| Show A Ulitll INS11IIII10 Sires list wo had occasion to I ftcUlly notice the work of the llrlg born Young academy Its sphere ol uietulnega bag been very much Inn i created In-n there Is I every prospect I I that U will retain the prestige It has maintained for twenty years Tho academy was the first tduca llonal Inttllutlou ouidej ty blat b-lat President Brlgbom Young He lultntloij to endow It lo tile extent 01 making It supporting ana deeds for That urloe were drawn up and awallcj only his signature t become operative His lu Iden death however lelt tho school wlthiut other aid than tuition for Its support Later the building purchased ly the founder was burned In the orouuJ during the tenth academic year flu little real 1 estate left It lu Provo city ciuld not be Sold and for seven years tile Insltu i tlon held forth In Impovld quarters rented from the Z C M I brand near the depot Hut Ireskont Yug did I not endow en-dow It financially he did tndiw II I educationally With Dr 1C U Matter am plLClpol and A O Bmuti as president of the boudmon wbi accepted theme petitions as life mis IonIb academy grew Dastard and Upward for JJItn years In the meantime mean-time Its present excellent quarters bad been completed on money borrowed by memtcrs of the hoard who pledged their private 1 r roperty and tiusted to the Lord for a way out of the dlfll cull Ur W ier wootbn callej tj be general superintendent of Church schools Rod Iof lleujamlu C uO was CIKBJU to nil big place In the academy Itwai plain that the lint Indian lId grown ue far as It could on the tuition plan cf support With UK eutracoe Into the now buildIng build-Ing It became necessary to lucreaie Us capacity fourfold that jet lOll er instead or one year courses of study had to bo provided for The Church appropriated means which mailed la make Its normal department practically free The re lilt wan lo treble Us turollmenl within with-in Iwoyoirt During hid 1oundor day October IG a three years collegiate course WHS added above the four years of the high school and thug a university training become Possible within the walls ol this Church School Four degrees are cllo vm That olnicblor 01 Pedagogy I U Id Jlacbelor of Science II 1 b hcbelan 01 1tttiB BLmnd 13icboorot Philosophy II B lo meet this txpausloLlu the course of Stadiums the ficjltj has bn ircreneed 10 IhllyI1 I members ixoluilve of special Itotul en aud u new building for the colligu depaltment Jn course of enoUaBcul of lunds subicrlboU by tUeruus patrons pa-trons of IholnBlllullou Hut the most fariaachlng event In the fortunes ol be llrlgham Young acadowy occurred less than a year ago when the Church formally took charge of all 118 Militia Twelve directors were elected last April by tLe body 01 the burch In general Conference asecuiblcd At n lucent meeting if this bmtj > 1rcaldeot Oeorge Q Cannon Can-non Was elected president Llder David John vice president stud Reed Hraoot chairman of the ixccutvj committee No comwenl Ia necellaj on the eUicllventei of much an oruac Izitlon It la I eminently fitting Hut the academy which mar 100 regaidtil as the alma nuter ot the Church school jIm which ties demonstrated III north by coming up through years ol tribulation arid wlikh Los had an I wide anti beneficent all lelluoolc the growth and velopm Ono 01 the people It Is eminently filling tail this Inilllutlou should lie a direct cot I earn ol every LatturJay Balut It will thus remain lu the future as ll Line beau In the paid an active em ibo i-bo lmout of tho spirit alIbi ulipen motion I |
