Show TIIE THE SALT LAKE SCHOOL written specially tor for tue THE in 1830 1890 tho the time that our present school system was adopted a now new department having as a its a course ot of higher training and instruction was instituted in tho the public schools it il was known as the salt lake city high school 40 lint first it occupied the swedish lutheran church and its it total coroll enrollment mout was eight pupils pupil vow now at the beginning of the present presan an t school year it is about three hundred find and fifty in 1891 its it increasing tho the high school removed to tho the fourteenth school building where it remained romaine 4 for ono one year then at t tho the third year the sch school ool was waa acain moved this time to too the clayton block where abera it Is now commencing com moncia g the tb fifth year of a its if hitherto successful work the nh high school his has many advantages a BB 13 it rec receives elyes all of 0 the bene benefits ats derived from salt lakes school system and ta Is after tho the methods and rules rule laid down by tho Board of education in the school thera ther aare ara three courses coure offered the classical the scientific and the english while mathematics and english rhetoric Ilbe torio aro are common to all three each ha be its ita characteristic feature the classical classic con bouno arse Is specially adapted to those who wish to aoudy Clue literature and the ancient and modern languages the scicli to those twoie studying natural science and philosophy sad and tho the english to those dos desiring iring a knowledge ot of literature and Ili story now that wo we have a school a child may enter the primary class pass paia through the eight grades fl take albo four yours prescribed work in the high school and I 1 in u his turn become a teacher all this without going outside of the public schools it if one bishea to obtain a still higher education uca tion the high school Is a firm strong foundation the advancement of its pupils Is steady and sure and its woric Is system atlo add thorough the faculty at present consists of eleven teachers and the principal professor WU WR Al malone abslone slone they aro are all active and diligent in trying to improve those under their care and their efforts thus far have bavo been crowned with the greatest success tho the high school has seen two commencement t duys days and though the number ol 01 0 its graduates have bavo been low few so far yet the class bids fair to bo be much larger in the future each E ach year shows an increased first year class claas proving that tho the merits of the high school are beginning to bo thoroughly appreciated by the people tho the work engaged in Is pleasant sant as well wall ae a profitable and most of the pupils are very loyal to the interests ot of tho the echo school OL this can bo said of the boys in particular for they havo have oven adopted a college yell many a time has the uc expectant visitor been greeted with the bursting shout about of ill ho ha boom els cis liah bah high school high school rub rah rani rali ill the mean tur ng of this strange collection of words is doubtless known to the boys them themselves but to very few others Ilo however wever that does not prevent them from giving it with ibe be greatest vim and energy the high school y t in its infancy bu bar become a necessity in our public schools and although it has been hampered from the first by lack of apparatus books of reference rote ronco oto OIL its progress has been groat great and rapid the high school has tilled a place heretofore vacant and the most praiseworthy fact connected with it is that it Is within tho the reach of all rich yach and poor alike way may enter and partake of 0 its benefits A B a |