Provo City, Sept. 30th, [189]1 President Wilford Woodruff. Chairman General Board of Education. Dear Brother, In compliance with my instructions I herewith submit respectfully the Annual Report of the operation of our church- schools during the academic year 1890-1891. As was to be expected, the establishment of the Freeschool System has not been without material influence upon our churchschools, so that the four seminaries at Mt. Pleasant, Springville; 14th Ward, and Fremont had to be discontinued by decision of their respective ...

the part of members of such Boards, which causes them to take very little, or in some instances, no concern at all ab- out the duties of their membership. In consequence of this all the work devolves upon one or two, who occasionally feel reluctant in assuming all the responsibility. A reconstruction of many of these Boards, that carry such "deadhead's" becomes a matter of necessity, but can only be affected in a satisfactory manner, by the First Presidency taking this matter in hand. As an illustration of the foregoing complaint is the manner in which the request ...

Several Boards of Education did not make final arrange- ments for Principals and Teachers until the latter part of the present month. Such a course will frustrate every attempt for reaching the high aims of our educational system. While fully realizing the financial embarrassment under which the most of our Boards of Education are laboring, the [undesigned] is convinced by his own educational experience, that the cause of our church schools could be advanced far beyond its present status by united and intelligent efforts of the various Boards of Education, in keeping close [ellbow]-feeling with the General Board ...

a spirit of faultfinding with my co-laborers, but with a desire to point out such deficiencies in our operations as need our first attention. In these critical times, when our public schoolsystem is supplied with all the most improved appurtenances of modern education and can secure the services of the best teachers by good salaries, our Church School Organization would soon wear itself out in the futile attempt to keep ahead of all these enticements, if not every member of these Boards and Faculties will perform his duty in the spirit of a sacred mission. Accompanying this letter ...

The experience of the first two years of our operations has suggested a few changes in the blanks for our statistical report which I shall respectfully submit to you for your approval before long. No financial reports have been received for the last academic year from B. Y. College, Logan; Weber Stake Academy, Ogden; XVIII Ward Seminary, S. L. City; Juab Stake Academy, Nephi; Emery Stake Academy, Castle Dale; Board ...