Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-05
EASTERN SCHOOLS.
Mrs. susn Young Gates Writes Re
u 5garding Her Investigations.

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Yrs. susa Young Gates who is Wis
ting the leading educational instftu-
tons of the east looking over the field
irt. the Interests of. the Agricultural
college at Logan. Writes of her ex-.
perinsces as follows:s5 fs. u
Mrs. Mcclure ana myself have spent
nine strenuous days, travelling over,
1000 miles, visiting five great schools,
one in Lincoln, two In Evanston and
two In Chicago, with several hours
profitable visit to the governmental
experiments carried on in the agrlcul-'
tural department at Washington. We
found very much to praise and more
to learn from these splendid schools.
Manual or industrial education Is
surely the coming educational force.
Even the ordinary public schools are
fitted with extensive and expensive
departments for the primary shop and
laboratory work.
The ideal school is, so far, the Cen
trail school of Evanston. ILL.,. of which
the locally famous Principal Nichols
is the head. To enter the dim halls
of a high school and find the winged
Victory in colossal size, shining out
in the half-lishts OF the broad en-
trance, with exquisite scenes in the
best American impressionist schools
flaming up and down the long corri-
doris, gives one very pleasant shock
The Office of the principal himself is
a fine example of what light, plct-
ures, growing plants, fine paintings
and Craftsman furniture can do for
the usual prosy and otherwise dull
interior.
The small but model domestic sci
ence department in this school is our
ideal of such a place. With white
and blue tiled walls, in imitation.
white and blue lineoeum on the floor,
doors. cupboards and window frames
in white enameled paint, the central
laboratory tables, also tiled, with their
small individual equipment of gas jet
and tiny oven. made a picture we'll
worth remembering. Flowers filed
windows with linen crash curtains
made you forget this was a basement
room and the white enameled utensils
with their little girl users all clean
and neat fitting about or grayely
beating half an egg or measuring
accurately u of a teaspoon of spice
gave rs a warm. ntotherly interest
in the whole proceedings. The whole
department proves what can be done
in any high school with the ordinary
cramped finances of country schools
coupled with a most extraordinary
gift for school organization along the
newest and best educational and artis-
TIC lIlt'S. Every " tttil 8tSe1eIitI NouLI
be the better for a peep into this
school
We have had the most cordial treat
ment everywhere. The name of our
A. c. domestic science teacher. Miss
Ellen Huntington, seems well and fav-,
orably known in the middle west. We
hope TO meet her soon.
Senator Reed Smoot when we reach
ed Washington, courteously released
is own private secretary Mr.. Morris,
to escort US on a long visit to view
various experiments being conducted
by the agricultural department of the
United States. The exhaustive list of
activities was narrowed down through
limited time to two places. The one,
general head for them all. DR. Wiley
is in Europe. But his assistant DR..
SBigelow spent some time enlightening
us as to the various lines of activity
conducted by the bureau. From there
we were conducted to Prof Lang
worthy's offices an labartories, and
We're most deeply interested in that
famous scientific human retort. Where
men go into a sealed iron chamber
and submit for hours and even weeks
to the various chemical tests made by
these progressive governmental exper-
mentors.
There are a number of other schools
to visit, but the car strike in Phila-
delphia is holding me quiet with my
missionary son in Camden.