| Show I I I i i Healthy Growth of Thirty I I t L D S Church Schools i t I MOST OST healthy and an encouraging A growth Is witnessed this year ear j jIn i t ti I In the LaHer lY Saint schools the tho attendance atten thus far In the tho thoy y year mr being larger than ever everI I Since the beginning of tho the Church school system s J JI In lS 5 by b the establishment establish establishment I ment of the tho Brigham Young academy I j at Provo tho the number of schools has lias grown Brown to 30 representing a total value l I of upwards of The maintenance I 1 nance account now foots up to the large arge sum of or approximately of which i Is met by the tho Church from the I fund 1 General Supt Horace H Cummings who returned from New York Dec li ll I after att r an absence of oC six or seven s seven ven weeks week reports special stress being laid this I I 1 I I I year on the missionary classes which are being ben held In connection with each cach cacho of o these the e schools the tho Idea l ca being to as ns assist 1 sis In furnishing better material for forth forthe UI th thi the missions of the world This feature of the Church educational work IB is I growing and Supt Sup Cummings hopes u to tn see IW the he time in the near future when lion the schools will turn out GOO COO mission missionaries missionarIes missionaries aries a year yonI Committees have hwe Just been appointed for tor the tho consideration of or text books for Cor forthe Corthe the year and publishers In the I 1 t have been notified of their names Their duties will be he to pass paSH on the text textbooks t books printed and an report to the annual teachers ton convention which will meet next June The effort of oC the board beard of education to supply their own teachers filchers is I also meeting with success This year rear there are over ocr college stu students students dents taking the teachers course at Provo and If IC this branch of or the Church t school system continues to o grow at the thet t same pace It will not be bo long lont before its i benefits will be bo felt fell throughout the tho thuI I chain of schools reaching from Mexico In the south through Arizona Utah f Colorado Wyoming and Idaho to J I Canada In the north S At the present pr ent time lime numbers of future 1 j teachers tea hers In these schools are being i trained In New York and other eastern i cities Great benefit Is being derived Supt Cummings says saye from the educe fund of the Church schools 1 i S which Is contributed by b tho the teachers J voluntarily and consists of Yz t of 1 per percent percent percent cent of their salaries This amount Is IB IsI I duplicated by b the Church and loans loana are arb I then rondo made at a 0 low rate of or Interest to tot toI I t I t 1 S it teachers who wish to lo extend exten their edu education education education cation in the cast east after aCter they the furnish satisfactory security The is s paid pal back bade by them and n loaned again thus UIUS becoming a perpetual per fund CHURCH SCHOOLS The following list contains the names locations and an enrollment of the Church schools now provided for by b the general genel l Church board of education c taken from Crom the statistical report June 30 1009 1909 1 Brigham Young college Logan Utah Uth SIC 2 Brigham Young Youn university Provo Utah 1469 3 Saints university Salt Lake City Utah 1300 4 4 Weber Y b r academy Ogden Og en Utah Uth 3 St George O academy aca emy St 81 George Utah new number guaran guaranteed guaranteed teed tc 11 C G Snow academy Ephraim Utah 7 Murdock ock academy Beaver Utah 5 S SEmel Emery Stake academy aca cm Castle Dale Utah 2 9 Uintah stake academy Vernal Utah 10 Summit Stake academy Coal yule 1110 Utah 57 11 Stake academy Hinck Hinckley ley Utah ICO HO 12 2 nicks Kicks academy Roxburg Rexburg Ida I a 13 Fielding academy Pas Parl Ida 27 11 1 Oneida Onelda Slake Stake academy aca em Preston Ida 15 Cassia Stake academy Oal e eIda Ida closed while building about bout ICO 16 1 Kimball academy Thatcher rha cher Ariz Aria 17 St Johns academy em St Johns Ariz 82 SI S SIS IS 13 Snowflake academy Snowflake Ariz ISO 19 San Sun Luis Lus academy Manassa Colo Cob 34 94 20 Big DIg Horn academy Cowley Cowie Wyo yo new number r guaran guaranteed guaranteed teed tee loo looH 21 H Alberta academy Raymond Canada new nes number guar suar guaranteed guaranteed antee t 22 n Juarez Stake academy aol em Colonia Jaurez Jaure Chihuahua Mox In 23 Diaz Daz seminar seminary Colonl Diaz Chihuahua Mox Mex 2 5 24 Dublan DUban seminary Dublan ChI Chihuahua Mex lex 25 Pacheco seminary I Pacheco Chihuahua Mox o u 20 26 Morelos seminary seminar Mo Morelos 10 robs rei OS Chihuahua ex 27 seminary seminar Colonia Chihuahua Mex cx SO I 28 Garcia seminary Gar Car Garcia I cia Chihuahua Mex 29 Oaxaca seminary seminar Oaxaca So Sonora nora flora Mox Mex M c 51 Si 30 20 O Sonora 30 THE INTELLECTUAL TRAINING The text books hooks used In the high school work arc uniform throughout tits the th system but for grade ado work the tho i teachers use uso tho the same books as those 1 I adopted d for fOI the he public schools of the tho th respective states In which the Church schools are arc located In this way the tho latest and best books are arc placed in tho the I hands of the tho th pupils In each of o the Church schools there Is II also a preparatory department open for or the admission of oC students who have hae not finished the work worl of oC elementary ele elementary schools but hut who are arc too old now to attend the tho public schools The teachers are arc as al far Car as possible college cOllego graduates or persons who have done college work and are aro usually well qualified to teach the subjects them Each school has n a library Those giving the tho sciences have hae fairly good |
