The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-30
News of St. Mary's

From Monday morning TO Friday after
noon examination was tho order OF the
! day at the academy, each class being
called before It's bureau OF examiners fol
one or two branches of study every dag
and the remaining time being spent in
preparing for the subject next to follow,
In the grammar and primary grades the
! examinations were all oral, each class
| In thc academic department had one oi
two written tests. The results OF these
semi annual examinations will be heard
| Mt the general assembly OF faculty and
students Monday morning, and "a bulletin
of each pupils credits Will then be for
warded TO her parents, While, OF course.
a few OF these reports may prove unsat
isfactory. by far tho most OF them will
| render credttablc testimony TO the dill
gence and success OF the students named
therein, and thus will they carry graf
flying messages TO those who arc so
deeply interested
The classes whose examinations were
all checked on by : o'clock Friday. were
reatlon thus afforded being a most well
come relief from the long continued
strain Of the preceding days. a mum
Der OF the book lovers, however, gladly
availed themselves OF the opportunity to
pay visit to the book fair There they
had the pleasure OF looking at some of
the rare and costly specimens OF the
shown by the ladies in charge The
chief object OF admiration was. of course.
those wonderful pages of artistic pen
bound In two large volumes entitled pic
Joral Orinthology." This work alone
would have been worth going far to see,
not only for the feast Of beauty IL spreads
for the lessons II so silently teaches of
patience, perseverance ana painStakinS
skin: and the glimpse il affords into
dclicately refined soul whose graces are
reflected in such exquisite lines upon
those pages dedicated to the birds she
must have loved so well.
Whatever degree OF devotion any other
art or science NAV boast OF In its fol-
lowers. II is safe to say that astronomy
yields to none Of them in the enthusiasm
OF its votaries at the academy. as was
plainly evinced on the comets first ap-
pearance In the skies OF Salt Lake. The
star -sazers had been waiting for some
time for a clear sky and a favorab bic
temperature. not only TO trace the win
OF the telescope and Professor Doolit-
tle's charts, to locate, il possible. Hal
leys comet The notice of the Harvard
students observation of the new comet
led one OF these watchers TO make
search in the direction given by his re-
port. and there, at an elevation OF about
. or 10 degrees. the faintest trace OF
something like comet was described In
the western sky. IL WAS not yet dark,
being only about twenty minutes after
six, and II was necessary To turn the
Telescope on inc OBJECT 10 make dsSuG-
ance doubly sure BY the time, how
ever. that the other sisters and pupils
were apprised Of the discovery, for such
indeed Il seemed il had grown dark.
and the comet was bright enough TO be
plainly seen with the naked eye. Many
OF those who had never before seen
comet fingered In speechless wonder un-
III II sank below the horizon. while 9TH
ers spent the time in looking through
the telescope at the beautiful evening
star. which. to their astonishment, they
found to be in its most interesting phase
that OF a crescent, and looking as one
Of It's enthusiastic admirers remarked,
ike "a darling little baby moon"
The work OF tine second semester viii
De taken up In all the departments Mon
lay morning. For most Of the classes
This will mean only Il continuation oil the
work already in hand. while for others
there will be quite a distinct change In
the programme The third academies
will begin English history in place OF
the history. OF France, which they have
lust completed: photography will he
substituted for United States history and
sivlcs In the eighth grade, and those
electing the teachers course Will take
up pedagogy and the history OF education
together with n thorough review of the
school BRANCHES, dropping for
this purpose the study OF psychology,
and astronomy.