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Show Mt. Pleasant's Early Schools (By Ferdinand Ericksen.) The following sketch of Mt. Pleas-int's Pleas-int's early school system, its management man-agement and teachers, has been prepared pre-pared under many disadvantages, the writer being without any record of data and, therefore, compelled to rely almost entirely upon memory. The readers indulgence is, therefore, louht and expected, and If errors ap-near ap-near or omissions are noted, it .must ie borne in -mind that no claim is made that this article is perfect oi complete. In the primitive days of the community com-munity men were kept busy in obtaining ob-taining the daily sustenance for themselves and families. They had not only the handicap of making a livelihood out of the undeveloped soil ! and other natural resources, but they vere menaced on every side b Indians In-dians who, for many yearg after 1859 ontinued their deprecations and larassments. It required heroic men and women to remain upon the frontier of civilization, and they did exceedingly well to protect themselves, them-selves, their children, and what little iroperty they had against the attack of the aborigines who then inhabited his part of our country But little time or attention could, under those conditions, be devoted to educatiod?.' Problem-.. I'nder theite adverse conditions con-ditions and surroundings. Mt. Pleasant Pleas-ant was first made an abiding place for our ancestor. In the beginning and for m.mv vears thereafter, trained school t-aeh rs ceuld not be secured. There vas at that time no educational insti-'ution insti-'ution within the boarders of the Territory of Utah where pedagogy -.-as tT.rht and normal training given to pf '"1'T'Ve who were drafted tt-assume, tt-assume, the responsible duty of in, struct'.ns the child-en of the pionrs in an elementary education. This (Continued on last page.) |