Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 11: Organ of the Seventies and the Young Mens Mutual Improvement Associations; September, 1908 Utah is proud of her young men and women who have the will and courage to secure a modern education. Love of educa tion and a persistent seeking for it have always characterized the peoplecwho founded and built this state. If I have read the his tory of the pioneers correctly, they saw amidst the heated toil of the early years great visions of the day when their children and grandchildren should be the possessors of the world's best knowl edge, and should use it for the conquest of the mighty resources of the desert, then unconquered and forbidding. Compared with other commonwealths, founded under similar circumstances and of equal age, Utah ranks very high when the question of educational ideals and progress is raised. The spirit of education is in our state. It has taken hold of a large number of our young people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.