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Show MORMON SCHOOLS GET H LARGER APPROPRIATION H Weber Academy Will Be Made Junior I College; Normal Training At. B. Y. U. I Salt Lake, Jan. 31. Approprla- tlons aggregating $303,000 for main- I tenanco of Mormon church schools ! during tho coming school year wero I j mado by tho general board of cdu- I j cation of tho church at Its meeting I yesterday. Tho amount Is about $12,- I 000 nbovo tho sum avallablo last I year. I I Tho money was apportioned among I twenty-one church schools, the Dcs- I erct gymnasium and sovoral mission- I ary institutions. I About $10,000 was added to tho nn- I propriatlon for Weber ifako ncademy fl at' Ogden nnd n year of collego work B will bo added to tho curriculum. In I 1917-18 two years of collego work will I bo Included, making tho Institution u I 'junior college. Two additional tench- I cm. will bo employed, tho laboratory B J-wIll bo enlarged and II . H. Cum I . mlngs, superintendent of education I for tho church, says every effort will I bo mado to strengthen tho faculty. I The board added $12,000 to the rip- I propriatlon of tho Brigham Young Univorslty for collego work nnd cut I off approximately; samo sum from I its appropriation for high school work. Mr. Cummlngs said that tha board plans to specialize in normal school work at that institution. I |