The Arizona sentinel., 1898-08-06

eoil Ou IEC OULn ulI. All Gnt
 members of the board were presen
 when Governor McCord called tht
 board 10 order at the San Xavier
 hotel ot 10 a. m. Quite a mum bel
 of the leading text book publisher
 of the country were represented by
 agents, and many other had filed ] written nrnnnsals in rRsnonse tC : the advertisement Of inc board After the board had opened the bids of the publishers, as required by law, each agent present was allowed ten minutes to explain bis
 terms and prices aud make an argu-
 ment in favor of his publications.
 After hearing the eight agents
 present, the board went into ex-
 ecutive session. During this session
 the educational needs of the schools
 of the territory and the financial
 interests of the people received
 careful consideration by the mem
 bers of the board. The list of books
 adopted clearly indicates that such
 must have been the case. The
 boz rd determined that no changes should be made unless works of decidedly superior merits could be
 secured at lower prices than have
 been paid heretofore. In harmony
 with this idea, the board decided to
 make no changes in the following subjects, viz: Reading, supple mental reading, spelling, mental arithmetic, primary and advanced history of the United States. Pre- vious to the meeting some members of the board had made careful in- quiry as to the prices at which readers and spoilers had been sold at RETAIL throughout the territory. It was found that the RETAIL prices at which these books had been sold were the same as had been guaran- iced by the publishers, For this reason and also for the reason that no general complaint against them had been made by teachers, the readers and speiIer in .sc were conyiuuad foI anotAG. .oInI C. louI years. So that on the subjects that affect all the pupils no change what ever is to be made at this time. It was decided that certain changes were necessary in order to keep abreast of the times in educational methods and at the same time con- suit the financial interests of the people. Appleton's geographies have been in use in the schools of Arizona some sixteen years. These books were discarded and the Natural series, newer and decidedly better geographies, were adopted. The publishers of the Natura! series have made low exchange" prices so that any old geegraphies now in the hands of the pupils can be ex- changed and the new and improved works secured at small expense. Besides, the pupils of Arizona have never had the benefit of special edition which contains a satlsfac- tory treatment of the local ge1- graphy. The publishers of the Natural series have agreed to issue an Arizona edition which shall present in acceptable form the in dustries, resources and institutions of the territory. 4 change in Primary and Practical Arithmetic was made. This change was dic- tated by two considerations: 1. Because the series Tn use has been very generally condemned by the teachers of the territory; 2. Be- cause the three books now in use have cost at RETAIL $2.35. To displace these three books Whites Primary, and Whites New Com plete Arithmetic have been adopted These two new books cost at retail. $f.10, or less than one half those in use.. The text books now in use in clude two books on language by one author and two books on grammar by another author. There is no rela- tion in plan,- treatment or arrange ment in these several books, and for this reason sha'ny teachers have found them unsatisfactory. The four books on language and gram mar HOW m use cost at RETAIL $f.S5; these have been displaced Sheidon's series or language lessons and gram