The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-16
IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.


IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The Exhibits Attracting Great
Deal of Attention.
Yesterday was another proud day
for the schools of this city. In every
building there was exhibited the class
work of the pupils, and the work was
all highly creditable.
A class room in the high school was
used for the exhibition of the work of
that institution. The specimens were
arranged on tables and were uniformly
good, There were Latin exercises, In
Guiding translations of passages from
Caesar and Cicero, and written exer-
cises in the rudiments Of Greek. Each
member of the botany classes showed
some intelligent progress in that line.
Neatly bound files of papers contain
ing solutions of algebraic problems and
demonstrations of theorens from
geometry, testified to thorough instruc-
ton in the mathematics. A pile of let
tiers of great variety, ranging from
business to social invitations, occupied
one table. No object in the room at
tracted more attention than the one
eighth horsepower electric motor, the
handiwork of Ronald Green, a sixteen
year-old student with a bent toward
science. In other rooms We're exhibited
a large number of fine drawings, those
in the mechanical line being chiefly of
different sections of a small engine that
was on exhibition. There were also
many inventive drawings of merit In
the exhibition of elementary drawing,
which was also good, were seen speci-
mems of inventive, decorative and OBJ
ject work.
An incidental feature, but one which
caused favorable comment, was the adj
vice of one of the teachers as to what
her classes might read to advantage
during the summer. The list was
written upon the blackboard as follows:
One article each month from good
magazine; current events in the Sun
day papers; one historical novel, nota-
bly,, 'tIvanhoe," Les Miserables,' or
The Refugees; also your choice of
those given below: Irving's Sketch
Book, Motley's History of the Dutch
Republic. or Ben Hur; some poems by
Longfellow or Lowell; the greatest
English novel, Vanity Fair" the
greatest Scotch novel, Heart of Mid
lothian" the greatest pathetic novel,
"Old Curiosity Shop Arthur Bon
nicastle' and Lorna Doom" three of
the long poems, Bitter Sweet" Evan
geline, ''Kathrina," "Enoch Arden" or
Aurora Leigh short poems by the
standard authors.
The Fourteenth school made a fine
showing. The eighth grade illustrated
compositions were noticea'bly good, as
were some of the examination papers
and exercise books. In the seventh
grade the drawing, maps and language
work were uniformly good. The sixth
grade work was excellent, particularly
the drawing and lettering by Joe Gill
and Ebert Eastman. A novel line of
work was that in the line of natural
science lessons exhibited by the third
grade. The poplar twig was analysed
by these children in a style that would
bring to the minds of their elders a
nebulous mixture of the terms ''vena-
ton" ''petiole," "dicotyledons, etc,
which had been long since forgotten.
The exhibit in the Fourteenth school
was indicative of faithful work on the
part Of pupils and teacher.
The Wasatch school showed fine
work in the line of relief maps and
maps showing the products of various
counties. Some excellent work was al
so done in the line of mathematical
and physical geography. and consider
able invention on the part of the teach
ers was shown in the wide range of
per grades there was also evidence, in
the way of essays, Of careful instruc-
ton in elementary science In this
school there was much originality
shown by the teachers of the lower
grades, notably the second and third.
In the Hamilton school the motto was
Quality Rather Than Quantity
There was not so much work exhibited
here as in the other schools but it was.
without exception, of high order.
Some work that caused much favorable
comment was the illustrated solution
of problems in mensuration The prin-
cipal had made a strong point in the
upper grades of the development of
surfaces and the resultant work was
excellent.
The drawings of Masters ] B.
Squires ard A. W. Smith attracted
much favorable comment.
The lower hall of the Sumner school
was hung with flags, and the work
was arranged upon tables A large
amount of good work in the same gen.
eral lines as that of the others schools,
was exhibited in this school.
The exhibit at the Jackson school att
tracted many visitors Yesterday, and
all were delighted with the splendid
showing made.
The Lincoln and Bryant schools and
the smaller ones throughout the city
also made very creditable showings.
The exhibits were not so we'll attend
ed as they should have been The fact
was probably owing, as one teacher
gravely remarked to the fact that there
was circus in town. They will re-
main open today.