--- 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: 14 number: 4 published: 1911-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Mutual Work," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 4 (February 1911): 367.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1404unse 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: improvementera1404unse start_page: 367 end_page: 367 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1404unse publication_year: 1911 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 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Mutual Work Mutual Work. Quarterly Conjoint Meetings. Ward presidents of Mutual Improvement Associations, and particu- larly stake superintendents, are instructed by the General Board to be present and take places on the stands at Sunday evening meetings of quarterly conferences in the various stakes of Zion. These quarterly gatherings of the young people are very important, because this meeting is about the only opportunity that the young people have, as organiza- tions, to listen to the instructions of the leading authorities of the Church, the twelve apostles and the presidents of seventy. A suitable program of music, and one exercise from each of the M. I. A. organiz- ations, should be given on these occasions, taken from the manuals that have been studied during the season. It is important that all the officers, both the young men and the young women, take places on the stand, and that, as far as possible, representatives and members from each organization be present. There has been some neglect in this matter, and it is time that the officers of the young people were taking advan- tage of this excellent opportunity granted to the associations, by mak- ing these meetings not only the best attended, but the most instructive, of any that may be held during the quarterly conference. Questions for Debate. The following questions have been approved for debates by the General Board of Y. M. M. I. A.: 1. Resolved, That the college course should be reduced in length to three years. 2. Resolved, That the honor system of examination in colleges is desirable and practicable. 3. Resolved, That the recommendations of the Simplified Spelling Board should be generally adopted. 4. Resolved, That all studies in college above the first or freshman grade should be elective. 5. Resolved, That it would be for the best interests of the students of the United£States to have colleges situated in large cities.