| Show Educatl nai not s I flofesP The weather Wednesday proved more alluring than school duties In some Instances In-stances and Maywalkers wero quite In I evidence among the hills and canyons can-yons Salt Lake children seem to make much of May day and many I I thought they should have a holiday This was especially true among young er pupils a Miss Holton and Mrs Elliott held meetings for the lower grades last week In Miss Iloltons department I teats In spelling language and number Will be given out Monday and Tuesday Tues-day of this week This Is a new departure dp parture and Is tending toward u more rigid standard In promotion from primary pri-mary grades than has heretofore been observe In fact this seems to be I the tendency all along the line and avery a-very thorough preparation will be required re-quired for eighthgrade pupils who enter I en-ter the high school Miss OtUngcr who assists Miss Godbe n the Franklin visited Misses I Van Houten and Anderson at the Bryant Bry-ant Thursday aid B S Youngspent I I Friday afternoon with Bryant teachers I teach-ers I o Her many friends in the city are very glad to know that Mrs T George I Odcll of Butte better known to Salt Lake teachers as MIsS Maude Hardy will spend some time here visiting I friends I S I The Longfellow parents meeting which was to have been held Friday was postponed for two weeks on account I ac-count of the inclement weather S S S Dr Whiting Is gaining many friends among the school children by his talks on health which are very much en Joyed Last week he spoke to the higher grades at the Longfellow ando t and-o the two floors at the Hamilton on the care of the teeth I or a S S I The Longfellow people regret that I Jvirs Chase Is soon to leave them She will remove lo Provo where her hus I band Is engaged in business Mrs Chase will be greatly missed by tho I teachers and pupils in the Twentyfirst I ward where she has taken an active part for years in S educational S S matters Miss Anna Price of the Sumner has the sympathy of a host of friends herein here-in I the death of her father which occurred oc-curred Monday The death of her sister sis-ter a few months since makes the circumstances I cir-cumstances peculiarly sad and though Mr Price had been 111 for some time I yet when the end came it was no less hard for Miss Price Miss Snider and I Mrs Gibbons substituted for Miss Price who was absent from her duties most of the weekS 5 Thc members of the Sumner eighth grade are feeling much elated over the result of their final test In arithmetic as the class average was most satisfactory satis-factory I a S 5 i r Rooms 7 8 9 and 10 of the Hamilton enjoyed May day excursions to Liberty I I park Wednesday afternoon at the closer close-r their school duties A good time Was the result and full Justice was shown the bountiful lunches which were provided for the occasion < 5 a Mrs Bobbins of thc Franklin was I obliged to be absent last week and Mrs Cook had charge of her room a a + Miss McMillan of the Twelfth Is nicely nice-ly settled at the Miller where she will be glad to welcome her friends S it S The bad weather yesterday was C disappointment lo many little people at the Franklin asisome excursions up tho canyon had been planned for the day by several rooms S 5 S < Ilm Josephine Eckman of the Ninth was a visitor at the Webster FridayS I I Friday-S S S The Theta society of the Webster room 18 held Its regular meeting Friday Fri-day afternoon and presented an enjoyable enjoy-able programme of music and recitations recita-tions S S S The literature work In Julius Caesar Cae-sar has been completed by most of the east eighthgrade classes and elghlglde the study of American Authors will be taken up this mpnth t The seventh I A classes In Evangcllne will study Historical TalcsV S S The rain proved a veritable flood In the vicinity of the Oqulrrh Friday and I 1 was found Impossible to attend to the regular work of the school as the children were unable to get to the building dry shod and teachers and I pupils suffered great Inconvenience A S S Mr Cooper spoke to the pupllsof tilt seventh and eighth grades of the Emerson Em-erson Thursday afternoon His subject sub-ject was The Value of Study and his talk was an Inspiration to those who listened S S S Messrs Moyle Newman and Young of the Board of Education were Hamilton Ham-ilton visitors last vyeek 44 a The chorus work In the schools Is coming on nicely and some fine music will be ready for promotion V exercises I A meeting of principals was held Wednesday afternoon The plan of exercises for promotion day in the eighth grade will soon be decided upon but thus far no definite notion has been taken The Idea seems toiy however that they should be simplified and made less a show day than in the past S S S Mrs Elliott wll hold meetings with higher grade teachers this week Salt Lake High School Examinations have predominated during the past week and report car Swill s-will be issued tomorrow Karl Scheid accompanied by Mlsa Stewart favored the school with three musical numbers Wednesday morning T The cadets made their first appearance appear-ance In their new uniforms at thc Wednesday assembly thereby calling forth the admiration o their fellow students Visitors will be welcome at the armory on cadet drill days Mondays Mon-days and Wednesdays at 3 oclock S S S The geology class under Miss Stokcss direction made nn excursion Wednesday to Dry canyon where they found fossils of the carboniferous ern Members of the same class are now busy making charts of the Cage C-age S S The casts ordered by thp art committee commit-tee for the decorationof the assembly room have arrived S S S The seniors have learned by sad experience ex-perience that It Is not always wise to Intrust a mimeograph with secrets The Juniors are now In possession of the classday songs of the dls S 5 S The question discussed by the cla sin s-In political economy Monday was Resolved Re-solved That there should be an income tax on all Incomes over 3000 I Frankle Kearns and Owlngs Shcckell spoke on the affirmative Amy Adams and Bessie Ames on the negative James Dunn and Phi Grames have ibeen out of school for a week on account ac-count of illness v Hazel l Clark of the freshman class has moved to Seattle move S Visitors at the school during thc past week wero MIss Richardson and Miss I 1 Knauss of Ogden Mrs Rathbono 1 Percy Berkley Karl Scheid Miss Stewart Stew-art and H L A Culmer 1 |
