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Show TAH COUNTY DEMOCK AT. HOUSE SHOW EDITION fS In all this work, the student is It has changed presi-- j Trades, a School of Agriculture, touch with the ideal dents three times; the faculty has1 a Music school and a college. in constant its ideal. ovcmbcr of that year Kmily Clapp, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, came lu re under the auspices of the CommisNew West Education a school in the sion and opened east room of the Daniels house, ISSN. - In the present school year work in and typewriting stenography was added. The teaching force now numbers nine, and the enrollment is larger than at any previous period in the history of the school. t )ther instructors and courses of study will be provided, as the demand arises, and the prospect for a dormitory, fur the accommodation of outside students, is most encouraging. Procter Academy has a reputation of doing careful, thorough work, and its appeal to the public is made on its merits alone. changed ; but its ideal remains the same. This ideal is none other than that which characterizes of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-da- y Saints. Put in educational terms, this ideal stands for training which culminates in character, knowledge which is In swallowed up in intelligence. other words the school aims to present truth in its vital, organic relationship to life. It is this ideal which has influenced its evolution, and which determines its present splendid achievements. The school offers work from the kindergarten to the university in a graded series of well equipped It has a Training departments. school, a Preparatory school, a school, a Commercial High a School of Arts and school, schools otter a thorough course leading to a diploma or a degree. If the student wishes to prepare for college, he has here the best opportunities; if he wishes to become a teacher, he may follow that line under competent instructors; if he wishes to prepare for business pursuits, he can receive no better training anywhere; if he wishes to pursue vocal or instrumental music, he will find facilities here the best in the state; if he wishes to learn a trade, he may do that, and still be surrounded by the cultural influences of the school at large; if he wishes to specialize in any of the higher branches of science or engineering, he will be well provided for in the Each of these spoken of above. Indeed, it is this that gives to the school its distinctive character and makes it so desirable for young people to prepare for life. PROVO HAS, sewer system. public library. An efficient fire department. The finest boulevard in the state. all the sectarian Almost churches. An unexcelled free school system. Beautiful, broad and shady streets. A splendid unshaken business record. A modern opera house, seating A fine A free 1,000. the corner of Second South and Second East. Very soon the school outgrew the single room in which it had its beginning, and more commodious quarters were secured in the F. F. Dee building, on West Center street. Three oyears later, September, 1887, the school occupied for the first time the present building. The teaching force then numbered four and the enrollment increased rapidly. 'flic Brigham Voting UniverSix years ago Ve addition to the front of the building, providing sity is now in its thirty-secon- d two rooms 30x30 feet, was com- academic year. It began its work as an unpretentious school of the pleted. The work of Procter Academy grammar grade and with fewer extends from the kindergarten to than fifty Students. In one rea strong four years high school spect it differed from all other course, and at the beginning of schools of its kind: that was in on well-earne- d The Former can now spend an evening in Salt Lake or nearby Resorts and see the Latter returns ing Home, Provo Owl" leaves Salt Lake 11:40 p,m, We have other good Trains, Give us a trial Our Equipment the best T. C. PECK, G. P. A. Los Angeles. California. J. H. BURTNER, D. P. A. ,69 s Main st Sa Lake CUy . |