14 WEBER ACADEMY CATALOGUE tions in the cast through a try out system. This activity is supplementary to the work in the English department. Interesting trips are taken to adjoining towns. Lecture Course The lecture course of the Academy is now seven years oldfar beyond the experimental stage. From a very modest beginning it has grown to become the foremost lecture course in the West. The best talent on the platform has been secured each season, and in the past such celebrities and artists as Prof. S. H. Clark, University of Chicago; Edmund Vance Cook; Alton Packard; Spillman Riggs; Dr. George E. Vincent, University of Chicago; Dr. Thos. E. Green; Lou J. Beauchamp; Rev. Sam Jones; Maro, the magician; The Dunbar Concert Co.; Rogers and Grilley; Prof. John B. DeMott; Dr. Richard G. Moulton, University of Chicago; Prof. Geo. Riddle, Harvard University; Jubilee Singers; Albert Armstrong; William Jennings Bryan; Bertha Kunz Baker; Mr. George R. Wendling; Prof. Frederick Starr, anthropologist of the University of Chicago; Dr. John Meritte Driver, formerly pastor People's Church, Chicago; The Hruby Brothers Quintette; Opie Read; Prof. Maynard Lee Daggy, University of Washington; Montaville Flowers, president Flowers' Academy of Speech and Dramatic Art, Cincinnati; Father L. F. Vaughan, the great dramatic orator; Sylvester Long; Frederick E. Hopkins; Russel H. Conwell, Whitney Brothers' Quartette; Jacob Riis. Next year the course opens about October and the committee announces the following: Ex-Gov. Robt. L. (Bob) Taylor, of Tennessee; New Zealanders; Whitney Brothers' Male Quartette; De Witt Miller; Leland T. Powers; Laurant, the magician; Edward P. Elliott, Thomas E. Green, and Senator LaFollette. WEBER ACADEMY CATALOGUE 15 This makes nine very strong numbers. Prices for tickets will be the same as last year. Season ticket $2.50 and Coupon $3.00. The lecture course is a part of the Academy. The benefits that come to the students of the Academy and to the public are of inestimable value. Students' Expenses Tuition is free. An entrance fee of ten dollars, payable in advance, is charged all students. Laboratory fees: Chemistry ....................2.00 Physics ..................... 2.00 Domestic Science.............. 2.00 Manual Training............. 4.00 Zoology ..................... 2.00 Biology..................... 2.00 Domestic Arts................ 2.00 Students pursuing the Commercial courses will be charged ten dollars a year extra. Students pursuing the special one-year Stenographic course and the special one-year Bookkeeping course will be charged four dollars per month in addition to en-trance fee. A fee of three dollars will be charged for the diploma isssued by the Academy for the completion of any of the four-year courses. These fees in all cases must be paid in advance. All the students of the Academy are held responsible for any injury done by them to its property. Board and lodging can be obtained at from three to five dollars per week. By students' renting rooms and boarding themselves these expenses may be reduced.