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Show AT THE ACADEMY. Its Domestic Organization is Superb And Such as to Carefully Guard the Student From Yielding to Temptation and From Serious Wr on gr-Doiner. In many of the essential ' features the B. Y. academy differs from'every other institution or learning. This is not more marked in any feature than in its domestic organization. By carefully examining the arrangements made for directing the daily lite of non-resident pupils it will be seen how impoeeible it is that any pupil of the six or eight hundred now in attendance at that institution in-stitution can be guilty of wrong-doing without the faculty being aware of it. This domestic organization is under Prof. G, H, Brimhall's direct supervision. supervis-ion. To those not residents of frovo it may be necessary to say that as a rule the Btudents are domiciled in private pri-vate homes, from two to ten being un -der one roof, but there are some boarding board-ing houses proper, which accommodate many more; and again several students from one settlement Dot infrequently rent room and board themselves. The students are thus scattered over Provo city .and its environents, which been divided into four f-'4p, wards. Each ward is preSiL .28x9tfl;ree leading students stu-dents corr, . . . .21x90 fcithi; the biehop ani his V fL ;itiiey have, also, a ciwrfc'.'-ifcei' officers-are nomiri-ated nomiri-ated by the faculty, and sustained by the vote of the students or members of that domestic ward. Each ot these wards are sub-divided into teachers' beats, or districts. The students, each and every one are yisited at their boarding places, by these students, calle 1 as teachers for that special purpose. pur-pose. At each boarding place one student stu-dent is selected as senior, to take charge of those boarding there. Every Thursday the respective domestic do-mestic wards meet in the academy, at which meetings the Btudent presidency presides under the direction of a mem ber of the faculty, who has general supervision of the domestic organization. organiza-tion. The reports of the student teachers are given in these meetings, as to the members and families of students stu-dents in thair beat, as regards the general moral, social and spiritual condition. Each senior or head of a boarding house or family of students als) reports the condition of those under his charge on the following points: 1. In regard to their spiritual and moral duties. 2 Their intellectual efforts. 3. Envioronments. Reports of personal character are made privately to tne faculty. In the case of any dereliction of duty on the part of a student, his fellow students, stud-ents, the teachers, take up a reformatory reform-atory labor with him, and report results re-sults to the presidency of the domestic ward, who, when it becomes necessary, take the matter in hand. If the ward presidency is unable to bring about desired results, the matter is brought officially before the faculty. Aside from the regular weekly meetings spoken of, occasional meetings are held tor the officers of the respective wards, where reports are made to, and instructions given by the presiding member of the faculty and others of the faculty. When etudents .move from one domestic do-mestic . ward to another thev are required re-quired to take a recommend which admits ad-mits them to the new ward. JNo member of the (academy is exempt from this regulation, those whoie-side whoie-side at home wVth tbeirijparents, or even members of the faculty. This thorough and systematic organization organ-ization enables the faculty to detect the first signs of wsywardness, and to deal with it aathey deem btBt. It throws the burdn of discipline upon the BtudentB where it most gracefully and effectively rests. The disgusting and demoralizing position of tattler or informer is bl'Dtted out in the official duties imposed upon the students themselves. It will be readily seen that many tales told ' of B. Y. A. students stu-dents are an impossibility, and very largely the coin of brains that love to exaggerate. . The students attending the academy for the most part are exemplary ex-emplary younz men and women, and those who are not will be so guarded and helped as to be made so if it is possible. |