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Show GRAMMAR TEACHING PROVOKES DISCUSSION Prof. Paul'o Address Causes Dissent Prom tho Opinions Expressed Ex-pressed GREAT satisfaction is felt by Prof. Stewart and his colleagues on tho cucco33ful raoetlnff which tho teachers of the public- schools aro having at tho summer scaron of the normal nor-mal Ins tliutc. As ha already been stated, the registration was twlco a3 heavy this year as In 1003, and all tho students attending at-tending tho normal are expressing their gratification at the arrangements that have been made and their appreciation of tho hard work that has been done by. tha faculty. Greater attention Is being paid this year by tho students to handwork and domestic domes-tic science. It has been Impressed on most of them that thcflo eubJectH would bocomo moro and more important In the curriculum of tho common schools and that tho teachers would und an Increasing Increas-ing need for them, apart from tho valuo to themselves of getting a thorough grasp of them. r , Prof. Paul's address was tho feauiro of yeetorday and ho Introduced In u como very radical views on tho teaching ot grammar. Ho maintained that too much classification was brought Into thb subject sub-ject and that If tho manner of toarnlng It were altered It would becomo a, living, vital and Interesting oxerclso in applied logic instead of tho uninteresting cmd tedious tedi-ous subject which it Is under the methods at present in vogue. There was considerable consid-erable dlssont from theso oplnlona on tho part of sovoral of tho teachers. Prof. Marshall, head of the dopartmesnt of English En-glish at tho University of Utah, will mako reply at tho meeting tomorrow morning. The wholo week will be occupied In tho discussion of this subject. Last night Mrs. Norton lectured at Bar-ratt Bar-ratt hall on "Housekeeping In the DJght of Modern Science." Her lectures will continue through the first half of tho week, and on Thursday and Friday Miss Ncwlln gives two recitals. |