Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-08 | Page 25 | Hall Recommends Few High Schools

Officers of Cowboy Rangers. Above, A. U. Mayfield, supreme su-preme boss. Below, Hermann Her-mann H. Knabe, supreme recorder of brands.- v ir ILMHDS " FEW H SCHOOLS Would Have Them ConfineH to Natural Centers, With Free Transportation. The establishment of a large number of small high achoola Is declared an unwise un-wise policy, bccauHo 8uch schools "can never hope lo amount to anything.' and tile recommendation la mado that high Kchoolo be established In natural centers where tho attendanco ia sufficient to Insure In-sure effective work, in the annual high school report for by Prof. Moslah JIall, utato high school hiBpector. mado yesterday to the state board of education. educa-tion. Professor ITnll urges tliat, In order to give an equal chance to every student In the largo districts recommended, the plan of freo transportation of studenta from surrounding towns bo adopted. Ho states that tho high schools of Boxnlder, Graiillo, TJ.bcr City, Mt. Pleasant. Jlantl and Jordan have already adopted the centralization and trnijHportatlon plan, and that the schools located In Eureka, Fillmore. Nephl, Richfield, Prlco, Sallna and Tooelo are working out tho system this year. Specifically ho recommonda that tlm flvo small high sclioola In Cacho county bo reduced to two Important schools ono located In the northern central cen-tral part near Richmond and another probably In Hyrum. H Is stated that Interurban lines being built in that county coun-ty will make transportation feasible Dlscusalng the disadvantage of umall schooLs, Profeasor Hall 8ay that, tho ttjachoiB aro handicupped by being required re-quired to teach subjects for which they havo little training and no liking. IIo suggests that a two-year high School must havo at least fifty atudentH nnd two IriHtniclors, and that tho minimum for tho four-year school 1h near aso, The report stateu that tho chanro that most high schools are too theoretical 1h i not borne out by the showing made last year by I he Btato schools, and that the practical Industrial phono of education Is developing so rapidly that it Is imposnlbla to Becuro a sufficient number of skilled Btudent8 to direct tho movement. As proof of tho slatomenL that tho theoretical side Is being dropped for tho practical, Professor Hall quotcu statistics allowing that out of a total enrollment last year of t505, students took In dustrial art and sciences and t354 English, Eng-lish, whllu other languages drew only K-lll and the sciences but 3037. In tho languages, German led with 1346, Latin was accond with r.fi8; French. 3J2; Spanish, Span-ish, SG, and GrcUk only three all of whom wero In the Salt Laku high school. The enrollment of G505 wan an Increase of H!iG over that of the previous year.