The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-20
EDUCATIONAL.

/ The attendance in the city schools
I has increased steadily during the past
week and everything seems TO indicate
a still greater increase for the ensuing
one. In many Of the schools an at
+ tendance of from so 10 80 per cent of
the normal enrolment is recorded,
! which is good under gay circumstances
for this time of year While some few
have remained out for the stock and
I poultry shows, The great majority OF
/ the pupils have shown an anxiety to
attend, and take very active interest
/ IN school work.
/ The regular monthly meeting of the
] Grant School Parents club was held a
/ the school on Friday last \ very profit
/ aole hour was spent BY the parents and
/ teachers Mrs. Bledsoe gave a most
{ helpful paper on Foods Suitable for
' Children" After some discussion this
was followed by an informal talk from
/ Mrs. Heiss on Amount and Kind of
! Recreation Required" Mrs. Jones,
/ MT Martin. Miss Shells and others dis
/ cussed the subject at some length. At
/ the next regular meeting, which takes
/ place the fist Friday in February, Mrs.
/ Elliott is to speak To the association on
/ Art in the Schools, and It's Influence
on Character.
The following meetings for teachers
]
| supervisors for the coming week
/ superintendent Cooper viii meet the
/ PRINCIPALS of the schools on Tuesday,
/ the 22nd at the city and county build
/ ing; the teachers Of the fourth grade
on Wednesday, the 23d, at the same
/ place. and the teachers Of the seventh
and eighth grades on Thursday. the
24th, at p. m, instead of on Tuesday
as announced.
/ Miss HoltOn viii meet the first grade
/ teachers on Tuesday at 2.50 at the city
and county building.
Mrs. Elliott will meet the teachers of
/ the second grade on Tuesday, the 22nd,
: and those OF the third grade on Thurs
day, the 23d. Both meetings are at $3.50
/ p. m. at the High school
The Wasatch is the first one of the
( grade schools to secure the art eX-
/ hibit at the Ladies' Literary club. The
| Wasatch day opens tomorrow at 10
/ o'clock and will continue throughout
/ the day. Ii will be divided into three
J sessions, from 10 to Z, from 2 to >, and
{ in the evening from O'Clock. Refresh
ments will be served by the eighth
d grade in the rooms on the first floor
/ of the club house.
The following additional dates have
been arranged for the schools: The
1 Sumner, Thursday, Jan "A; the jack
! son, Wednesday, Jan. 80, and the Low
! ell Saturday, Feb. .. Sixteen schools
are to be arranged for within a short
} period of time. and committees in
( charge deserve the heartiest cO-Opera-
/ ton of parents and teachers in this
work. 1t is to be hoped that as much
good may accrue from this as from
I last years exhibit, the influence of
which is still felt in home and school.
. . o
I Teachers and parents throughout the
state will be pleased to note that part
ID
/ to the manner of handling school
] money in the country districts. Some
{ measure of reform is much needed in
this line and the recommendation of
/ the state superintendent should meet
with hearty approval.
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Next Friday, the regular parents day
at the Whittier school. Mrs. Elliott viii
address the meeting on The Practical
+ Value of Artistic Environments for
/ Children"
/ The Jackson school was glad to well
I come the principal back, after his en-
/ forced absence, and also to cOngratu-
late him on the complete recovery Of
his children.
Rev. Joel A Smith was an interested
visitor at the Lincoln school on Thurs
day last.
I President Newman of the board of
education visited the Jackson on Mon
day.
! Professor Foster. formerly of the
State Agricultural college at Logan,
but now with the University of Wyom-
/ ing, spent the past week in the city
/ with the Misses Foster at 36S First
( street. Professor Foster came as d
/ guest Of the Wyoming legislature.
/ Miss Jessie Boyd of the Hamilton has
/ returned to work after short Illness
Principal Martin of the Grant spent
/ part of Friday watching operations in
/ the Lowell.
The Lowell teachers We're pleased to
! welcome as a visitor at the school on
+ Wednesday, Mrs Birrell. formerly Miss
/ Claire Whitehead, and one of the last
{ year teachers in that school
/ Miss Johns of the Lowell expects to
/ return to her post on Monday.
A parents meeting was held at the
/ Emerson school Friday, at which topics
/ of interest We're discussed. At the close
Z of the meeting "a vote of thanks was
( rendered to Mrs. Clark for the generous
! gift Of 150 books for the library.
On Friday the Shakespeare society Of
/ the eighth grade at Hamilton held its
/ regular meeting The principal feature
Of the programme was d debate. Re
/ solved. That Lee was a Greater Cen
eraI Than Grant" both sides of the
+. question being admirably sustained.