Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more
Image provided by: Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ
Newspaper Page Text
" awtM THK COCOX1XO srx. I EDUCATIONAL PAGE. WWWVWWWVVWVWWV1 KDUH) II V MAl.VfcltN DlMMlCk. The Text Book Change Changes in the text Imm!:- are al way annoying uwl usually expensive, too; yet then uro times when changes bcuomu necessary, or at least expedi ent. It was the opinion of this territo rial Itoaril of education that the lime was ripo for a change lift summer, anil now liooks in part u ere adopted In that ImhIv. We have heard miiiii' lninua tioiiH that theio wax a "jolt put up" in making tho deal. This may 1m- true or it may not he. We shall not presume to say. Whatever may lie the truth in the premises, two f.iets eommendatory of the change, stand out elear and IhiIiI. First, the newly adopted books'are first class and modern in the best accepta tlon of the term. The geographies have b.vn f nun the piess less than a ye.ir, unci were prepired by .lai:iues W. Keduiiy and Husell Hlnman, two nf the liest geographers in the i nited S.utos. They take the same rank am ing ediie.it ion il wor.-that the latest improved machinery doe- among the appliance Used in the meehauie.il arts. Tit same may Ik -aid of the language 1. .!. and physiologies, while the civil gucrnment and the arithmetics are far superior to thoe in former use. in theocond pl.uv, thu prices of the ue.v l).Kik are considerably less than werci the prlue-i of the books which Ihey repluee: and, moreover, the prices of tlie liooks not changed were consid erably reduced. For instance, tho price of the tiftli reader is cut down from $l.:i5 to 1: of the advanced geography from 41. (Ml to tl. 40, and similar redue lion were made all along tho line. So the consumers of text liooks in this ter ritory may licit some consolation in the fact that they will spend during the next four or live years many dollar less for liooks than they would had the old contracts been renewed. The following telegram needs no ex planation: N. (I. l,.ijton. FliuMuR. I'KKSCOTT. AlilZ.. Sept. U0. Text book question is settled ill favor of the new liooks. ". F. AlNSWOItTH, Attorney Cieneral. She Wa Providing for the Future. . That little children, girls particularly are quite as amusing sometimes as they arc innocent is well Illustrated by the following: A little K-year-old girl, whose mother was from home, took dinner witli her uncle. Dinner being a little later than usual, the uncle wrote her an excuse to Use in case she should be tanh. When asked in thu evening if she had been tardy, she said shohadiol. ''Well.'' said her uncle, 'did you give yoiirexcus'lo the teach ery" "Oh, no." she was quick lore ply: "I put it my desk to use some other time." Sam I'.irkei was enrolled in the eighth grade last Monday anil Louis nurnx in the ninth on the same day. This make- the membership of the eighth grade fourteen six girls ami eight Isiys and that of the ninth grade thirteen ten girls anil three boys and gives the second gramm ir department an enrollment of twenty-seven. Since tin: new text Im.iks have been introduced the elassjxarc well supplied with books and are accomplishing bet ter results than before. Since the opening of school the order A and class work have steadily improved. bfc. txrBteSSiX; Ujppvwm StlLLKSKKBtkammBmmm