Show i r r I lty According to the consolidated report of Superintendent MIllspaugh 11331 pupils were enrolled In the public schools of Salt Lake City during the second month of the current scholastic year The original entries for the I month were 5825 girls and 5456 boys exclusive of 100 pupils transferred from one school to another The net enrollment enroll-ment at the end of the month was 10 I 91J9 and thc average dally attendance was 101533 average dally absence 2772 cases of tardiness 4219 neither I absent nor tardy 6010 per cent of at tudance 965 per cent of punctuality 99C There were Ii cases of suspension 7 of corporal punishment and 53 of I tr + amy The visits by parents and guardians to the schools for the month numbered b55 and the visits to patrons pa-trons were 252 In number There are 62 colored pupils Jn the public SChOOlS 1 < m A meeting of the Principals association associa-tion of the city schools will be held in the office of Superintendent IlIIs augh tomorrow afternoon to take into consideration the proposed scheme superIntendent of promotions as contemplated by the I w 0 R E Chase for the past three years an instructor in the city High school but who is now taking a course at Leland I Le-land Stanford was in the city last week n G Mrs Peterson who is teaching at SterlIng Sanpete county was a vIsitor at the Lincoln school on Tuesday 0 Mr Robbins succeeds Miss flay TIiggs at the Jackson school 1 J Miss Edith Buckley of Lehl was In the city early last week 000 Miss Evelyn Corker daughter of J f P Corker Is attending the High school at Palo Alto Ca J H Loofhourow returned on Tuesday t Tues-day lict to the polytechnic institute at I Terre Haute Incl to resume his studies stud-ies In that institution w v W It Malone formerly principal or the city High school Is In the insurance insur-ance business in Toledo O oh bo Miss Flora C Blackburn of the Grant slhoo was absent from her duties the greater Dart of the past week by reason 1 rea-son of the death of her mother Her place has been temporarily supplied by Miss Critchlow I > i n Misses Hoffer and Cooper of the Frahklin school are spending Sunday at the home of the latter at West Jordan i Jor-dan s0 r The new book of which Mr Stebbins of the High school Is the author will he published by Silver Burdette Co Botnn about Jan 1 1899 The work will contain the Vision of Sir Laun ful and other of Lowells poems and will ht a contrIbution to the Silver I series of classics a e Miss Blanche Hindman prIncipal of the Irvin school learns that the condition con-dition of her father who has been seriously s seri-ously ill at his home ill Pennsylvania is materially improved i > a Gr Principal C E Marks of district 36 J reports a large attendance upon the 1 two schools in that district Miss Ella C Herron of the Wosatch academy Mount Pleasant had the F nisprton Wednesday last to fall t r from limbs a horse and break one of her I 0 4 Prof W G Roylance of the university univer-sity has been engaged to conduct a series of monthly teachers institutes In Box Elder county during the school year 189899 The first meeting was held in Brigham City yesterday a Principal D W Moffatt of district 28 Big Cottonwood reports an enrollment of 210 with a daily attendance of 200 ce u The state apportionment for the maintenance of schools will be made by State Superintendent Park within the ten das succeeding Oct 3L OvCt The enrollment in the schools of Farmers ward is now 100 Three buildings are in use 0 0 The Salt Lake business college has an attendance of 135 upon its day sessions ses-sions and 65 upon Itscvcnil1g sessIons The enrollment in the former last year was 105 and in the latter iO 0100 The paper on Spain by Miss Cong don of the Salt Lake college before the Congregational Association of Utah the past week is spoken of as a fine effort q 0 0 A meeting of the primary section of the Salt Lake County Teachers asso elation was held in the city and county building yesterday Supervisor Holton spoke upon language and reading Miss Dopp of the state training ehoal Ipan the Speer system of arithmetic and hiss Brinton of the same Institution conducted a class In Speer arithmetic 4 < > > Mr Christensen a teacher of san I pete count was a visitor at the I Oquirrh on Thursday 0r0 I Miss Nettie Shelley substituted for I Miss Youngberg at the training school i the past week Miss Younbbcrg will return from Chicago about Dec 1 I I 0 7 ol Superintendent llllspaugh has proposed I pro-posed a plan for making more frequent I promotions of upils in the grade I schools The purpose of the plan is to give larger opportunity than has heretofore I here-tofore been practicable to pupils who are able to advance In classification as I rapidly as their ability and attainments I will permit More frequent casslfica I Hons it is believed wlll permit of greater progress The scheme while I elaborate a > ears to be simple In its I dtslgn and operation The principals have conferred with the teachers and at a meeting of principals Monday I afternoon they will give all estimate of its lrlcticabllIty AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE The winding walk up college hill has been extended further north and graveled I grav-eled to the middle front door af the main building The football practice is now relegated to the back lawn > < > Some of the professors have been interesting In-teresting themselves in the literary societies so-cieties and It is expected there will be Increased membership and more vIgorous vIgor-ous programmes Possibly a new society so-ciety will be organized n a Professor Merrill who has spent several sev-eral months at the Iowa Agricultural college at Ames Is back at his desk I He has been specializing in veterinary medicine and allied branches i 8 41 > The list of periodicals taken by theI I library has been undergoing revision Among literary magazines added are Leonard Scott reprints of the Fortnightly Fort-nightly Contemporary and Westminster Westmin-ster Reviews the Nineteenth Century and the Electric Magazine I I e w The latest candidate for college honors i hon-ors arrived at Secretary YlIsons a day or two ago He the candidate weighed 16 pounds Dame IcAlister SS he Is her sixteen hundredth client cli-ent and beats them all e < i I Director Foster has just purchased from Bear Lake parties a fine herd of j I steers for experimental feeding Mr Foster expects to VIsit Washington I I next month where the National Association Asso-ciation of Experiment Station Workers convenes on the 15th E < > I I President Orson Smith of Cache stake addressed the students Thursday mornIng He insisted upon the necessity neces-sity af humility and reverence as requisites requi-sites to advancement in learning o G e An athletic association has been organized or-ganized with Wllliam Beers as presIdent presI-dent and Messrs Homer W Peterson lf Cannon and F Taylor as officers The football section is now getting ready to meet other college teams 5 I Students are to be given Halloween parties at the residences of 1rr May and Apostle Merrill One Is tq be a general reception the other a deaf and dumb affair 000 The committee on graduation Is busy with the records of applicants for degrees de-grees and certificates There are ten applicants In long courses and five In short comses I UNIVERSITY NOTES The registration has almost reached the 600 mark Five hundred and ninety seen students have now enrolled themselves at the university this school year c n < > I The growing interest in chapel exercises exer-cises Indicates that the step recently taken bj the board of regents was avery a-very wise one It has been the custom for the various professors to conduct II If these exercises but by this recent action ac-tion of the regents invitations are being be-ing extended to the ministers of the I various churches of the city to officiate The first Invitation was extended to President Angus M Cannon but he I being absent from the city his son I George M Cannon acted as an able I I substitute I Last week the Rev Ellis Bishop vicar vi-car of St Pauls church conducted thq I exercises in a most capable and instructive In-structive way Each morning the as I semblroom was crowded and dozens of students had to remain The chaplain next week will be the i Rev William M Paden pastor of the I First PreSbyter church I I The executive committee of the Xa tlonnl Educational associdtion paid two extended visits to the university last week The attractions werd the library li-brary and the museum r Professor T H Paul who was for years a professor In the university visited several of the hIstory classes last week n c fl Professor C A Whiting and wife are doing work at the Leland Stanford university this year The professor recently re-cently sent to the Chronicle some good specimens of myrtle and pepper wood o 0 I Professor Stewart who left on Thursday Thurs-day last to take part in the exercises of transfer at Cedar City wlll return on Tuesday next 000 Professor Howard with his classes in zoology spent yesterday forenoon up I City tour Creek canyon upon an insetting < > 0 < Now that the buildings and site of the Branch Normal sehool have been I I transferred to the state the money j appropriated by the legislature almost two years ago for the running ex pelses of the Ischool Is now available and will be applied for such expenses v < g J The Delta Phi Literary and Debating society for years the strongest and most active ot societies at the university univer-sity has again been reorganized The college men havE begun work with ain a-in and the following list of officers predicts that their vork will result In success President 11 C Lewis vice president I J Cannon secretary and treasurer P Charles Petterson executive execu-tive committee J J Cannon M R Porter and George Q Morris 0 q J The present school year bids fair to be a most successful one in every respect re-spect The new students are now feeling feel-ing at home the various societies are doing active work class enthusiasm manifests itself more every week the Interest in athletics Is awakening and the student body generally is settling don to solid work q C C The Chronicle Is again being issued by the students of the university This year it Is under the management of the college women An attractive feature fea-ture of the Chronicle this year will be a serIes of rtlcles by Miss Dopp supervisor su-pervisor of training in the State Normal Nor-mal school o > The social entertainment of the class of 1901 held last Friday night Is declared de-clared to have been the most orderly and the most social and pleasant gathering gath-ering held at the university for a long time A pleasant feature was the attendance at-tendance of a large number of the faculty fac-ulty |