The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-09
|7HE SCHOOLS Or Utah.
Plans for Harmonizing the Work
Discussed Yesterday.
TERRITORIAL CONVENTION.
All the Educational Interests Of Utah
We're Well Represented.
Views of President Kingsbury and Others
Committee Appointed to Revise the
School law-Rapio Growth of
the Agricultural College.

Pursuant to the call issued by Territor-
ial Commissioner of Schools Foreman,
some fifty school teachers and county
superintendent met in convention at the
University yesterday to consider means
for harmonizing the educational interests
Of the territory. Among those present
were DR.. K. G.. AIaeser of Provo, Presi-
dent Sanborn of the Agricultural college,
Captain Willard Young, DR.. J. R. Park,
Professor J. HI. Paul, of the Brigham
Young Academy at Logan; Professors
Avery, Montgomery, Stewart, Matthews,
Kerr, White, Augsburg, Marshall, Whit
ing and Wright, of the University of
Utah; Professors E. M. Collins and J A..
Smith, of the Ogden Business college;
Commissioner Boreman, DR.. Millspaugh,
County Superintendent d. G. Hubbard
of Box Elder, D. G. Wiley of Davis,
L. M. Olsen of Emery, W. G.. Brown of
Juab, T. r. Condie of Morgan, L. G..
Long of Piute, D. r.. Allen of Salt Lake,
Peter Graves, ir., of Sanpete, II. n. Hayes
OF Sewer, w. j. Robinson OF Tooele, e.
G. Du Frieze of Uintah, e. A. Wilson of
Utah, A. Woolten of Wasatch, l.. w.
Harmon of Washington, j. S. Peery of
Weber, and others.
Commissioner Foreman acted as chair
man and d. r. Allen as secretary.
PRESIDENT KINGsBURY's VIEWS.
After the object of the convention had
been stated, President Kingsbury of the
university of Utah was called upon to
present his views as to the best plan for
harmoniZing the interests of all the
schools of the territory. He advocated
the establishment OF high schools and the
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the public schools on up through the
high schools and university courses.
/ The courses should be so arranged as
/ to prevent unnecessary repetition of
work, and a committee should be
appointed to revise the school law so as
to permit the establishment of these high
schools He thought that the principal
topics involved in a consideration of this
matter were as follows:
First-The assistance of the county
board of examiners in conducting en-
trance examinations for the university.
Second-The conditions under which
applicants should be admitted to the
normal and preparatory schools of the
university without examination.
Third-The admission OF applicants
from the high schools to the freshman
class OF the university without examina-
ton.
Fourth-The establishment of high
schools in each county.
/ President Kingsbury then discussed the
plans for entrance examinations and
the conditions under which certificates
should be given which would admit ap-
plicants to the preparatory school OF the
university without examination, which
WsIe as follows:
Arithmetic-Prime and composite num-
bers; greatest common divisor and least
common multiple; common and decimal
fractions; denominate numbers, includ-
ing linear measure, square measure. cubic
measure, liquid measure, dry measure,
circular and angular measure, avoirdu-
poise weight, United States and English
money: and percentage, interest, true
discount, etc.
a satisfactory treatment of these sub
/ Jects may be found in Harper's ''Second
Book in Arithmetic, - or in Fishes,
Whites or Applston's arithmetic.
Geographically A knowledge of the
relative locations OF principal nations,
and names and locations of their capitals
and chief cities. I'd A good knowledge
OF the principal river and mountain sys-
TENS of the globe. 81 A good
knowledge Of the principal capes, islands
CULTS, bays, seas, ETC., of the globe. (4.)
The chief industries and products of the
principal nations. (5.) A more minute
knowledge of the United States and par
ticularly of Utah will be required.
Barnes's or Appleton IS geography will
furnish needful preparation.
English Grammar, Composition, Read
ing and Spelling applicant should
be able to recognize and define all the
parts of speech and to tell their respective
varieties; to decline nouns and pronouns
and understand their properties; to COM
pare adiectjves and adverbs; TO explain
regular and irregular, transitive and in
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infnitive and proportional phrases, and
to explain and analyze easy sentences,
simple, compound and complex. The
students knowledge of the simpler uses
of capital letters and punctuation marks,
and his ability to compose good sentences
will be tested by a short paragraph to be
written by him at time of examination.
He must be prepared to read clearly and
1ntelhgently any selection In the Frank
lin Fifth Reader. He must spell well the
words found in the Modern Spelling book
Il. e., the book in use in Utah.)
United States History There will be
required-1.) A general knowledge of
the colonial and revolutionary peri
DDS, including the causes of the
revolution and an outline of the
most important military campaigns.
(2) A more minute knowledge of our
national development from the Inaugural
ton of Washington to the present time.
Among the subjects which should receive
careful attention are the Missouri Com
promise, the Monroe Doctrine, the COM
promise measures of 1850, the Kansas
Net raska Bill, causes of the civil war and
reconstruction measures. Montgomery's
History or any other book of equal grade
will give sufficient preparation.
President Sanborn, of the Agricultural
College, thought the convention should
also take into consideration the require
ments for admission into the Agricultural
College.
Superintendent Peery of Weber county
believed that the county boards of exam
liners should act as examiners of appli-
cants for admission both to the Universi-
ty and the Agricultural College.
TO REVISE THE SCHOOL Law.
Superintendent Wilson, of Utah
county, moved that committee of seven
be elected to revise the school law and re-