The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-18
High School Notes

me me me weather of the past week has
AFFORDED excellent opportunities TO inc
9 5It readers Tor out of door work. MANY
DAINTY water color and perciI sketches
nave been made of bits of scenery Sone
very credltable drawings of trees in
pencil were done by Ruby Scranton
johanna Schiek, Adelaide Nelson. SaIina
Brown, Blanche Whittredee BESSIE RTr-I-
holland and Mary Iusher A narfic,,Is rI,-
arustlc sketch Of the gate opening upon
the driveway with the overhangine trees
was the work Of Louise Kener In water
eqolors Of flowers Harriet Coin and
ueene Pratt both have good studies Of
Pansies. Wild phlOX forms the subject Of
Qamty and artistic sketches BY Blanche
NeWcomb and Mary Hartman Credita bic
STUDIES Of heur-de-lis were done bv Ethel
9cIanS0n, Bertha Crozier, Lucille Morri-
son. tiossie McDougal HOrtense HOdg-
son, Mary Hartman and Helen Letchfield
Ada Whittlesey has completed an ideal
mead OF girl which shows ability i'm
me drawing and coloring. Some original
designs In poster, one for the road
race. DeCOrat ton dav. the other Cor
me track meet at Ogden are the work
of Ernest Evans
The commercial students in shorthand
are nG2h interested in the individual
speed tests which began on FRIDAY. ana
VIII be continued during the remainder
Or the term. Some very good records
are being made. which will doubtless he
6ettered after few weeks Of this rapid
Mn. McKay's class IN commercial law
has finished the subject Of Agency" and
or sIonday will begin Partnership"
Miss PetersOn.s first year Latin class
has completed the first book in Latin
grammar and exercises, and is now ready
for second year reading.
All OF Mrs. Jennings French classes
are now reviewing their years work.
The English division Of the sophomore
class has handed in some wei Drerare
note books on The Merchant of Venice =
me note books Just completed in Miss
Clarahan's freshman classes contain a
study Of THE Vicar OF Wakefield" in re-
lauon to setting, plot. character and other
essentials. Both in form and subject mat
ter, these books are particularly credit
able
The past week in connection with their
study Of the plot in "Silas Mariner" Miss
Corbins sophomore classes in English
nave handed In plots for original short
stories Some OF their outlines VIII later
be worker up into short stories
Next Wednesday a special drill. includ-
ing battalion parade will be given by the
cadets for the benefit Of the eighth grade
teachers and the principals of the dir-
ferent buildings After the drill Mr.
Eaton will address these teachers on
Preparation for the High School"
Friday afternoon the cadets were ex-
cused from drill in order to give them an
opportunity TO attend the field meet at
the university. The cadet corps is now
taking up extended order. a fact which
indicates very. encouraging progress. as
it is seldom that cadet companies reach
this point in so short a time
Mr.. PendergraSs acted as judge for the
Nevada-Utah field meet Friday after
noon.
ing with Miss Rome. Interesting letters
were read from Miss Esther Allen who
is teaching in The High school at Paines~
VIE, o. and Mrs. Eliza beth Eurgens
TOlles. who is living in New York, both
former teachers in the High school
The botany classes made two trips to
City Creek canyon In search Of specimens
last week, part Of the class going on
Saturday and the remainder on Tuesday
All specimens must be analvzed mounted
and handed in by the 29th of May Dur
ing the past week the class has been
making a microscopic study of bread
mold
on Thursday the geology classes went
up Dry cauvon. where they were re-
warded by finding fossil beds and carbon
ferrous deposits. A trip 10 Red Butte
was planned for Saturday For several
days the class work has been the de-
termination of minerals by physical and
chemical tests.
Next week Mr.. Clark will give a talk
before the chemistry classes on Artificial
Cold Illustrating his subject bv expert
ments with LIQUID sulphur dioxide
The physics classes begin their review
Of sound and light this coming week A
number Of the students have already com
pleted the forty required experiments
The past week the subject Of lenses has
been considered. particularly as used in
optical Instruments. such as the miscrO-
scope. telescope. camera and stereOpticOn
In mechanical drawing Frank Lawrence
has begun a design for a DYNAMO
Mrs. Ryan spent Saturday In Ogden
Arthur Jennens of the freshman class
has been out Of school the past week in
order to look after his store.
Among the visitors this week were.
John Turner. 1900. and Warren Paul. 1901.
both of whom have been attending the
University Of CalfOTnia Mrs. Hammond
Superintendent Christensen.