The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-09
SCHOOLS SHOW
PRACTICAL WORK
Parents Spend Day and Evening In
speeding the Exhibits.
LAFAYETTE IS CROWDED
MANY ILLUSTRATIONS TO SHOW
PROGRESS OF PUPILS.

Excellent showing was made at the
several school exhibits yesterday
I'm the various buildings. Three schools
had prepared for visitors and extended
Invitations. two of them, the Latay-
cite and the Franklin, extending their
hours till evening
The Lafayett-. being i'm the center
OF town and more easy of access, had
the greater number Of visitors, but
il was estimated that in the three
buildings open there were no less than
I 800 parents. At the Lafayette the
entire exhibit WAS placed IN the larE"
assembly room oH the top floor, mus
giving an advantage not pOsS Ssed ny
amy other school ia town The W"th
consisted Of the regular lessons al the
pupils iu all subjects, these beng AT
ranged i'm sets showing the work ol
the entire class, poor or good a I'd
bic was devoted To each grade Tor 'ne
display of regular work. but the walls
were covered with selected drawings
and manual work from all grades
The beginners perhaps made the
best showing of all Their work con-
sisted of cutting and coiorlnG, ana bY
these means they had illustrated stories
and depicted their various lessons
Passing through the grades. many IN
terestiuc lines of study were shown
Geography charts showing the com
plete study of "a subject. others show
ing pictures of the various occUpa-
lions. all showed careful training. An
Indian corner and a japanese one,
while not meant To show the actual
work of the pupils. were made repre-
sentative of their study of these ma
tiouS.
Girls Do Good Work.
Especially fine was the handiwork
Of the girls many useful and practi-
cal pieces of work being shown The
manual training department in which
the large boys work did not show
much I'm a creditable way done i'm the
school room, but the fact that two
finely constructed ironing boards We're
made by the boys outside of school
hours and placed on exhibition showed
that tn boys are well able 10 turn
out more practical work than has been
given them in the course.
At the Lincoln school a fine feature
was the exhibiting side by side the
work of each pupil Ou entering tn
school last fall and as done last week.
This feature WAS commended by NiSi-
tors perhaps more than any other AS
II enabled people To see at a gIauc
Just how each pupil had progressed.
Another interesting exhibit at this
school was the relief maps done iu
stit and flour, which were Extra good
Indeed the modelling all through the
grades was of high order Another
cummeUdable feature was the illus
trat1UE of almost every subject treat
4 in either science or language The
drawing often coIoTcd. was placed on
The same page with the written ar
ticIc-
An unusual amount of comment was
brought out 10y the clearly condition
Of this school building and grounds
being i'm the finest order.
The Franklin school showed good
work of the Sam. order ass the others.
some especially fine work being done
In the regular studies. and an work of
all classes. whether good cor bad. being
shown together This exhibit was open
L" the patrons last .veUiuG and many
were present viewing he work