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K. G. Maeser
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
A. O. SMOOT, President,
H. H. CLUFF,
W. H. DUSENBERRY,
M. TANNER,
D. C. YOUNG,
J. E. TALMAGE.
KARL G. MAESER,
Principal
PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE
Provo City, Utah,
President Wilford Woodruff.
Dear Brother,
Your favors of Aug. 30, 31, and Sept. 5, have been duly received.
In regard to the first of these, my letter containing the letter of Bro. Spori
applying for the position of Principal of the Academy at Rexburg,
would have served as answer. I received your letter after mine
to had been mailed to you already. Bro. Spori's Certificates,
both in regard to his examinations, as well as to his services as prac-
tical teacher, obtained from Swiss School authorities, are of the
highest order. I shall forward him his papers again today,
with my suggestion in regard to Provo, but with your pater-
nal solicitationude concerning his private affairs. Leaving it at
his option to go to Logan, if that is the best he can do. But if
the Authorities of Bannock Stake should want their Prin-
cipal soon, we should have to find another one instead
after all. Please to instruct me on this point.
Your letter of the 31 of Aug. reached me Wednesday, Sept. 5
two days after the opening of the S. Lake S. Academy, I could,
therefore, not avail myself anymore of your kind invitation.
In regard to St. George's Academy, I am somewhat puzzled;
for after the receipt of Bro. Bleake's letter, which I have
mailed to you, in which it was stated that Bro. Nephi Savage had not been
heard from, the latter submitted to me yesterday on the occasion of his
farewell visit, quite a correspondence with the Authorities at St.
George, the last a lengthy official communication from the
Secretary of the Board, dated Sept. 1, containing the final points
of agreement, all of which Bro. Savage has accepted and written
them to that effect. He was ready to start for St. George as soon the
telegram would come to tell him, that his letter had been received,
and they were ready to receive him.
Your favor of Sept. 5, received this morning, fills me with ^as^ much
joy and satisfaction on the one hand, as it causes me concern
and anxiety on the other. When I received your instructions after
the last meeting of the General Board to the effect, that in consid-
eration of prevailing circumstances no more Academies were to be
started for the present, except the one at Brigham City, I advised
all available teachers not to wait any longer, but make their
arrangements for the coming schoolyear. This they have done,
and we are now somewhat in straits to supply the unexpec-
ted demands in a satisfactory manner. It has been my
aim and will remain my aim, until otherwise instructed by
you to have all these Academies work harmoniously working
so that a well defined system of education for the youth of
Zion under the direction of the General Board may gradually
be developed, which can be done most effectually, I believe,
if all these principals fully realize, that they are conduc-
ting parts of one system under the direction of the General
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
A. O. SMOOT, President,
H. H. CLUFF,
W. H. DUSENBERRY,
M. TANNER
D. C. YOUNG,
J. E. TALMAGE.
KARL G. MAESER,
Principal
PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE
Brigham Young Academy
Provo City, Utah, 188
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Board to whom their plans, programms, and statistics
at certain intervals have to be submitted for approval as
correction, and from whom they have to receive their in-
structions. The general plan and organization of the
B. Y. Academy has thus far been taken as the common stand-
ard, and it requires therefore, a certain personal familiarity
of the respective principal with this standard, in order
to facilitate the work. The future development of Zion's
educational system will go far beyond what the B. Y. Ac.
is or ever can be, but it was fortunate that a common
starting point has been decided upon. The new Academy at
Coalville must be supplied with an efficient principal, and
if I should propose someone who had to be taken away
from some other appointment. As a first trial of this sort,
I venture to suggest to you Bro. Angus Vance, whomse I name
I suggested to you as teacher for the Sandwich Islands, but as
I received no answer from you in regard to that suggestion, I
suppose, that you have disposed of that case in some other
way. Bro. A. Vance would accept any reasonably moderate salary
for a beginning, until I ^he^ can show what he can do, when
for the interest of the institution itself his salary ought to be
raised correspondingly. A certain grading of all these schools
would be advisable, in order to give efficient teachers an op-
portunity to be placed by and by into such positions where
they can do the most good.
When Bro. Greenwood was here the last time, the very
point of feeling on the part of the Board at Fillmore in case
of his resignation and removal came up, and he assured me
that the bretheren there understood the situation, and could not
blame him after for trying to better himself, after he stood
by them so long. I should propose in case of your approval
of Bro. Greenwood's appointment for Sanpete Stake Academy,
that his brother Joshua, who has placed himself also at the
disposal of the General Board, and who has been assisting
Alma in that Academy, and also been teaching the district
schools at Fillmore, takes hold of that Academy for
a year, and then you can decide on the future course.
With deep regret I have learned of the death of Bro.
Horace S. Eldredge, member of the General Board of Education,
and may God inspire you to find a man to fill his place
in that position as efficient as Bro. Eldredge has done.
Ever praying for God's blessings to rest upon you,
to sustain you in your exalted position, will lengthen out
your days upon the earth for the good of Israel I remain
Your brother in the Gospel