Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-02 | Page 14 | Educational Facilities of Ogden Prove Advantageous in Attracting Residents

plflilES Or JIB PROVE ADVANTAGEOUS l 111 ATTRACTIVE RESIDENTS; t Public Schools, Normal Colec, Academy and Instructions Are Helpful in Bringing People to City; r County School System Is Considered One of the Rural Educational Plans in the Country, Pioneering reFve Month Plan. MM -a ftT c 1 what does VHllItt in the way of educational , .Biu for i IdHBftte diked by oersons who con-ill con-ill Or hBV of resl- t-".i havi :.,o;.ed ln ,i !he nl- lUliV h information .''fcr Vc i r - . . Ive their OliBrtks from up.u.r. conttnttd HiKhool tulldlnKS. IK i" hflV the advantage tiiat j Then B6i Jneral llnee. progressive JIBjsni, but not fadd.l8h. prARi: for (xhjLegk. b atudled : r I each student nay find his or her j bent They will bo encouiaged to pre- pare for advanced work In college, but If they are unable to lak? higher . education they will leave the publle I schools with a first class educational I foundation " All this and much more might be said to the Inquirer with regard to 1 the children, liiit the Ogden booster could go farther and explain that i while Ogden looks after the edUCA-1 tlonal needs of the children in an earnest and painstaking manner, this cltjdoes not consider that ihe school.' I are for children alone It goes to ', I great lengths to get men and women, who thought their school days v. ere' over, to enter night classes or ex-' I tension classes, there to study that' which is of Interest to them or which 1 I will assist them In their efforts to! make a living WFBlR NORMAL (XNUbEGl Treating in a general manner of .gden"s educational facilities, atten-! ! 'Ion is called to the fact that In addl-i addl-i lion to Its fine public schools, the Junction City possesses a fine Latter-I Latter-I Day Saints" institution of learning in the Weber Normal college, the lm-I lm-I portance of which In the educational field Is gaining each year Ogden also posse.nse. an admirable I school for girl In t he rAacred Heart ; academy, an Institution conducted by; the Sisters of the Holy Cross, to which i pupils come from the Intermountain . I sta tes Weber Normal college is about to add to its splendid facilities through . the construction of the Weber gym-I gym-I naslum, construction work on wbli h bus been begun. I The Catholics of Ogden anticipate the early eetabllshment of a parochial school here for boys. If Ogden's public schools are note.i for their general excellence and mini I ber of new or Improved structures, i I tho same can be said emphatically of. the Weber county consolidated school system. So efflclentlv has this system been' conducted and so high are the Mm catlonal standards of these rural schools, that the Weber system Is i becoming a model to be followed oven In the ea-,t Educational writers have praised ! highly tho successful carrying out of the twelve-month school program In the county schools, a movement In which the Weber svmmhi virtually was a pioneer. OO r