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Show I I j STATE TEACHERS' CONVENTION g High school classes in Beaver j county were adjourned on Tuesday j evening, October 17, instead of Wed nesday at noon, as at first contemplated. contem-plated. Besides Supt. J. Frank Day, and Prof. C. C. Cornwall, who left for the north Monday, Principal Orrin Baird, Miss Hazel Nelson, Miss Fay Allerton, Prof. Robert Pritchett and Prof. J. A. Young attended the State Teachers' convention. All of the faculty returned to Beaver Bea-ver in time to be present at the reopening re-opening of classes on Monday morning. morn-ing. The firBt regular assembly was held in the Salt Lake tabernacle, on Thursday evening, the 79th. Subsequent Subse-quent departmental meetings were held in-Assembly hall and at numerous numer-ous other points in the city, according accord-ing to the most Judicious arrangement arrange-ment for the advantage of those in attendance. : " : Worth while messages were given to the convention by Prof. Rough, of Berkeley, California, Dr. Payson Smith and other. According to Prof. Balrd, one of . the chief addresses, by Dr. Smith, dealt with the wisdom of training of the student by methods which meet the needs of the varying personalities. personali-ties. A word, also, which met with instant in-stant favor among Beaver representatives, represent-atives, was the stress laid upon the importance of the high school as en essential, without which the grammar gram-mar grade training is ultimately lost Beaver City Press . a |
