42 WEBER ACADEMY CATALOGUE SPELLINGIn this course special attention is given to commercial and legal words, but not to the exclusion of the miscellaneous terms. The aim is to give the ear as well as the eye a careful training in the right formation of the word. Correct pronunciation and definitions are prominent features of this course. Three hours throughout first semester. Required of all first year commercial students. ENGLISHSee outlines of English subjects. MATHEMATICSSee outlines of Mathematical subjects. Typewriting The typewriting department occupies a large, well-lighted room, and has a first-class equipment of fifty standard machines and new furniture. The student has unexcelled facilities for becoming an expert typewriter. Speed, accuracy and neatness are the qualifications every student is required to work for; no erasing is allowed, and each lesson must receive the teacher's approval before the student goes on another lesson. The Touch system is used exclusively. For advanced students, writing from dictation for the acquirement of a high rate of speed is practiced. Filling legal forms, directing envelopes, writing architectural specifications, are types of the different forms of practice. Each student is taught the use of the machine and its different parts, and is required to clean and oil his own machine from the first day he starts to practice. He is allowed to go as rapidly from one lesson to another as he is able, so that the more practice the student gets, the sooner he will become expert. Five hours per week throughout the year. Two hours' credit for each semester. WEBER ACADEMY CATALOGUE 43 Music CHOIRA choir of one hundred mixed voices is regularly maintained to furnish music for devotional exercises. Students with sufficient natural endowments may be enrolled. Practice two hours per week throughout the year. SIGHT SINGING a. This course will include the principles of sight singing based upon the simple harmonic combination to be found in the major and minor scales, and continuing through easy stages to the more difficult. Two hours per week throughout the year. SIGHT SINGING b. This course is made a permanent part of the musical work in the Academy. The class work will include sight singing in four parts, also instruction in the principles of conducting. Two hours per week throughout the year. Those only who have successfully passed the first year will be entitled to membership. MILITARY BANDThe band has become a regular part of the musical department. Students of the Academy who play instruments are entitled to membership without charge. Students who own instruments are requested to bring them and become members of the band. Members desiring private instruction may obtain the same at a very nominal cost. Practice three hours per week throughout the year. ORCHESTRAOpen to all who play orchestral instruments. Regular instruction will be given. Students desiring private instruction may secure it. Domestic Arts DOMESTICS ARTS aHand sewing. Various stitches and their application. Elements of sewing and their application. Darning and patching. Five recitations per week first semester, two hours' credit.