Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-03
UNIVERSITY NEWS

| 1t has been decided, at the sugges-
| ton OF the regents OF the universitt,tt
| submit the proposed incidental fee Of
! SIS which every student will be expected
| to pay on entrances to the university, 10
! Il secret ballot Of the students, the de-
sire being to make no mistake about
making the change. The fund raised
in this way Will go to foster and Slls-
tain student activities, Il
The department Of education OF the
has recently completed ar
5rangements in the course OF study,
making it possible to- grant special
teachers certificates to students visa
Ing to teach special high school su b :.
iects. There has been a. great demand
throughout the state for high school
teachers. that has been hard to All
with competent persons. The scholastic
requirements for high school teachers.
diplomas has kept many good special
teachers out OF the profession, and the
department has seen fit to rnake9tt pos
sible to provide the state with teachers
most competent to teach special sub,
jects.
Students preparing for the profession
OF high school teaching are required to
take a great amount of educational
work. This special course provide les that
the student shall make a major of the.
subject he wishes to teach and pro-
lfessional work consisting of psychology,
science OF education, secondary educa-5
ton. and secondary training. The re-
.quired work In chemistry and physics,
In the engineering courses Is sufficient
and the work in the medical course Is
ample for teaching biology In nigh
schools. 8. Hence students in these,
schools who find it necessary to teach
will only be required to take the pre-
scrlbed work in education,
y "A secondary training school Is to be.
opened next September for practise
work In secondary training. The pres
Ont preparatory school Will be elimin-i
ated,Sand only students holding normal
scholarships will be enrolled. The work
Of the secondary training school is&toJ
be more regularly organized than the,
preparatory school has been in the past,
and the aim of the school will be to.
illustrate the special methods of teach
ing and to bring theory and practise
directly under one supervision. The
board OF regents has appointed Prof.
Milton Bennion director OF the second;
airy training school.
The associated students OF the univer-1
sity held q very spirited meeting last
week, atwhich the officers for the COM
Ing school year were nominated, ana
the redrafting OF the constitution was
considered. The meeting was opened
by singing OF America by the choir and
students and reading by Prof Bah
cock after which the constitution was
taken up. 1t was found that the $40.
dent body has been doing uiconstitu-
ttional business for the past two years
The constitution provides that the of
Z flee of secretary and treasurer shall he
filled by one person; this has been
ignored for some time. The letters
awarded the basketball and track men
were found to be Inconsistent and the
wearing of the u by the senior nor
mails Is not provided for. 1t was de-
cided that the entire constitution should
be redrafted. ii5l
The following officers for the follow
ing year were nomInated:
observation-disclosures Alley, Frank John
son.
Vice Presidential a. Anderson, c.
IT. Woodbury., 54
Secretary Misses Nora schekel and
Gene Williams.
Treasurer Robert Goodwin, IL a.
Whitmore.
Student Representative on Athlete
Council Harry Alley, v. l.. Oleson
Dell Judd, Ed Horsefall and Arthur II.
| C.randall.
Debatlng Manager--L. L. Perry.
81 Editor of Chroncle-D. NJ. Draper
and George Roberts.
Faculty Representative on Athletic
| Councillor. John Sundwall and DIR
| A. L. Hartmann. .- .-..a.