Show A NEW ANEW FEATURE AT A meeting of the general board S education for the church held on thursday may an and 2nd d a new aa nd d important step was taken it yas was determined that in connection connee tion 3 1 the general educational move dent recently established degrees should be created and diplomas is sued in conformity with them three have already been created and bestowed he stowed as follows doctor in letters and didactics ye title to consist as elsewhere of the e initial letters A diploma in this degree has been issued to professor karl G maeser doctor in science and didactics title diploma issued to proffesor ramee james E talmage doctor in mathematics and didactics title DMD diploma issued to professor J M tanner everything connected with this important educational movement being eing of intense interest to all lat ter erday er day saints throughout the orld that the reader may be informed fOrt laed in detail regarding it we here insert in full a copy of the diploma issued to brother maeser the two others being similar in every respect except in the matter of r name and title and the character of 0 thi the ecclesiastical office of the older of the document holiness So liness iness to the lord the rhe geri 4 ats board of education of the wirch rah of jesus christ of latter day saints to all to whom these presents may come greeting know ye that satisfactory evidence having been brought before quy lahat professor karl G maeser is tat islah f la priest in full standing and Sow ship in in I 1 the church of jesus rist of of latter day saintie sainte and that w he h has pursued to a sue suc teaful toS e amp ebion theoretically and ducally Cu cally the various branches of liberal ecru education cation in theology axce letters and the arts ado e do therefore declare hinc him the i karl 0 maeser to be a doctor aa letters and didactics D L D to TO au all the schools of the a said aid church witness whereof we have no gsg the floed this diploma to be signed by ga president and secretary of this oat ti and to be sealed and issued the at S bait lake cy utah on this rj second day of may anno aini yi ni one thousand eight hun dred yi and eighty nine III behalf of the general board of rate WILFORD WOODRUFF WoOD BUFf president glimm REYNOLDS secretary u it la needless perhaps to state that it jjr 18 the desire of the general that the titles associated with reea shall be recognized and ea in the schools and among the people it will be observed that didactics is included in each degree this this is necessarily the ewe case the training of teachers being a chief and important part of the calling of those receiving these diplomas the three gentlemen upon whom the newly created degrees have been conferred professors maeser talmage and tanner constitute the examining board which will pass upon the qualifications of all applicants for teachers certificates and dt diplomas A thorough and complete academic curriculum has been adopted by the general board for the government of the examiners those who pass an examination under it will be entitled to the degree of bachelor 0 of f didactics BD this fact will dou doubtless buess prove a healthful stimulus to young people who conclude to adopt teaching as a profession the title of professor has been used with unwarrantable freedom by persons who have not been intrinsically entitled to it within the system which is the subject of the present writing it will only be used by those who fairly earn it by obtaining the academic diploma the development of this movement as it progresses gr esses will doubtless cause the fact to dawn upon the minds of the young that it will be unnecessary for them to go east except berh perhaps apa in special instances in order to obtain an education that will meet the general requirements of life so go far as we are informed there is a distinctive and notable feature connected with the diplomas issued under the church system they alewe are we believe the only documents of the kind extant across the face of which appears the name of jesus christ the inauguration orthis of this movement among the latter day saints marks the dawning of a brighter day for the education of the youth of the people of god on the earth the diplomas are the handiwork of T W clayton the noted penman it is doubtful whether that skilful artist ever executed anything that did him more credit thedoe the documents are so well done that they would be pronounced things osbeau of beauty by the most fastidious connoisseur |