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Show TOO If FETES, DECLARES MI Davis County Educator Declares for Segregation Segrega-tion of the Sexes So al a t t es of the h gh school are ba ed too largely pon the comn g ng of the sexes a d dan ug s g en too m el pron nen e n enterta euts ot nst t t ons of t s c ass T ere ho Id be u ore enterta nment vh cl does not ross the se 1 ne Th s s the es ence of a staten ent ade bj Leo T M r of the p bl schools of Da s co nty at a o nt eet ng of the A. er ca S hool Peace league a d 1 ome and s 1 oo se t ons of the Utah Lid cat onal asso a t on he d este laj aftemoo Other f0 nts ma le n h s address are as fol ows Soc al act t es of the h gh sol ool are too largely in m tat on of college 1 fe The h gh school should have son e trad t ons of its own The so al I fe of the high school s n a great degree a d stract on from the h gh purposes of education It is a process of unlearning The soc al life of the h gh school s bst tutes foppery for genuine manners and ret nen ent 1? he smart leck is the hero of the school The soc ak 1 fe of the 1 gh school onduces to hab ts of extra agance n yo ng men and women Perso s who expected e c ten ent at the meeting of these two sect ons were disappointed It had been said that the question of n 1 tarv tra tang m eht cause some sort of an argument, o t nothing arose to d sturb tie peace of the gathering In add t on to the paper by Professor Muir papers were read by T Bred Anderson on The American School Peace League by Mrs Charles Wells on Democracy n Dress and on Connecting the School With L fe by J M Mills superintendent of the schools of Ogden Dr Ellwood Cubber ley spoke on The Melting Pot Mrs. Wells declared that she spoke from the standpoint of the parent and that the question of dress in the school had assumed a position out of propor tion to its importance She asserted that many girls nowadays think more of dressing for school than they think of the objects of school Superintendent Mills said that the school should train for life but that in some cases it does not He stated that in his opinion the problem before edn cators today is to make the school fit for the child Preceding the programme of papers musical numbers were given by members mem-bers of the Salt Lake Oratorio society At the close of the meeting the fol lowing officers were elected by the Home and School league , Mrs William M Stewart president Leo J Muir vice president Mrs John 7 Brown, secretary and Mrs G I Bacon and Mrs. A V Taylor members of the executive committee |