28 WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH ing. It is the aim of the committee to design programs that are educative and cultural in their nature. The best of talent within and outside the college is secured. Attendance at assembly is not compulsory. Lyceum The College Lyceum Service creates a center of art and culture. The College Lyceum Service was organized for the purpose of presenting choice programs to the students of Weber College and citizens of Ogden City, and of maintaining a center of art and culture in the community. Each school year ten to fifteen diversified attractions of national and international reputation appear in this series. In order to more fully accomplish its purpose, the college, in 1939-1940, is cooperating with the Ogden Community Concert Association by presenting a combined series of outstanding attractions for the enjoyment of students and community concert members. Employment Bureau The Employment Bureau assists students to find employment. The Employment Bureau of Weber College is maintained for the purpose of assisting students to obtain part time employment while attending college, and of helping to place thoroughly trained students in permanent positions. By means of a continuous coordinating program, Weber College serves both the students and business executives. Business executives recognize the superior ability of college-trained men and women. Students may avail themselves of this service upon entering school. The bureau is located in the Vocational Education Building. Scholarships Weber College grants scholarships to incoming freshmen. Weber College grants to incoming freshmen a number of general full-tuition scholarships each year. Recipients of these scholarships are determined by the principals of the high schools from which the students are graduated, the number of awards to any one high school depending upon the number of students from that high school in attendance at Weber College at the time the scholarship grants are made. In addition to these general scholarships, Weber College awards annually a varying number of special music scholarships, some full and some part-tuition. The recipients are selected by the Instructors of the Music Department at Weber College and passed upon by the President of the college and the Faculty Committee on Awards and Scholarships. Higher institutions of learning grant scholarships to Weber College students. Higher institutions of learning annually offer scholarships to Weber College graduates. The Utah State Agricultural College, the University of Utah, and the Brigham Young University each give one full-tuition scholarship. Students recommended from Weber College have been successful in obtaining scholarships from the University of Southern California, Occidental College, University of Chicago, Northwestern Univer- WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH 29 sity, and the College of the Pacific. Weber College students have also won the Willard D. Thompson scholarship to the University of California; and through competitive examination, the privilege of entering the California Institute of Technology. Community Projects Community organizations assist worthy Weber College students. Chi Omega Sorority: The alumnae organization of Chi Omega Sorority, in Ogden City, established as an annual social service project, in 1934, the raising of a fund to assist a Weber College girl in obtaining an education. The applicant for this fund is recommended by the Scholarship Committee of Weber College upon the basis of scholarship, participation in student activities, and personal need. Junior Child Culture Club: At the beginning of the 1936 spring quarter the Junior Child Culture Club, of Ogden City, adopted as a project the helping of worthy, needy students of Weber College to obtain text books on a loan basis. It is the purpose of the club to add to the Weber College library each quarter, current text books so as to build up an adequate library section of texts and reference books. A student welfare committee receives requests for the use of these text books. Guidance Program The Dean of Instruction administers an effective guidance program which assists the individual student to adjust to college life. The Student Guidance Committee directs the work of the student counseling and is in charge of educational and vocational testing in Weber College. The chairman of this committee, the Dean of Instruction, devotes most of his time to interviewing students and advising them in regard to their work and college problems. Pre-registration periods, preceding each quarter, provide opportunities for valuable personal contacts and ample time to meet registration problems. All registrations are approved by the Dean of Instruction. At the close of each fourth week, the instructors file with the Registrar the scholastic records of all students who are doing unsatisfactory work. These students are referred to the Guidance Committee for consultation. Students who have failed to maintain a ratio of one grade point or a "C" average at the close of the quarter are placed on probation. Their registrations may be limited for the following quarter. Each member of the faculty assists in the guidance program. Consultations with individual students, to help them master subject matter and correlate it with their study plan as a whole, aims at stimulation in academic attainment and in personality development. Emphasis is placed upon the guidance of students with exceptional abilities. One of the aims of the guidance program is to encourage those with superior gifts to take superior places in society. Another important feature of the guidance program is the course in Freshman Orientation required of all students. This course not only deals with problems of orientation to college life, methods of study, use of library, principles of mental hygiene, etc., but also, it attempts to acquaint the new student with the curricular programs, registration procedures, administration policies, and student body organizations and activities of Weber College.