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Show i LOCi SCHOOL KNELL SOUNDS FOR PIONEER IN STITUTION AFTER YEARS OF SERVICE Possibility That The Buildings May Be Sold To The City Schools And Two L. D. S. Seminaries Established Es-tablished In Stead Logan. Utah. Superintendent Adam S. Bennion, of the L. D. S. church schools, announced officially at a special spe-cial meeting of the B. Y. C. board of j trustees that the Bingham Young col- lege will be discontinued after this j school year. The announcement was i not a complete surprise, and it is even j Euggested that further changes in the system may take place in the near future. fu-ture. Several years ago the L. D. S. j church launched the policy of estab- ! lishing seminaries for the purpose of j bringing religious instruction to the i people, which was the primary pur- j pose of the founding of the B. Y. C. I j i ne seminaries proven to oe popular, I and numerous applications were re-; re-; ceived. At present there are fifty-nine seminaries being maintained. This rise in the number of seminaries is given as the chief cause for the discontinuance dis-continuance of the Brigham Young college. When the college curricula were cut in half and the institution reduced to a junior college a few years ago, many thought that the school could not exist ex-ist long. Steps were taken to avert the loss of Logan's pioneer institution but they were unsuccessful. The school was founded on July 24. 1S77, and was endowed by Brigham Young with 10,000 acres of fertile land. The school was first housed in Lind-quist Lind-quist hall on Second North and First East streets and before buildings were constructed on First South street school was held in the basement of the Logan tabernacle. During the nearly fifty years of its existence, approximately approxi-mately 40,000 students have attended it. A special meeting of the Crimson student body was held and the students stud-ents pledged themselves to complete the remainder of the school year. |