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Show PROCTER ACADEMY. The Progress Made by its Pupils this Year. The Easter Concert Given Sunday Evening by the School and Choir. The pupils of Procter Academy are this week enjoying their usual spring recess. Delegates from the Y. P. S. C. E., together with Rev. Mr. Forbes and wife, are attending the annual C. E. Convention held Monday and Tuesday Tues-day at Ogden. The week's vacation has enabled Principal Merrill to look back over the work accomplished, and to consider what progress has been made in the different departments of the school this year. The results ol this retrospect have been very pleasiig and gratifying. The progress of the primary, intermediate and grammar grades has been all that could be desired. de-sired. The first class of the academic course has so far advanced that it will be an easy matter for the pupils in this class to complete the studies of the year before its close. The main studies pursued by this class are Went-worth's Went-worth's Elements of Algebra, Apple-ton's Apple-ton's Physical Geography, Baine's General History, Jone's Latin Reader and book-keeping. The class in the second year's course will finish Went-worth's Went-worth's Geometry; have already read from books of Ciesar's Commentaries and four of Cicero's Orations, and a part of the Poet Archias; and will read also two or three other orations of the great orator. This class have also nearly finished the first and second parts of Oiney's University Algebra and will advance considerably consider-ably into the third part before the year closes. This week the reading room was not opened as usual Tuesday evening, but next week it will be and all who desire de-sire to pass a pleasant evening in games, reading, etc., are welcome. Hall open from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock. The Easter concert by the Sunday school and choir, Sunday evening, was one of the very best efforts of the kind ever made in the city. The various exercises, consisting of single and class recitations, and of most excellent music by a large and well trained choir of adults and young people, were heartily enjoyed by the large and appreciative ap-preciative audience. The platform was made appropriately beautiful with nearly fifty varieties of plants. Many thrtiiks are due kind friends who so generously allowed the use of them fwr tiie evening. Much praise is also due Mrs. Forbes and Mrs. Craig and Miss Edith Beck for the superior training they gave the young ladies in their various parts. Mrs. Merrill's solo. "Consider the Lilies," was rendered in an artistic and effective manner. The Easter sermon by Pastor Forbes was truly eloquent, and a direct bringing home to the hearts of all of the true meaning of Easter. |