The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-28
TUITION FREE TO
Utah GRADUATES
State Normal School Course Is
Open 10 Thirty-Eight in
Salt Lake.
ONLY THREE APPLICANTS
FIRST TO APPLY WILL BE FIRST
TO BE ENROLLED.

Graduates Of the High schools Of the
state have overlooked their opportunity
TO take a four years course free in the
state Normal school, according to su-
perlntendent d. II. Christensen, as only
three applications have been made for
the free scholarships. salt Lake is en-
titled to thirty-eight of these, and the
applications received in the future viii
be taken up I'm the order in which they
are filed. The free scholarships were
provided by the last legislature. but
few of the High school graduates in
any part OF the state seem to have no
ticed or understood the provisions.
The State Normal school will retain
that name, but will also be known as
the State School of Education, and the
special work and purpose will be TO
train teachers for all grades and de
partments of the public school, lnclud-
ing all of the present courses and rev
others. -Four hundred scholarships viii
be maintained by the State School of
Education from all over the state, pro-
vided that the holders Of such scholar
ships, enrolled in the secondary de
partment of the institution. shall at no
time exceed 200 Holders Of these sChOl-
arships shall be free from the payment
OF all matriculatiOn fees.
Free Scholarships.
The appointments will be made for
term of years corresponding to the
branch of work the applicant cares to
take up, and no naturalization fees viii
be paid by the scholarship students as
long as they are taking this work. At
the end Of the course they will receive
teachers certificates or diplomas. The
law provides that before the first of
May each year the president of the nor
NAL school shall notify the state super
intendent of public instruction how
many scholarship students can be ac-
commodated.
In Salt Lake, appointments viii be
made by the board of education, and
then referred to the state superinten-
dent of public instruction. Appoint
ments from other localities viii be made
to the superintendent for verificatiOn to
the normal school. The state superin-
tendent will notify each county, accord
ing TO the school population, the num-
Der Of scholarships that can be given
out.
The Law Is Quoted.
In regard to certificates and diplomas,
the law says:
Holders Of normal scholarships shall
be required to declare their intentions to
complete the prescribed work Of nor
NAL instruction for q degree, diploma or
certificate. and after completion of such
work, TO teach in the public schools of
this state The president of the
university may at any time cancel, for
neglect or incompetenCy, the normal
scholarship of any student, and he may
require, upon such cancellation, the
payment TO the university of all fees
uneXacted by reason of the scholar
ship. Holders of teachers certificates
issued by the school of education of the
university shall be entitled, without
further examination as to scholarship,
to teach the grades or subjects men
toned in the certificates for a period of
five years after such certificates are is
sued. Holders of teachers grammar
grade diplomas thus issued shall be en-
titled thereafter to teach In the ele-
mentary schools without examination
as To scholarship; provided, that the
holder of such diploma after having
had two years of successful experience
in teaching in this state shall be enti-
tied to a life grammar grade diploma
10 be issued by the state board Of edu-
cation"
These appointments viii be made in
the near future. and the first applicants
for free scholarships will be given first
call. superintendent Christensen ad-
vises prospective teachers. who have
gone through the High school, to make
application for the scholarships at once.