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Show aa will please both old and young. ,'We are constantly increasing, in knowledge and in uumbers. Today the high school including normals, Acadomic3, aud kindergarten, kinder-garten, has three hundred and eighty pupils. The college has ninteen, commercial college thirty nine and the primary school one hundred fifty four. The kindergarten and primary school moved to a building just two doors north of the post office, last winter, and are now very much pleased with their new quarters. Monday, November the first, our Preparatory or sub-freshman department de-partment will be opaned. This is for young men and women who have had no chanc3 for an education, educa-tion, Hud are desirous of obtaining one; but are not far enough advanced advanc-ed to enter the high-school, and jdo riot feel like entering the CORRESPONDENCE. Provo City, Utah, Oct 29, 1897. Editor Union. The Academy has now reached its twenty second year aud it is destined to be one of the most eventful jrears in her history. Her influence is felt throughout Utah and many of the sourround-iug sourround-iug states and territories. Some of the best missionaries that are in the fields and some of the best that have been in the field are our Academy boys. Since the beginning of school this winter win-ter five of our anmber have been called away to preach the Gospel and we are sure they will do honor to the cause they represent and to the institnfi n. Who can estimate the good this school has done? The Academy has four student wards, known as the Domestic wards, which are each presided primary school. This department depart-ment will have someof the best teachers in the Academy and where there are some more backward th in ot'vsrs special speci-al teachers will b appoint 3d t) take charge of them. I woul I advise e3iy young m in aud wotn.in, who are biokword to come. The tuitioti is ($10.00) ten dollars for twenty weeks. fiet u all, by constant ell'ort, Learn the maxi n, while there' time, That no matter what our nation, We can nlw.iy woik and ciiino. Let lis all be up and doiujr, Learn the laws of G t divine, That when life c shori day i ended, We may ruah the golden ciime. Kaie lsoin, H. Y. A. over by a president and two councilors coun-cilors and a member of the Faculty. From these wards visiting teachers teach-ers are sent out e ich month, to visit every boarding house. The duty of these teachers is to find-out find-out whether there are any ill feelings feel-ings existing t iward te.-ichers or the school; to encourage them au l explain what is required of them as studon Wuat student of the Academy is there, that has 11 t felt the influence influ-ence of kind feelings and of God's Holy Spirit directing him in his daily work and cheering him when lonely or ill? If auy one wishes to hear sincere and powerful testimonies testi-monies let him come to our testi- mony meetings, and I am sure he will remark, as Jacob of old, "surely "sure-ly the Spirit of God is in this place." The Academy has done much to refine both boys and girls. Students Stud-ents come from the farm, from the ranch and from various vocations of life, but to the Academy they are gentlemen as long as they behave be-have themselves in a manly way. No matter whether the student be in the first reader or in the graduating grad-uating class, rich or poor, the faculty fac-ulty and pupils will treat them with duo respect as long as the person is worthy of it. A year ago last Founder's day, which occurs on the 16th of October, Oct-ober, a college department was founded and to-day a building is in course of erection on the east ground. This is to be completed by Feb. 1st, 1898, and the College students will move into their new home." Another object of great importance, impor-tance, that lias just come before the public is the Academy paper, known as the White and Blue. It gives full account of all class work done in the Acadomy and has many good moral stories such |