Show I l LI D S SCHOOLS TO CONSOLIDATE Movement Looking to Mormon University Takes Form BOARD REACHES DECISION LOCATION LIES BETWEEN LOGAN AND PROVO Tue rhe movement to consolidate the col 11 Institutions of oC the Saints looking to the of a a Mormon university has taken definite form The report that the Mormon church in intends intends tends to concentrate the college work ot of Its schools In one place was yesterday esterday b by Professor Profesor Horace Cum Cummings Cummings general superintendent of th church school system Professor Cum Cummings said The church school board has forma resolved that college work shall be done In only one Institution Location Remains Open Asked as to which church had llad been selected for the college work he It stated that no authoritative discussion on that poInt had as yet taken place J Fe explained however that the Salt Lake school was already out of the running since that school had attempted nothing for a year beyond high school grade and that therefore the candidates for th college work were the Brigham Young university at Provo Prove and the Brigham Young college at Logan LoJan The selection between these two said Professor Cummings will not he made at once for the coming school year the present conditions will not be die The question of the adviSAbility ot of coui Oil OilI the college work In the church I schools Is almost as old as the question with respect to the two state stat schools Many of the church leaders have lon long felt that If the church could afford to do college work at all It could not afford to 10 It In two or three widely separated institutions This feeling has grown with the growth of the Idea of what constitutes constitute a modern university and amI with the growth of the local ambitions ot of the administrative officers of oC each of oC the riyal rival schools Urge Ultimate Retirement Some members of oC the general board are convinced It Is said that the church should retire all Its schools from the field neld of work leaving that field 1 to the state institutions which the mEm mEmbers hers bers of the church by their taxes help heip to support and give glYe Its attention ed to establishing and church high schools As to whether thE present dl to concentrate the 01 I lege e work might not eventually l lead ad 1 this I Cummings was to venture an opinion The church schools toda today comprise t t far more elaborate system than most persons suspect There are all tol told 1 of these schools Of tins two are are In Canada seven in Mexico In Arizona and nine in Utah The Tha work done Is mostly of high school Three of tile tie smaller schools in Mexie give grammar grade work and the tt tw twin In etah which are rivals for the halll chant to grow Into a great church are the only ones which attempt college wor worA A characteristic of the system of whir Superintendent Cummings Is very proud Is its power to interest educationally young men and women who are arp too old or too large to study In classes with small boys and girls Professor Cummings eit i many cases case of men who have hae been lifted by the schools from an existence In which they did nothing but pound ponies arid arll cattle and chew tobacco Into one of 5 self lf respect and Influence Courses Are Uniform The courses And text books in the var varIous Ious bus schools are uniform and paral parallel l closely those of the state high school Theology Is the characterizIng church school study title this work In n fact is the tIto chief reason for the maintenance or of the thA schools On industrial sUbjects the church schools much Manual training cooking sewing bust busi business bustness ness law and methods are taught all ally and with th the aid of excellent equip equipment equipment ment Of late much interest has ben been aroused b by work In elementary agriculture ture tureA A out pupils are In attendance In Inthe inthe the church schools under the instruction of nearl fOO teachers Claims of Two Schools The Provo school will probably ba hae 6 its claim to the college work on Its size siz and situation It is considerably th the largest of the church schools boasting last y year nr of a registration of 1540 Unlike the school In Logan which Is next dor donI donIto dorto to the State Agricultural college th the Provo Prove school has no near rival rhal The sit situation in t h valle valley finally gives the school unsurpassed d opportunities for de development development In agricultural Instruction The Logan Loan school on the other hand will stress the fact that it has al always always ways led the church schools in amount of work of collegiate grade ade and In nurn num number ber of oC coll college students A comp comparison rison which may be made j 15 that of assigning the college colIee work to on Institution and the normal training work I to the other |