F. C. VAN BUREN Through his own deep appreciation for a clean adolescent life, through his long observant experience with the maintenance of health, Mr. Van Buren has been in a position to give superior direction for the building of better physiques. Physical Education THE department of physical education has conscientiously and persistently labored to build into the students' minds an ideal of wholesome living and a plan for attaining greatest body effiency. Gymnasium floorwork is given during the entire year. Muscle-building and body-training exercises mould the students into form; games of basketball and soccer add to the zest of competition. Inter-class activities develop a desire for athletic perfection while class lectures promote an understanding of health aims and education. As spring approaches, novelties are introduced. Each year during early May the entire department presents a gym circus, featuring stunts with cleverly-constructed animal mimics and attractively costumed dancing choruses. At times, musical comedies set in realistic backgrounds are given as innovations. Interest is kept at a maximum throughout the year, climaxed by the circus or special work during the final weeks. FULL of beauty, in simplicity and strength, the arch is an opening into realms in which great masters of science, literature, and religion hold prominence in each of their definite fields of achievement. On the staircase leading to it are marks made by youth, an unceasing surge of young men and women that have attended during years of academy and junior college history. Every thumb-print has behind it some quaint experience, every scratch upon the metal capping, a story of hurrying feet. If wood and metal could talk, what tales the old steps might tell! Physical Education SPORT generally enjoyed, and an excellent vitalizer, the swimming activities have proved popular. The freshman registration was unusually large, while a number of sophomore students returned to continue their work in advanced swimming. During the first year of instruction the work centers about the fundamentals; strokes are mastered, speed and grace acquired, and the elements of diving and life-saving are learned. Throughout the swimmer's section the training revolves about two aims: to acquire exceptional skill and form, and to win the American Red Cross Life-Savers seal. This year the desire of the department has been satisfactorily carried through. All the students are capable swimmers, many have attained an enviable ability, and not a few are proud bearers of the life-savers insignia, won after constant and vigorous training during their gym class hours. THEY have led many into the quietude of the reading room and the novel library at the left, which offer opportunity for the gaining of an adequate knowledge of stories, new and old, classic and modern; to the right where field records of agricultural and geological surveys offer valuable material for research work in either of those fields of endeavor; and under the tall archway from the realms of book lore to a place of worship, a rich beautiful room that inspires a reverent silence and sincere devotion, that brings to light the clean, pure thoughts which form in some measure the character of each Weber College student and friend. MRS. F. C. VAN BUREN An all-around good sport and an excellent daughter of the waves, Mrs. Van Buren instills in her students a love for healthy sports and a desire to master the art of aquatics. Under her careful tutelage, dives become graceful, strokes powerful, and life-saving theories usable.