Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 41: January, 1938The institution of which we are writing has from its beginning in the Latter - day Saints Church sys tem of education been known as a seminary. The name was not new but its relation to the public was new.' It is a special type of school of religion with a limited curriculum maintained near public _schools but in no way. _a part bf them. Yet in every case the seminary has been organized to serve students att'end~ ing a public school. It was not de signed as a proselyting institution, though its doors have always been freely 0 eu to non-members.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.