Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-13
Over 300 Professors and Teach
ers and 10000 Students
To Start Work.
ACADEMIES TO BE OPENED
IN Utah, Idaho and Canada-Prof. II.
II. Cummings Leaves for Mexico
To Attend Convention.

Thirty l. y. s. Church schools, in
including universities, colleges. acade-
mics and seminaries, requiring tie serv-
Ices of over 800 professors and teachers
and with an attendance Of between
5000 and 10000 pupils are now being
prepared for the 1901 season. nearly
all Of which win be opened in Sep
tember These schools are scattered
from Canada on the north, all through
the western states and as far as Mex
leo on the south.
New academies viii be opened this
fall at Raymond in the province Of
Alberta. Canada. and at Hiuckley,
Willard county and a new building at
oakley. Ida will be dedicated
The Alberta academy at Raymond
has cost $4,000 and is "a beautiful
building with accommodation for $50
to 400 pupils 1t will open oct. / with
a guaranteed attendance of 100 and II
is thought this number Will not fall
short of $50 at the beginning. II A.
Allen is president of the board, The
faculty has not yet been selected.
The Willard stake academy at Hinck-
time with a guaranteed attendance Of
not less than 100, but it Is thought the
Attendance will considerably exceed
that figure. II Is handsome new
building. which Is a credit to the south
ern part of the state
The Cassia stake academy. located
at oakley, Ida, will use its com
modous new building for the FIRST time
this fall.
New furniture for these three nsti-
tutions is being shipped out I'm readi-
ness for the Seutember openings.
SCHOOLS IN MEXICO.
Probably the most remarkable show
ing in the Church schools is i'm Mex
leo where the percentage Of population
attending evidently exceeds that Of any
other place in the world out OF
total Mormon population of 1000, LOO
of this number are enrolled In the
Church schools. This Is AZ per cent,
and most unprecedented showing,
says Prof. Horace H. Cummings. gem
eral superintendent of the l.. u. ;.
schools In Colonia Dubldn where the
Mormon population is l.0s0 there was
an attendance Of 400 one day when
Prof Cummings happened to be pres
emit he made an actual count OF $50.
In Mexico there are nine Mormon
seminaries and academies.
This week Prof Cummings and
George II. Erimhall. president OF the
Brigham Young university Of Provo,
will go down to Colonia Juarez to at
tend two-weeks' institute Of the
teachers Of the Mexican schools. There
will be upwards Of 80 teachers in at
tendance.
From Colonia Juarez. Prof Cum
mipgs will go to FL Paso, where he will
meet school Supt. Blair Of Illinois and
Supt Jones OF Ohio who. together with
Prof Cummings representing the Nor
mon schools, win go TO Mexico as the
representatives OF the United States
from the superintendent department
Of the National Educational associa-
tlon which last week held its conVen-
tion at Boston. at which Prof cum
mugs represented the Church schools
The national centennial gathering of
school instructors at Mexico city Sept
10 to a Is attracting considerable at
tention in educational circles, and 1t is
TO this to which the above named COM
mittee. representing the teachers and
school superintendents Of this country,
are going. In a letter written I'm Span
ish, received this week from Mexico by
state Supt of schools Nelson, IL Is
stated that the committee from the
United States viii be met at r. Paso
with a special car. and will be treated
with the utmost honor during the visit
in the domain OF MeXico's ruler. Presi-
dent Diaz
Prof Cummings being the only one
of the three committeeman who can
talk Spanish. II will undoubtedly make
him a very important member. He was
much pleased with the distinction OF
being selected by the Boston conven-
ton as one Of three chosen on this COM
mttee having been selected as the rep
iesentatiVe Of the l.. u. ;. schools.