---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Hoyt, T. C.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 23
number: 11
published: 1920-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Hoyt, T. C., "The Strong," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 11 (September 1920): 996.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23011unse
  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: improvementera23011unse
start_page: 996
end_page: 996
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23011unse
  publication_year: 1920
  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 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Strong

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1000                                 IMPROVEMENT ERA
                                             JANUARY
Tuesday evenings.                                 Sunday evenings.
  1. Lessons nine, ten and eleven.                  1. Joint program.
  2. Debate.                                        2. Lessons nine, ten and eleven.
                                                    3. Debate, to be given on a week
                                                         night.

                                            FEBRUARY
Tuesday evenings.                                 Sunday evenings.
  1.   Lessons     twelve,    thirteen      and     1. Joint program.

       fourteen.                                    2.   Lessons twelve, thirteen and four-
  2.   Drama.                                            teen.
                                                    3.   Drama,    to   be given on a week
                                                         night.

                                             MARCH
Tuesday evenings.                                 Sunday evenings.
  1.   Lessons fifteen, sixteen and sev-            1.   Joint program.
       enteen.                                      2.   Lessons fifteen, sixteen and sev-
  2.   Testimony, extra lesson, or les-                  enteen.
       son-review.                                  3.   An evening with Church leaders.
  3.   An evening with Church leaders.
                                              APRIL
Tuesday evenings.                                 Sunday evenings.
  1.    Lessons one, two and three of               1. Joint program.
       the combined course for all                  2. Lessons one, two and three,
       except Boy Scouts and Bee-hive               3. Spring  celebration to be held
       girls.                                            on week night.
  2.   Spring celebration.

                                              MAY
Tuesday evenings.                                 Sunday Evenings.
  1.   Lessons     four,     five,    six   and     1. Joint program.
       seven, of combined course.                   2.    Lessons four, five, six and seven.
  2.    An historical or patriotic pa-              3.    A pageant to be given on a week
       geant.                                            night.

                                              Studies

    There will be three Y. M. M. I. A. classes during the season,
the Junior, the Senior, and the Advanced Senior, the latter being a joint class ofyoung men and women. Manuals are now
being prepared for the Senior and Junior classes, and the Advanced Senior text will be printed monthly in the Era, the first
lessons appearing in this                   September number.

                     Advanced Senior              —22 Years and Up
        The course will be a series of lessons on Vital Problems
of Life, in two parts.    The first part consists of seventeen lessons as followo:
