Show 41n 1 I Hungerford academy Sprlngvllle is temporarily closed by reason of a case of scarlet fever in the institution Superintendent W B Wilson of Weber We-ber county called on State Superintendent Superintend-ent Park on Thursday Miss M B Kendell of the Lincoln school will visit Miss Eaton of the Whittler and Miss Larsen of the Grant on Wednesday Messrs Cluff and Brlmhall of the Brigham Young academy Provo looked In on the legislature yesterday A meeting of the citizens of Murray will be held on Wednesday evening to I take into consideration the advisiibility of erecting a tenroom school building The present school facilities as well as the teaching force are totally inadequate I In-adequate to the needs of the place and measures are now In contemplation contempla-tion for the erection of a structure that I shall combine the best features of modern school architecture At the general meeting of the Salt Lake County Teachers association to I be held in the university on Saturday March 4 the following programme will I be rendered The Lymphatic System Sys-tem Dr Howard Science Teaching I Dr J E Talmags Miss M Adelaide Holten desires to meet all first and secondgrade teachers In the city schools on Tuesday afternoon after-noon at 4 oclock On Monday March 0 the schools of this city will open at 9 I oclock and will continue so to do the remainder of I the school year An interesting debate took place at the Franklin school on Friday afternoon after-noon the subject being Resolved That Washington Was a Greater Man Than Lincoln On the affirmative were Lee Turner Esther Lowry David Howells and Joseph Schoenhals on the negative were Luella Irvine Louis Rasmussen George Ryser and Frank Rutherford The negative won The next general meeting of the city teachers will be held in the High school l assembly room on Saturday March 4 at 10 oclock Miss Dopp of the training school has been invited to read a paper on that occasion The post school at Fort Douglas has seventyfive soldier students enrolled the number being much smaller by reason of the discharge of a number from the service The school will dose for the school year on March 31 No further word has been heard from Mr J Liberty Todd and It is now probable that he will not lecture here Miss Forsythe of the Ninth school Is expecting a visit next month from her sister who lives In Iowa Miss HolIer of the Franklin school has resumed her duties after an illness ill-ness of a brief duration Mrs F R Elliott supervosir of drawing in the city schools gave a most Interesting talk before the Whittier Whit-tier school on Tuesday Mrs Elliotts subject was Influence of Pictures in School t Mrs M E Graves substituted at the Twelfth and Fremont schools the past week Superintendent X T Porter of Davis I county was in the city yesterday I A programme of unusual excellence was rendered at the Waterloo school on Wednesday evening by the pupils of that school A feature of the entertainment enter-tainment was the musical part of the programme which was under the direction di-rection of Miss Minnie Margetts and i Miss Angie Gabbott and which attracted at-tracted no little attention and favorable I favor-able comment Quite a neat little sum was realized which will be applied to the piano fund Miss Mell Forsythe of the Ninth school has the sympathy of the teaching teach-ing fraternity in the loss by death or her sister Mrs Parker of Hamilton Iowa The pupils of the school at Union W H Lyon principal gave an entertainment enter-tainment on Monday evening which was largely attended the programme being an excellent one Superintendent Van Cott was called upon and made an address calling attention to the desirability desir-ability of providing ample facilities for the education of the young the necessity neces-sity of punctual and continued attendance attend-ance at school through the year and the urgent desirability of maintaining I an active and intelligent interest in all that pertains to a thorough and systematical I sys-tematical education Washington birthday exercises were I held at the Lowell school on Friday afternoon af-ternoon Rooms 15 and 16 joined In I rendering a programme of patriotic songs recitations and so forth A special spe-cial feature of the occasion was an address ad-dress by Colonel Logan on the life and character of George Washington High School The session of the Virginia assembly which was given on the afternoon of the 21st was a decided success Many visitors were present and expressed I themselves as highly pleased The boys who took part were as follows Isaac Ball Winslow Smith Mark Brown Fritz Palmquist Roy Higson Frank Foote Joe Richards Will Richards Harry Fulton Dave Tarpey John Turner Tur-ner Max McCartney Edwin Puzey Brenton Tempist Sydney Beattie The geology class under the direction of their instructor Miss Stokes visited the Hanauer smelter on Washingtons borthday They were shown through I the works by Mr Short who very kindly kind-ly explained the processes and the machinery ma-chinery They were accompanied by I Mr and Mrs McClelland Miss Chapman Chap-man Miss Hall and Miss Dopp of the j I training school The party enjoyed I the outing very much and brought home a number of specimens The physical science laboratory I which is one of the best equipped departments de-partments of the school has been further fur-ther Improved during the past week by I I the addition of apparatus for the com plete darkening of the room for the purpose of conducting optical experiments experi-ments The pupils of Miss Smiths department depart-ment who are studying Shakespeare presented a scene from the Merchant of Venice in their class room on Fri ° day last l Mr Garner of Ogden paid us a visit during the week University Notes The registration of the university continues to increase the total enrollment enroll-ment at present is 637 The talks of Rev Mr Bailey at chapel last week were especially pointed I point-ed and Interesting and the attendance of students was unusually good The speaker left some valuable thoughts in I the minds of many students Devotional exercises during the coming com-ing week will be conducted by President Presi-dent Joseph E Taylor of the Mormon I church Last Friday night a very pleasant social so-cial was given at the university The entertainers were the members of the newlyorganized class of 1902 lloom IS was used for dancing danc-ing and the main hall was prepared pre-pared for the playing of parlor games During the course of the evening the I class president W W Warnlck and Professor William M Stewart delivered short addresses Professor Babcock recited re-cited and Misses Swenson and Halli day rendered vocal selections The event was successful In every way and reflected well the good material of the first year class The Dramatic association has aroused itself to active work again The members mem-bers with the aid of Professor Babcock have decided to present to the public the wellknown production A Scrap of Paper The play has been cast and the members are rehearsing regularly The time of presentation can not be definitely stated yet On account of a long lingering illness Professor Mathews has at last found It necessary to discontinue his work at the university for a time The professor profes-sor has not been real well for some months but has been too persistent to lay his work aside The severe winter has worked against him until he finds It necessary to rest and recuperate In a climate more congenial to his weak condition For this purpose he leaves the university and In the near future will go to California Professor Mathews Math-ews leaves with the best wishes of his students for his speedy recovery Professor Paul M Schaufeld will take charge of Professor Mathews classes temporarily Professor George M Marshall went south to Sanpete county last Friday morning to address the people uaon educational topics Friday he spoke at Moroni upon the necessity of nroaer school buildings and appliances Yesterday Yes-terday morning he addressed the county coun-ty Teachers Institute at Ephraim and last night at the same place addressed the public upon the proposed stake academy Governor Wells has signed the university uni-versity removal bill and as a result the university students feel most jubilant Next Tuesday night has been set aside Ifor a celebration In honor of the massage al hthne01lft sage and approval of the bill Already the enthusiasm of the students is great they are eager to demonstrate their appreciation ap-preciation of the step taken in behalf of the university and of the state Already Al-ready class colors are being secured class banners collected class yes practiced In a word class spirit is be ing more deeply stirred than ever before be-fore and class spirit Is but the echo t of the deeper and broader college spirIt spir-It The programme fpr Tuesday nights celebration will consist of music refreshments re-freshments ands > eechmaklng Helds full uniformed band of twentvslx pieces will be present to inspire Governor Gov-ernor Wells and various legislators I wilt deliver addresses appropriate to the occasion and spare moments between I be-tween times will be occupied in nar taking of refreshments The evening twill t-will mark an epoch In the history of I the institution I The faculty lecture tomorrow night in the laboratory building will be delivered j de-livered by Instructor Fred W Key nolds Under the title Present Day I Aspects and Influences of Novel ReadI lag i Professor F A Swanger of Park City i visited the training school last Monday I Mon-day Among other prominent visitors l I during the week were Superintendent I Wilson of Web r county Mrs Tude Maguire and Miss Mary Maguire of Ogden and RevG A Bailey pastor of gderhe Westminster Presbyterian church of this city Miss Leonora Samson of the beginners begin-ners grade in the training school hal beautiful exercises on Friday in honor I of Washingtons birthday The pro gramme consisted of songs recitations and dramatizations of parts of Wash ingtons life Both pupils and visitors enjoyed the exercises very much m |