LESTER HINCHCLIFF Department of Music THE singing, theory, public school, and instrumental classes have grown during the past season, and although it might be unfair to champion the success of one department above the other, one is safe in maintaining that the assembly singing of the student-body has been the most effective thing done in music this year at Weber. Surely this spirit of song has definitely and lastingly sold itself to the Weber Student Body and reports from those who attended the basketball tournament justify Weber's claim as a singing school. It is the policy of the Music Department to present one opera each year but they feel that with a single hearing a student does not become well enough acquainted with the opera to make the great amount of time, effort and money a successful rendition requires, worth while. For this reason the rendition of this year's opera which was to have been Verdi's "II Trovatore" has been postponed until next fall, and in the meantime, excerpts will from time to time be presented to the student body by the college chorus and to the public by the Ogden Tabernacle Choir in informal concert. These numbers will be accompanied with explanatory remarks. It is expected this plan will make for more intelligent appreciation of Grand Opera in Ogden, and if successful, will be continued-all future operas to be in preparation a season before their formal rendition. EVA BROWNING The Library IN the year 1923, when the Weber High School was discontinued, the Library consisted of only three thousand volumes. These books were kept in a small room in back of the study hall. Since those days the study hall has turned into a beautiful library room equipped with heavy oak tables and chairs; the floor is covered with heavy cork linoleum to prevent noise in walking and in the moving of chairs, and the shelves around the walls are filled with books numbering some nine thousand. Many have said that Weber's library is the most cheerful and sunniest small library in the State. Aside from the regular college library, a church library is being collected which already consists of many rare and valuable books that can- not be purchased at any price. This library has most of the early church publications, and the current publications are being kept up-to-date. Because of the steady increase of volumes, the English and American Fiction Department has been separated from the main college library and made into a Fiction Library which at present is up-to-date with the works of the leading modern authors, and is almost complete with select English and American Fiction. Within the next year, Weber shall receive a few thousand books from the Brigham Young College; other departments will then be removed from the main library, until some day the entire top floor of our building will be used for the Library. This prominence of our library is due largely to the careful super- vision of our librarian, Miss Eva Browning, who for several years has efficiently held this position. Too much credit cannot be given her.