--- 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: 2 published: 1909-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Gerald Anderson, "Deseret Gymnasium," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 2 (December 1909): 172.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1302unse 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: improvementera1302unse start_page: 172 end_page: 172 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1302unse 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. --- # Deseret Gymnasium 172 IMPROVEMENT ERA. When everything for childhood's done, When every one is free, Ah, then, the race of God is won! Yes, then 'tis victory! Salt Lake City, Utah. William J. Kohlberg. Photo by Gerald Anderson. Deseret Gymnasium, looking north-east across the great hotel foundation Photo by George Albert Smith Interior View of Cliff Dwelling, near Grayson, Utah. The young man in the picture is Edward Lyman, son of Piatt Lyman.