The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-25
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

D rooms.
dressed by Dr. Albritton and the fresh
men by Mr. Gillian. Or. AlbrittOn first
spoke Of the present ase as one OF peace.
and that the tendency or modern times
is to dispense with the horrors Of blood
shed While war Is, however, to be dep
/ recated il is not always an unmiNed evil
II is the only method by which many
great national evils can be uprooted. In
reviewing the wars or our own country
the speaker showed that in the main they
had been fought for right and just prin-
! ciples and had brought beneficial results.
/ Particularly was this fact true of the
civil war. which not only did away with
the evil of slavery. but rorever settled
the question OF national sovereignty as
! pre-eminent over states rights. Every
state must now acknowledge that the ma
| tional constitution and the national pow
er is foremost and must be respected and
obeyed In conclusion, DR.. Albritton en-
phasized the value of the observation of
| these patriotic days, particularly by the
young people of the country.
In the freshman room Ar. Gillian gave
/ q brief but interesting talk on the appre-
| citation due the G.. A. r. and the benefits
OF observing Memorial day with apprO-
! pirate exercises,
A meeting that will tend to bring into
closer touch the work of the High school
/ and the upper grades was held in the
| High school assembly room Wednesday
afternoon At the request of Mr.. Chris
/ Jensen all the principals and the teachers
grades gathered 90 listen TO a talk by Mr.
| Eaton on Preparation For the High
School" Speaking from the standpoint
Of the high school teacher, Mr.. Eaton
emphasized the need OF thorough and
careful preparation for this important
step in school life. At the present time
about 80 per cent of the pupils finishing
the eighth grade come to the High
school, and with still greater. encourage
ment from their teachers and more ade-
l TO ~ va ~
| further increased.
As the colleges and universities now de-
mand from the secondary schools cer-
tain entrance requirements. requirements
which all good high schools aim 20 meet,
50 should the high school be justified IN
asking for certain qualifications and at
tainments from the eighth grade pupils
Mr. Eaton then briefly stated some OF
the requisites which should be demanded
for entrance to the high school. The pu-
pills should have a good knowledge Of the
fundamentals of arithmetic, grammar in
| its broadcast sense, geography and United
/ States history. IN arithmetic they should
| be able to handle with ease deciulals and
complex fractions denOminate numbers
percentage and the metric system Men
/ SuTatiOn, square and cube root might
with pTopriety be omitted and later given
| I'm the high school. In grammar the pupil
should understand and be able TO explain
the construction and sNntaN of sentences.
| should he able to spell correctly and 10
! use fairly good English in speaking and
writing. This is one of the subjects In
| which freshman pupils are apt TO be the
most deficient Mr. Eaton suggested
that geography. which is important as a
| basis for history, should be continued
| through the eighth grade, instead of be-
! ing finished in the seventh. II students
are well prepared in these essentials they
| will find their four years work in the
! high school much easier and mere profit
/ able than If they enter with insufficient
/ preparation
Mr. Eaton made some valuable sugges-
! tons in regard to care in the teaching
of English and careful and fair grad
| ing of pupils. The latter point was es
I pCcially emphasized, as, in many cases,
/ students who have been receiving high
1 marks are diScoura ged upon entering the
| high school to find that they can make
/ only fair or passable. Grades. 4 less
I lenient scale of marking Would largely
| Obviate this difficulty
/ In the art department this week some
/ particularly good charcoal drawings of
| Hercules have been completed by Blanche
/ Sparkling. Effie Johnston and Louise Jeu-
ulngS. In WdteT-cOlOrS. Harriet conn,
I Ruby Lee and Ada Whittlesey have cred
liable studies of peOnies. Other pieces Of
J work deserving special mention are stud
| les Of buttercCps by Cara kletting,
/ Aetna Smith ana Clara Palmer: pan
4 sizes. by Aetna Smith Ada Whituesey and
] Clara Palmer; pink Snap-dragOnS. by
/ Maud SymOns and HOrtenSe HOLSTER.
4 Ernest Evans has a cleverly designed
! poster for q cover of the Red and Black.
! Ii is decorated with perpendicular lines
! Of red and black and on one side is the
figure of a cadet.
/ The picture in tho, shadow box this
week has been of great interest 20 the
students. II is an interior, with the cen
/ tral figure. a French woman, knitting
I In its pleasing composition and dark rich
! coloring tbs picture is particularly adj
/ mtrabc it is the work of Miss Mary
r1.r Ill,
institute for the SAT- Lake art collection.
Mr.. Browns sophomore divisions i'm
! geometry have been doing some excellent
work lately in the solution of original
( theorems and problems On Thursday a
number of the class were sent to the
board and given advance problems to
I solve. upon which they had had no preVi-
1 Gus time to prepare. They succeeded,
! however, in this short time in working
out most of them correctly. Among the
students who have done particularly good
/ work in this line are Robert Hartley
i Earl HavenOr. Joseph Jensen and Frank
: Manning Of the first division and Eleanor
1 Engler, Ross Brown, Gordon Higgins
/ VIII Black and VIII Fowler of the sec
\ Ond division.
The botany classes made a trip on Sat
urday to Red Butte, and from there. to
! YOung'S hollow. to cOmplete their e9llec-
/ ton of specimens. a number of the stu
/ dents have already finished the required
] number Of specimens and have collected
/ quantity of additional ones.
! The geology classes made a trip TO Red
I Butte a week ago Saturday and were
J rewarded by finding a number Of inter-
! esting formations. A trip to the Portland
/ cement works 20 observe the process Of
/ manufacturing cement was planned for
! this week. but on account of a temporary
/ shutting down of the works it has been
/ postponed till next Tuesday.
Thursday morning Mr.. Clark gave the
last Of his series of talks before the
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/ lecture was, Low Temperature bv Art
( fetal Means ana it gave in very i'm
/ tereStIng manner a history Of the scicn-
/ ufic Investigations that have been made
along this line, and the work that yet
/ remains for scientists to accomplish The
/ first experiments in the liquefaction OF
! gases were made by Michael Faraday,
! who succeeded in liquefyins all but three,
/ oxygen, nitCgen and hydrogen. Pictet q
/ Swiss scientist. solved the problem OF
] HqGefying oxygen, and Wrobluski a Rus
! sian, completed the work with nitrogen
} and hydrogen. In turning to the pTac-
l teal application of these Investigations,
/ Mr.. Clark spoke Of Yankee Inventions
/ and particularly of Trippler's experiments
| with liquid air. The latter subject Yves
/ illustrated by diagrams on tho blackboard.
/ In closing Mr.. Clark considered the future
} possibilities of this subject. The talk
4 was Illustrated by several cxDeriTnents.
/ one of which was freezing water by sur
rounding the tube with boiling sulphur
/ diOXidC. in another. the water was
frozen by means of vaporizing ether in
, the vacuum of an air pump.
/ The class in commercial law will be
( able TO complete all the work By the end
4 of next week. and the last week viii be
J devoted to general review ~
The second division Of the beginning
! class in bookkeeping has completed part
: one of the bookkeeping tablet. and win
/ have the last week for extra work
I on Monday Miss Clarahan's freshman
/ classes viii give talks on James Russell
/ Lowell. prepare tory to taking up the
I study of The Vision Of Sir Launfai.'
] Mrs. Travis division OF commercial
I English IS reading THE Vicar of Wake-
/ field. and the pupils have just handed
! in some very creditable papers. based