OUR increasing proximity to Europe has heightened the importance of Modern Language in the college curriculum, for it has added to the recognized cultural and literary values, that of usage. Language is no longer a closet subject; it is studied to be presented in speech. Hence, our method has been to function as completely as possible in the tongue itself, to accustom ourselves to comprehend not only by visual but by auditory sense, to reproduce correctly, spoken as well as written language. Our objective is the utilization of the medium thus acquired to know more accurately and intimately the cultures of nations and races foreign to our own. EARLY in the history of man he became interested in the living things about him. As the centuries have sped by, a notable array of biological facts have been established. In addition to the principles on which the science is founded, investigators have found and named an almost unbelievable number of plants and animals. Almost a quarter of a million plants have been classified and named. In the animal kingdom, eight thousand worms, two thousand five hundred sponges, three thou- sand five hundred reptiles, thirteen thousand birds, and three thousand five hundred species of mammals have been classified and named. To the novice it would seem that the field has been covered, but we find more biologists working on more problems today than ever before. The beginning courses in biology place the great panorama of living things be- fore the student as a fruitful field for human endeavor. HE Weber Gymnasium presents a splendid example of cooperation between the Weber College, the Community, and the Church, for recreation service, body-building, and right living, the value of which would be hard to measure. The lives of not a few boys and girls have been motivated by the things they learn there and the things they do there. During the four years of its existence, seven thousand men and women, boys and girls, besides hundreds that have paid daily admission fees, have enjoyed regular membership and partaken of its privileges. THE curtain of Weber is about to fall at the close of the act of 1928-1929, and as it slowly descends there are sixty-three prospective teachers watching eagerly for a curtain to rise on a more fascinating scene-an important and interesting part in influencing and molding the lives of little children. As a preparation for their role as a guide for young children, the department of Weber College offers a complete normal course consisting of Educational Psychology, Hygiene, Physical Education, Principles of Education, Organization and Administration, and Methods. In training they demonstrate how well they can apply their theory. We hope to hear good reports from our student teachers. NO community is wholly indifferent to youth's entering upon its mature functions and responsibilities, devoid of knowledge of what sustains and makes possible intelligence, health and enduring energy. Even habits that secure healthful functioning of the body need the supplement of an intelligent, interested attitude toward information that has forming power for race-growth. The department of Home Economics holds an important place in the curriculum of high schools and colleges, and each year the enrollment increases because the courses offered stress the practical development of household efficiency and better and happier homes. Young women feel the need more and more of that training which qualifies for life and service. Weber has had a very successful year in Home Economics. THE Doctrine and Covenant, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Mormon and the New and Old Testaments are among the literary monuments preserved for modern times. They contain religious and moral truths invaluable to people of the past, present, and future. They bear specific messages to the youth of the present day, which, if hearkened to by them, will make of them citizens capable of solving for the modern world its numerous complex problems. That the students of Weber College may obtain, cherish, and apply the messages of the respective books in these important works has been the objective of the Department of Bible Literature of Weber College.