Show v Edt t Qi r i1Qt The school attendance Is lrcreniilng I at a gratifying rate and the ore Is being curried on vs though no ail verse circumstances were In the way Sore and it Is believed arms aro recovering belevcd I that the worst Is o oar The Spoor work in arithmetic for the I ficst four grades Is receiving much attention at-tention Jadcs plan is being outlined uniformity In results whereby greater ulIormlt Tesu1 SreCcl I will be attained Teachers are required re-quired to keep an exact copy of all leo qulcd of ons given out and a comparison these various lines of work will bo S made by Superintendent Cooper later Miss Holton Is planning 0 word tost for her Jlrgt primary grades which it Is hoped will bo an aid to the sentence method generally used and lgencral will also prove of Interest to the little wi ones and their parents Inasmuch as It will explain some parts of the work not always understood by the uninitiated unini-tiated S The work In Mrs Elliotts department depart-ment to be done by the prlriiary grades this month will Include construction drawing work relating to the January idea building of sled models snow forts ctcalso 1 development of the plaid to be done in two colors qt chalk on outlined squares of plan paper I I per aMiss H o Miss Kingsbury of Draper schools was 0 visitor at the Bryant Tuesday o 0 Tho Wnsatch art exhibit at the Ladles L La-dles clubhouHe occurs Monday In three clibhoule morning from 10 to 12 In thc afternoon from 2 till 5 and In the evening at S oclock The pupils of S S thc eighth grade will serve refreshments refresh-ments In the basement 000 S Mrs Banker of the Franklin was called to Cleveland to attend the funeral fu-neral of a friend and Mrs Cook sub nerl S stituted for her last week Mrs Bankers i Bank-ers daughter accompanied her East o o 0 Principal Eaton has begun a series of visits to the eighth grades of the city and Friday afternoon was a welcome visitor at the Hamilton where he meta I met-a largo number of friends and patrons and 0 very pleasant hour was spent together to-gether Mr Eaton feels that he wants f ctcr to be In closer touch with the pupils who are so soon to become associated with him In his department V V Tho Grant school was the scene of a r pleasant gathering on Friday afternoon I p after-noon when the regular meeting of the new year was held A I paper was given on foods by Mrs j Blcdsoe who was followed by Mrs HeIss In an article on Recreations Recrea-tions both of which were most tons excellent and were appreciated by the many parents present as solving solv-ing some vexing problems An anl matcd dic sslon followed the reading of the papers The next meeting will occur the first Friday In February and will be a discussion of the subject Art In the School and Its Effect in the Home to be led by Supervisor Elliott S Drawings from all grades will be ex hlbllcd in the corridors rooms 4 t aMiss a-Miss Foster and Mrs Coray of the Lowell were visitors at the Grant Frl day and enjoyed the discussion at the T Parents club > r 099 Rev Joel A Smith of Illff church S I was a visitor at the Lincoln Thursday e 0 0 S The first grade of The Lincoln had a 1 prctcal lesson In manufacturing Friday Fri-day afternoon as they visited the shoe factory j near them and were permitted to see for themselves how 3 large establishment es-tablishment of this kind carries on its I work They found the trip very profitable profit-able and interesting 0 0 S t The programme committee of the oumr er mothers club met with the president Mis Oavls last Monday afternoon af-ternoon every member of the committee s commit-tee being present After perfecting arrangements ar-rangements for the meeting to be held February Sth a dainty luncheon was f served by the hostess The club Is a t most enthusiastic one and the Interest 11s growing and is manifesting Itself in J prcictlcal ways S 0 0 As a result of the meeting held Just bqfore the holidays Santa Claus brought many books to the children of the ward The talk at the meeting was on books and those recommended to mothers as good reading were the ones which found their way to the homes 0 0 Next Thursday Sumner day at thc 5 art exhibit both afternoon and even IiUT Pupils are out with tickets andS and-S much enthusiasm is being aroused There will be ja musical programme in the evening which promises to be excellent ex-cellent 0 S S The first meeting of the parents association since the holiday vacation was held at tho Emerson school on Friday Afternoon Although the at tcndanc6 was not very large much interest in-terest was manifest and many good nnd helpful thoughts were brought out At the close of the meeting a vote of S thanks was tendered Mrs Clark for her generous gift of one hundred and fifty 4 ttpoku for the library I 0 S fTho library room at the Emerson is i being furnished with an elegant new bookcase sufficient to accommodate the needs of the school for a number of years to come S S S s Gordon academy has had a oubstan S t al addition to Its collection of scien tWo apparatus which wjll be of great geat hervjce in conducting laboratory work An art class under the direction of Mrs Frank Yj bster Smith fins been inaugurated ugurated and promises good things At the last exercise Mrs Ellen Elliott gave a delightful study of one of the mpdern masterpieces mlterDlcces Future exercises exer-cises will take UD the art of different 4 s pools and countries All who are in terested arc welcome to these art ex ercises On the evening of the 21st be S gins a series of free lectures and re citals I I SALT LAKE HIGH SCHOOL 1 The programme on Wednesday morn I ng was entirely musical and each I number was greatly enjoyed A quar j te tc composed of Miss Elizabeth EI1Obeth Davis Hiss Ethel Pond Dr Wesley Davis and Mr Fred Jayno sang Na i lures Rest Dr Davis responded to an encore In behalf of the quartette with Mona and O quarleLe iMlha Sebastian Ames played a violin sdlo Iqlo Meditation with an encore ac cpmpanled by Mr Ames Mlftllss I aI i ftllss I Minnie Burmqster of the Junior class leaves this week for San Francisco Fran-cisco for a three months trip d I o o n iXThe school realized the neat sum of r S sipu from the recent art exhibit su r t o f c jMiss Buchanan Is now comfortably eettled at 127 Twelfth East at the home of lira Osmond who Is in CallS Call-S fqrnia for u threo months visit CaI j 0 S Liss Crltchlows second period English En-glish class llbterted to an interesting debate on Wednesday morning the momlnJ question beIng Is CapItal P 5 5 cfti0wb2B > ni8hmcn > Justifiable suggested by the study of S the Vicar of Wakefleld The affirm I ativo spealturs were Louise Walden and Valen Earl IJavenor the negative Frank Manning and Joseph Jensen Tho I judges Mary Sharp Grace Wilton and L land Swaner decided In favor Of S tho afllrmaUvc f r I 54 S S S S Among the visitors of the week wer S Mrs Scus Toh1s Mr and W w M Scott Rabbi b1 Reynolds J JK w Bracken Prof Albion W Small head department of sociology Chicago university uni-versity Max McCartney of Pocatello Gertrude Hartman Daisy Raybould WInslow Smith S S John Turner of the School of Mines Golden Colo who Is home for n wo weeks vacation was a visitor on Wednesday Hamilton Shakespeare Society On Friday last the Shakespeare society so-ciety of the eighth grade Hamilton school held Its regular meeting and a mast Interesting and enjoyable time S I was passml 1 by lie society and its gus room 0 and many pan nls and l friends Th6 principal feature of tho program wua a debate Resolved That Lee was n greater General than 1 Grant both sides of the question being be-ing admirably sustained I was only after much consideration of the arguments argu-ments presented that the Judges were able to give their decision which was jn favor of the afllrmatlve The participants were Edna Evans May Taylor nnd Edith Chapman for the nftirmatlve and Kennedy Eakle Taylor Gardner and Arthur Parsons for the negative Interspersed were songs bY the pu I I pHs which were also much enjoyed Immediately after the programme of tho Shakespeare society Mr Eaton of the high school addressed tho seventh and eighth grades of tho Hamilton school on The Value of Education I dwelling particularly on the advantages I of a high school education All listened lis-tened with Interest receiving much pleasure and benefit Surprise parties have been strictly In favor In the Hamilton school of late During Hie past week Miss Larson of room 5 Miss Davis of room 3 and Miss r Simons of room 2 have been surprised I State University Prof Herbert N McCoy will conduct chapel exercises this week n 0 0 The Universty will give appropriate exercises In commemoration of Chief Justice Marshall on John Marshall Iarshal Marshrl day The arrangement of a programme for the occasion Is In the hands of n faculty committee consisting of Profs G 11 Marshall J T Talmage and G Q J Corny 4 0 0 At the faculty committee meeting last week the report of the committee on metric system was adopted whereby where-by the Governor and Legislature will be memorialized by the University I faculty to adopt the metric system at an early date ns the legal system of weights and mefxSPteH S l In Utah Thc next of the series of University dancing parties will be given next Friday day evening January 23th at Chrlsten sens The two parties given thus far have been among the most successful given by the University for several years The chaperons will be Mesdames Mes-dames W A Nelden A W McCunc Jr F A Vincent J T Kingsbury E Y McCune Henry Sadler W W Riter and Mrs Ferguson The committee In charge of this party consists of M Louise Nelden Mabel Harker Florence Grocsbeck Emma Carter Robert Glendlnnlng Walter Romney Le Roy Sanders and James Sadler 050 Spencer Clawsons handsome gift to the University of 1 portrait painting of Orson Spencer the first Chancellor of the Board of Regents was hung on the walls of the facultyroom last week The portrait was painted by Will Clawson last summer and It was to have been presented to the institution institu-tion on the occasion of the intended Jubilation exercises upon removing to the new buildings which were dispensed dis-pensed with on account of the confusion confu-sion and delay of opening In October Mr Clawsons gift was well appreciated appre-ciated by student and professor alike especially as he is among the scarcely l half a dozen men who have shown their interest In the Institution In a tangible way I Is hoped that before J many years there may be portraits on the University walls of nil the noteworthy note-worthy men who have great aided in raising the institution to its present elllciency and prominence S S S Two weeks from Monday Prof Bab cocks class In college elocution will give a Kipling recital and this will be followed during the year by one or two other recitals The main purpose is educational in its nature and Incidentally Inci-dentally they will afford good practice for the students or advanced elocution a D 0 Yesterday was University day at the Ladles Literary clubrooms when n good many University students < and professors saw the art exhibit that has been displayed there for the past few weeks During the afternoon D committee com-mittee of rourth ear normal students and in the evening a number of college students acted a reception committees commit-tees The faculty committee In charge of the Unlversty day were Profs M M Babcock Byron Cummlngs H N McCoy Mc-Coy Instructors David Evans J 3 McClellan and Miss M 4 Mary C May The college freshmen appointed a commltteo last Monday to llnd out the most pleasing way of having aJolly good time Within a week or two the frcshles will proceed to test the committees com-mittees report in a manner they say that must either be loft to the Imagination Imagina-tion of others or learned by strategic means S t 0 The iourth ear normal class had n meeting on Thursday At which Prof L mar and Instructor McGhlo addressed ad-dressed the students on the subjects of commencement exercises and advanced ad-vanced college courses Father Mr Ghle the patron saint and godfather of the class urged all who possibly could to continue their education Into the University proper Next Thursday afternoon the class will elect 3 class poet historian and orator to take part In classday exercises next June 040 The crew of Varsity fellows who have been considering the matter of giving l college minstrel show met again last Tuesday and elected Jay Groo business manager and Maync Reed stage manager This week the fellows will meet for the proposing of gags and joshes The boys are on the lookout for p i few more Jolly follows fol-lows to Join the show Of 5 Thc faculty voted last Monday to express ex-press to Congressman King their favor of the bill now before Congress for the establishment of a national standard izing bureau S S S The young men students who are aspiring for tho honor of representing I the University in the UtahNevada debate met lat Wednesday and v adopted a form for the preliminary contest I is practically the same as that used last year Its essential font ture being the division of speakers into groups of twos that wH debate the question separately while thc other I contestants before appearing In the i contest will not bo permitted to bo within hearing distance The con testan s wi 11 meet again next Tuesday at 1 ° clock for the purpose of draw iW lJrpo big lots to tlotclinl o the division Into sides I J J 0Bllen oC ° the ml Clark com pnn Chicago spoke very interest i Inglv and profitably lo the engineering stut nts last Monday on the SbJcct of lbject Toos and Machinery lit Their Us I 1 Dr Orson Howard r professor of nat I ural history at the University has De ceived thc honor pfbelnir 1 elected ec I lt a member of the Ame an Association for the Advancement of Science The annual meeting of the association this I year will be held atDenver 0 la August I Ahlttie i fellow attoziching b t > hc tralnlntr school created a good dealer excite ment at noon on Thursday by his loud cries of pain from having been puK havlns becn Pushed I into a bonfire by a playmate ulhcd burning his hands and foresail Dr 1 I McCoy was hastily summoned from his chemistry class and upon attending to the burns found thorn not nearly so severe as was feared S 4 9 Another trainingschool youngster last week dislocated his thumb while pljoyfng the fun of the playground I He was at once taken over to Dr Howards classroom and the bone reset I re-set I has been surmised that possibly possi-bly these two little fellows were merely mere-ly putting themselves in training for Kugby football S V 4 J Instructor L E Young delivered an I address before thc Normal society last I Friday on the subject The Old Teacher Teach-er and thc NewS I S w I Miss Esther Nelson Is now engaged J 18S ensnSc I In cataloguing the books of tho trailing trail-ing school library 6 I 4 Abraham Hatch visited he I Univcr I slty on Friday and Rulon S Wells newlyelected member of the Legislature Legis-lature on Thursday v S Prof W M Stewart and Instructor Edwin Evans went to Farmlnglon on Saturday to conduct the Davis County p Teachers Institute held there a S SIt S-It A very Interesting frame of photographs photo-graphs was hung In the facultyroom last week It contains cabinetsized photographs of members of tho Zeta Gamma society In 1S76 and was presented pre-sented t Dr Park us a token of esteem es-teem I contains the pictures oftho following most of whom are very well known Hcbcr A I Wells E P Sutherland Suth-erland John T Caine Rulon S Wells Orson F Whitney R W Sloan N Nebeker D O Miner Joseph B Toronto To-ronto Horace G Whitney B S Young T R Ellerbeck A W Calnc I J S Haywood J B Read A B Taylor I Tay-lor W S Crlemon and J M Romney A crowd of Varsity fellows consistIng consist-ing 0 t Ray Richards Dunn Kings I bury Sanders and GIbbs saw Mrs Flskes company from the heights on Thursday evening Springyille Schools Sprlngvllle Jan 180ur school opened Monday January 14th with about 90 per cent of the former attendance at-tendance By next Monday we expect I a full attendance as nearly all are now vaccinated J 1 Miss Ella Larsen S supervisor of primary JI pri-mary work In Utah county visited our I schools this week I 4 a s Miss Anna Sumslon now teaching In American Fork visited our schools Friday a 0 i Mr Harold Allcman delivered a talk before the Students society Friday I evening Subject Caesar Will Meet Teachers Superintendent of Schools Cooper will meet with the schopl principals on Tuesday at 330 p m for discussion on literature and hlstor work plans and methods Miss Holton will meet with the first grade teachers on Tuesday at 330 p mi and Mrs Elliott will meet with the third grade teachers at 330 p m on Thursduy Agricultural College Logan Jan 18MIss Richards Is revolutionizing revo-lutionizing tho art department Ficlll ties have never heretofore Justified even an attempt to do more than train tho students in a llltlo plain drawing as n 1 Itlo Preparation for their work In the higher departments but there Is now a chniiKO biMng wrought nnd SL moro thorough course will DCS given from tine standpoint oC nrl11 history Influence und npiillci lon to the affairs of life Miss Illcharda has ordered n supply of equipments and materials part of which are already horo juul has hud annrtnirntfi suitably titled up In which to conduct her classes An ct fort will be made to Interest tho town pcoplo In theso niovomcnts and tho keen Interest taken by them In tho art infitl tuto recently held hero would bespeak a 1 hourly support on tholr part to any advancement ad-vancement In art In this community Tho I drawing apartment Is already decorated with wellchosen castes and historic pie wlh ture1 and ere long Mr Jlarwouds mao tornlcco will adorn Us walls This piece 1 I terrllCC borrowed for the present but It wl the hopo of all concerned that tine way l will open somehow for the purchase of It I wJ the Agricultural collepc Somo of tho students arc working in clay and some on paper Great attention Is being given to tho history oC art and the two years training of tim Iiihlructor In New York Is already allowing what thorough preparation prepara-tion means M S 0 The Sorosls society Is forging ahead I will soon compldto a study of Sesame and Lilies Interspersed with Brown Ings short poems and will then tako up for this terms work Ruskin on ArUf Brownings poems on painting and current cur-rent topics The girls succeed hi getting out of their society good sensible work O e S Misses Erne Nobckor and Sybil Ormahy wore visitors among tho students Wednesday Wednes-day Miss Nobclccr started school this year but was compelled 10 discontinue account 0 Illness S I 0 Last Thursdays Tribune made Prof Llnnehl ThurcCs pretty good looking man o SO Prof Dryden Is In Salt Lake where ho Snt was called to assist In some work with poultry S 0 0 Invitations arc out by the football boys for a balL In the college gymnasium Satur evening day ocnlns 0 4 S President Kerr Is In Salt Lake In tho Interests In-terests or the college I 5 S II Prof Lan ton goes to Box Elder county I today t6 deliver an address totho teachers there on bacteriology Mlas Almcda Perry will conduct the professors classes during dur-ing his absence S S S Mrs Goodwin reports tho greatest amount of reading this week to bo along the lines of history and art 1 4 0 The young men of tho college Interested In mechanics have affected the organization organiza-tion of an engineering society with tho following officers Charles Brown president presi-dent E P Pulley vicepresident Leo Irvine Ir-vine secretary nnd HC Parker treasurer trea-surer They expect t study the literature of engineering and havo Invited Prof Jcnson to address thorn Saturday on tho proper elsn lines for thorn to follow and how loget the best results from such an organization or-ganization I S 4 S Pot Jensoa reports twentyfour new students enrolled In machine arts since tho holidays And theyre pretty new too como of them tho professor added S S S o Most of the students who at first remained re-mained at homo after Christmas fright = ned by smallpox and vaccination have return to their pouts und the school Presents again Its 4 full 4 appearance Quito I number of girls arc lImping around tho halls bccauao they lmplnJ vaccinated o thc arm 4 5 t Tho dining parlors arc open to the pub lie this term and U fine 0 lunch as ono could wish la served da > ly by the young ladles or tho domestic arm department tomcsLc Irt dcpartmon Holmgren under tho direction of Mrs Coty and Miss |