The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-12
SCHOOLS WILL
OPEN. MONDAY
Changes Will Be Made in
Corps of TeaCherS-More
Room Needed.
HIGH SCHOOLS BIG GROWTH
UNIVERSITY, OF UTAH STARTS
CLASSES SAME DAY.

Only few days remain of the long va
cation of the Salt Lake public schools
which has lasted this year from June
till Sept. II. This last period is curtailed
for the teachers by a meeting to be held
Saturday morning but for the young peo-
pie, who. more than $4,000 strong, will re-
turn to the school room Monday next
tnere VIII be no curtallment of the pleas
ure or these last few days. Three months
and half of rest and recreation has
been none too much in their opinion and
the last days of freedom must be made
much of.
The University of Utah also will open
next Monday. Entrance examinations will
| oegln TO-DAY and registration of students
Despite the fact that great increase has
been made in facilities. the Salt Lake
public schools will open lacking room for
the children. The two new buildings be-
gun during the summer are not nearing
completion and will probably not be ready
for occupation till mid-year. The one in
! the northwest is designed for a relief 10
| the Jackson, and TO do away with the
! Union school. that until il is done the
Union must be used and the Jackson must
remain crowded.
Better conditions exist in regard to the
Ulntah, In the southwestern part of the
city. where four or five good rooms have
| been rented for the opening of school and
unit! the new building is completed.
Waterloo Already Provided.
which has been added to the city schools
| Is already in possession of good modern
] building, and here five teachers additional
| to the corps Will be stationed. Including
| these five there will be an increase of over
a score Of eachers. five of whom will
be in the High school. This will make
| teaching force of over four hundred
| Besides the additional teachers in the
! grades and the High school, a new super
i visor has been added TO the corps, John
| G. WEIGH. formerly of the training school,
| taking the work of supervising the gram
mar grades. MI WEIGH and the other
supervisors have been on duty already
since Sept. D. and with the principals are
working daily on the arrangements for
Howard briggs Of the University Of
! Chicago is to take the place made vacant
/ by the removal of Mr.. WEIGH from the
! Training school, and there will be three
other new teachers in that school
Changes at High School.
| The most noticeable changes have been
made at the High school. where il has
been found necessary to divide assembly
to accommodate the great number Of
| freshmen who will enter. Enrolment will
| be begun today and will continue for the
last three days of the week. so that every
| thing will be in readiness for work Mon
! day morning. The entire lower floor of
the Union school has been added to the
| have been fitted up as class rooms. One
| of the rooms made by the division of as
| =
! sembly room for the juniors and another
! for the senior assembly room. While this
! arrangement Will decrease the assembly
! room facilities il will give adequate class
| room for the whok number expected.
! Five new teachers are to be added to
| the faculty two in English. one in the
| commercial department lone in science and
| one i'm Latin.
| 1t is roughly estimated that the enroll
| ment will reach somewhere about the
thirteen hundred mark The registration
for lie
school and for the old pupils who return
TO school starts this morning. The school
in the morning and from TO 4 clock
in the afternoon. The registration will
Icontinue until Friday afternoon.
Kindergarten Crowded Out.
The change made in the Unibn school
| will do away with the kindergarten be-
gun there so successfully last year. as
the room used for this purpose Will be
one of those taken for the High school.
Just where the kindergarten will be placed
has not. yet been determined
Few changes have been made in the
! placing of the principals and the list of
| teachers with their locations will not be
known until tomorrow. j. Q. Gross, who
| has been principal of the WaSatch school
| since in completion. will be given larger
! field in the Union school. while w. 5.
| Wallace. formerly of the Union. goes to
1 the Sumner Oscar Van Colt of that
school will have charge of the Wasatch.
With these few changes the principal
ships will remain the same as heretofore.
A general teachers meeting VIII be held
| AT 10 O'Clock Saturday morning in the
| Lafayette school. but a principals meet
ing will be held some time between now
and then
Private Schools Opening.
Rowland hall will open this morning in
it's temporary school room on street
The work on the new building is progress
ing RAPIDLY. and it is hoped that i may be
done by Thanksgiving. or at the latest
! hv the Christmas holidays. A corps Of
fourteen teachers will begin this morn
ing the work of classification. the enroll
ing having been completed Yesterday. One
| hundred and thirty-five pupils are en-
rolled forty-four bearders and the re-
! mainder day pupils.
! All Hallows is in working order. having
opened Il week ago today The enrolimenS
has Already reached u.s. and it is expected
that n WIN continue 10 increase I'll the
last of the month There are now twelve
| teachers in the faculty.. the latest add-
tion being John r. Tobin of the Uni
| versity Of Chicago. who will have charge
! Of the English and higher mathematics.
| Nearly half of the enrolled pupils are
| boarders and the remainder day pupils.
| The Collegiate Institute opened Sept. :
! with a faculty of five and fair-sized
school. nearly all of the pupils being
| boarders Gordon Academy has also been
/ in running order for q week, but it will
| continued TO enroll pupils for some time
| longer. With the new principal. Z. 3.
Clark. il has faculty of seven.
Malthoid roofines lasts lifetime
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