by prominent men of the state among whom are Renresentativeelect B H Roberts John W Zane of Salt Lake City J H Paul expresident of the Agricultural college Senator F J Cannon Can-non and President Joseph Kingsbury of the university Besides these President David S Jordan of the Leland Stanford university is catalogued to appear sometime some-time during the semester President Kingsbury appeared before the society Friday evening and delivered a scientific discourse upon Life and the Hereafter Among many interesting statements he made the following Science points to a hereafter it points I to the fact that there is a great underlying under-lying and inscrutable power that Is the moving cause of the universe to a futurity of life and that it points to the fact that life always did exist and always al-ways will exist Santaquin iHEatters Special Correspondence Santaquin Jan HThe state board of education has granted a state diploma to Professor Joseph A Rees principal of Spanish Fork schools for long and professional pro-fessional teaching The present excellent standard of the schools is aue to the untiring efforts of the gentleman and his worthiness for such an endowment is beyond question |