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Show AARON W. TRACY BERTHA ECCLES WRIGHT LESTER HINCHCL1FF BIBLE LITERATURE-"No man is completely educated," President Tracy has said, "unless he possesses a knowledge of the precepts of those books on which the outstanding religions of the world are based; unless he has learned to appreciate the attitude of those men and women who have dedicated their lives to the service of their religion." Recognizing man's spiritual capacity as an educational factor, Weber College provides opportunity for spiritual development through the medium of sacred literature. DRAMA-Lemuel B. Josephs taught: Be yourself, do not act; recognize the author's thought; be the character that you are already, potentially. And so he made Weber know that in the drama, "Beauty is truth; truth beauty." In 1923 Bertha Eccles Wright, a devotee of his art, introduced him to Weber, where during one quarter of each succeeding year, except this one, he has been instructor of the drama. This year Mrs. Wright has conducted Weber's class in play production, formerly under the direction of Mr. Harvey L. Taylor. MUSIC-in her love for music, in her desire to extend its beauty and its refining influence, Weber has set an ideal that Ogden shall become a musically appreciative community center, that the best of music art among her own people shall find its full expression. Toward the accomplishment of this ideal, Mr. Hinchcliff, in addition to instructing classes in theory and technique at Weber College, is actively engaged in promoting musical projects of the community. JOSEPH JARVIS MARIAN T. READ LELAND H. MONSON ENGLISH, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE-In no field of creative work is it more demonstrable than in English Language and Literature that craftmanship is the road to art. The student learns that the composition is a verbal structure built upon a definite pattern or plan, created to produce singleness of effect; he learns that it is composed of units contributing to the totality of idea; he learns that singleness of impression is achieved only through adherence to basic working principles, the "C. U. E." of all good writing. He learns that art results from the association of substance and form. He learns the source of fact, feeling, and idea; how to gather and retain subject matter, how to organize and develop it to serve his objective. Step by step he learns his craft. Knowing the creative factors he can interpret appreciatively the product of a creative mind; in aesthetic response to the message of a masterpiece he can say, "How beautiful!"-sensing behind the creation the mind that designed and manipulated materials toward its accomplishment. Response to literature in Weber College is made possible through basic courses in the English and in the American fields; opportunity for expression of idea is made possible through basic courses in the four forms of composition and one additional class project in argumentation. In association, Miss Marian T. Read, head of the department, Mr. Joseph Jarvis, and Mr. Leland H. Monson are building upon the tradition of past years a high standard of class administration. |