Show THE B Y ACADEMY Chose of hue First Term Iourlcentl VcaJtnilc lear Yesterday IitIIIY Academy at Provo closed Its first term of the present academic year after period per-iod of very successful work The following is an extract from the principals report There have been registered during dur-ing thi term 350 students This number exceinis the altcndiuce at the same term 01 last year by 2 3 making this the largest attendance since the fire The Xornnl Department con sJsting of 97 students has exceeded the number of the previous year by 10 thus reaching an attendance uiiexpeetcd as it Is unprecedented testifying to the high appreciation in which its labors arc held among the two le Tho great demand for teachers during the fall of this year compelled com-pelled us to release several of our normals though not sufilcienl prepared pre-pared to take position in Chureh sehool and to act as teachers in the district schools All normals have had prutlcal work either teaching classes or attending at-tending occasionally to repetition work The General Board of Idiication has recognized tI i e BrIgham Young Academy as the It itter < Jiy Saints Xormal College uot only on account ac-count of the large number of students attending our normal detriment de-triment but also I becauso by far uic greater rniyoii ui an uui Church school principals and I teachers are gnduati3 of this institution and thcIJ Y Acadeni is the pioneer and protot ti of nil recently started Church schools I This circumstance Imposes upoui lie Hearth of Trustees and the Faculty hue utility of making continued exertion ex-ertion in order no only to maintain our present standing i u this cai cily but to prepare heft hue greater demands which the future with its educational clopments will make upon it I Iiio theological work has been conducted as heretofore and all our I students ringing from the Deacon to the hIgh Priest hive had ample I opiortunlt tomagnlf their calling The nonmi mltrs and lay members hive abe had their dutks to per fonu Several laptisms conflrma lions and ordlnitlons hive teen attended at-tended to The sludenln from outside of Provo were dl triltod iu fifty one boarding places and visllvd I biweekly bi-weekly alI iuted visitors who make their reports at our domestic meetings The Church school orginlzalion of which the 15 Y Academy is apart a-part has since our last public ex amtnition entered UI oIIIIIO second I year of its official existence and consists already of three colleges nineteen Stake academies and five ittirdiy Haint seminancs In Ilhlhrtla which at vresent over COOO students This fa receive tlielr training cause for njoicing and for thIIks Civ ing unto the God of Israel who iiasadded to the primrus Sunday 1 schools and mutual improvement I associations another ngem to prepare I future pre-pare the youth of Xiou for the great I tJ > SlMl KKMUIKS Thus closes the first term of the foiirtetutli academic carina condition I I con-dition of prognss l mil prosperity which augurs troll for the future 1 hIke h1l1all tree that spreads its branches fir anti while to take roots I forthemsilvcs the llY Acadeni I I has een cf late similar inslitution I sjringing up throughout 111111 con durtedb its jmpis organlzeil 1 after its ppttcrn and uniteil with itbv ill one spirit having 1 in view hue inruut aim ant Uing undir the same internal tore of the Genenl Au I tlioritles the hunch I If our lruJ tS III the post l have not ltn in vain if air faith in tin stability of the H Y Academy his i betn iriied ly Ito properity If our hope for its future devi lofment is rciting upon substantial ground I let us give thanks and glory to Him I who luts Ieu with this institution throughout all the dunging scenes of its existi nee and will not forsaki it if Hoard nnd Iacultv stilt serve Him III sincerity and in truth |