Show QUEER NOTION OF HISTORY During an examination in United States history the pupils of the eighth grade yesterday esterday were asked to answer these questions Name the president of n the United States the senators and congressman from Utah the governor mayor ot of the city chief of ot police pres president president res resIdent ident of ot the state university and mark this the president of ot the board of education It may maybe be granted In advance that it is Important for a student of or Amer American American American ican history to know who the president of the United States is who the sena senators senators senators tors from Utah the governor of the state and president of the university Even an acquaintance with the chief of police might be valuable at times Umes But we submit that a very fair scholar might be pardoned for not knowing who Is president of the board of ot education particularly as s the questions Involve q promotion to the high school grade To begin with the board of education prefers to hold its sessions In secret its principal committee meetings are held in an uptown office e and Its most Important discussions are conducted be behind behind behind hind closed doors Great as the head of the educational system s stem is dis distinguished d as IB is his career he Is a coy 4 person averse to publicity o shrinking from the limelight whenever occasion offers He might serve serve under present conditions for tor a decade without volun voluntarily voluntarily voluntarily coming to public notice Naturally when a n man Is 15 so retiring so modest It Is unfair to suppose the tle average pupil of or the public schools will willever willever ever learn who the president of o the board Is Besides there be some who fall talt to perceive any possible connection between United States history and the board of or education or its head the board fought shy of public report of ot Its proceedings it the last body in the state of or which any anyone one could write a veracious history V It ask to belet beet alone to t trans transact transact transact act its business quietly secretly with without without without out any interference from rom the vulgar common common people History Its It a ten tn to one shot that no eighth grade gide pupil will wUI be able to answer that question unless he is coached by his teacher and even then its an im an ve Det that hell get the ini ml initials wrong wr ng |