The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-27
In the Afternoon.


After the usual opening preliminaries
Prof. George H. Brimhal, OF Provo,
lectured on "School organization and
Government" The speaker gave very
elaborate introduction to his lecture
which was followed by a great nunoet
practical remarks upon the topics IreaIeu
The first great step in teaching IS TO create
an apDetite for information. The pupils
when thev come to the school room, should
be made to feel, This is our ROOM o
this end the children may be organized .nto
committees to look after the welfare O. the
various departments in the school; a sec
tary, monitor, committee on. library
and specimens, on reception. II night also
be profitable to have a keeper = lost books,
a Iir',+-modifyer u temperature regulator
and :, cook and and desk inspector
School government should be patriarchal,
with the best threads of mOnarchial and
republican government interviewer.
There should be few rules, and these
based on the great one. Do to others as
YOU would have others do to you.
Stiffness in school is no more indication
of good government than dead engine is
of skillful engineering, but care should be
taken not to go to extremes. A perfectly
still school is Objectionable but a noisy one
is reprehensible. Virtue is its own reward
and vice brings its own punishments. A
reformer once replied, when asked how he
governed his people, II teach them correct
principles and they govern themselves"
So in the school room we should give the
students plenty of the right kind Of work
and they will govern themselves.
A discussion followed in which the sub
iect of rewards and punishmentS came in
for its share of talk.
Prof l.. ID. Edwards Of Ogden, rendered
an extemporaneous selection on the organ.
Owing toillness
PROF. EVAN STEPHENS
could not be present, but he sent his lee
tIre on Vocal Music in District Schools"
and it was read by Superintendent Ed
ward H Anderson. Here it Is in full:
As read the title of the subject assigned me
TO lecture upon, there suddenly arose in fancy
number of frowning faces before me, which for a
moment quite disheartened me, as heard each
mutter its particular objection to the subject
was about to advocate. The first and the one
who won my deepest sympathy, was that OF
school teacher, careworn and haggard. He was
carrying a great bundle of text books under one
arm; a blackboard and a number of charts were
strapped upon his back; his hair was just fall !
ling out (the roots being injured by over-Study)
his pockets. I noticed where loaded down with |
specimens for a cabinet that he was going to get |
when his salary should be raised; in his left
hand, which, by the way, shook nervously, he |
carried lot OF well-worn STITCHES, and bundle |
of uncollected school bills. With husky voice, |
made so by shouting for order in school, he NUT
tered: What! Music in the public school. |
Mr. Stephens, look at me; have you Still the |
heart to say so? Can you thin and worn out as |
YOU are yourself advocate an addition TO this |
load of mine? A music book, another board with !
the staff upon it, singing lesson TO prepare.
Ny nerves. in this condition, 10 stand the trial of
singing before the school, and 10 hear the whole
school shouting at once, for fifteen minutes AT
timeg' At this he tainted dead away, and !
was about TO run and escape before ne recovered,
but just as I turned to fly the angry form Of |
trustee doomed up before me, hourlShlng an
empty purse in my face. Music in the public
schools is it:" he cries, 'all right but don't ask
us for an organ music books and a thousand |
other things. And If you can AFFORD to teach
without pay, all right so far as 1 am concerned,
but remember, no money to spare, unless you
want to take vouchers on church property,
money that will be divided between US when
Zane and Dyer are through with it,"
TO reply that
WOULD BIZ QUITE SATISFIED
with that. l could advertise myself, do good TO
the rising generation ETC., when found myself
suddenly surrounded by mob OF angry parents,
All shouting in chorus NO, you don't! My child
goes TO school 10 study not to fool away time
IN singing. If he learns his reading
ali right, that's what We pay for" Il tell you
what il is" says one, while the rest are catch
ing their breath; This sort OF nonsense Is gone
100 FAR Ny kids been 20 school three years
NOW. and what does he know I'll bethe can't
hardly spell Constanttnople. He fools away
time with the teacher in making sand heaps,
aTd
girI he nieks up weeds and flowers and thinks
he's studying botany or summat, and then he
fools away nights making pictures on paper
and putting words into sausage so that you
cant get no arthly use to 'em, and says he's
drawing, or parsing, or something, And now
he's started yelling some gibberish, do. me. do
me, do, tee me- around while he's doing chores
- NJ wasn't the best boy in the world he'd a
been ruined at school. No. stree, no music in
school for my young UNI; If he wants TO teach
music LET him do il at singing schools. want
nv kids to learn something that's of some good
at school, or I'll take 'em out DID my pest 70
onnose grammar, geography, drawing, and all
the other nonsense they've got into school f; and
I shall music Reading, uwriting, spelling and
Arithmetic is good enough for me, and don't you
forget it," -,, -ooo,.o.o5
N beoin defending his advanced method OF
teaching He also showed in glowing terms the
advantaves derived from the study OF grammar
geogranhy drawing, etc. The trustee also be-
gan warniing up to the question and
REuINDRD THE GRUMBLEG FATHER
that won must understand that we live in
: oeressiye age, you know. The teacher we
& re IL tie very best that can be found. You