| Show caona t not A new departure In Miss Heltons department de-partment this year will be a different arrangement for teachers visiting I days Instead of having the teachers visit ont another at random a number num-ber of them will be given leave to Inspect In-spect the work of a teacher of their own grade who will have her work specially prepared on that day with a I view to her lHltors1 needs and requirements re-quirements 1 Is thought that In this way the teachers will gain more benefit bene-fit than from the old plan a often I they were not able to see the work they most desired to observe 0 Dr J F Mlllspaugh Is said to have accepted the supcrlntendcncy of St Paul public schools at u salary of 1000 per year Miss Scovllle and her pupils of the eighth grade at the Oquirrh arc delighted de-lighted l with a beautifullyframed copy of The Madonna of the Chair which was presented them last week by lBS Adelaide Odell a member of I the class S I Teachers and pupils are looking j I anxiously for the copies of the new course of study which will be ready for distribution this week Several changes In the course have been made which will affect the various grades quite materially Supervisors Holton and Young began their monthly round of Inspection of school work last week end Mrs Elliott held grade meetings with her teachers outlining the fall work In art study Superintendent Cooper also found time the last of the week to spend a little time in several schools a An InteresUng and profitable cooperation coop-eration mooting was held at tho Bryant Monday at 3 oclock at which a goodly number of the patrons ot the school was present The meeting was for the purpose of getting acquainted with the mothers who are new to the school and to keep In touch with those who have been sending pupils heretofore hereto-fore and an Informal pleasant gathering gath-ering was the result Mrs Fritz gave one of her pithy talks and all present seemed to enjoy the afternoon Other meetings will be held from time to time as occasion seems 4 to demand The fall work in drawing will be about the Same as last year especially In the lower grades and will deal largely with nature study correlated with the myths u connected with it Miss Florence Garratt Is at 115 Dun bar avenue A meeting of the Mothers club was held at the Lincoln school on Friday afternoon to consider ways and means of making the school more useful to the patrons A great deal of Interest was manifested The Emerson school kindergarten opened last week with Miss Sale Sholes as teacher S I S liRS l label Morgan of the Collegiate institute has returned to the city after spending a delightful summer at the University of Chicago Her mother accompanied her and they are at the Institute for the winterS winter-S S S I 5 Miss Powers Miss Nellie Powers and Misses Scovllle Beason and Gilmore more are at the Noimandy Misses Barbara Hoffcr Real Dod son McKonzIe Cochran and Riddle are at the Halls S S I Miss Jennie Simons has been transferred trans-ferred to the Hamilton since the discontinuance school dis-continuance of the old Thirteenth 5 S S S Miss May Alexander who for the past three years has been associated with the public achoolsjjf Sandy has a position in the University schoolS school-S S S Prof Marshall principal of Wa satch academy 1 f Pleasant visited at week the Oquirrh and Lincoln schools last S a A meeting of the County Teachers Primary association was held yesterday yester-day in the city and county building at which new officers were elected as follows fol-lows President Mrs Matilda J C Sanford vicepresident Richard S Home secretary Mary Boberg committee com-mittee on programme Ella Steffenson and Florence Home A discussion was had on matters pertaining to the art of teaching S S Joseph T Wilkinson Jr of Iron county was yesterday appointed to a normal scholarship In the University of Utah Kindergartens will this year be conducted con-ducted In the new University building build-ing the Dewey school old University the Emerson and the Thirteenth ward schools all under the supervision of Miss Mary C May All the graduates of the kindergarten training school which has been conducted at the University Uni-versity arc this year engaged In the work and the outlook for the general establishment of kindergartens Is most hopeful Principals Association Meots Tho Principals association held Its first regular meeting of the year Fri day afternoon The following officers were elected for the ensuing term President Mrs E V Fritz vicepresi dent J O Cross secretarytreabiirer Samuel Doxey The executive committee com-mittee will consist of the olllcers and two other members Miss Mary Dysart and W Yo Barton who were appointed appoint-ed by the president An Informal discussion followed as to the disposition of the pictures remaining re-maining from the Prang exhibit which were left 10 the hands of the principals princi-pals A committee was appointed to look up the matter of placing the pictures pic-tures or tholr cash equivalent at tho dlHposal of the various schools which were Interested In tho exhibits The association has for Its aim the advancement ad-vancement In every way of the whole teaching force of the schools and hopes to accomplish much this year along the lines heretofore mapped out A meeting will be called soon to discuss dis-cuss some plan for definite work Salt Lake High School The number of pupils registered In the high school has Increased during the week Just passed from CM to 710 The enrollment Is as follows 1st 2nd 3rd Ith Spa To Yr Yr Yr Yr dais talrf Boys lot 71 53 3 11 tnl Girls 175 103 US M 21 o I A departure from the traditions of the school la the assembling of the puS pils every morning and afternoon for live minutes quiet before beginning recitations General assembly with special cxer clsps will take place as heretofore at 0 oclock on Wednesday mornings throughout the year I The appointments of heads of departments de-partments has been In the line of progression pro-gression Those receiving appointments appoint-ments are Ia Rowe laUn MlBS las Dukes English Mr Gillllan mathematics mathe-matics malc S S I malcAonG Among the additions in the equip ment of the high school Is a marvelous chart that teaches French verbs at a glance The beginning clasa In German In so largo that a division S will bo made s I I I In the clcntllc course general history j f his-tory has been Frubntltuloil for physical i geography Another change Is that In the English course of requiring physiology physi-ology und l English history each five times a week for one rtemeater Instead I of twice a weok for two semesters I Miss Stol < c beginning class in zoology zool-ogy visited the marshes near Warm I 1 J Springs Saturday In search of insects in-sects S S a The Increase in the number of stu dents bar made necessary the employment employ-ment of another Instructor to be assigned as-signed to the departments of English and science The school Is fortunate In securing for that position Mrs Travis B S Albion college I S University of Michigan t The girls are already busy making black and red pennants to wave at the football games 1 Visitors at the school the past wpek were President Wilson Directors Bam bergcr and Crltchlow and Supcrin tendcnt Cooper By the courtesy of Miss Mcintosh the shadowbox frames the painting palntn Qulttln Time Bill by W S liar wood S Miss Corbin is at 36S First street State University Yesterday morning the faculty held Its I first meeting this fall In the old University building Arrangements were made for entrance examinations examJnatons on Wednesday Thursday and Friday next September 2Cth 27th and 28th Profs D R Allen II N McCoy M M Babcock and O P Seward and Instruc t ors Joseph Hadley and L E Young were named as the examining commit tee The tests will be given in the new University buildings I was further decided that Inasmuch as there will be so much confusion In moving the apparatus ap-paratus library and museum the University Uni-versity make no exhibit at the State fair t Prospective University students will be greatly aided In securing board and rooms by calling upon President Kings bury from 1 to 12 oclock daily at the old University building a t 0 Prof Lyman and his senior engineers are surveying the new grounds so that board walks and roads can be made S S A Harry Holmes the new Instructor In the gymnasium arrived In the city from the East on Friday last He spent yesterday in visiting the old and new University sites 1 electric wires that pass to the new buildings upon the lull will enter them through the tunnel thus leaving the grounds free from poles and wires w Prof 11 N McCoy and wife returned from the East last Thursday They spent their summer In Chicago and In diana The professor chats amusingly about their little baby girl tr m 9 The training school library contain ing l over 2000 juvenile volumes has been put in place in the normal buildingS building-S S S Prof R H Bradford and family left for Columbia university last Thursday The University kindergarten will open October 1st All parents desiring to send their children should report at once as only fifty children can be accommodated ac-commodated Miss May can be found at the normal building from 10SO to 12 during the coming week Weber County Teachers Institute The second official Institute of the Weber county teachers convened In the Commissioners room In the courthouse Superintendent AY B Wilson presi dent presiding A C Patterson reported that some authorities had been consulted on the subject of nature study textbooks but more time was asked for In order to receive answers to necessary correspondence corre-spondence which was granted The committee on State fair exhibit represented by J R Bows reported Its Is investigations i and advised that since the Salt Lake and Ogden city schools were not going to bo represented on account of so much interference In last years work by sickness that we make no further effort allowing that the time for preparation of creditable work Is too short unless last years work be used The talk on busy work by Miss Elizabeth Orth of the Ogden city schools was simply a pleasant surprise i to the large number of teachers present iS pres-ent After speaking of visits to schools in Chicago and Buffalo for special instruction in-struction and teaching slightly upon I her present anticipations and expecta tions in the line of busy work the presentation S pres-entation of the subject was taken up The collection of work exhibited upS colecton exhibied together S to-gether with explanations Interspersed I with profuse blackboard illustrations commanded and held the utmost atten tion of every teacher None doubt the excellent ability of Miss Orth In this i line of work and all who listened to the talk can very safely say she has I many happy but no Idle students In her student department < Superintendent Wilson cited the law respecting the attendance of teachers at the official Institute and requested IS I written excuses from those who might be unable to attend Adjourned for three weeks Agricultural College Tho Agricultural college opened Its eleventh year under thai administration of Its fourth president last Tuesday the ISlh L lust The smallpox scare hindered a large Jrgo attendance tho first day or two but classes are now filling up Dr Gowans formerly engaged at thc B Y college hag accented a position In this Institution posIton S S Prof Knplo of Ogden will havo charge I of the history of the Institution the placo I having been left vacant by Prof Thomas who departed this week for Harvard where ho expects to do postgraduate I work for a year After that tho professor will continue his studies In Germany Prof Hill of California will assist Prof MacEwan In tho Pro 1lacEwan English work thin year The gentleman halls from the University of California at Berkeley a I Miss Almcda Perry of Vernal will as Blst Proto Lrvngton with the wi ice ords this year in addition to carrying senior work a S After scrvcral years of very successful work as head of the sewing department of the college Miss Sarah Bowen of Lo gan has severed her connection with tho Institution end Mrs connecton Cook has I been engaged to assume t the labors 18 Miss nona Baker has been engaged to I teach reading and classics Miss Lydia Holmgren of Brigham City will assist Mrs Cote in tho domestic tome tc arts department Miss Holmgren has hn heretofore l been engaged us secretary for cnSu c tho president and the lady also assisted I last year In clasa work Cis Prof Englo has presented tho library with Daubs Inferno Ibmr Gustav Dorc Iustrated a S S A room Is elegantly furnished thin year for tho uso of tho member of tho faculty Mr A J Sllberstcln or Massachusetts Ifla Just presented tho union with a pen wih of light brahma chickens with n record of t two hundred eggs per Jer atH1 a lon pedigree This last feature Is what ren eels theo birds valuable Tho Government appropriation to tho college has now rcnchcil 1 Ha maximum and tho Institution onjoycj fJOOOO from that lund last year Prof John A ride fresh from tho Vldtc freh classic halls of Gorman schools has now hol assumed tho duties of director of the eta I I lon Mr and Mm Wldtsoo occupy tho pleasant little cottage occupied by Presi dent Tanner previously oUI I ExDlrcctor Foster writes that ho Is I pleasantly situated at LRrmnlc Wyo I ty sUuptl at Lmmle yo whcrn he was called to occupy the chair I of agriculture nnd horticulture In tho Agricultural college of that State The Fosters urn very much amismieti In social I I and educational circles o In Logan I Prof Clarence Snow enters upon his labor this year n tnurrhnl man The pro fessor entered this Institution o JUKI I of tho department of mathernatUgc aftyr ail 8uc a-il courxo of study nt Knrvard college Mn Snow wun Mlstr Com tho aecompllahwl rlnuchter of Harm Oroes beck of Springs Die Before the union Mrs Snow ua PivJ > tl uj teacher In the city schools or Logan |
