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Show has graduated in Eastern Colleges. ,The school offers two excellent courses of Btudy; the Normal and the Commercial, giving a thorough course in each. Besides the two main courses the school furnishes acourse for the educating of Sunday Sun-day School, and Mutual Improvement Improve-ment work assistents. The students have for reference an excellent library containing be- j tween three and four thousand volumes. The books may be drawn at any time during the day by the students. There are students representing every county and nearly every town in Utah. There are twenty from Arizona, four from Mexico, and in all seven States and Territories Terri-tories are represented. The study most emphasized hero is Theology. It is the aim of the school to have one of the twelve Apostles lecture to the students stu-dents each week. This will be a great aid in this grand study. Apostle Lyman visited the school last Friday (the 14th) and gave a very able lecture. Apostle John W. Taylor lectured Feb. 18th in a very interesting manner. There is also given each Friday evening, by the Polytsophical Society, So-ciety, a lecture by one of the most noted men of the west. Hon. B. 3L Koberts will lecture -No. 5. . '. " . Friday next his subject is . the morning of our civilzation. . Lewis Bastian, B. Y. A., Provo City, Feb. 20, 1896. CORRESPONDENCE. Editor Union: Thinking it might be of some interest to the readers of your paper, I pen you a few items relating relat-ing to tho B. Y. Academy. There are in attendance at present over nine hundred students including the Preparatory school. The institution employs 27 tea-chars, tea-chars, nearly every one of whem ! |