Show A large attendance of students devotional EXERCISES priesthood It leetin and domestic organizations secret of success the academy is these I 1 days swarming with students like a human beehive bee hive the faculty is at a loss to find room for them an enquirer representative was present this morning at devotional exercises and fondd the spacious hall filled to flowing there were three sitting on many benches designed for only kwoi and then a score or more of young men bad to stand in the aisles thia great congregation was composed cot of children chil dien but of robust young men and women the members of the school in the preparatory department meet in the gentral building to hear fihs ihs academy choir slag under the direction of prof lund is well worth a to the building during devotional exercises there are about thirty members in the choir and they act a great deal 0 emotion into their anthems A beautiful quartet was rendered in the anthem this morn huby damec soprano and miss beese alto the faces of the students beam with intelligence and they appear to critic ize all that is eaid in giving out notices principal cluff announced that a certain class too large for one room would be divided and prof guy 0 wilson pieced in charge until a suitable teacher could be secured the error was at once detected and tha students tittered prof olaff bad to make the correction until another suitable teacher could ba secured large as the congregation was there was perfect decorum in going to the various class exercises friday mornings priesthood meetings and domestic meetings are alternately held semimonthly this morning an hour was devoted to priesthood and religious meetings the de acona teachers and priests being the more numerous held their meetings separately but the Melchi priesthood eldera and seventies met together the young ladies held a separate meeting and non cormons mormons and lay mem bars ere in another room there are about forty non cormons mormons in attendance they and the lay members study ethics for an hour while the other associations deal with theological su suited to their calling the domestic organizations of the academy will report next friday the city is divided into four domestic wards with an elder presiding over each just as does a bishop of the ward visiting committees answering the office of teachers call at all the boarding places at least once a month and furnish as siB tance in caso of sickness at each boarding place where two or more students hold forth one is appointed senior who takes chare of prayers and sees tee students edep reasonable hours aid otherwise properly conduct themselves the seniors aro required to maee at least monthly reports and to report as often as necessity may otherwise require the students own the school as far as they properly deport themselves they organize their various associations by popular vote and everything is as democratic as it is possible to make it bat the professors principal cluff explained are in deep sympathy with the work of the students and all teachers aim to be one with them glasses are kept down to such a number forty is about the limit as will give a teacher an opportunity port unity to aleain aad develop the in traits of each student that is the secret of our success said the principal in answer to a question of the reporter as to the secret of the Acad success the teachers are one with the students prof Q H bramhall was asked the the same question what is the secret 0 the Acad success it is work he replied work on the part of the faculty houi during the school and out of it another professor who by the way was once a journalist was asked the same question and he answered advertising perhaps neither answer lully covers the question all three answers would come nearer doing so but whatever it is the good spirit ot the brigham young academy is growing year by among the young people of zion and they coma to provo in increased numbers each year to gain education this year marks an increase on last years attendance and so it has been for the last four ing the business busi nesa depression soon the students will cry out to the church with one give us room that we may dwell |