--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Anderson, Gerald collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 13 number: 1 published: 1909-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Gerald Anderson, "The New Deseret Gymnasium," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 1 (November 1909): 74.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1301unse 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: improvementera1301unse start_page: 74 end_page: 74 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1301unse publication_year: 1909 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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The New Deseret Gymnasium 74 IMPROVEMENT ERA. And then he told me what I have already set down, that the main thing a boy ought to have as his working capital is integrity, a devotion to whatever cause he may be serving. One other word he added, and that was for a boy always to be hopeful of his future — but not too hopeful. "Be hopeful," he said, "even if there appears to be nothing to hope for. The dead past should be allowed to bury its dead. And yet you should not depend upon the future so much as to leave everything to it. 'Act, act in the living present' — that is the best thing to do always." Salt Lake City, [Utah. Photo by Gerald Anderson. The new Deseret Gymnasium, Salt Lake City, in which the Y, M. M. I. A. are interested.