42 the faculty with such talent as will fully meet the needs and wants of all the school and in accordance with the original plan.1 While awaiting the opening of the Academy the Fifth Ward has established a ward school in the basement of the Educational Institute. The school will open this morning at 9 a.m.2 The terms have already been published. Temporary grades will be taken and taught until the opening of the academy. Then the school will merge into a primary or preparatory department becoming strictly a ward school. Until the change of, Professor Moench will take charge of the school.3 Charles F. Middleton has this to say: "I attended a school exhibition of the Fifth Ward church school."4 Louis F. Moench writes: "that on June the fifteenth I attended my school at the Fifth Ward Institute."5 The Weber Stake Academy, closed for a year and a half, reopened yesterday at nine o'clock, this time in the building erected for this particular purpose. To the surprise of the Stake Board of Education and the principal nearly 200 students were present asking for enrollment. It was certainly a pleasant sight and fully showed how much the completion of the Academy has been desired.6 There is an abundant amount of striking evidence supporting the claim that the Weber Stake Academy was in session during the scholastic year, 1890-91. Students who attended the Fifth Ward Educational Institute, and now living (1951), declare in the most positive words that the Weber Stake Academy was in session and seemed greatly shocked that the question should ever be raised. The names of these students are: 1. The Standard, March 6, 1891. 2. Idem, March 8, 1891. 3. Idem, March 6, 1891. 4. Historical Record, Charles F. Middleton, May 15, 1891. 5. Historical Record, Louis F. Moench, p. 76. 6. The Standard, November 23, 1891.