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Show Utah County High Schools. B tu Lolil, American ForV, Pleasant H Grove, SprlnRVllle, Spanish Fork and H Paysun will bu Riven a two yuan high B school courso Iho cummin k year. A B three years course will be ulvou In Sp-BS Sp-BS rlagvllle, and the prospects a to that H tku othcra will add a three years' H,' cottrso in tho future. Hn Tho County has causo to rejoice at BJ this. Last yoar thero were enrolled Bj; 270 pupils, wbluli meant a saving to Bj V- tho home towns of at loast 8160.UO to BJ each pupil (had they left homo to go BJ to sehoo',) or to the County $11. WO. BJ - Statistics show the fulluvlnir. from Bj ' the towns where high schools are start-Bj start-Bj od: twelve per cetit of the eighth grade Bj , graduates, beforo we started the high H school, left home to go to school disomy diso-my '' whero. Flf'y-OIght per cent did not B go to school at all. Since the high BV school was started eighty per cent of B'7 the eighth grade graduates at ended B3 : theloca hl.h n :hoo's and of I oso who B Ly completed tho two years coujso llfty , per cant left home to llulsh their I T', courso In some university. ',;v r. The reason for this Is pi tin, namely; I -h Fevr lionios are financially able to solid I , t "tTf a sou or daughter away to school moiu I y ""V than ono year or two yoarV, and that ' ' does not prcp.iro thorn sufllclently for higher work, nut with two or threo fears at home and ono away tlioy arc ablo to graduate In some lino and tat o hold of tho workbolug prepared fur It. The high scIiojI movement Is strongly strong-ly supported by tho University of Utah and the I). Y. University. At either Institution tho credit aro accepted. Tho ctsjntUl courses olTcrcd are the lutnu. Tliu University of Utah Im Issued n High school circular, cnJomd "Sv$&f by auto Superintendent A. C. Nilot, II l 4U ,u wll'c1' ll' '"'J01-'1" arc outlined and 1 M '- JL'W ' t'' hour cw"1 Ulvon for each subject J aTHR ootiiplotud. This was adopted at uur f I : VK 0""y "'B" wbool meeting July 2811 I1' ' r jut A few reasons aro hero given fur the m ' ' " Jocol lilsli achool; first, It trukos It ' ' M& Plul or l1"!'''1 to K lBlC1' l0 " MfsfiS t'oralty and compteto soma courso, ft- ''flrS Second,-KlghUigrudo gradualt iai-o I ' V JU t )'uunH ,0 cave lt,u paicnUl home. I Ip" Third, It ancouruges eighty jwr I Mli oeo( tfo higher. In educational pur- -K ' nP Fouru ItcreaU an educallooal 'W$8rl t"Sf .fftrUrt fcJJ to uU llia-ay S (goto school, for they fcal the Influcnoi ' of a compaulon thul Is gulug, where lir knows ho can, and may go. Fifth, The high school pupils may olvo educatlnal evonlnca ul homo, hlch will duvelop thulr talents, and the samuiuay be wltnvawd by father, mother and friends. ' Ulxth, -It will greatly Incrcaio thn moral tone of tho town. Hevouth,-Il will throw tho hsiilcr belwocn tho llnaiiululty able to edu oalo their ihlldi tin and thoso whokro nut. The widow's Iwy Is thereforo nut debarred from getting higher i-ducu ;. , Uon while he Is yn young. Klghth, It Is to unbrace In the t courso of study KUuiiuury ugilcul tur, ao that our uhluf Industry may l. k studied theoretically and practltully. INInoth, It I nat Ut MuiMti Uya and gtrli for olltco work, hut rtlitr for thom to lovo wurk of any hunorbt kind, la bo prepared furopinrtuitUs, and tu bo a belter and mole utcfull citizen. cit-izen. Ten tli, A wo havo had but a limited limit-ed number of looal hull wliwoN, uuly tho Uvorcd few have been ablo Wi nil-tain nil-tain tho nooiary hli;hir Mlucatluii. Klevoiith, It adds itretigth tu tliu lower grade and eiithun the chlldrt II there to btxHiiu high seluil pupil. TheUsiluuuf Hie uppiit fur mil hlguaciiiu!s Is an lmurtaut(iit, and while each high school UUtflot li lev t(laiKrell tax for Its MipHiil, It l my belief that slate aid uuy Mxnr 1 If the membr uf uur ItvUUturu will nioiHiily cun.ider lhl iiullou- K'. Thcru s at least Seventy lit" lh'"' if- and dollars ul fur hitfli school urU W' t (tiour Ute InslltUtluDk, whU'hlf dl. I-1' trlbuted to our tuctsl hlKh Hul. . would b a wateilal aid, and then uur i" UnlvarsUy and AgrUulturul culkg" ' t would Im able tu devote thulr cnergl" fK to the. college work. Br"-- Tue Uiilwiltyul Ulh hPll"''lul "' cd tbtlistirifilutilgiiH'hoolaiiil . ' will oou do su with the letniid )tai. A The Agricultural College cau du the J5 sahie, and the appropriation gujn;' in R UiQsa uiitiitUm for high .cIijoI pur JL p'nm tn be used among the peoplt) K litre the high solul pupil will limn B ber this year, 1KM, one iIioumuu as TO ooinired with thiee or four liuudred WW who attend the sute Institutions, H ' The local high school belongs to every country boy and girl, It tbuuM br n9rlilww that ho may attend t. Some mh oblldrsn will sillldettre W attend ieioo Vf away from Itooje.lptircnU my dn v t UB lw)Dd ijucjIIvh in iimp) ) i'lb ataylng homo projwsltlon, but It stands to reason ami oxpvrlenea thut greater good will be ao.'ompllshed to the great-or great-or number by the establishment of high schooh, not only tu Iho University Universi-ty a, but to overy practical pursuit. Tho following resolution wus passed at thH meeting of Utah County Principals Prin-cipals August 2.'lrd; "Resolved that wo favor State aid for local high schools Hnd that every eflott be put forth to Biono same." L. K. KdflEllTSON, Supt. Utah Count" Schools. |