| Show TEXT BOOK CONVENTION Histories Were Considered at Yesterdays Session I GINN AND CO WIN AGAIN THE CONTRACT FOR HISTORIES GO TO THEM I ITaynard cia Merrills Vertical System of Penmanship Adopted Howrys History the Choice For Advanced Grades Agents Excluded During the Balloting Interesting Discussions cussions The Vote The text book convention yesterday met In the lecture room adjoining the hoard of education chamber The greater part of the day was taken up in considering the adoption of histories and GIn Co grot another slice of the contract Montgomerys history being be-ing chosen f0 the urimary grades while Mowrys history vas the choice for advanced grades The latter book Is sold by Silver Burdette Co AGENTS EXCLUDED The convention was devoid of any special features Book agents were strictly excluded from the room when the balloting for choice was going on and there was no lobbyIng The morn ing session was opened at 9 oclock and representatives of te different houses wee admitted one at a time and given five minutes to present the merits mer-its of their books At 1 oclock the delegates in a body visited the state normal school and were shown through that institution by Principal Stewart AFTERNOON The convention reconvened promptly at 2 oclock and from then on i was hard work until adjournment The agents having finished presenting present-Ing the merits of their respective books Superintendent Van Cott moved tat all the books before the convention be considered in nomination Superintendent Leigh o Iron the made a motion that each speaker be allowed five minutes and to sneak no more than twice on any one series of I bk Secretary Christensen opposed the I motion a there was no necessity for such a rule Howards of Ulntah follows Christensen in the same strain Leighs motion was tabled by a vote of 17 to 6 Professor Stewart wanted to know I i the history now in use did not give satisfaction sat-isfaction He believed it not advisable to change the kind of history Harmon ct Washington was against making any changes In histories Barnes and Eijfglestons now in use a it would Involve a great deal of ex > ense THE BIDS The bids submitted were a follows Gina Montgomerys Begin nezs American history Exchange pic 35 cents Wholesale 50 cents r tail GO f o b Chicago 4G cents Montgomerys L F American history Exchange price 60 cents wholesale 33 cents retail 51 f o b Chicago 75 cents D C Heath Co Thomas United tales history Introductory 82 cents exchange price 60 cents wholesale price 82 cents retail 1 Maynard Merrill Co Andersons junior class history Exchange 42 cents introductory 70 cents whole ale 56 cents retail 70 cents Ander1 sons new grammar school United States history Exchange 60 cents introduction In-troduction 51 wholesale 80 cents retail tail 1 American Book Co Barnes brie istory Introductory 51 exchange 60 cents wholesale In Utah 90 cents r ail in Utah 110 Egglestons First Book in American History Introductory Introduct-ory 60 cents exchange 36 cents wholesale in Utah 54 cents retail in Utah 65 cents Egglestons History of the United States and Its People In rcductory 5L05 exchange 63 cents hciesale in Utah 95 cents retail t Utah S110 Silver Burdette Co Howrys History His-tory of the United States introductory te 1 exchange 70 cents wholesale Chl ago SO cents wholesale Salt Lake 96 cents retail Salt Lake City 115 A R Derare CoA Flanagan United States History retail 75 cents Unie CompanyMorris J B Lippincott CmpyIoris elementar exchange 31 cents wholesale whole-sale 48 cents retail 60 cents Utah supplement o same exchange 33 cents wholesale 5 cents retail 6 cents Morris advanced exchange 60 cents wholesale 80 cents retail 51 Werner School Book Company El I lls United States History exchange tiO cents wholesale 80 cents retail 51 Sheldon Co Scudders Short History cents His-tory wholesale 56 cents retail 70 BOOKS NOW IN USE Magleby criticised the present history In use a pressing murderers and crim nals to the front and making heroes out of them Christensen had no objections to the primary history in use but would cer ainly demand a change in the higher brnc Nelson of Sanpete said Christensen had voiced the feeling of a majority of the teachers in Sanpete county ofp i Davis indorsed I Christensen i I of Utah county and said Egglestons History was a bunch of chaos and I not a history Superintendent Wootton coincided with the previous speakers He contended con-tended that Egglestons History paid to much attention to biographies and too little attention to real history Barnes History he objected to on the grounds of its language which was not of a literary style and too difficult anyway for comprehension He advocated advo-cated the adoption of Montgomerys Beginners American History a very excellent for the primary grades STEWARTS VIEWS Professor Stewart asked how many superintendents found that their teachers teach-ers were dissatisfied with the present histories in use and 17 arose to their feet Stewart then indorsed Wottons remarks a to Montgomerys for beginners grade He did not g much on histories giving prom inence to biographical sketches a i should be rather a study of sociology so-ciology and not biography History should be an exposition of the gradual evolution in society I it failed in this i is practically I worthless Montgom erys Higher History was a good book but I was not up to Fiskes Fiske is the brainiest man in this country today and he has written to my mind the best history we have before us There is but one objection to this history his-tory it has not carried events up to a late date Some one suggested that McKInleys inauguration was included and the speaker closed by saying he favored Montgomerys Primary History and Fiskes advanced Superintendent Oldham favored Montgomerys for the lower grades but objected to Fiskes on the sround that i a too difficult for the ordinary pupil to understand Instead of 1 Fiskes fet the higher grades he would I r < i Hal asked Stewart if the former had ta ried JIf kes history and If he had not become convinced that it was i too heavy I Stewart replied that Flskos was a I little heavy but 1 the children were not given something to think about gven they would never learn Hall then took the floor and advocated I advo-cated Fiskes history as a magnificent j I I r < philosophical work and one that he t wQuld favor for high school work but thought I too heavy Superintendent Van Cott said he did I not know what the teachers in Salt Lake county wanted but he believed they were Intelligent enough to dislike Barnes history Barnes history is a pack of dry stuff and very few pupils have strength or energy enough to wring any juice out of it I believe too he continued that the company who has tIe audacity to ask us to pay 110 for sicn a history should be sat down 1 and that as hard as a this convention can clt cltThe The speaker declared the chases between be-tween Montgomerys primary and Fiskes was too great I can nut be bridged he said and you Professor Stewart can not jump I The training school can successfully success-fully bridge the chasm responded Stewart Yes but all the schools n Utah ire not training schools rejoined Van Cott Superintendent Porter advocated Mowrys for the advanced grades as I was easier to understand and thus letter Let-ter adapted to follow Montgomerys primary history BECK OF BEAVER Superintendent Beck of Beaver favored fa-vored three or four changes In the textbooks I text-books now In use but was decidedly opposed to making changes where present pres-ent book can be used I might suit the teachers but it would Involve an expenditure of money not sanctioned by the taxpayers and the citizens of Beaver he was sure were opposed to changes He closed by declaring he would vote to retain the histories now in use LARSON OPPOSED T CHANGING Superintendent Larson of Rich opposed op-posed malting a change from the present pres-ent histories in use My teacicrs held a convention a few weeks ago he said and considered the subject of text books They decided I would ba advisable to have a change all along the line I agreed with them but whan I remember the taxpayer I say we must not make too many changes in our text books let us not change our histories Superintendent Van Cott said because bE-cause the convention adopted a certain kind of book i did not follow that people peo-ple would have to buy them I they wanted to retain the old histories why the law did not prevent any from doing do-Ing so Professor Christensen favored Mont gomerys histories for both grades Fiskes was a very good history but too heavy He wanted to know however how-ever why it was that Montgomerys advanced was furnished to Indiana at 60 centBARNES BARNES EXPLAINS Captain Barnes of Ginn Co was gate two or three minutes to explain ex-plain how it was that his house was furnishing histories to the state of Indiana In-diana at 60 cents when the bid to this state was 51 for the same books Mr Barnes said that the proposal to this state was to furnish the book at 75 cents and that the book would be far superior in every respect to the one sold to Indiana in years pa EXECUTIVE SESSION The convention then decided to go into executive session to ballot for choice of books Superintendent Harmon Har-mon asked That the vote be by roll call so that each and every member of the convention should go on record I a going to vote against making any changes and am not ashamed togo to-go on record Some insinuations have been cast concerning the vote of yesterday yes-terday and I think from this on we should g on record The question of whether a secret or open ballot should be taken was then discussed at some length when Har dlcusse se leng mon again got up and moved that the vote by which Fryes geographies had been adopted on the previous day be put on record He advised that the roll be called and that each member I repeat the name of the book he voted for so that the public would knov just how he stands and the convention have a complete record Someone asked If the ballots taken I on the previous day had been preserved and Chairman Park answered negatively tively He said After the ballots had I been counted I noticed several member mem-ber or agents walk up to the sr arys desk and look at the ballots which contained the name of the party who cast it Several of the ballots were taken aay and the balance I ordered or-dered destroyed Chairman Park then decided that the moton to retake the ballots cast on the previous day was out < of order A motion to have the roll called and each member to arise and announce the choice of books was then carried Superintendents Porter and Hal were appointed tellers telerTE VOTE The first ballot resulted as follows Prmar History Montgomerys elementary ele-mentary 21 Egglestons 7 Grammar Grade Mowrys 13 Fiskes 3 Barnes 8 Montgomerys 4 Montgomerys primary history having received a majority of the votes cast I was declared the choice for primary grades gades A second ballot on the choice of history 1 his-tory for the grammar grade resulted Mowrys 15 Montgomerys 4 I FIskes 2 Barnes 7 Six votes were also cast for Fiskes history as a supplementary sup-plementary bk Fiskes history was declared the choice A special vote was taken for a supplementary sup-plementary text book in history and Fiskes was the unanimous choice PENMANSHIP I was now 5 oclock and the convention con-vention took up the subject of penmanship pen-manshIp The bookmen were called in in alphabetical order and spoke in favor fa-vor of their respective systems Maynard Merrills vertical system of penmanship was adopted by a vote of 25 to 5 |
