Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-04

stcuctor IN classical languages. Mrs.
Shields q q graduate OF the Nazarene
university md has brilliant record
as Il student. Her work in this de-
partmcnt will be OF u high order.
Principal B. w. Shaver will have
charge OF the grammar school. The
school is fortunate in securing the
services of Principal Shaver as
head of the grammar Schoolgirls wide
experience both as teacher and
as principal insuring the greatest pos
sibe success In this important work.
A high standard Of classroom work
viii be maintained at all times and
much attention given to Bible study
and religious training.
Mrs G. NJ. Kenyon will be the pri-
mary teacher. She is an experienced
| teacher, having spent 10 years in the
schoolroom and having served also as
| principal. Her education was receiv-
ed in the Renicl high school and the
! Holiness Collegiate Institute of New
Florence, Mo. She is at present car
rying work in the Idaho Technical in
sttute at Pocatello. Mrs, Kenyon is
intensely interested in school work,
! especially the work of Holiness schools.
Miss Letha Jones will act as record
er and secretary to the dean. Her wide
experience in business life and her
practical training as teacher insure
| the greatest efficiency in this import
ant department of the work.
| The board of trustees of the institu-
tion is composed of the following well
known business men whose personal
regulations and well known business
| integrity serve to commend the insti-
tuition to the public through their as
sociation with 1t:
Eugene Emerson, president; j. w.
Hunt. vice presidents; Harry W. Nc
Hose, secretary; Serman Ludlow,
treasurer; II. orion Wiley. x-officio,
president of college; Walter II. Tullis,
financial agent; Lewis |. Hadley, Lota
Channel. w C. Eichenberger. DIR. d. e.
Standard, DIR. l.. f. Hubbard, Fremont
/ Dooley.
The completion the past year OF the
new high school building at an approx
innate expenditure of SCI 900, gives ad !
ditional emphasis to the proportions of
educational progress attained by the
city and evidences it's citizenship to
be of that progressive type so essen
tial to the continuing progress and
development of a city. The building
Is magnificent structure of the Cali
fornia renaissance type of architecture,
embodying the most modern idea in
school buildings, that of one story
The interior contains Is class rooms
and spacious auditorium with a seat
ing capacity foi 1000 people.
EFFICIENCY IN SCHOOLS.
Through the efforts of City School
Superintendent c. j. Brosnan. the
school has been raised to the highest
point of efficiency and made compar-
able to the high school of any other
city in the state. For long number
of years, Professor Brosnan has been
very prominently identified with the
educational work of the state, and he
ranks with not only the ablest educat-
ors of the state, but OF the entire
northwest. He has under his direction
a highly efficient corps of teachers
and the standard of the work of the
school is constantly being raised. But
recently the school was made a men,
Der of the State Standardization league
and in the near future the scholastic
strength of each student will be re-
corded through comparison with that
OF not only his fellow students, but
also from a study of the work Of the
students of other leading schools
throughout the country. Vocational
training is one OF the phases OF edu-
cation which Superintendent Brosnan
is giving special emphasis with a view
to preparing the students OF this city
for the work of life. He is firmly inn
pressed that lack Of specialization has
been the most pronounced defect OF
educational training in the past. How
ever, while 1t is his purpose to keep
the schools of this city entirely free
form this defect he Is not allowing the