1913-1914 year until the 1927-1928 year. In 1921-1922, a president of the Public Service Bureau was added to the ballot and in 1923-1924, a debate manager, the editor of the yearbook, the Acorn, and the editor of the school newspaper, The Herald, were added to the list of officers elected by the studentbody. With the addition of college courses in 1916-1917, the student body officers represented both high school and college students. Wilford McKendrick resigned as principal of the Academy at the close of the 1909-1910 school year. He was replaced by William W. Henderson who served as principal from 1910 until 1914. Henderson had received his Bachelors Degree from Brigham Young College and a Masters Degree from Cornell University. Henderson was replaced in 1914 by James L. Barker whose education included a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Utah and an advanced degree, Lec. es Lit., in France in 1907. Both Henderson and Barker were heavily involved in recruiting students and faculty to the Academy as well as developing the high school curriculum and gaining adoption for the college curriculum. The enrollment of the Academy gradually moved upward. (Note enrollment figures in the appendix.) In 1905, LeRoy E. Cowles, a graduate of the Academy became a member of the faculty in the Preparatory Department. He taught at the Academy for a half dozen years (1905-1908, 1910-1913). He later became Dean of the College of Education at the University of Utah and following that assignment served as President of that institution. Spring Commencement speeches were most often given by authorities of the Mormon Church including Joseph F. Smith, Orson F. Whitney, Francis M. Lyman, John Henry Smith, George Albert Smith, and Hyrum M. Smith. Faculty members of the Academy were expected to be members of the Mormon Church in good standing. To insure that faculty members of Church schools were paying their tithing, the Church Board of Education on July 30, 1908 unanimously agreed to the proposal made by Rudger Clawson that in the future the tithing of each teacher be deducted from his or her salary and a tithing receipt given therefor. On occasion, missionary calls were extended to faculty members. Professor John G. Lind who had served the Academy in able fashion beginning in 1896 in the areas of Latin and the Physical Sciences was called as a missionary to Switzerland in 1907. As he left the Academy he noted that before returning to Utah he hoped to pursue a year of study at the University of Berlin. After his missionary service and extensive study at Heidelberg, Lind returned to the Academy in 1910 and taught with great skill until his retirement in 1938. Faculty meetings were usually held once a week at the Academy. The minutes of the meetings record in detail the concerns of the faculty including student discipline, attendance, punctuality, scholarship, and faculty responsibilities. The meetings were held under the direction of the principal and also included the petitions of students to drop classes and or register for classes. Each change in registration required the affirmative vote of the faculty. During the 1908-1909 school year, twenty faculty members were employed to teach at the Academy with a total of 16,000 being spent on salaries. The salaries ranged froma high of 1,800 for the principal to salaries of 250, 500, 550, and 600. During the 1908-1909 school year, Ben E. Harker was hired particularly to serve as an athletic coach, the first full-time coach for the Academy. Harker was hired at a salary of 800 to coach basketball, wrestling, baseball, and track and in Harkers first year as coach, Weber played for the basketball championship of the northern division and lost. During the season as the Academy team played the Brigham City team, the Examiner reporter noted, At the Weber academy gymnasium last evening, the Brigham City high school team met the academy aggregation in a fast game of basketball, the academy team winning the contest by a score of 41 to 13. The game was an interesting one, although it was considered to be rather rough at times. The home team proved to be altogether too fleeting and scientific for the visitors, hence the decisive de-feat.10 In order to provide shower facilities for boys athletics, the boys toilet on the north side of the old (original) academy building was converted into a shower bath during 1909. During 1911, the Academy boys basketball team won the Northern League championship, and lost in the state championship finals to the L.D.S. University of Salt Lake City. The Weber Academy debate team competed with other high schools for the first time in 1908-1909 in a newly organized Utah State Debating league which included the Salt Lake High School, Ogden High School, Granite High School, Park City High School, Eureka High School, the Collegiate Institute, Gordon Academy, Brigham City High School, Rowland Hall, and the Weber Academy. The Academy debate team during this first year included Lawrence Richards, Alma Winters, William Critchlow with Fred Jensen as an alternate and as coach Professor George H. Davis. Davis, who practiced law in Ogden, donated his time to the Academy. During the Christmas holiday season of 1908, two Academy teachers approached the Glenn Brothers Piano Company of Ogden and after some discussion the Glenn Brothers Company donated to the Academy an organ with 17 stops and 7 sets of reeds which was set in a case of golden oak made by the Western Cottage and Piano Company. A Parlor Grand Piano was acquired during the Spring of 1909 for the Academy by the students and faculty as they sold the most tickets in a contest in Ogden sponsored by the Examiner to a concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The lecture series at the Academy brought to the students, faculty, and citizens of Ogden a wide range of speakers from phrenologists to psychologists, socialists to exiles from czarist Russia, and religious leaders of all faiths to politicians of all persuasians. Utah representatives in Congress, in both the House and the Senate, as well as the Governor of the State, often spoke at the Academy. Reverend Russell H. Conwell, Baptist minister of Philadelphia who founded Temple University, gave his famous Acres of Diamonds speech, James Talmage, Mormon scientist, lectured on Earthquakes and Volcanoes, and on another occasion J. Golden Kimball, Mormon General Authority, suggested that the students would do well to vote for Senator George Sutherland, a non-Mormon candidate. The faculty of the Academy also gave lectures to the entire studentbody and in the evenings to the citizens of Ogden.