The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-16
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
st. Mary's Academy.

st. Mary's Academy.
| Advancement is ever the watchword
of St. Mary's academy. Convinced
that liberal instruction is the great
! power in the making of man, the au-
! thorities at st. Mary's have spared no
efforts and expense to secure not only
| the higher intellectual development,
! but to-enhance the comfort and pleas
ure of their pupils. By the demolition
/ OF tnumbereof frame buildings, which
j for want of room in the academy build
/ ing, served as StoreroOmS, the grounds
became much enlarged. A handsome
prlck bdfiding has been erected during
the vacation months. one part of which
! forms a most commodious laundry.
/ with added machinery to facilitate the
/ work, while the other portion of the
( DulldinS is set apart for the pupils to
serve as clothes room and trunk room
Mind for minds own sake is the OBJ
/ Ject the academy has in view. The
! subjects upon which a liberal educa-
| ton touches, and the methods il em-
| pIoys are chosen with a view to de-
VeIop and enrich the minds of her
| pupils she realizes that it is the
| educated mind that has ever advanced
! humanity. lifted il above Sordid aims
and brought to it pure and ennobling
enjoyment Here the young lady re-
1 ce1veS a complete education-One that
prepares her for all her duties-to God
| TO the home circle and to society
twenty-five years this institu-
ton has done her noble work.
sending forth thousands of young
I enter LIES billowy ocean Nav her
! triumphs of the past be but the kew
note 10 greater feats and greater tri-
umphs for her opportunities. as well
as her powers, are greater.
The attendance at the UNIVERSITY
training school, which began last Mon
DAY in the new normal building was
larger than ever before, larger than
had been expected by the university
authorities. On Monday the attend
ance was 339, and before the end of
the week it had passed the 800 mark
as against 341 of last ~ear.
So many children of primary grade
are going to the training school that
Professor Stewart, principal of the
normal school, has been compelled to
engage another critic teacher. The
services of Miss Rose NJ VimOnt have
been secured for the beginners grade.
Miss Vimontl is highly recommended
| by superintendent Cooper. ha- ing
/ taught under him for eleven wears in
! the schools of Des Moines. When Mr..
| Cooper came to Salt Lake he brought
MISS Nlmont, one of his favorite
/ primary teachers, with him She taught
very successfully last year in the
Hamilton Principal Stewart is happy
that he has secured her for the train
ing school.
The Murray schools open tomorrow.
The other county schools opened on
Sept. 10.
Superintendent Scott McCIelland of
Wayne county called on State Super
| intendent Park on Wednesday.
n. T. Porter, former superintendent
of public instruction of Davis county
and candidate for the office of state
superintendent of public instruction on
the Democratic ticket, was in the city
on Friday.
Miss Maude Harold. who has neen
appointed assistant to Miss Clark
at the Lincoln school, will assume her
new duties tomorrow.
Miss Minnie A. Bartch. who has been
east attending school during the past
two years. has decided to remain at
home during the coming year.
Miss Susette Reiser, who will teach
in Murray, and Miss Parratt, who
will teach in Tooeie the coming year,
were visitors at the Lincoln school last
week.
Miss NJ Adelaide Holton will meet
the teachers of beginners in the city
and county building on Tuesday af-
ternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Mrs F. r. Elliott will meet teachers
of beginners on Wednesday afternoon,
first grade teachers on Thursday af-
ternoon and second grade teachers on
Friday afternoon.
The schools of the city opened on
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the work of preparation was complete
classification and organization were
expeditiously done, and the work of
instruction may be said to have begun
at once. Several of the larger build
ings were crowded, and in some in
stances additional teachers were need
ed At the Lincoln school there was
an attendance of seventy-six in the be-
ginners' room. taught by Miss Potter,
and a recla Justification in all the rooms
became necessary, and an additional
teacher Will be employed in the eighth
grade The Lowell school had an at
tendance of 900 and the Washington,
Grant, jackson and Webster schools
passed the 500 mark.
For the first time arrangements
are to be made whereby pupils
who complete the eighth grade
work in the middle of the year will be
admitted to the high schooi at the
y
been kept back until the close of the
year There will be about fifty pupils
in the various schools who Will avail
themselves of this arrangem ent.
The schools have opened under the
most favorab Bile auspices, and an I'M
usually prosperous year is looked for.
Hammond hall opens tomorrow.
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larger than last year. and their ac-
com1nodati lions for pupils will be taxed.
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Supervisor NJ. A. Holton returned
early last week from her vacation.
During a port IT July and August
Miss HoltOn aC IS instructor in a
summer school a Minneapolis, the
school being under the auspices of the
state university of Minnesota.
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