Title |
1908 The Acorn Souvenir |
Creator |
Weber Stake Academy |
Description |
A collection of yearbooks from Weber Stake Academy which comprise the years 1905 to 1918. Included in the yearbook are photographs of students, class officers, faculty, Board of Education, athletics, and departments within the academy. It also contains sections on the clubs and organizations within the Academy, literary pages, student poetry, and advertisements from local businesses |
Subject |
Student activities; Advertising; Athletics; State boards of education; Calendar; Clubs; Education, Secondary; Faculty; Forms, Literary; Obituaries; Ogden (Utah); Students; Weber Academy; Yearbooks |
Digital Publisher |
Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA |
Date Original |
1908 |
Date |
1908 |
Date Digital |
2007 |
Temporal Coverage |
1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982 |
Item Size |
10 x 7 inch |
Medium |
Yearbook |
Item Description |
Paperback book with pages numbered 1-67, followed by 17 pages of advertisements. |
Spatial Coverage |
Weber County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5784440 |
Type |
Text; Image/StillImage |
Conversion Specifications |
TIFF images were scanned with an Epson Expression 100000XL scanner. JPG and PDF files were then created for general use. |
Language |
eng |
Rights |
Public Domain. Courtesy of University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University |
Source |
LD 5893.W55 A24 1908 Weber State University Archives |
Format |
application/pdf |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s66ytxpn |
Setname |
wsu_year |
ID |
106236 |
Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s66ytxpn |
Title |
1908 The Acorn Souvenir - 1908_023_page28&29 |
Description |
A collection of yearbooks from Weber Stake Academy which comprise the years 1905 to 1918. Included in the yearbook are photographs of students, class officers, faculty, Board of Education, athletics, and departments within the academy. It also contains sections on the clubs and organizations within the Academy, literary pages, student poetry, and advertisements from local businesses |
Subject |
Student activities; Advertising; Athletics; State boards of education; Calendar; Clubs; Education, Secondary; Faculty; Forms, Literary; Obituaries; Ogden (Utah); Students; Weber Academy; Yearbooks |
Date Original |
1908 |
Date |
1908 |
Type |
Text |
Conversion Specifications |
Archived TIFF images were scanned at 300 dpi with an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner. JPG and PDF files were then created for general use. |
Rights |
Public Domain. Courtesy of University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University |
Source |
Archives LD 5893.W55 A24 1908 |
OCR Text |
Show the acorn subscription published by the students of weber stake academy editorial staff rosella ferrin katherine mckai ulter als exchange edit clarence wright james thomas 11 ; edith barlow ': myrtle ririe edna m clegg george burton 10 wilmina mcfarland business staff business manager first assistant - . second assistant . subscription circulation heber woolley fred jensen clyde chirk willard dance francis goddard t editorial school life for this season is over but students remember that even if you do not go to the building five days out of the week your heart should always be with your school if the academy is mentioned you should not only say yes it is a good school but tell them of all the advantages gained by attending it for instance point out the skill that the manual training gives to one the development gained by tak ing the domestic arts and science course or the advantages afforded by coming in contact with some of the greatest men of the nation who constitute our lecture course or above all the true soul development which is gained by the study of theology and the influence of the spirit of god which is felt by all who enter and seniors the field for showing your loyalty has never been so wide you can put the truths and instructions which you have received during your four years stay at the academy into real life and prove to the people that you have gained something that is practicable and something that will make you better and nobler men and women faculty and students we wish to thank you for your loyalty to our school papei , and for patronizing the business men who have given us such hearty support we appreciate the work that mrs worrell lias done for us and want to thank birde wotherspoon 07 for her ar tistic drawings when our principal d o mckay leaves the acorn will lose one of its best friends he was the first to suggest a school paper it was he who gave it its name and since it was planted he has been a true and faithful gardner gi v'mg the little seed everything to aid its growth . the sense of values one of our teachers often tells the following story two small boys were playing in the room i went up to them and said i've got some money for you which will you have ten cents now or fifty cents thirty days from now th older one about thirteen years said i'll take the fifty cents thirty days from now the other about seven years old said i'll take the ten cents now " what was the difference between these two boys expereince had taught the one to know that fifty cents thirty days hence is more valuable than ten cents today and that it would pay to wait the younger boy did not have the proper appreciation of values the deep , est aim of education says prof james is to enable us to acquire a true standard of values the fact that few of us appreciate the value of an education is shown by the number of students who drop out of school during the year to accept a position that offers the ten cents now not only in the financial but in the intellectual world this true sense of values is very essential mr james continues what the colleges teaching humanities by examples which may be special but which must be typical and pregnant should at least try to give us is a general sense of what under various disguises superiority has always signi fied and may still signify the feeling for a good human job anywhere the admiration of the really admirable the disesteem of what is cheap and trashy and impermanent this is what we call the critical sense the sense for ideal values to have spent one's youth at college in contact with the choice and rare and precious and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents to know it only when ticketed and labeled |
Format |
application/pdf |
Setname |
wsu_year |
ID |
110769 |
Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s66ytxpn/110769 |