The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-27
AS President of the Board of Edn-
cation.
CANNOT AFFORD THE TIME.
QUESTION OF HIS SUCCESSOR
LEFT IN DOUBT.
Professor 3. A. McClelland of Fay
cite, Iowa, and Professor L. a.
Stanley of Provo, Employed For
the High School-School Hours
Fixed-Scholarships.

President Charles Baldwin OF the
board of education sprung q surprise
on his colleagues last evening by ten
dering his resignation as a member of
the board. With expressed regret the
resignation was accepted, and at the
same time Mr.. Baldwin was voted
thanks for his efficient and faithful
services in the interest of the public
schools. What prompted MIR. Baldwin
to resign is best told in his own words.
He stated that the duties of the posi-
ton took at least a third of his time,
and he felt he could not afford to spare
it from his law profession. In his es-
timation, the office is the highest in
the gift of the people. He had no
complaint to make about the INSULT
cheney of the salary, and he believed
that no compensation whatever should
attach to the position OF board member.
While regretting the necessity of the
step he had resolved upon, Mr.. Bald
win expressed the hope that the pleas
ant associations formed With his fell
low members on the board during in
tervals of five years would remain,
and he pledged his interest in the
schools after his retirement from the
board
VIM w ILL A-NJSNA@1@4|
The election of a successor to Mr..
Baldwin, who was elected last Decem-
Der from the Fifth municipal ward for
the one-year term, will be taken up
at next Thursday evenings meeting.
The presidency will undoubtedly fall
upon Vice President w. F. Cotton.
Following precedent, the other mem
Der of the board from the Fifth, Mr..
Nelden, will have the privilege of nom
mating the new member to fill the I'M
expired term. From expressions heard
after the boards adjournment, and
upon the street, it is quite probable
that some such representative citizen
and staunch friend of the public school
system as DR.. T. B. Beatty, John E.
Dolly or F. j. Fabian will be chosen
for the position.
THESE PROPOSITIONS WE'RE OP-
POSED.
The committee on teachers and school
work recommended that 3. A. McClel- |
land of Fayette, Ia, be employed as
teacher of physics and chemistry at
the high school, at a salary of $95 a |
month, and that L. A. Stanley of |
Provo be employed as instructor in
mathematics and literature at the
high school at monthly salary of 500 /
The committee also recommended +
that Miss May Dysart be given the /
principalShip of the Emerson school to (
succeed r. a. Green, resigned, and that
Mrs. Matte Prosser be made principal /
of the Uintah school to succeed Hugh /
b. Folsom, who was recommended for |
promotion to the principalShip of the /
new school building in course of cree /
ton at the corner OF Eighth West and
Sixth South streets, and to be known f.
as the Riverside school.
MR.. MOYLES OBJECTIONS.
AS soon as the committees recon-
mendauonS We're read, Mr.. Movie !
moved to substitute the name of Brig /
ham Smoot Of Provo for Professor Nc I
Clelland'S name, and also that of John /
NJ Holt of RiVertOn for Mrs. Prosser'S /
After some curther discussion the /
recommendations We're adOoted by the |
following vote: Ayes-Baldwin, Critch- /
low, Cotton. Nelden and Wilson. Noes /
-Moyle and Newman. Mr.. Giauque /
was excused from voting, as was also
Mr.. II. G.. Whitney, who was in his seat
Tor the first time after having been |
elected to succeed Captain Richard w !
Young. Mr.. Whitney refrained from
voting on all the matters that came
up, concerning which there was a di-
vision of opinion, on the plea that he
had not yet had opportunity to suffi-
GENTLY familiarize himself with the
subject matter under consideration.
SCHOOL HOURS AND SCHOLAR
SHIPS.
The committee on teachers and school
work recommended the following:
That the schools open at 8 a. m. dur
ing the first third of the school year.
at $50 a. m. during the second third
and at a. m. during the last third of
the ensuing school year.
That the arrangements now existing
with the University of Utah Training
school be continued the ensuing year,
the university to be reimbursed the
same as heretofore.
That inaSmuch as there are more APP
pl1cants for the normal scholarships in
the university than the board has at
its disposal. a public competitive exam
ination be held by the board of exam
inerS for all applicants desiring TO en-
ter the first year of the course, and
that the seven applicants passing the
best examination be nominated by the
board for said scholarships, said exam
in2tiocs 10 be in the subjects of his
tory, arithmetic and grammar
That Miss Grace Near be granted a
leave OF absence, during the ensuing
school year in accordance with the
rules of the board. and that L. NJ. Gill
lilan be appointed as a member of the
examining committee for teachers eX-
on September l. 2 and g. in
place of A. w. Smith. who is now in
Chicago.
That 16 unglaZed copies of Froiseth'S
map of Utah at S. each be purchased.
All the recommendations of the COM
nittee were adopted.
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