football. To help sponsor the team traveling to Phoenix for the Western States Championship, the Weber studentbody sponsored a special dance at the White City to raise money. In Phoenix, the Weber gridders were defeated by Phoenix College by a score of 20 to 0 on Christmas Day, 1923. Elvin Wilkinson who had been a football star at Weber was the coach of the 1923 squad. Swimming became a sport with competition between other schools during the 1923-1924 school year. The first basketball game to be held in the new gymnasium was held on January 14, 1924 with Weber defeating L.D.S. University (Salt Lake City) 15 to 14 with a dance held after the game on the gym floor. The first annual Weber College Prom (Promenade) was held on March 28, 1924 at the Berthana. Evening attire was the mode of dress and the event seemed to indicate that Weber was indeed a college, and the last dance for this and many more proms was titled Auf Wiedersehen. During this first junior college year, the students performed the opera Carmen and the play The Charm School, and a Missionary Club was organized made up of returned Mormon missionaries. President Tracy suggested to the students that the name of Webers mascot be changed from Wildcats to Lions because Wildcat does not signify what our boys are, but Weber students were not swayed enough by his arguments to change the name of the mascot. In September of 1924, the College Board of Trustees approved the policy that tuition must be paid in cash and it must be paid prior to registration. During the 1921-1922 school year, Merlon Stevenson, professor of mathematics, also became the athletic coach. Webers football team won the Western States Junior College championship in a game held in Ogden in a snowstorm on December 6, 1924 by defeating Phoenix College by a score of 32 to 0. New during the winter quarter of 1925 was the Utah-Idaho Junior College basketball tournament held at the Weber Gymnasium with six teams participating. The teams that participated in the tournament in 1925 included Ricks, Brigham Young College, Weber, Snow, Dixie, and the Branch Agricultural College (Cedar City). The tournament had been organized to provide basketball competition and also to supplement the budget of Weber College and was advertised as an annual event. The Weber Literary Journal was first published in 1921 and continued as Weber became a college to be a literary magazine filled with students writing efforts. The Journal in its 1925 edition was edited by Elma Taylor and Robert Burton under the supervision of professor Kenneth G. Farley of the English Department. Founders Day, 1925, featured John Watson, the only surviving member of the original Weber Academy Board of Trustees, as the speaker. Watson and David O. McKay both spoke of the sacrifices of Webers founders and the importance of the institution to Ogden and to Webers students. The faculty salary budget for 1924-25 was 32,575 with the highest paid professor (Robert J. Evans, department of Biology) receiving 2,750, and the college president receiving 3,000. For the 1925-1926 school year the faculty salary budget was increased to 38,700 with the highest paid professors receiving 2,500 (John Q. Blaylock, History; A. Leon Winsor, Education and Psychology; and Harvey L. Taylor, Sociology) and the presidents salary for this year was 3,300. During the fall of 1925, fourteen classes were offered in the evening for the benefit of those who worked during the day and wished to become involved in college work. In order to have the courses be successful, the College Trustees agreed that each bishop should call two or more from each ward to attend the evening courses. The college continued to acquire property adjacent to the college property on the block where the college buildings stood. Even though monies seemed to be scarce in many circles, the money to purchase these properties was forthcoming. In 1924 the Sheehan property was acquired for 8,000 (monies from the Church). In October of 1925, the Alumni Association under the leadership of Alumni president, John Q. Blaylock purchased the Rich property (11,000) on the south-east corner of the college block. In 1927, the Elizabeth Baxter home (4,060), the Christian Flygare home (8,000), the Mason home (5,700), and the College Inn property (3,500) were purchased with donations from the Alumni, the Church, and student and civic groups. The acquisition of this land was in large measure due to the efforts of President Tracy who worked both in front of groups and behind the scenes to accomplish his objectives. It was his announced plan to acquire all of the property on the block and he also advanced an ambitious building program during the fall of 1925 for the approval of Webers Trustees. The local money would come from church contributions and fund raising activities. Tracys plan included the idea that local monies would be used to purchase land and Church monies would be used to build buildings. During January of 1927, Tracy suggested a series of twelve plays to be presented by Weber College with the money raised from the plays to be used to purchase land. The College Trustees authorized the hiring of Willard Marriott on November 1, 1926 to assist in raising money, purchasing property, visiting the bishoprics in the seven stakes in behalf of the college enrollment for the second quarter, for athletics and for janitorial interests. Marriott was hired for a salary of 1,900 and listed as a professor of English. Tracys ambitious building plan included a classroom building, a fine arts building, and two dormitories with the center of the block covered with lawn, shrubbery, and fountains. All of the projects were considered at length by the Trustees but with a tight financial situation, the projects were never constructed. Tracy was a promoter as well as an educator, and he suggested that Weber should be promoted at high schools nearby as well as at Bear River and Malad. He also suggested to the Board of Trustees, comprised of the seven stake presidents of the area, that the ward teachers should take up the cause of education in their visits to the various homes to the end that Weber College may be of more service to the people. The Trustees accepted Tracys suggestion concerning the ward teachers. As Tracy promoted his ideas with both faculty and trustees he noted, this school is a cultural institution; not a vocational institution. Every man who has headed this institution has preached that doctrine Weber College is becoming what we want it to for Ogden, a cultural center, and we must inspire each boy and girl not to stop at the end of two years We must urge all to go on for their A.B. degree.