Show THE B Y ACADEMY dec the B Y academy at provo prove closed its first term of the present academic year after a period of very successful work fhe following is an extract from the principals palIs report there have been registered during this term students this number ex feds eeds the attendance at the same term of last year hy by 25 making this the largest attendance since the fire the normal DeP department artmen t consisting of 97 students has exceeded the number of the previous year by 40 thus reaching an attendance as aa unexpected as it is unprecedented testifying to the high appreciation in which its labors are held among the people the great demand for teachers during the fall of this year compelled us to release several of our though not ifft sufficiently prepared to take positions in ch church u rc schools and to act as teachers in the district schools all have had bad practical work either teaching classes or attending occasionally to repetition ir the general board of education has recognized the brigham young academy as the latter day saints normal college not only on account of the large number of students attending our normal department part ment but also because by far the greater majority of all our church school principals and teachers are graduates of this institution and the B Y academy to is the pioneer and prototype of all recently started hurch church schools this circumstance imposes upon the board of trustees and the faculty the utility of making continued exertion in order not only to maintain our present standing in this capacity I 1 but to prepare also for the greater demands which the future with its educational developments will make upon it the theological work has been condu conducted eted as heretofore and all our students ranging from the deacon to the high priest have had bad ample opportunity to magnify their calling the non members and lay members have albo had bad their duties to perform several baptisms confirmations and ordinations have been attended to the students from outside of provo were distributed in fifty one boarding places and visited biweekly by appointed visitors who make their reports at our domestic meetings odthe the church school organization of which the B Y academy is a part has since our last public ex entered upon the second year of its official existence and consists already of three colleges nineteen stake academies and five latter day saint seminaries in which at present over students receive their training this is cause for rejoicing and for thanksgiving unto the god of israel who has added to the primaries sunday schools aud mutual improvement associations another agency to ta prepare the youth of zion for the great future CLOSING REMARKS thus closes the first term of the fourteenth academic year in a condition of progress and prosperity which augurs well for the future like a bauyan banyan tree that spreads its branches far and wide to take roots for themselves the B Y academy has seen oblate of late similar institutions springing up throughout zion conducted by its hupila organized after its pattern and united with it by one spirit having in view the same aims and being under the same paternal paterna I 1 care of the general authorities oft of the church if our struggles in the past have not been in vain if our faith in the stability of the B Y academy has been verified by its prosperity if our hope for its future development is resting upon substantial ground let us give thanks and glory to him who has been with this institution ution throughout all the changing scenes of its existence and will not forsake it if board and faculty will serve him in sincerity and in truth |