Preface IN PRESENTING THIS book the staff has tried to make an interesting record of activities and events during this school year that have broken the monotony of our studies. Perhaps in few other schools is the social element recognized so well as a necessary part of education. Not only socials, but organizations intended to upbuild the reasoning powers (exemplified in debating), the physical and moral powers (in athletics), the faculties for governing (in the Board of Control especially), and the individual talents, such as music and public speaking (in the Public Service Bureau), are part of these activities, and we hope we have made an honest and interesting record of them. Soon after classes began, the influenza forced them to stop for three months. It was thought that this, added to the war and the absence of the S. A. T. C. members, would ruin the year, but in January school started with a rush and has kept going ever since at a fast rate of speed. The spirit was excellent-students agreeing to longer hours and lessons, yet withal not forgetting how to play. All the activities were represented as seldom before, and contests for the annual medal for extemporaneous speaking generously given by the J. S. Lewis Company, and the medal for declamation contributed by G. W. McCune were the only ones for which we did not get time. The students' support of The Acorn, while not as nearly perfect as it could have been (when that happens the millennium will be here), yet has been very loyal. Many good stories were contributed, but limited space prohibited printing more than three or four of them. We wish to thank the English faculty-Mr. Reid, Miss Rich, Mrs. Shurtliff, and Mrs. McKey-for their earnest co-operation in the literary section, and Professors Ricks and Savage for their assistance in obtaining subscriptions. Credit is also due Harris Weberg for design- ing and drawing seal. Many others have given help-we appreciate it and realize how indispensible it was to the success of the souvenir. At the present time the students and graduates will read it for pleasure, and we have tried to make it as interesting as a novel for that purpose. But in the future they will look it over for a reminder of the good old days when Weber Normal College was not the largest in the state and when "we had the times that you don't have any more." That is why we have written articles that seem as old as the hills now and are evidently uninteresting and "dry." Hoping that we have succeeded in producing an interesting little Acorn that will, nevertheless (as Noah said to Methusaleh for the first time), "grow into a great oak of memory," is the earnest wish for the year of 1918-19 of THE STAFF PRESIDENT THOMAS B. EVANS "Know ye not that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?" ON FRIDAY, APRIL 4, at 9:20 p. M., the Angel of Death gently and quietly closed the curtains on the last scene in the drama of the active and useful life of President Thomas B. Evans, one of the most worthy and highly esteemed members of the Board of Education of the Weber Normal College. He was indeed a prince among men-not one by inherited name or position-but by virtue of his innate worthiness and sterling ability. Through integrity of soul and devotion to duty he has won an honored place in the House of the Prince of Peace, the Savior of Mankind. President Evans was a great man; perhaps not brilliantly great, but intrinsically so. He was sincere. He was fearless in defending right. He was true-true to his family, to his friends, to his Church, and to every trust. His "reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God were most unfaltering." His membership on the Board of Education began in 1908. From that day until his last illness President Evans was a devoted worker for the interests of Weber. His last signature in life was placed on the document addressed by the Board to the Trustee-in-Trust soliciting funds for the building of the gymnasium. To such as he, death, properly translated, means only life; and so for him we should not grieve; but we mourn because of our loss, and truly sympathize with his devoted wife and estimable family. As an organizer and a leader, he was unexcelled. System and spirituality were so blended in his life as to accomplish great results in the organization over which he presided. We revere his memory, and shall try to show appreciation of his service by emulating his exemplary life.