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.
The importance of the engagement of a lady-teacher or
a Matron for the special instruction of the female pupils,
of the cultivation of Singing, ^and the^ attendance of some one of ^from^ every
churchschool at the Annual and at the Drespective Dis-
trict and Branch Conventions is not yet appreciated
thoroughly, nor are many members of the various Boards
very anxious to keep themselves posted in regard to the
instructions given from time to time by the General
Board.
In thus frankly stating the chief drawbacks that until
now have encumbered our progress I have not done so in
"Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 30 September 1891," p. 3, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Qq79