---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 9
number: 5
published: 1906-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, *Improvement Era* 9, no. 5 (March 1906).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0905unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera0905unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 9, number 5, dated March 1906. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; printed editorial pages 345–424 are transcribed as source-native records. Photograph-only leaves within editorial matter are noted as figures in their containing record.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0905unse
  publication_year: 1906
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, March 1906

*Improvement Era*. Volume 9, no. 5. March 1906. Organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Concerning the Education of Young Men—I: The Meaning of Education, 345.
- Some Wise Sayings, 348.
- Life of St. Paul for the Young—XV–XVII, 349.
- A Splendid University, 359.
- A Snapshot: A Story, 361.
- The Master: A Poem, 373.
- Memorial Monument Dedication—II, 375.
- Companions of Man: A Poem, 389.
- Christianity in Japan, 390.
- Why Do We Fail?, 393.
- Be Somebody, 396.
- Atonement—II, 397.
- Let Us All Be What We Are: A Poem, 407.
- A Custom—An Opportunity, 408.
- The Art of Doing Without: A Poem, 409.
- Editor's Table, 410.
- For the Young Men, 413.
- Messages from the Missions, 414.
- In Lighter Mood, 416.
- Our Work, 417.
- Notes, 418.
- Events and Comments, 419.