The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-30
Communication
or Of Nc HeraId-RspubIlean.

county mas already pubhshed wnat l 49,,
consider TO be the history OF ne - -
scnoal controversy. 1t is no more tbsli'
riTnt and 1ust that the citizens ana laA
Dayers OF the county shouI1 hhOM - -
of6ar side of the question. MessEs' Lay
and smith. therefore, submit me tOlsOM-
I ing history OF the case Tor your SCI i0N9
/ and unpFeludiced consideration
I rrhe trouble as far as We are cOncSih0ul
I began when We entered the schGol , 80 80.
ago last SEPTEMBER ana We are ~ - -
informed that the trouble mas eAlsl91 40
! the last three years -
I There are two sides TO the couttOsetsy.
the principal on the one hand anu INC
faculty on the other FOR evidence V
rora we entered the school. We FeLet "
! i. W. Hoops, Miss Delta Cole, Etneioett
Larsen, Miss Hazel Stevens ana 4ho4ii'''
me board Of education explained that
there was a lack Of harmony between tLo
principal ana other members OF Ihe Ia
ultv. the reason why IS Lnal the primer
mai for some reason or other, mas never
vet seen fit to take his faculty into MS
confidence. make them his cO-Workerss
and a part OF the Warp and Woor OF
the school system. AS evidence OF TINS
fact, all the school acuVlues lncluoIie
the moral, social, physical ana hnahclai
have been operated without any reference
to the feelings and judgment Of any mem
Der of the faculty
This menarchic form Of government
went on until about the middle OF the sec
end semester at which time, the faculty
decided that they could bear It no longer
The faculty, therefore, concluded tnat II
would be for the best interests Of the
school and for the best good OF eQQcatlOh
in general that the principal ana the rae rae
ultv cooperate as q unit Accordingly
in a REGULAR faculty meeting, the pflncl-
nal was persuaded to cooperate Win
and promised to give the faculty all leg
islative power. In the next regular rae
ulty meeting, rules ana regulations OF tile
school, catalogue and course OF STUDY,
daily program, commencement exercises
and lecture course, we're mentioned spe-
officially. In spite Of what nad taken plsCe
in these faculty meetings, the moh5Icllic
form Of government still continued Lof
the faculty was ignored upon an the
above legislative functions, with the SIN
gle exception Of the lecture course
Upon Friday, just before the opening
of school, last September the principal
called the faculty together. He placed
daily program upon the blackboard ana
asked if there were any corrections Inc
program was not a good one, ana
changes did not make 1t any better, IN
view of this fact, IL was suggested Dy
one Of the members OF the faculty Lhat
each member make out a program of MS
own, and that another meeting be cdlleu
for the purpose of arranging a D6JIeI
program. The suggestion was ignored by
the principal and his own program Went
into effect against the will OF the rae
That better program could have been
arranged is shown by the TACT tnaI there
are students an the school at present VINO
are compelled to take English c and -
English c being preparatory to English
d; that there are others who are COM
PEELED to take Algebra b and Trigonom-
etry, Algebra b being preparatory 70
TrigonOmetry; that others are forced 20
take work at o'clock in the morning
a q hour and do nOA nave
an inteTmissiOn during the entire day
that the class in Physical Science Is
forced to Tecite in the Physical Science
laboratory due to conflict with chem
istry.
An appeal was made by one of the
members Of the faculty for a reCOns1dera-
ton of the program, but with the result
that this member was reprimanded Sc
vereiy,
The principal began to rule with an
iron hand. He permitted some Of the de-
partments Of the school to have so much
money with which to buy books, but re
fused the same privilege to other depart
mentS- Members OF the Faculty plead
with the principal that he might let them
know what was going on in the school
and that they might become vital part
of the school, put their shoulder to the
helm and help boost for the cause Of ed
ucation, but with no avail. It has al
ways been the earnest desire of the fac
ulty that the principal Of the school take
it over and make it a part of himself,
and thus bring about harmony and prog
Tess.
The last straw which broke the cameTs
back was in connection with the lecture
course. Over and above objections made
by the principal the faculty voted that
a mass meeting of the students be called
upon q Monday before the appearance or
the Central Grand Concert company for
the purpose of turning the lecture course
over into their hands, TOusing enthusiasm, /
the course and making the
students directly interested by giving l
them all over and above actual expenses. /
The hour for the holding of the meeting
was not decided upon in Fridays faculty |
but the principal expressed him |
self not only in this meeting, nut upon |
other occasions that student body mass |
held after o'clock were not |
advisable Monday rolled around; the
forenoon rapidly passed away, at recess /
the principal met one Of the faculty mem
bers and asked what he had done with !
reference to the mass meeting, upon /
which the faculty member replied that he |
had done nothing. The principal remarked |
You seemed to be so extremely anxious |
about it; thought that you would have |
done something"
In a word, the faculty member was
given to understand that if anything was |
done ne had to do it, So, he proceeded
to look up the student body president, /
found him, explained what the decision !
VI AtAD AoL0lLN was ana IN R0nH1CtlQl
with another member of the faculty, eX- |
pressed themselves TO the effect that ]
D clock would be an excellent time for the /
meeting. The president was directed TO /
the principal for the purpose Of arrang- |
ing meeting If possible at the above
mentioned time. He was given to un-
1erstand by the principal that no meeting |
could be held except after o'clock in 4
direct opposition to his own policy The |
faculty members knew nothing of this |
decision
Accordingly, at the noon hour, all the |
members of the faculty decided that the /
best time to hold the meeting i'm order to /
make the lecture course q success, was at /
o. clock and one of the members was /
instructed to ask the principal to be in 4
harmony with them. The meeting was /
held at O'Clock and the member Of the |
faculty who carried the above mentioned /
decision to the principal was called be- /
ore County Superintendent Valentine, J. /
W, Peters, the Brigham City member of |
ne scnOOl board, and A. L. Neff the i
principal. and dismissed from the school. /
The same evening the other members |
we're called before the same officials. |
they cXOnerated the dismissed member, |
he was called back given to
Understand that the county superinten-
lent and Mr. Peters were wrong in their
iecisiun. sorry for what they had done /
md asked him to resume his work in the
school.
The faculty and principal went back I'M
Ter the condition that they were TO get |
ogether and define legislative and ex-
cutive powers, and each do everything in
heir power to bring about harmony.
The faculty maintain that they did
verifying in their power to get fO- /
5ether, but that the principal would not
meet with them half way. The monar-
hic form of government was more in evil
.enCe than ever before. The result was !
lot as desired and in spite Of the plead
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