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Show I VOL. 8 No. 1 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES VOTES WEBER A Professor Aaron Ward Tracy Has been Appointed to 92 Hours of College Work Leading To A. B. or B. S. Degrees Offered The Church School System Places College Attendance at Maximum of Five Hundred Students New Curriculum Is Announced by the Board. By a recent action of the board of trustees the Weber Normal college was enlarged into a junior college, changing the name, Weber Normal college, to the Weber college. This action followed the policy adopted by the church commission of education that the normal colleges of the church be enlarged to junior colleges. Beginning, therefore, with this year, the Weber college will be operated as a full fledged junior college, giving all courses which are ordinarily given in the junior colleges of the best schools of the country. It will offer two years of work in law, or the prelaw course; two years in medicine or the pre-medical course; two years in engineering; two years in business; two years in education and psychology or the normal work; and two years in the arts and sciences. A student may take up any one of these courses and do one-half of the work necessary for an A. B. or B. S. degree, which is about 92 hours. The Weber senior high school and the college divisions will no longer be operated together. Each will have STUDENT ASSN. TO OPERATE STORE Books, Stationery, Lunches and Candy to Be Sold by Organization. Beginning with the opening of this school year, the Associated Students of the Weber College will operate their supply store, which will be known as the Weber Student Supply store. The store will be within the institution, on the basement floor of the high school division of the building. It will be operated by the Associated Students of Weber, which organization will place its direct management in the hands of the purchasing agent of the school. He will work for the best interests of the individual student and for the student association. He will purchase all supplies and supervise all sales. He will employ student help and regulate the opening and closing periods or hours of the store. He will in every possible way serve the best interests of all the students, classes and activities of the institution. By the establishment of the store, the school will take on another college phase. Most schools and colleges have their supply stores. They do this because of the convenience and significance of such an institution within a school. In our case the revenue accruing from the operation of the store will be used to alleviate the struggles through which the student association has been passing in order to maintain its activities. Besides, the store will make it very convenient for students to purchase their text books, paper, pens, pencils, notebooks, etc. Class supplies, sucn as caps, pennants, colors, etc., will be convenient. In addition, all equipment for the school and the various departments will be handled through the supply store. Teachers Must Place Orders. That the store may fully function from the very beginning, it will be necessary for the teachers, various managers, classes and heads of departments to place their orders immediately.It is urged that every teacher, every students, every department, and every activity of the institution patronize the supply loyally. It belongs to the students; it is for their benefit and service. All revenues go directly back to them, since they support the activities which all students enjoy free of charge. The Weber Student Supply store will be strictly up-to-date from every point of view. Students of Weber, operate your store to its fullest capacity.SEPT. 6 FOR SPECIAL ADVICE ON REGISTRATION On September 6 the instructors of the Weber College will be at school to confer 'with parents and students concerning the problems of registration. They offer their services on the (ith of September because they realize that thev will be very busy on the 7th, 8th and 9th and therefore not as free to consult with students and parents as they will be on September 6. Therefore, all who feel that they should have special advce relative to their selection of courses, etc., McetMe JynRrf ITTrTPTTr5 TT THrlrN A IT TP Your Ifjl p r p -7 H; r T A u Opportunitv UALLY fel iajajlsL . . M -1 12. Take It! its separate organization within the institution, the college occupying the library floor and the high school the remainder of the building. This arrangement makes it possible for the college to be conducted on the basis of the 60-minute period and the high school on the 45-minute period. It also allows the college to hold its chapel separate and apart from the high school, and to more freely and independently develop such activities as will create a strong college spirit and consequently a larger college for the city and county. Preparations have been made to receive 200 college students this year, and another year the institution is looking forward to an enrollment of five hundred for which the necessary accommodations shall be made. It is felt that a city the size of Ogden can support a college to the number of 500 students. The board of trustees therefore announce that it shall have a college of at least five hundred students just as soon as the community feels that it should have (Continued on Page Two) NORMAL COURSE MUCHENLARGED To Encourage Two-Year Course Objectives of Mormonism Are Considered. Because of the importance of teacher training in the Church school system, the normal courses for next year have been very much enriched. Courses are being offered to meet the revised requirement of the state board of education and the best standards of the most efficient state schools. In addition, such variations of prescribed courses as our particular needs require are to be allowed. Students in this department will be encouraged to take two years' of work to meet the state requirement for a first class certificate rather than do the sufficient work to qualify for a second class certificate. However, a complete one-venr pnnvoo tm1i u fered to those unable to return for a second year's work. The professional subjects required in the regular two-year course are as follows: Elementary Educational Psychology Principles of Education. Class Room Management. Introductory Special Methods. Elementary School Curriculum. ' Observation and Training. Use of Books and Libraries. Health Education. Freshman English. Theology. Play Supervision. Public School music. The following professional elective courses will be offered: Art for Elementary Schools. Educational Sociology. iturai taucation. In addition to the professional subjects mentioned, the course provides for 32 hours of non-professional subjects which should include such subjects as history, sociology, biology, civics and economics. It will be the aim of the department, as soon as practical, to have all prospective teachers to do the nonprofessional work the first year and leave the professional courses until they are a little more mature. However, courses will be arranged and every consideration given to students who feel that they can attend but one year. Because of the peculiar objective of Mormonism no profession is so essential to its success as teaching. It needs, above alt else, trained social and community leaders. We encourage you to consider such a course Ogden offers, especially facilities for effective training. Besides the splendid city and county school system and State Industrial school and the State Deaf and Blind school both afford excellent examples for special laboratory study. This year a mental survey will be undertaken at the State Industrial school, in order that we might have laboratory material in connection with the course in school tests. Trips of inspection will be made to the various industrial plants of the locality, and we expect to repeat our trip of inspection to the 3uue iueruai nospiiai at rrovo, at which time a clinic will be conducted. The clanishness and push of prospective teachers insures plenty of social diversion. If you have completed your high school course, we invite you to visit us and consider our work. COLLEGE IS A BIG ASSET TO BUSINESS Gus Wright Expresses Attitude of Business Men Toward a College in Ogden. CHOSE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL $3,700,000 Is Estimated Yearly Value of a College to Our Vicinity. Not many years ago there was offered to the cities of Utah, outside of Salt Lake City, the Utah Agricultural college and the State Industrial school. I am told that Ogden had first choice and picked the industrial school. Logan took what was left the "A. C." A Loganite recently told me that during the school year there are upwards of 7,000 students in attendance at the A. C. Seven thousand people suddenly added to the population even of Ogden would have a stimulating effect on trade. To Logan its effect is even more apparent than it would be here, since Logan's population is smaller than that of Ogden. Ogden has the industrial school with a hundred boys and girls. And this hundred is an uneconomic hundred. By this I mean that they do not bring any wealth to the county. Their sustenance is provided by the state. The expenses of the school circulate in Ogden, and for this, of course, we are duly thankful. But the point is this: From an economic standpoint, when Ogden selected the industrial school instead of the agricultural college, she made a mistake. This is not a lamentation. Perhaps those who .were responsible for the selection were altruistic; perhaps they said: "Logan should have the college, for she needs it more than we." And today we are glad, Logan, that you got it; it's so refreshing to see a few good things distributed outside of Salt Lake county. Benefits of College to Ogden. It's never too late to do good. Why not a college in Ogden now? I am asked: "What is the attitude of Ogden business men toward a college in Ogden?" I can not speak authoritatively, but I imagine the composit answer of Ogden business men would be something like this: First, the ethical side: The one thing, more than any other, that makes for a safe, sane, fine, economical, progressive, happy community is education. If it were possible for the boys and girls of Weber county to get a college education at home, many would take advantage of the opportunity. In the course of four years after the establishment of a college it would be turning out college bred men and women, many of them Ogden residents. A college in Ogden will certainly have a refining, uplifting, ennobling effect upon us. Second, the material side: It is safe to assume that there would be brought to Ogden as many students from the outside as now go to Logan. If my information is right, that number is seven thousand. I am told that some students live, and reasonably well, on two dollars a day. Taking that for the basis, their livelihood would cost fourteen thousand dollars a day, or three million seven hundred thousand dollars for the school term of nine months. Add that sum to our present circulating medium and business would be considerably bettered. Adding fresh money to the established circulation of a community is like driving an automobile. You seem to be going comfortably fast at 25 miles and not so much faster at thirty, but have you noticed that the difference between thirty and thirty-five miles an hour seems tremendous. If there is a chance to establish an important college in Ogden, her business men should, from a purely selfish motive, if for no other reason, do everything in their power to make it possible. LARGE BAND ASSURED The band for the coming year will consist of eight B-flat cornets, four E-flat altos, six slide trombones, one baritone, one euphonium, one E-flat clarinet, six B-flat clarinets, one alto saxaphone, one tenor saxaphone, one baritone saxaphone, one tenor drum, one bass drum, cymbols and tympani. Weber will have, this year, a greater band than the grand old band of 1907. In addition, two of the small rooms have been merged into one which will in the future constitute the special band room. Here daily practices will be held at a specified time. One half unit credit will be given for the year's work. C-...J i u,i ...l. Oluuems niLticsLcu ill uanu nuin ' should take notice of this. THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1922 AARON REGISTRATION DAYS TO BE SEPT. 7, 8, 9 On Thursday, September 7; Friday, September 8, and Saturday, September 9, the Weber Junior College will open for registration. On Thursday, September 7, the tenth grade students will be registered; on Friday, September 8, senior high school students, and on Saturday, September 9, the college students. We have set aside these days for registration in order that the first week of classroom work, which begins ! the Monday following, shall not be interrupted. We find that if we register students on Monday .and Tuesday of the first school week, we destroy the school work of one of the thirty-six weeks of study required of us. Again, by receiving the various groups independently, as indicated, we are enabled to welcome them more courteously and to register them more efficiently. For example, if only the tenth grade students come to us on Thursday, September 7, we can, since we are not interrupted by students of the other groups, advise them more satisfactorily in relation to the work for which a tenth grade student should register. We can better place them where they belong. We can better cause them to feel at home. Likewise, we can receive the eleventh and twelfth grade students on Friday, September 8, and the college students on Saturday, September 9. Should a student of any one of the three groups come in on a day later than the day set for his registration, he could not be registered until after 3:30 p. m., and could not possibly receive equal consideration with those who were registered on the day set apart for their registration. Remember the following dates which apply to you: Tenth grade, Thursday, September 7; eleventh and twelfth grades, Friday, September 8; college, Saturday, September 9. OFFER COLLEGE COURSE IN MODERN LANGUAGES Heretofore no college courses in modern language have been given, but commencing with this year the following will be offered: French 1, 2, 3 and 4; Spanish 1 and 2, and German 1 and 2. There will also be high school courses in second and third-year French, second-year Spanish and beginning German. Miss Noble, head of this department for the past two years, will continue in charge for the coming season. MILLS SUPERINTENDENT OF INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL The appointment of John M. Mills as superintendent of the Utah State Industrial school marked a step in the advancement of that institution. Mr. Mills, long a prominent figure in the educational feld, is fully competent to fulfill such an important position. His educational ability, 'together with his inspiring personality, provides him with strong tools for his duties as superintendent. We are glad to remember Mr. Mills as a former Weber instructor and wish for him the utmost success in this new field of labor. !. - ! 1 I ' - 1 f j A j j V A ; , L 4 : ; V ' - W.TRACY GRAND OPENING RALLY WILL BE HELD ON CAMPUS Fall Term to Be Preceded By "Get-Together" Meeting of Student Body. DATE SET IS SEPTEMBER 1 Meeting on Lawns to be Followed by Vocal and Instrumental Program and Dance. There is a warning in the air that summer is nearing its close and that fall will soon clothe the earth with its gorgeous autumnal colorings. Spring was here only yesterday, it seems, yet now we are eagerly looking forward to the harvest time, which is accompanied by the romantic Indian summer. All seasons in the valleys of the mountains are delightful; winter with its sparkling snow, spring with its signs of new life, summer with its beautiful sunshine and flowers, and autumn with its rich, artistic colorings, make life satisfactory if one only knows how to look at life and appreciation the wonderful things of nature. No day, be it ever so balmy, is a source of pleasure if we refuse to allow our minds to appreciate its balminess; no season, however delightful, brings joy to one who refuses to accept the joyful things of life. Whether it be summer or winter, spring or fall, our mental attitude must be in harmony with the season, otherwise we cannot accept and appreciate the wonderful transformations known as seasons. Fall will soon be with us! Fall the season that makes us long to return to our dear old Weber, and to again associate and mingle with our dear old classmates and friends. It is the time of the season that we feel we can hardly wait until school commences to see our old "pals." Well, students, your officers have noticed this spirit of longing and they are providing a means whereby you may see your friends before the opening of school on September 7. They have planned a Grand Opening Rally. Did we hear someone say that Weber was dead? Well, he certainly is a pessimist and deserves a life sentence in the "growler's hospital." The spirit of "pep" and enthusiasm is paramount in the minds of all the officers of the school as never before in the school's history, and with President Aaron W. Tracy as president of the school, a select group of student body officers, a banner year is inevitable. The officers are working for the welfare of the students, and they are endeavoring to make Weber a bigger, better college. Many entertainments have alreadv been planned and if the students will but hear the appeal for support and will lend their assistance toward success they may expect a .rv livplv vear. In order to make them realize that the officers have their hearts in their work, and to cause them to catch the enthusiasm and spirit, we are giving "The Grand (Continued on Page Three) JUNIOR COLLEGE Presidency of Weber Selection Meets Enthusiastic Approval of Faculty and AH Concerned Life of President Is Story of a Sterling Character Surmounting Great Obstacles in His Struggle to the Top as Alumnus, Teacher, President. On July 2, 1922, the L. D. S. Church school commission and board of trustees of Weber College appointed Professor Aaron W. Tracy president of Weber College, to succeed President Joel E. Ricks, who resigned to become head of the history department of the Utah Agricultural college. The announcement was received with keen satisfaction by all concerned. It is doubtful if any choice has been given greater joy. At the alumni banquet, held last spring, a petition was circulated for his appointment and signed by all present. His Early Life. Aaron W. Tracy was born in Mar-riottsville, March 3, 1885, the son of Henry and Phoebe Tracy. His .grandparents were pioneers who drove their ox team across the plains and into Utah in 1847. From his birth he seemed to have been favored with unlimited hardships so as to develop a wiry constitution and sturdy character. The protecting hand of Providence has seemed to preserve him for the task which he now has before him of being one of the leaders in the L. D. S. Church school system. When a baby, to protect him from the polygamy prosecutions of the times, like Moses of old, he was hidden away by his parents in the willows of one of the creeks of Marriott settlement. His parents were forced to move from place to place because of the persecutions. So, as a mere boy, President Tracy endured the hardships of pioneer life in Weber and Cache counties and later in Star Valley, Wyoming. Here he lived on black bread, fish and deer meat, the only provisions which the settlers had. Here also, when but eight years of age, his father died, leaving his devoted mother to care for the children, in a place where it was difficult for the hardiest of men to provide. Faced with these conditions, the mother with her children moved to Lake Shore, a community on the edge of Utah lake in Utah county. Here Aaron immediately showed his power to work and ability to do things which has stamped him as one of exceptional ability and qualified him for the position he now holds. His first occupation was that of raising poultry. By MR. HOLTON BECOMES SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT Professor Holton has been made secretary to the president, manager of the registrar's office, and purchasing agent of the school. As purchasing agent, he will purchase all school supplies for the school for the student association, for each class, for the alumni, and for individuals of the school. Not one article is to be purchased in the name of the school, or the associated students, except through the purchasing agent. Mr. Holton therefore assumes a vary important position. His services as secretary to the president and as purchasing agent will be of utmost value to the institution. PROF. JOSEPHS OF N. Y. TO TEACH AT WEBER Weber College and Ogden are to be benefited through the visit of Prof. Lemuel B. C. Josephs of the faculty of the American Academy of Dramatic Art of New York City, which institution is cooperative with Daniel Froman and David Belasco, two of the foremost producers of the American stage. Professor Josephs is an artist in more than the ordinary sense of the word, for he is not only known as an interpreter of the spoken word, but is highly recommended as an instructor to singers. He has also received recognition at exhibitions of painting. Through years of study and experience in developing the arts, music, painting and dancing, besides a knowledge of several languages, he has become a most scientific and efficient teacher. During his visit, Mr. Josephs will conduct, at the Weber College, classes devoted to the study of the following subjects: Interpretation, public speaking, play producing, dictation, and Shakespeare. Private instruction will also be given. The college and alumni anticipate receiving criticism and instruction in the play they are going to produce in October for the benefit of increasing their fund to be used in the construction of the college building. We hope that Professor Josephs will be an asset to Weber College, and that each year will bring to us artists who will raise the standards of our school. FOUR PAGES the acouisitivpnpcu nf ao:nn- j his mother managed to get twelve h , r , , BUS,ed himself by building a chicken ,! ; vPnyHmanaeine this new business ad- , At the age of eleven he began work- bov Tf f,r thel'S- He an fn u 6 fa,"!e aSe hired out as farm hands, taking charge of a farm which necessitated their milking fourteen cows each day. For this work the two boys received their board we soon advanced from this position and at the next place was gfven in addition to his dinner, twelve eggs a day. His mother traded these for provisions at the town store. I he next summer another promotion came and his compensation was to nclude clothes also. At the end of the season he received his wardrobe of apparel, consisting of a new pair of Z. C. M. I. overalls, a heavy pair of Z. C. M. I. "stogies " a ging ham shirt, and straw hat. Other jobs here paid him from 20 cents a day in Z. C. M. I. credit to as high as 25 cents a day for riding a horse, doing work on the hay baler. Here the boyish instinct that follows prosperity and the riding of a "roan mare overcome him, and one afternoon, adorned with spurs and other paraphernalia, he challenged his horse to a bucking contest and a few minutes later awakened to the fact that-Mother Earth did not have a very great amount of elasticity. Later the family moved to Brigham where, when Aaron was only 13 years' of age, his mother died, leaving him to provide for himself. The boy then returned to Marriott Settlement, where he found that he could secure more remuneration for his services. It was' in Marriott Settlement that President Tracy received most of his boyhood training. He tells of the joy that came to him when Bishop Ritchey offered him permanent work at five dollars a month, and tells of the great lesson taught him each fast Sunday, when, at ten minutes past 12 o'clock, the bishop, on the meeting house steps would distribute the pay-roll in 25-cent pieces and urged him to pay his (Continued on Page Two) EVERYONE FOR BIGGER AND BETTER COLLEGE Since we believe Ogden is to be in need of an institution of higher education, we are making a determined effort to establish in our city a junior college. We therefore solicit your hearty cooperation to assist in our new adventure. Our catalogues are m circulation, one of which you have no doubt received. Read it carefully, select the courses you think you should like to pursue and be with us on September 9, college registration day, as a pioneer to launch in Ogden City a college for Ogden and the adjoining cities and counties. Respectfully yours, EDITOR OF HERALD. BOARD OF CONTROL TO BE EXCEPTIONAL Representatives of the College Are Yet to Be Chosen. We expect the year of 1922-23 to be a very successful one, for we have as officers of our school the liveliest and most capable we could choose. The object of these students, who are representing and working for all in the institution, is to promote the interests which concern the school as a whole and to create and foster the highest type of school spirit and loyalty. Without a doubt they will accomplish their purpose because our board of control is remarkable for its unusual personnel. Every nome on the board stands for something genuine and progressive. President Aaron W. Tracy is going to stand by the students in all affairs. All his life has been one of constant, honest and useful concentrated activity. Harvey Taylor, our peacemaker, is a man of determination and strong character. For these reasons he has been very successful in his school work here. His past interest in school affairs causes us to expect much from him this vear. High School Pres. McKay is distinctive for his friendly character. He (Continued on Page Three) |