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A collection of yearbooks from Weber 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 |
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Show Myrtle Price Domestic Art and Science Her talents are of a silent kind. Wilford Smeding Commercial Band, 1914-15-16. Lamont Poulter Domestic Art and Science Secretary of Class, 1917. Clifford Blair Commercial Class Basketball, 1916. Au Revoir to our Alma Mater In the cycle of human progression, many things must begin and finish, many new connections must be formed and profited by. The law of progress does not provide that man choose that which he loves most, but that by which he can profit. The power to grow depends on our power to discriminate between that which is conducive of growth and that which simply affords pleasure. Four years ago a large body of students entered Weber Academy. No one seemed especially concerned about their coming, taking it as a mere matter of course. The first friend that the members of the class made was one, who when he shook your hand and looked into your eyes, made you feel the power of superlative man- hood and friendship-such a man was our Principal, W. W. Henderson. Into the life of every member of this class he entered and has remained. Then, after two years had passed by the intervention of circumstances, Brother Henderson found it expedient to leave the school, and Brother Barker came into our midst. We were Juniors, and as Juniors, upon us depended in great part the success of the activities for the school year. The period allowed to get acquainted with the new principal had passed and we recognized a man, burning with energy and the desire for advancement and progress, one having a keen, perceptive mind and a power to do. Two more years have passed and the class is about to complete one more step in their education, they have accomplished one of the intermediate ends of progression. It is with feelings of respect and reverence for the members of the faculty for Brother Barker, and each one individually, that we are about to make our final adieus. And in this, our last will and testament, we leave to them our respect and love. In the course of our progression in school we have come in contact with other classes-composed of individuals against whom we must strive for class honors. The class of '16 have met as their opponents in many a contest, the class of '17. The class of '17 were made to feel in their Freshman year that they were Freshmen, and a great deal of the "fighting spirit" was brought into use for that reason between the class '16 and the class '17. But by way of explanation for the feelings the Juniors believe have always existed between the two classes, we would say that we suffered the same |