The Acorn Published by the STUDENTS of the WEBER STAKE ACADEMY Subscription price 50 cents per year Single Copy 10 cents EDITORIAL STAFF. Editor-in-Chief Sarah M. Williams, '06 Literary Jennie Groberg, '06 Editors Glenna Wotherspoon, '07 Miscellaneous Effie Reast, '06 Cartoonist Wilford H. Shurtliff, '06 Locals Henry Jensen, '06 Exchange George Ensign, '07 Editors Florence Woolley, '07 Music Edith Ensign, '06 Alumni Edna M. Cordon, '99 Frank W. Becraft, '06 Athletlc Pearl Cragun'08 BUSINESS STAFF. Business Manager William S. Wright, '08 First Assistant Business Manager Edwin Peterson, '06 Second Assistant Business Manager Bryant S. Jacobs, '07 Subscription H. Raymond Bingham, '06 Circulator Charles T. Jones, '07 THE STUDENTS' THANKSGIVING. The students of the Weber Stake Academy are looking forward to a brighter and happier Thanksgiving than we have ever before known; for we have much more to be thankful for. The outlook of the school is greater. We are putting forth more effort than ever before attempted, and we feel that success must come. Beside our immediate advantages in class work, here are a few of our other opportunities: A Conservatory of Music has been established for a more complete development of our musical tastes, and the Professors, John J. McClellan, Willard Weihe, and Joseph Ballantyne, are highly pleased with the large enrollment, and with the good work their students are doing. THE ACORN 15 They intend to give us more recitals and concerts in the near future. The Choir is working towards the front and we expect to do better work than ever before. We are practicing new choruses; and although we haven't yet reached "high 'C", we expect to give those who hear us, all they expect from us and a great deal more. The Orchestra is doing excellent work, even better than it did last year. They are having regular practices and have already proved their ability by playing a number of pieces in devotional exercises. A Weber Stake Academy Amusement Hall has been secured. All amusements and entertainments as concerts, recitals, parties, basket ball games, and dances are to be given there. The hall is about 100 ft. long and 50 ft. wide and is plenty large enough to accommodate all. Some dates for parties have been already fixed. The orchestra will furnish the music. The Domestic Arts Department is growing; a large majority of the girls are enrolled in the classes, and many outside of the Academy have applied for registration but have had to be denied the privilege because of lack of room and hours for classes. The Student Body Organization is practically complete, and results are being felt and seen each day. Although our ideals are far from being realized at present, we feel that we are pressing steadily, though slowly, toward them. The Acorn must attain to a greater end than ever before. If it is to represent the Academy it must contain our highest ideals and we all must work to make it such. Students, it represents you. You are responsible if it should fail in conveying, to those outside, our very best thoughts, and doings. To make it your ideal paper a little thought, a pencil (or pen), and paper is all you are required to give (unless you are still owing your subscription price.) Let us all use our best efforts towards this end and we cannot fail, for our watchword will be "Success to the Acorn!" We have a Night School that is doing excellent work, equal, at least, to what it has before done, and the teachers are all enthusiastic over the good work. Our Lecture Course this year is a heavy one; the strongest ever brought to Ogden. Every lecturer on the calendar is a "big" man of national reputation. They are all men who present their own originalities