position as a professor of history at the Utah Agricultural College in Logan. President Dixon pursued the issue of a classroom building with the Trustees. He noted in January of 1920 that Brigham Young Academy had 102 classrooms with an enrollment of 1300 students and that enrollments at Weber would soon reach 1200. At a Board meeting on February 25, 1920, Dixon reported an enrollment of 887 regular students and 46 special students for a total of 933- Small pox was a problem for some Weber students and during the 1919-1920 year some 15 to 20 students were out of class because of the disease. The College agreed to accept the generous offer of Dr. Harry W. Nelson to do small pox vaccination work for the school for free and to furnish vaccine free as long as the vaccinations were done at his office. Academy and college catalogues published during this era not only included a listing of faculty and trustees but also a list of students at the institution for the previous year. Brief academic biographies of faculty members were included to enhance the reputation of the school. From 1919 to 1922 at the suggestion of President Dixon, a smaller catalogue than usual was printed. Each years catalogue gave a brief history of the institution as well as a listing of individual courses and required areas of study. As the College began to move away from offering high school courses, the Board of Trustees expressed their opposition to the Church Board of Education noting that this policy would leave the children entirely under the public school system during the most dangerous period of their lives and that a seminary will not begin to offset the evil results that would follow abandonment, looking at it from a Gospel standpoint. The policy of the Church Board was to move away from all high school courses and support seminaries adjacent to all public high schools for theological education. The support of seminaries and higher education had gradually become the thrust of the Church Board by 1920. During this period of growth and change, the students and the school searched for a way to express themselves in print. The Acorn which had begun in 1903 was generally published bi-monthly with a year-end souvenir or yearbook issue. The first editor of the A corn was Joseph Stimpson with Angus Berlin as business manager. The first issue of the Acorn included a picture of the Academy girls basketball team. Volume two was edited by Orlinda Wooley with Charles Brown as the business manager and five issues were published (1904-1905). The third edition (1905-1906) was edited by Sarah Williams and the Acorn staff was larger than the list of graduates for that year. The boys basketball team was featured in articles by editor Williams and her staff. The fourth book (1906-1907) was edited by Josephine West and Raymond Becraft and volume five (1907-1908) was edited by Rosella Ferrin, Katherine McKay, and Heber Wooley, and five issues were published at a price of fifty cents for all. The Acorn came to be divided between student literary pieces, school notes, and up-dates on athletics, alumni, and phun-isms. Humor, school spirit, and school pride were woven into many of the articles. The Christmas number for 1913 included The Editors Lament The life of a school paper Editor Consists in spending his time In reading stale jokes and old stories, and Poems without any rhyme. The Staff all say, We should worry; They get all the glory and fame, The printer gets all of the money; They leave me the slams and the blame. So tonight as I sit by the fire and gaze at the holes in my socks, To my mind conies this pleasing reflection, My only reward is hard knocks. The magazine advertised the school as well as its quality. Business advertisements were sprinkled throughout each issue. The results of debate meets as well as basketball games, baseball games, and track meets were all publicized. The quality of the Acorn varied, but the souvenir issue yearbook came to be the most valued publication of the year. In 1917, the student Board of Control decided to abandon the Acorn in favor of the newly published Weber Herald. Through the efforts of Andy Kasius and Elwood Winters, the Board decided to authorize the publication of the Acorn as a yearly souvenir. Prompt travel for student events was not always convenient during this era. For example on November 27, 1913 the Weber basketball squad was to play Grantsville at Grantsville. The five man Weber team left Ogden at 1:00 p.m. on the train and traveled to Salt Lake City where they took the first train to Garfield and arrived there at 4:00 p.m. They rode on the stagecoach from Garfield to Grantsville, a distance of twenty-five miles, and arrived at Grantsville at 8:00 p.m. The game started at 8:30 p.m. and the result after a hard-fought game was Grantsville 36, Weber 31. The Weber teams played teams from Brigham City, schools within Ogden, North Cache, South Cache, Davis, and schools in Salt Lake City. Weber Academy participated in both a high school athletic league as well as a church school athletic league. Athletic events were held ongoing between the different classes, the alumni, and sometimes faculty teams. The alumni had become an important partner in the ongoing events at Weber as well as in supporting Webers success both in spirit as well as person and financially. Two clay tennis courts were added on the Academy grounds during the fall of 1914. The selection of purple and white as school colors seems to date to 1901 when three members of the Academy faculty, William Z. Terry, J. Leo Fairbanks, and Jennette McKay were in conference with some students. The group was discussing school colors and after much discussion, Jeanette McKay suggested the combination of purple and white. The committee approved the suggestion and the 1905 Acorn souvenir issue published a tribute to the royal colors. OUR BANNER The purple stands for all this world can give; Imperial dignity, rank, and fame; The white signifies innocence and truth. Symbol of Weber, forever proclaim That while striving for glory, strength, and power, We will virtue and purity maintain. All the way home, we held our banner high proud to have people see we stood for the PURPLE and WHITE Weber Academy and College students organized such organizations as the Public Service Bureau, the Home Economics Club, the German Club, and the Debating Society. The latter group was made up of 60 members during its first year in 1914. Three years later some debaters formed a group called The Thinkers Club. The Weber debate team for 1915-1916 included Leland Evans, Franklin Richards, Ernest Wilkinson, and Ben Young. Dramatic activities included plays per-