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 Boards, and the Stake Academies at Beaver, Snow-
flake, and St. Joseph do not intend to open the ensuing
school year for lack of funds. The Seminary at Samaria has
been combined with the Stake Academy at Malad, and
the Principal of the former, Bro. Samuel Davis, has joined
the Stake Academy as one of the regular teachers.
Much difficulty has been experienced by many of the
Boards of Education paying no attention to the instructions
given by the General Board of Education in the General Cir-
culars, and in the "Church School Papers"' as published in
the Juvenile Instructor. The reason for this is not so much
an intentional opposition as ^rather^ a careless indifference on
"Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 30 September 1891," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 18, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Oo8r