Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-06-22
THE WORK BEGINS.
Formal Opening Of The University
Summer School.
Lectures ny Professors whiting.
Cummings, stewart, uarshaii. To-
rout1 aud Mss brotherhood.

The formal work Of Tho Unworthy
summer school began this morning. a
few new members fegia,ored, making
the total enrolment siz,y.ono.
Tho nrst subjects taken up were
botany and Latin.
Professor whiting began with a
general discussion OF the object Of
the study; It was to bring man into
harmony with nature, not 70 serve as
oenufaciOr to lead students 10 study
tho relations OF plants 70 each other
aud 10 the world. Each new plant is
l0r tue mos, part like &C. pafcui; la
minor points ~ uuliko iis parent
Glass study was then gone into in
doiail
r Pro. Cumminrs's address included
ihcte polnit.. Latin BE- dead language.
10 lives today in the Italian and 5ran.
lsh ouly IN modified form. itmay
DO made gs instinct with ll.o ~ ever,
" we become familiar with IN ordinary
vocabulary anu iUfm OF pNprtf4lou.
Normal Gfammaf-rho noct.aity OF
dealing with things Instead OF laws
anu iulos. The pupils must sludy Ian.
guagc, aud should always uu led %
deal with the sentence as the cAprcg.
sion OF complete thought. The fen-
tencc taken o., and ils uses aud
glasses illustrated.
The subject " pedagogy was treated
ny if0k stewart. its objects are On
10 kUup teachers ia touch with al.
Vtncod educational thought; on 10
Afford opportunity or The rtuIy VI the
best educational thou fhi, (8j 10 study
practical trhOOlfUum woTH.
The pioblumB 10 bo considered are:
Ql unihoAiinn of subjects VI stuIy;tgl
willing attention. " Education may be-
considered nr.tns 90 thought; anu soc.
ouui az % expression, lne aubJI-
Visions u Thought afp: lil relation; t2l
law.
la treating the subject Of p.ychol.
ogy PfoL siuwar; tuua 90 tue Hrst
lesson the study o. cell, 90 the child,
anu VI animal aud vegetable HE; tho
relation Of mind i1 matter, showing
what part matter takes Boa MIMI action.
In arithmetic, the fundamental ptlno..
p.es were fully presented. The sioakrf
sought 90 convey tue idea that form
hal been substituted Tor thuught iu
teaching this branch.
tivil government was rendered by
PfOL Whiting as iulIUWt3 -Four grades
OF society WuTo considered. Savage,
hefusmUn, hufbauImuu AMI ina a.
iaClufefs. Sayages are distinguished
by languages a Tow words, anu by
little respect 'ur human lic. Tho
course Of III human development has
been upward, and 10 mru rise. govern.
meets become more complex aud NE
more sacred.
On zoology he said: An organic
forms aye plastic. Ey artificial selor.
ton man bus modified tho form aud
habits Of all domestic animals. The
great hand Of nature 10 over al work
unnping each " her childfen 10 ~ lts
own special environment Her book
with her leaves Widespread 10 open fof
bll. Instead OF the Old diylsi0n into
tho mineral kingdom, tho plant king
dom aud tie animal Kingdom, natufc
was divided Into tho organic anu tho
Inorganic kingdoms.
United states history, English gram. /
mar ana rhetoric were treated by Prof.
Msrsnal-iho first from "A local stand. |
point principally. In English CRANE
mar, the initial Lesson was thorough
consideration Of the verb. In rhetoric,
the Instructor dwolt upOu punctuation,
IT, Importance, aud s0mu " the i'm.
pof,ant rulea Tor tho same.
Prof Toronto spoke on algobra and
geometry outlining the work VI the |
class.
French by Mlsa Brotherho1i-The
place Of French in lrsmnsr anu nigh |
school grades, the valdu u tals study |
~ modern language, ami the method |
Of teaching foreign languages was con.
sidefed. A portion m the timp was |
used in reading text and grammatical !
form found Ia tho text TyAI.
The proper place Of drawing iu the |
common schools was umphGsigeI, aud !
An outline Of teaching c0l0g was alsl |
presented, Introduction 90 dfawiup |
la connection with geography wa. |
madea prominent part " tue fscilr.
lion,
NOTES.
The following new members were
enrolled today: Harold Sirgol, clty. |
Mics Nora Bo4niou, Tayl0uylllt; Mils |
Bertha WilCken, CITY; Misc Eleanor
spencer, Diaper Wm, Bradford, r..
w. Msicalh Emma Finch, Emma
\ Dung, city. The classification iu the
various branches IN; Botany, %, Latin,
. pedagogy, ~; French, o; rhetoric, |
3 normal grammar, I, Englah gtau-
mar ~ civil government, @, q. b.
history, s. Psychology H.; Hllogy, z;
;eomo1ry, 81 drawing, s., Algebra, Z,
IS.
a class In English will be- organized
NJ Tuesday next, provided There are
uniclent number who desire to study
hat subject
superintendent MoaIah Hall, OF |
Weber county, isau attendant up1u
nc uhl'y iessiuuI Cf the summer
chool, 90 . Pro. W. n. Apptrley, OF |
ho b. \. College, Logan.
fruf stewart purposes placing I'm
no hands Of each mentor VI his
lasses, printed outline " the work
4 the entire session.
The University library o. TO be- omen
very dayi an advantage that lie highly
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