Show BRIGHAM YOUNG ACADEMY for alie fourteenth academic year MAY to the board of trustees the attendance during the XIV ace demic year bhoj a a total of students registered of whom attended 10 weeks 20 lt 30 94 au exceeding the number of last ear by 10 and making it the largest attendance dunns the last six years the attendance during the last twenty weeke shows a total of d 91 students as follows primary department 62 preparatory 72 intermediate lib academic 61 normal 80 one object in publishing th ss general statistic ii to demonstrate how comparatively ively limited as et 13 the number that bense the necessity of a thorough aad continuous training lor compain m alie number in attendance during 40 w beeks with that of a shorter time we and that the latter constitute by far the majority and one too greater than even of circumstances be ond control should justify A verv CL cou sin is alie artro e attendance atte nuance in alie intermediate department over that of fie primary and preparatory show ing as it deeb an ten dence abony the auth of zion toward more advanced studies the dass work dunne the past term conducted by the teachers and some normal students ia herewith presented as condensed from teachers reports THE jn compliance with instructions from the general board of education it became my duty to demote a barje portion of my time to isi tini church schools in various stakes of zion and tu make such arrangements as would insure the usual during my absence it 13 therefore not only ith satisfaction but also with feelings of grateful appreciation that I 1 can report the extra labors undertaken by my fellow teachers in order to maintain the reputation ind character of our institution bro joseph B keeler assumed the executive control of ademy and taught the ian class while aroa N L nelson and hyrum carried forward the work of the normal department careful reviews and examinations both written and oral have demonstrated that our students have suffered no serious disadvantage by this arrangement arrange munt BRO JOSEPH n KEELER in addition to the extra ties already alluded to Bro Keeler has L id charge 0 be department conducting in it a church chronology class of students grammer and composition class 36 commercial arithmetic 12 physical geography 41 Ablio nomy 15 geology 12 four bookkeeping 61 students together and a commercial penman ahia class of 65 students he also presided over tho domestic organization of which d report appears further on the labors of bro feeler aa assistant treasurer have been arduous and trying in many respects all the teachers realize that much credit is due him for the judicious management of this branch of our service URO NELS L KELSON As stated already bro nelbon conducted the senior normal class during my absence from the academy in addition to chich his own classes were aa follows intermediate theology with students english literature and composition 7 practical arithmetic A 32 elocution dea 1 crip tive geography 1 al history and hygiene 98 phonetics latin 3 spanish 2 and intermediate penmanship Penmen ship with students in addition to this regular class work bro nelson had charge oi the normal department and the theological boreani and acted as secretary of the faculty BRO A L BOOTH had charge of the intermediate department part ment and in addition to the duties of department teacher conducted follow in class is preparatory theology A with 86 students rhetoric A and composition 9 algebra A 7 2 geometry classes with 6 together trigonometry 5 surveying 4 general history 13 and logic 20 he conducted also during the last 10 beeks a special review grammar class for normal graduates bro boath has also acted during the year as Chairman of the cal society and as custodian over the inventory and premises oi the academy B had charge of the preparatory department part ment and conducted following classes preparatory theology with 86 students rhetoric B and composition 13 practical arithmetic B 44 algebra B 5 physics 5 physiology 35 advanced drawing GO normal drawing 9 intermediate in addition to which ii class in hygiene for normal graduates was conducted by him during the last five weeks lie also conducted several scientific excursions with our students at which many specimens of value were obtained and analyzed bro isgreen haa acted w registrar during ane past yead and kept alie records of this academy in very creditable shape BRO ANDERSON had charce of the inary department and conducted in addition to this the following classes primary theology with 02 students higher english B and composition 70 practical arith melic C V readers normal 17 S history Hist orv classes with 22 students and preparatory penmanship with 63 and the J buor formal class as stated already deriu the principals absence bro has also been our acting librarian of which labora a separate report will appear in the proper place GILES conducted the choir with 28 two singing clashes with 85 students to ind a class in theory of music for the normal graduates he conducted besides the bingin at most of our devotional exercises and the musical selections at alie Poly society LAURA I lotfi condu ted alie ladies tork lour times every week during the after noun sessions anil met youn lad students aery tuesday at 3 p m reports US bounk ladies enrolled eo rolled in her department arranged in four classes OTTILIE conducted ohp instrumental and reports 22 lessons on ali oran three days in the eek ure devoted to eliat branch of study FORMAL AS gacser elementary geobra phy as jenann 15 students Ir spir atory 27 alexander niela conducted a class in phonetic yat annl history 27 students bicholas yi cholas elementary arithmetic A 12 students stu deats john E dalley practical arithmetic C 64 students elias olsea succeeded hyrum hadj E 11 student joy dunyon graded english B and compositions 63 t james brown higher english 0 and Compost io jolin mills spanish class B 6 stu deot ada john firlit readers A 5 students cora reader B 2 atu tf matry D en geography 63 stude its primary drawing 63 students geo F shelley succeeded susie Wede Elementary english 56 students julia alleman elementary arithmetic B 12 students bryant hinckley and joseph arsen III readers 34 students amelia fillerup primary orthography aud 59 students minerva kiddle succeeded bv mime scott II 11 readers 13 a samuel II 11 smith preparatory arithmetic B 10 students joseph mcgregor succeeded bv auther ball primary arithmetic A and B 29 students mahel pratt primary penmanship 66 students aobert Sk olton succeeded john johnson graded english students these statistics show that there have been at work besides the principal 8 22 normal instructors conducting 97 daily recitations and being in frequent consultation with the principal about their respective class work The plans laid out for the various been filled in the most of instances the weekly work carefully reported in the register of the studies and reviews held at frequent intervals have shown very satisfactory results THE department which show s registered students for the whole year has never before been in sucha condition owing to the unexpected increase in the num berof our church schools ech and the great demand for suitable teachers many of our senior biad to be taken from their studied and sent to take temporary charge of church School sand have under gods blessings performed their 1 task creditably to themselves and bothi several practical teacher irive been attending the normal department during alie winter and from dia trier schools in karoue parts of the ter 1 calls for teachers were responded to twenty terye of our are graduating thia season for the church school set vice theological organization the plan ot tins organization has been followed carefully in every respect a in previous years and its operations have been attended with equally beneficial results alie students have been registered ecclesiastically for the ahola year as follows 1 9 seventies 15 elders 32 priests 19 teachers 90 deacons lay members 24 not yet baptized 22 non bembera mem bera total there were held during this term 19 theological meetings 16 theological repetitions 19 priesthood meetings 19 missionary meetings in which were carried out programmed pro grammes so made as to secure the widest ranee of practical in theology to the greatest number of students DOMESTIC the students sti dents were tabulated domestically jor the whole academic year aa follows from provo 37 american fork 12 lehi 3 alpine 3 spanish fork 3 payson 9 santaquin San goshen 13 cedar fort 1 lake view 3 benjamin 3 fairfield 1 salt lake county 19 thoele tooele 3 sanpete San pete 22 iron 22 iron 7 beaver 8 emery 4 millard 7 tah 13 wasatch 9 summit 1 Sevier JO washington diute piute 3 weber I 1 colorado 1 arizona 1 nevada 8 total TUE polya 0 SOCIETY reports following statistics for year sessions held 27 lectures delivered 23 songs 16 instrumental pieces 28 literary exercises 41 questions answered 15 miscellaneous exercises 8 parties held 8 the faculty has noticed with much satisfaction the growing interest taken by the general public in the exercises 0 alie society TUB catalogue catalo guo bound volumes pamphlets and periodicals making an increase inci ease over last year of 34 volumes 99 pamphlets and 87 periodicals examinations are 15 graduating this spring tor the intermediate and 9 for the primary grade in the church school service ncy in academic studies after a through have been awarded as follows soot keeping john H dalley 95 per cent jos larson 93 geo shelly 91 geo 90 alex Thorn tori 90 andrew morgan 90 eugene wines 90 alfred moyle 85 joy W dunyon 85 jos nelson 81 john peterson 81 james brown 80 spanish john M mills 91 eugene wines 87 elocution miss may bickley Bic klev 93 bern F luke 88 monitorial SYSTEM to alie domestic visitors theological and to all those that have officiated so faithfully during the year in repetition and in due work to the of the various classes secretaries of meetings and to all sacral appointees from among the the faculty desires me to espies the cultivation of a public spirit and of alie sense of its COT responding responsibilities is one of our objects m distributing among our students different duties of a general nature aside from their regular class work the monitorial appointments have been as follows monitor theological organization emil maeser monitor domestic organization charles dorins monitor normal department john holmson monitor music department 0 A bates andrew morgan monitor academic department benj bannett secretary Poly society miss A v brown CLOSING i fourth of april fourteen years ago thi academy open ed with twenty nine students and myself the only teacher aud the range of studies did not extend beyond th fifth reader grade DO one imagined thit in that germ of a system had been ain its gradual development was to penetrate with its ramifications throughout all the borders of zion stretching its branches like a banyan tree asi far and wide to into the ground each one assuming the characteristics of individual growths it was the lords planting and therefore the drought of ignorant indifference could not dry it up nor could the storms of opi antion uproot it ncr the sneers of adverse criticism despoil it there was only only one man who with prophetic eye corsaw necessity for the establishment of an educational system among the latter day saints which while it should be calculated to prepare the youth for the responsibilities of their reat destiny would point out at the same time the direction in which alio solution of all religious social and 71 problems might alone be found that i in submission to the advice of divine revelation in all bamps tamps like little school children in their i first lessons we have wrestled with our task and have been it growing upon us one we found it to be a stepping stone to a a greater one solving one problem it proved to be the key only to increased perplexities achieving our success we saw openings before us the perspective of yet higher blessings the number of twenty cinc students in this academy at thet beginning fourteen years ago has increased to exactly twenty nine church schools with over four thousand students throughout zion and yet the brigham young academy has none of her vitality but is nursed by th e faith affection fec tion and of thousands that have been bene fitted by that spirit with which the lord has been pleased to bless our humble labora multiplying hem spiritually and intellectually as lie has multiplied a few fish es to feed a multitude in days old r principal |