Show s BRIGHAM YOUNG everywhere in the territory and indeed lu in many towns of neighboring states and aid ai d one oce bears of the brigham young academy the leading mormon institution of secondary condary ee education Is ie there a young elder who speaks particularly well a man pushed far lu in advance ot of his years into responsible positions in political social or business life a youth here and add there pointed t to by lathers fathers and mothers as a pattern the odds are he will wid be named to you as having been a student of this famous institution famous alike it is for its name and the nature ot of its teachings As to the latter it is enough to say that its motto has evidently been character first knowledge afterwards having occasion to pass through provo prove on my way to the ca capital capita I 1 determined ter mined to pay the school a visit teo ten years agu ago I 1 stopped off od for a similar purpose then it was located on center street in a commercial but build id ing had bad evidently been projected ou on too large a scale tor the town or the build builder erPs purse at any rate it was not stocked with roods goods but pur chased by president young for a school the upper floor door had served the purpose of a theater at the time of my visit the whole building inside had been remodel el and bugge suggested ted nothing so much as a complex beehive filled with workers worker already the quarters had bad become too narrow for the attendance and splendid additions had bad been projected by the coara additions which were no sooner completed a year later than the whole structure was destroyed by what will they do now 11 thought I 1 when I 1 read the sad ead announcement practically the intellectual roof so to speak has been burned over the heads of students must they all disperse tor for their homes in a few days came the news that the school was in full blast it had lost but one day president A 0 smoot whose bank build ing was just completed and mr 8 8 jones who was just ready to move into t a new store generously turned over the use of their houses till better could be secured nor can one conceive of a more noble housewarming house warming than this those these rooms will never get cold again when I 1 alighted from the train my companion who by the by was waa a last years student but like me upon visiting the academy pointed out a barn like structure near the depot apparently covering an acre of ground that to is the Z CM C M I 1 L warehouse wara bouse P 1 aalde be in the upper nails balls the B Y academy nas has been shall I 1 say camping ping since 84 six months after L the fire are seriously I 1 ought only to speak with agrati gratitude tude of those vacant halls in ID reality they were more roomy thau the old ones and we soon goon got accustomed to the clamor of the locomotives and the hissing of steam 1 I shall never forget the morning we vacated it was waa the aih of january a year ago picture students arranged in marching file to la the large assembly room singing as they stand with heads uncovered praise god from trum whom all bless blessings ingis flow lei a I 1 by that grand old naan man dr karl 0 maeser whose head had grown white in making the academy what it is and whom student loved as a lather the lo ij the new building y continued kiy enthusiastic companion awe as we walked along was more imposing but less touching savo save when dr maeser almost broke down with emotion in delivering livering ele up the charge given him by president young sixteen years before to assume ble bis present wider field of usefulness as general s superintendent of church schools the greatest comfort said he be that thai helped to sustain him in thus tearing himself away from endeared as socia eions was waa the thought that his sue euc cessor prof benj cluff whom its as student and teacher tea cuer he had known from boyhood was qualified to nil fill his place in the institution a confluence which the last two years work shows was well placed altogether the day is not easily forgotten prominent visitors from all parts of the territory among whom were governor thomas and the first presidency of the church added their cheerful presence to help the warming but here we are in sight eight of the building so I 1 need not attempt to describe it I 1 regret that I 1 cannot present my readers rea eiers with a better picture of the academy than the letter out cut ut tit the head of this article however it must serve in lieu of a description of the outside one of the first facts I 1 learned on entering was that the building was made to accommodate about 1000 1001 students atu denta and in round numbers had actually been enrolled this year one of the features that first strikes the visitor is the spacious hatla hallat and wide stairways I 1 am told architect mr C young a son of the founder had bad in view the rushes rushe that characterize eastern college l are however entirely unknown in the academy ld history nor are they hey likely to be encouraged there are about thirty recitation rooms finished and most of them furnished with settees having arm tablets for taking notes dotel the library will seat about students the building to is trimmed in oak and maple and finished in oil the rooms on three floors floore are completed but the halls balls and skylight rooms still need the finishing touches ot of the plasterer and carpenter outside there is a most beautiful lawn etc ate surrounded by a nest neat iron fence not yet visible to the naked eye eyed donated bated as I 1 am informed by the provo chamber of commerce on paper I 1 was most strongly interested ir in the lotair system of heating and ventilating in the basement two SO 30 horsepower horse power engines generate the steam which heats beats up a compact system of radiators piled one above another the cold air cornea comes in on oil the 4 1 top and la is drawn through the fine i interstices of the radiators radia tora by a lul itil fan thus thua healed I 1 it t is ia d drawn raw a through pipes pipea into every room where it forces out through openings opening near the flour floor the cold and foul air bilich i being heavy always lies low temperature equable as aa that of spring to is thus maintained no wonder president elliot in a 1 Z recent address before the he F students ex e pressed his bis surprise and declared that for over years harvard kept school in a building interior inferior to this but what sudden prosperity has overwhelmed the academy the visitor to la to ask that it should all at be so finely housed especially to the visitor somewhat acquainted with tile the ju financial fiu ancial history is ia this question prominent president young meant to do great things by this worthiest of the offspring of tg big g genlue e gium but the good man died ere b he e could sign the endors menta his bis generosity bad set apart for it he gave it home which the fire are reduced to ashes abbes and a name above 2 the reach of the flames then there are a few acres ot of real estate which J time to is likely to make valuable but for fourteen years 00 academy de i ended solely upon tuition for the pay meat of teachers here and upon the dam am J ence of its board for furnishing of buildings and apparatus and both board and faculty h have five done their duty nobly it is difficult to say which de da serve the greater praise the who like true missionaries considered ideZ the work first and the pay let it be what it might second or the trustees J who time anu and again have goo gone a into j their own pockets tor for means to avoid some crisis J tom splendid building singular an aa 4 ane idea may strike the reader is a N product of laith faith mormon faith I 1 ava am particular to point out the specie faith lr fr f r bout but we kind that moves mountains could s accomplish such a work mormon laith fait b is 18 peculiar a r in that it cout contains ains ten per cent prayer and hope and ninety per cent work abe spire now points the direction that prayer aud and hope led but it was unremitting toil that made it point so go to be less lees figurative ve and more accurate the members of the board pledged their private property to got get money to erect this building what was their security the belief that god through his hie people would see gee that the venture did not fail theirs was a faith that abs took look tangible shape in atone mor mortar brick and wood a faith that appeal to the eye the intellect and the heart poor security it if judged by the rush rugh of investors lor it generally true but these men evidently reasoned that if worst came to worst and ana it brought v them financial ruin it euid by no means be a bad investment the merely taking such a risk for the rood good of a whole people was then by odds a better investment but it any man r think president smoot and his ass associate trustees visionary men who do 10 not calculate coolly their ventures lot let him come here and put his mundane e cunning in competition with thel their business tact anti ana ability the end of this experiment to is not yet nor may aday s the road be very distinct for any dis dia tance ahead but yet this to is certain I 1 hundreds ot of young people arg are enjoying e 4 the blessings quite as it if the building was unencumbered did a mortgage on the farm ever destroy the flavor of the apple in the orchard the faculty is ie remarkable for being composed almost aim oat exclusively of yount younk men the principal being but 34 years all ardent students stud euta them themselves selve i naturally think of one feature more prominent than auy any other resulting from such a M but enthusiast enthusiasm la Is contagious it the teacher have it the students etu dente will catch it and juicing from the adjectives jec tives of some of my friends nw att attending endings they have caught it in ILI earnest it is a form of contagion conta glou which one will do well to go out of 01 his hi way to be exposed to under its ita exhilarating hila rating attack tt ack life fairly gallops through one ones Ps veins and all the world to is beautiful another splendid qu qualification all fi these teachers have one which neither books nor colleges can supply and which is currently counted a they have roughed it in larm farm and work workshop shor canyon and trail that they have used their eyes and ears well while hob bob with dame nature is IB best evinced by the positions they hold most ot of them have taken tu orough courses in colleges and universities and while the vulture culture of the school has 1388 no doubt done much the fact that scholastic training could 0 tto o much is chiefly owing to this same rugged patroness having opened the way whit what t indeed distinguishes the the teacher iron the man equally well informed simply the ability to make others sense what he feels to breed thoughts in their minds to do this the teacher must be fertile him elf fertile in illustrations the oom corn poet that must mast accompany the seed beed ol of thought that the plant may become vigorous and fruitful I 1 listened to a lecture or oue one hour 0 abstract moral principles and realized or for the first time up a truth after truth was put into concrete garb what an n inexhaustible supply of illustration maybe may be laid up by one who observes accurately the relation ioa of things with which he be cornes cornea in ila contact compare for instance the vapid ele fancies ot the man whose darity fingers have scarcely touched the thorn in plucking a hothouse hot house rose roae with the direct specific truth bearing evidence of natures daturo 8 own pupil who As aa a lad laa waded in the pond for anu and as a youth bouth the bronc broncho tio of the desert let the authorities of our educational institutions keep this thia thought in view when they are engaging the preceptors precept ors ure of our children but not to be led away by phi loso of the students that nil fill baz 11 ag what these these halls balls for a comparatively email city like arvo pr vo they are numerous it if ton ten years ago they swarmed in the hive now they appear to swarm over the entire city 0 every street when school hours are over they are seen goon in files and groups groupe greedily absorbing the long delayed sunshine they swell the sabbath schools and nd debure churches hell on sunday and snake make the merchants smile on week days several thousand doljan it is safe to say are spent every week of the school year by this temporary population and this too without fueting the city a single cent additional for police foree force or other regulation indeed on this poi point tit it is sate bate to bay the moral force of the B x academy to ia no small email factor in decreasing expenses of this rind nor la abia alone true of provo prove every town and hamlet throughout we entire B asin asin is reinforced in moral and social purity by he work of this ibis institution specific information concerning the work being done in the academy is witly hii aly disseminated through the pageo of the normal i published by tile the students in pedagogy and through the business journals the organ oran of 0 the commercial department aud and antu annually ally thousands of circulars descriptive of courses counsel etc re sent the patrons and friends friend ot of the institutions institution so that toy my readers will scarcely arcely se expect me to treat these topics in this lim ted fed sketch I 1 cannot however refrain from noticing a few features lea tures lately lately added to the curriculum the most prominent af these is in the normal tra training luing school the fact is ili no do doubt well known through throughout cut the territory that the church has made this department practically fret free and in about two hundred and fifty tifty embryo are taking this course lu in addition addi tiou to the usual pedagogic studies such as history ot of elu education cation theory and practice of teaching these students are 9 given iven an bourse actual practice daily lu in teaching successively the classes iu the eight grades of the preparatory sc two observers students arjo will in their turns take the course and oue professor acting as critic teacher tire are present in the room making nott notts s at a Ine meeting eting later in the day of students and critic the failures and successes of these amateur amate ts are pointed out in kindly criticisms I 1 attended these exercises a lumber of days in succession and must contess confess that they seem ad mirable adapted to fit the teacher for his hia profession sion the principal informed lie ine that this was no longer a question students who took the lug ing school course last year and are now teaching prove uniformly successful tuey they enter upon their work just want to lu do and how to tio do it the visitor cannot fail to be inter ested in the commercial college here the fields of activity closely imitates the essentials of actual busanet a life so ao closely it tact fact that the student on en bering the counting room is likely to be surprised in nothing save in getting a salary instead of paying a tuition fee the students buy and sell the commodities modi ties ot of commerce and even the prices fluctuate as in actual business chere is in a bank at which each etude t makes his deposits and drawns his checks ats as his business requires every day his accounts are overhauled and his hia business methods inspected by one of the professors commercial law and auxiliary studies such as pen pao manship grammar composition and orthography us be adapted to business needs form part of the course two new and important features in the academy s usefulness are normal courses for mutual improvement association of ficera ficere and sunday school teachers As is the teacher so will be the school the educating of these officers in the ibe how as well as an the what of their duties to is almost equivalent to 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