The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-17
THE B. Y. ACADEMY.
A Fine Educational Institu-
ton at Provo.
It's Value to the Town in a
Financial Sense.

It is true that all educational in
situations in Utah become more
popular with each recurring year,
but in no case is the growing pOpu-
larity more pronounced than in the
case of the Brigham Young Acad-
envy at Provo, of which Professor
Carl G. Malser is principal. That
this is a fact cannot be demon
strated from any newspaper motor
iety, for that it never sought; but is
shown by the large attendance and
the proportion of pupils from places
other than Provo.
There are enrolled on the register
the names OF 375 pupils. OF this
mum Der but IA are from Provo, the
other students coming from different
pats of the Territory far north
as Cache and south as Washington
counties. The average attendance
is 365 out of 375-an average, [ am
prone to the belief that is exceeded
nowhere in the country. Ninety>
five recitatiOnS are given daily by
twenty-one teachers, ten of whom
are regularly employed by the board
of trustees, and the others assisting
in one way or another. There are
forty-seven nOrmals, the tuition fee
of ten Of whom is paid by the
county, ten by the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, while
twenty-sevea pay their way, and,
though taking the normal course,
are under no obligations to teach
after having graduated, as are those
who have received assistance from
either of the sources named,
though they are at liberty
So to do If they choose.
| The eleven teachers referred to as
not being regularly employed, are
normals, who thus are given prac-
tical experience in teaching, and
are the better fitted to enter into
the practical duties of the vocation
they have chosen and when gradu-
ating from the Academy.
The designs of President Brigham
Young in endowing this Academy
was to make it a school at which
students, in addition to gaining
purely scholastic information,
might also acquaint themselves
with the practical requirements of
life in the form of trades and pro-
fessions; thus, its object is that of
a polytechnic institute, and it Is to
that end that the trustees of the
faculty are constantly laboring, and
from realization of which they are
hampered by lack of room and by
other obstacles which it is un-
necessary to enumerate here.
The Academy has all grades
from the primary to the academic,
and the course is equally ex-
cellent in all. Everything is
| systematiZed so that the
principal knows at a glance. not
only what work is being accom-
plished by the several classes, but
the progress of each individual
student in any or all of his classes.
The same is true with regard to
pupils after academy or school
hours. They are still under the
control Of the faculty of the ac2d-
envy, which has prescribed certain
rules for observance, 40 matter
where the pupils are, and while a
great deal is left to the honor of the
pupil, and is therefore appre ;iated,
nevertheless, so perfect is the
system, that if it is the desire Of
the faculty to ascertain the conduct
of pupils after school hours, no diff
Guilty whatever is experienced in
securing the desired information.
This power possessed by the faculty
is felt among the students, and
while those who honestly observe
the rules have no reason
to complain, because their honor is
relied upon, yet to those in
clined to go astray, the
rules and the power to enforce their
observance and learn of violations,
acts as powerful corrective, and
goes long way to restrain the way
wardnesS so common to the youth
of both sexes. Harsh measures are
hardly ever resorted to, all is kind.
ness and love; yet the rules are en-
forced with determination and
frmness that begets a respect for
OlOClplAC, dhO vel IIttlc CduSo lUl
complaint or for anything like sum-
mary measures ever exists.
Exception has been and may be
taken to some of the regulations;
but on the whole feel confident the
general effect is for the best good of
the pupils, and certainly for the
well>being and prosperity of the
academy. 1t is these regulations
and their certain enforcement that
win the confidence of parents de-
sirous of giving their children bet
ter educations than can be obtained
at home, and they are sent to the B.
Y. academy with degree of salts
faction and mental rest which
could never be experienced were
the practical workings of the in
stitution different in any particular,
and the result has been to confirm
that confidence and respect. To
this is due the present and growing
popularity of the academy.
For ladies, a domestic department
has been established, over which
Mrs. Zina Williams has charge, and
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