Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-06
The COUNTIES REPRESENTED.
Strong Addresses by Prest Kingibury
Of the University and Prest. Kerr
Of the Agricultural College,

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dents, The attendance is particularly
good, % OF q counties being represent
ed By the following o, T.. Mcshane,
Beaver, Nephi Anderson, Boxelder;
George NJ. Thompson, Cache; L, W,
Bowman. Carbon; u, NJ, Whitesides,
Davis Seth Allen, Emery Elmer Lo-
see, Garfield: George w. Decker. Iron;
Oliver Christensen, Juab; Mrs. Marin
da Halliday, Kane Joseph Flnlinson,
Milard Henry Is. Fry, Morgan; Will
liam Johnson, Pluto; George Weston
Rich; b. w Ashton, Salt Lake; Lillian
ID. Wood, San Juan; A. l.. Larson, San
pete; Jacob Magleby, Seyler; Walter
Boyden. Summit; Alonzo Stookey
Tooele, j l., Brown, Utah; Attewall,
Woottcn, Wasatch. and w. II. Wilson,
Weber. OF the city superintendent,
the following are In attendance: D. II.
Christensen, Salt Lake City; william
Allison. Ogden; w. S. Rawlings. Provo;
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PRESIDENT KINGsBURY.
The subject Of President Klngsbury's
address this morning was 1.-THE Rela-
tlon Of the State University to Other
Parts OF the Public School System"
He first defined the duties OF the pub
lie school officers OF the state. their
principal obligation being to see that
the very best teachers were employed
considering the money at their dis
posal, and 70 see that these teachers
are well qualified enthusiastically and
morally. The county superintendents,
the speaker believed, could accomplish
much for the good Of the educational
system and this system, he pointed out
would not have been established had
II not been q good thing.
"Our public school system" he de-
cldred, is the corner stone OF our sup
port Of liberty and freedom"
Without this system liberty and
good government, | believe, could not
survive. Without Il we would have,
IN time, only one great denomlnational
school. II seems to me that the law
contemplates that every child shall
have an opportunity to acquire a
thorough education within the confines
OF the state, II does not compel all
children to receive their education in
these schools, but II does contemplate
that great many VIII do so. Also,
that every child shall get at least
district school education. He or she
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on the ordinary business OF life enough
language To speak fairly well, read and
write and some knowledge OF the his
tory OF our country and It's geography
PLEA FOR NATURE STUDY.
The speaker made strong plea for
nature studies. He pointed to Prof.
Rydalch OF the University Of Kansas
who was brought up among the In
dams, and therefore was constantly In
touch with nature, Today he Is per-
haps the best zoologst In the United
States.
President Klngsbury made a telling
point OF the fact that the university
and the common schools are, or should
be, one. Each helps the other he con-
tended, and any person who Is disloyal
TO one is dlsloyal to the entire public
school system.
HIGHER MORALS.
lie spoke Of higher morals and cul-
ture studies in our educational insti-
tutlons, believing that the higher IN
stltutons should lnstlll or cultivate, u
students taste for the artistic and the
moral fields Of life. II the university
does this, he said. II must necessarily
uplIft the school system, and IN order
to do H. the institution must have men
OF high talents The speaker gave an
interesting statement as TO the rapl
growth OF the state university and the
great work Il is doing. Incidentally
President Kingsbury referred to the
Agricultural college and expressed his
opinion that it should be combined with
the university He had always favor
ed H. but apparently the elimination OF
the idea was as remote az evor
PRESIDENT KERR TALKS,
After an interesting discussion. in
which several supcrintendents partICi.
pated, President w. j. Kerr was intro
duced for a talk on How Can the
Rural School be Made More Attractive
TO It's Puplls2"
This question Itself" said President
Kerr, implies that the work In the
rural schools at present IL not atlrac-
tive to pupils The thing Is then TO
find the remedy
tie quoted statistics showing that 81
per cent OF the population Of the United
States Is rural In character and 0Ccu-
patton. and nearly 20 per cent of the
people are engaged In industrial pur-
suits, rather than the learned trades
ne pointed ont that of the 100000
students m This country only about 1
per cent go beyond the common schools,
3R per cent roach hgh school and only
q por cent of ! per cent get into COLI
loges ur universities
GREEK AND LATIN NOT DIVINE,
Tho object Of education. he argued Is
90 adjust % person 90 environment ana
,his being lhn ease. Greek and Latin
are uo more divine than wood and pc.
laioes The spirit ~ observation and
Investigation which u found I'm
AN students should be fosDered
because Do o. natural In child.
rem 70 rs necessary 90 make the chlll
SEQ clearly ana accurately The inter
esig Ut lha children should be studied.
They should have plenty of nature
study ana ID should hc of plants and
animals 0elda nUd people of Those
thngs WIN which ihey como iu CON.
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