Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 5 October 1893
Provo,
President Wilford Woodruff.
Dear Brother,
In consequence of the great diversity in the nomenclature
of Grades, Departments, and Classes, in many of our church-
schools, a great confusion in this respect had arisen, ma-
king an estimate of their comparative standing and
labors on my part and a subsequent correct report
to the General Board almost impossible. To obviate this
difficulty for the future, Church School Papers, No. 20, Juv.
Instr. April 15, last, recommended this subject with several
others to the consideration of all churchschool teachers, pre-
paratory to discussion at our Annual Convention.
The Annual Convention met at the Brigham Young
Academy, Provo, August 14, at 11 A.M. The proceedings
of that Convention are reported in the Church School Papers,
No. 23, Juv. Instr. Sept. 1st. After much discussion of the
above stated point, it was decided to refer it to the Board
of Examiners for the formulation of a mode of nomen-
clature, to be complied with by all our churchschools,
as soon that mode of nomenclature should have
obtained the sanction of the General Board of
Education.
