Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-18
The Brigham Young Academy
27th Annual Catalogue.
VERY GRATIFYING GROWTH
interesting Particulars - Attractive
Features Special Inducements
To students.

Brigham Young academy, neat, well
printed catalogue twice the usual size,
has Just been issued from the Deseret
News Job press. II anything were need
ed to show that this famous parent In
sutution OF the schools OF Zion is keep
ing fully abreast OF the times, casual
glance through this terse, compact
well written description Of the acade-
my and its work would supply 1t. The
arst notable feature ID the long list of
able educators that make up the facul-
az. The academy now has bl regularly
Maid professors and instructors. These
are divided into sub-faculties, as fol-
lows. College and high school, ~ men,
hers; commercial school, IA members,
school OF music, five members; prepar-
atory school, six members, normal
training school, six members; kinder
garten, two members; Beaver branch,
six members. After about ~ pages OF
descriptive matter applicable to all
departments alike, each OF the nine
schools which make up the institution,
viz: the college, the normal and high
school, the commercial school, the
school OF music, the preparatory school,
The normal training school, the Kinder
garten, the missionary school and the
Beaver branch--has a separate and dis
unct section OF the annual devoted to
An explanation of It's courses and an
nouncements. The college offers uni
yersity courses In the following de-
partments OF instruction, viz, theology
and ethics, ten courses English lam
guage, ten courses; foreign languages,
len courses; engineering, 10 courses;
mathematics is courses; science, "a
courses history and sociology, IA
courses, and pedagogy, ten courses.
Two degrees are offered, that Of bache-
lor of science (B.A), and bachelor OF
pedagogy (B.Pd), each requiring l36
hours college work.
The high school offers three four
year courses leading to diplomas, VIZ:
~ a normal course, fitting the student
for the teaching profession; 90 q SCI
ence course. preparing the student for
college or university work, and 80
general course, devoted mainly to in
dustrial studies for students who Meth
en- wish TO teach nor go to college, and
whose secondary training ends with the
high school.
The commercial school of the Brig
ham Young academy is distinguished
especially by the thoroughness of Its
courses. The student may here pursue
continuous series Of study in BUSH
ness and collateral branches for four
years; whereas the much famed east
ern business schools offer scarcely one
years consecutive work. Shorter cours-
Is are also offered In the Provo school
for matured men and women who need
merely a brushing up in technical d.
rections.
The preparatory or sub-freshmen
school, judged from the standpoint of
general usefulness, stands unusually
high; for It furnishes place for that
large class of our young people who do
not fit into the school system-young
men and women too old TO enter the
grades, and TOO poorly prepared TO en-
ter the high school, Once awakened
to the need OF an education, however,
they invariably become earnest and
progressive students. The most i'm
portant fact announced in connection
with the normal training school il the
completion last year OF a fine new
building at a cost Of $4,000, the gener.
Gus gift OF friends ana patrons "a tna
academy. Another important fact is
also announced, viz: that the acade-
my has never yet been able to supply
the demand made upon 1t for practical
teachers. The school for missionaries
Is Just now In its fourth
year. s courses are arranged by
the Presidency OF the Seventies and
embrace studies in theology, Church
history, reading. singing and English.
Opportunities for public speaking &C.
cur for such students every Cay
The Beaver branch, which occupies
the vacated buildings Of Fort Gamer
on, Is a lourishing colony Of students
from southern Utah who bring with |
them their provisions and household eff
fects and are thus enabled to get
high school education at the least pos
slble expense, These recent quarters
Of Uncle Sans troops are capable OF
housing comfortably three hundred stu
dents.
The controlling factor or what might |
be called the spirit OF the academy
an impress left upon the schoof Dv she |
late DR.. Karl G. Maeser-resuET d. |
rectly from Its theological instructions,
which aim less at conveying theological
facts than at developing testimony OF |
the Gospel. An admirable adjunct to |
this end is the academy's domestic or
ganIzation whereby students are un-
der the direct care Of the faculty as |
much at their boarding places as while
at school. The half-rural nature OF |
Provo City affording as II does cheap |
board and lodging ut convenient dis |
tances. makes possible this supervision |
on the part OF the teachers, and there
fore also the resulting, influence In |
shaping the moral and spiritual char |
acter Of the students.
The attendance last year, including |
10 in the Beaver branch, was LAS |
students, who came from rs stakes Of |
Zion In Utah and from II stakes sur |
rounding Utah. The brigham Young |
academy Is a great school, /