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Show PRESIDENT PAUL DOES NOT LIKE DICTIONARY Objects to Its Use 6y Pupils In the Public Schools of the State of Utah. tural college, on the subject of reading in the public schools. The young lady had espoused the Idea that the teacher should never give the pupil the pronunciation pronun-ciation of a word while teaching reading read-ing to the end that the dictionary habit might grow upon the child. As soon as President Paul had resumed re-sumed his seat Miss Rosalie PoUock took the floor. "I see that our superintendent is not present," she began in a tone of suppressed sup-pressed indignation, "so I feel called upon to take up the defense of our schools. I do not know whether or not President Paul has intended this as a deliberate attack on our public schools. I hope. not. but I think it is generally conceded that our system of teaching reading is perfectly competent. We have no preference for one system or another; we simply try to know what we are talking about," and flashing an Indignant glance at the professor she turned and walked swiftly out of the halt "I have had no Intention of making any attack upon the public schools of t M M rMt V T am llmnlv finrimm1na ih it "I. wish to express my utter condemnation condem-nation of this absurd and unpedagogl-cal unpedagogl-cal idea that is prevalent in the public, schools of this city." said President J. H. Paul of the Latter-day Saints university uni-versity Thursday morning at the meeting meet-ing of the elocution and physical science sci-ence section in Barratt hall. The idea that had produced this red-flag red-flag effect was the obligation of looking up new words in the dictionary that the teachers of the public schools are laying upon their pupils. ' Waxing a little warmer in spirit and a little louder tn voice President Paul continued his comment, following: "What is the good of sending a child to the dictionary to get the pronunciation pronuncia-tion and definition of a word? Subjecting Sub-jecting him to this irksome business when the teacher can give him the correct cor-rect rendition himself, or he can get it from his parents." ' ' These somewhat lively "observations from the . head of the church school were interjected at the opening of the general, discussion on the paper read by Miss Ruth Moench of the Agrlcul- |