Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-29
Will be Received at the Bryant
And the Jefferson
Schools.
HIGH SCHOOL 0vERCR0WDED
Taxed 10 Its Limit Provision l. Made
Elsewhere for Pupils Who VIII
Graduate In June.

cided to group tho eighth grade pupils
together this year and permit those
who intend to take high school courses
later TO commence their studies In
modern languages and algebra. The
change is an innovation OF the strong
est character and I'm many respects
marks Salt Lake city as a leader in
the advancement Of education and the
devislng OF the best means 10 be cm-
ployed to encourage the young mind
To appreciate the value of learning.
In order to give all thorough un
Outstanding of the reason of the
change, Supt Christensen has isaued
tho following statement;
AS the high school will be taxed TO
It's limit 90 receive all of the eighth
a graduates of last June, IL Will be
necessary to make provision elsewhere
for pupils who viii finish the eighth
grade at mid year, the present eighth
a classes. They viii be received In
two centers. the Bryant and the Jeffer-
son. whore they will remain for the
whole year and where the courses will
be so organized as to permit them To-
complete the eighth grade and also TO
cover about one-half OF the FIRST years
high school work. They will he able,
therefore. to enter high school I'm Sep
EQUAL to about one semesters work.
The Bryant in Its contemplated or
ganizatinn Is intended primarily as
preparatory or intermediate school for
students who intend to enter high
school and in all essential respects II
will be similar to the east side high
school which did some preparatory
work in this building several years ago
one modern Language will be offered IN
| the seventh grade and one or two lan~
p,nages and some other elementary
high school work in the eighth year.
some OF the more difficult and abstract
work OF the eighth grade viii he de-
| ferred until the FIRST year OF high SCHOOL
MANUAL TRAINING.
A well equipped Kitchen will provide
| admirable facilities for the teaching
| OF cooking and Housekeeping TO seventh
| and Eighth grade girls, and wen
| equipped manual training snop WIN We e
| available for boys. The teaching OF
modern languages will be under the
Immediate charge of Edward DuPoncet
(Ph.D.. Heidelberg University a I'm
| guist of some note. All other SUBJECTS
| win be taught by teachers whose WORK
| I'm the city schools and elsewhere mas
| given them an enviabe rank in the
| studies they will teach. Mr., p D. Kee-
| Ter who has been the head OF the Wen
| a,ar since IL was opened will be the
| new principal Of the Bryant. IL is
| hoped that SIR pupils living within hve
| TO seven blocks OF the Bryant VIII vol
| unfairly enroll there.
| In view of the fact that from SIS per
| cent 10 IS per cent Of all Eighth grade
| graduates enter high school. II Ia be
| Iisyed that the demand for courses or
| this kind will he such ms 10 make ~ ad
| visahle IN the near future ~ establish
| preparatory schools Of this type In sew
| eral parts Of the city.
| So far as may he practicable the
work in the Seventh and Eighth grades
| of the Jefferson will he similar To that
| I'm tho Bryant. A well-equipped man
| nal training room is now In the Jener
| son and the equipment for domestic
science IL now being Installed. Miss
| LYDIA Palmer who has spent several
years abroad will have charge OF the
| modern language work, and expert
teachers will give instruction In the
other special subjects MIR. w J. Nc
| Gov the principal Of the jefferson
school. who formerly organized the
east side high school will have general
charge Of the work
NEW TERRITORY.
on July there was added to Salt
Lake city for school purposes sec
ton living between Eleventh and
Twelfth South and Third and Seventh
East which comes naturally into the
Waterloo district, the east boundary
| OF which has for several years been
seventh East This newly annexed tor
ritory has a school population Of at
least 800 and these children must be
received In the Waterloo building.
which was last year filled TO its limit
from its own territory With all pos
sible haste the board is constructing
new building, which when finished
will perhaps surpass In some points OF
excellence any other school building
I'm the city or In the state Pending
its completion. however, u will he
necessary TO work under conditions not
| altogether favorable. The teachers and
| principal accept the situation cheer
fully and viii do the best work that
can be done In an overcrowded build
ing, and the patrons undoubtedly Will
be patient and considerate and ex-
tend to the teachers and principal a
sympathetic cooperation. Half day
sessions may be necessary even as
high as fifth or sixth grade. Until
mid year the seventh and eighth grade
children will be received I'm the JEFF
ferson. should any parents be willing
to pay street car transportation, ar
rangements can be made 20 send
some seventh and eighth grade pupils
to the Lafayette or TO other inside
schools until tho new building Is con-
structed.
| GRANT CROWDED.
| When the jefferson was opened II
was believed that a sufficient number
OF pupils would be taken from the
Grant to permit the closing OF one or
two small rooms. which do not meet
all sanitary requirements. This hope,
however was not realized and the
necessity for using the entire building
still continued. The desired end viii
be attained this year by transferring
all eighth grade pupils from the
Grant school. giving two additional
rooms.
While Il is hoped that all sB pu-
pills I'm the Lincoln and Grant dis
tricts win go to the Jefferson. a room
for those living I'm tho northern part
Of these two districts will be opened
In the Fremont, should a sufficient
number apply there
Pupils In the eighth-B class residing
in the Riverside district will enter the
Poplar Grove or the Franklin. Those
In the Lincoln and Grant districts may
attend the Jefferson. or. n moro con-
venient. they may go To Fremont
where an eighth-B class VIII be or
ganized. owing TO the large prospcc-
tive enrolment In the Sumner II will
he necessary IN the interests Of the
Younger children to assign the eighth
n class OF this school to other build
ings They win he received in the
| Rrvant aud In the Jefferson Some