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Show Golden Medal Ss for Ciiy Schools Utah Did Better at the World's Fair Than Was at First Reported. Re-ported. Superintendent D. H. Chrlstcnsen of thc Salt Lake City public schools has received re-ceived a letter from Director Cummlngs of the Utah educational exhibit at hc St. Louis fair, calling attention to an error In the first telegraphic report of the awards glvon to the Utah nchool exhibits. exhi-bits. Tho Salt Lake elementary schools have received a gold medal and not a silver sil-ver medal, as was first reported; thc Jilgh school was awarded a silver medal, and the Utah county schools a bronze medal All thoso concerned feel very much elated. Superintendent Chrlstcnsen said yesterday: "What Is most satisfactory ln this fact Is that the high school and the. elemontnry schoolH of thc city wero Judged on tho basis of cities. They thus had to be compared com-pared with all tho other largo cities In thc United StaloH, bucIi as Now York. Chicago, and the largest and finest schools, according to their reputation, In tho world. "It was thought a feather ln tho cap of thc high school to rccelvo a bronze medal when compared with schools of such renown, and they were highly complimented, com-plimented, both by tho press nnd by many people. But vory littlo notice has been taken of the fact that Instead of that tho high school was awarded a silver sil-ver medal and tho elementary schools of the city a gold medal. I think that Is doing pretty well." Part of Prof. Cummlngs's lotter Is as follows- "In the Utah booth, the elementary schools of Salt Lake City get a gold medal, and tho high school a silver medal The Stato normal school, Including the training school, gets a silver and a bronzo medal; Utah county exhibit and the Indian In-dian Industrial school exhibit each gets a bronze medal, and the (Stato) exhibit ns a whole gets a silver medal. Thc school for the deaf and blind gets a grand prize. "Tho Agricultural college gets a gold medal for domestic science, sliver medal for1 model irrigated farm, silver medal for apparatus to analyze soil and collaborator In a grand prize for a collection of shop work. As vou know this exhibit Is a pnrt of tho United States Government exhibit which receives the grand prizo chiefly on tho Agricultural college shop work, which Ih most ln quantity and best In quality of tho shop work collection. Theso aro all tho medals received thuo far, twelve In all." |