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Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-17 | Page 12 | Splendid Success of Summer School

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Date 1908-07-17
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Splendid Success of Summer School
Type article
Date 1908-07-17
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 12
OCR Text SPLENDID SUCCESS OF Ml! SCHOOL i j Education at the University of ! Utah Is Making Rapid ' Strides., ATTENDANCE WAS EXCEEDINGLY LARGE Summer Institution in Salt Lake Should Become Largest in the West. The University of Utah summer school is virtually a thing of tho past, and b3' Eridaj afternoon the sossion of 190S will have passed into history as ' ' tho most successful that has ever been ' held in Utah and ranking closely with : any that havo been held iu the West in recent 3'cars. In tho matter of attend J mice the increase over that of last year j I is fully SO per cont. The attendance at , the school this year was 557. That of j 1 last year was 300, and that iiguro also I , represented a phenomenal increase over ! I the attendance of the preceding year. 1 In the matter of instruction, one very important now feature was added and several other minor branches wore instituted in-stituted because of the great demund for work of such eharucter. '. The most important and progressive movement which has characterized the 1 present session is the establishment of ; a school of physical education. Three I lines of work were followed in this ! school nameb. a course in physical j education, pli3sicnl culture for tho elemental ele-mental schools and phj'sicnl culture ; for the secondary schools. The lirst and ! tho last course proved to be extremely I popular, so popular, in fact, were these 1 ! two courses, that every student in all j 1 the classes pledged themselves to re- ; ! turn next, year to tako up the second j year of the work. The course in elo-; elo-; inentary physical education was not so ' popular, however. It will be discontinued discon-tinued next 3'car. Nothing will be done along this line until there is a stronger demand for such work. I Success of Physical Education. I The school of physical education, or ' I rather, the conditions under whieh it ' has been operated this year, illustrate j I tho interest which certain members of j I the University faeulty have in advancing advanc-ing the interests of tho institution. Tho regents did not feel that they could afford af-ford lo hire tho largo corps of teach- ers needed, but in order not to hamper those who favored the establishment of 1 this new line oC work the regents ; agreed that the members of the Uni- j vcrsily faculty might lake charge pf the school and assume tho rcsponsibil- : ity of its success financially and other-! wise. This was done. The school paid expenses such as those incident lo bring I the big educators from the East, but . those of the L"nivcrsit3' faculty who : worked for its success received uoth- ing for their services; their oiity re- ! ward was the satisfaction of knowing j j that they had established something I I entirely new in the West and still j j something which was much needed. I I Dr. William G. Anderson, director of ) 1 the Yale g3'innasium, and Miss Jessie L. Bancroft, assistant director of phyai- , eal education in the grammar grades of Greater New York, came from the East lo support the new school. Both are enthusiastic concerning the work done. Dr. Anderson has indicated his intention inten-tion of returning noxt. j'ear to take part I in the summer school. Ho is firmly ! convinced that there are factors in fa- vor of a summer school in Salt Lake which make this one of the largest in the West. In tho line of the sociological basis of education, new work was done this 3-ear at the summer school. Dr. Heur-Suzzallo Heur-Suzzallo of Columbia universiti", recognized recog-nized throughout, the county- as an an-thorny an-thorny on this subject, spent the past six weeks lecturing along this line. "Work in Medical Department. I Advance work was aiso done in the medical department at tho school. Xo attempt was made to enter the liclds of engineering or the law department. This has been left for tho future. Prof. William M. Stewart, one of the committee com-mittee in charge of the school, declared, de-clared, however, that it would onlf bo a matter of a few 3'ears before work would also be done in both of these branches. Professor Stewart is highly enthusiastic enthusias-tic concerning tho possibilities of the 1 summer school. He pointed to the fact , that the attendance at the University was now just one half that of the Har-j Har-j vnrd summer school, the biggest in the countrv. Students from every county in Utah were enrolled this term. Thirteen Thir-teen states, Canada and Old Mexico wero also represented hy at least one student. Excellent support has been given the school bv the various couut3' superintendents. In a measure, Professor Pro-fessor Stewart ascribes the success of this session to that fact. A facult' of thirty persons was cmplo3Tcd this year. With proner CO' operation of tho railroads rail-roads of this and adjoining states, Pro fessor Stewart feels confident that it will he possible to build up one of tho I biggest summer schools this side of tho i Mississippi river, so that the summer 1 school at tho University of Utah may be 1 mentioned as the summer school of the , West, just as the ono at, Harvard is mentioned as the summer school of the East.
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