Office of the
GENERAL BOARD OF EDUCATION,
OF THE
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.
WILFORD WOODRUFF, President.
KARL G. MAESER, Gen. Superintendent.
GEO. REYNOLDS, Secretary.
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the department with increased numbers instead of
losing but sometimes it had to be done with heavy
individual sacrifices. The reorganization of the de-
partment also now, in order to meet the require-
ments of our advanced grade in the Church school
service, and the special course for lady-teachers,
all of which arrangements the Junior Normal-
classes in the other Academies are not yet prepared
to comply with, necessitate extra pecuniary efforts,
that it will be impossible for this Academy alone
to make. I once before proposed to the General
Board the establishment of a Primary Drill
Department for our Normals, composed of about
24 to 30 children from Chart class up to IV Reader-
grade, free of charge, to be conducted on the alterna-
ting plan by Normal students entirely under the su-
pervision of the Normal Professor. The children to
be supplied under certain conditions by the four
Bishops of Provo. This plan was not endorsed
by the General Board just then, but I shall keep
my faith that it will yet be carried out at some