10 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT tion. Students are admitted at any time, but it is to their advantage to enter at the beginning of the Academic year. PREPARATION. Candidates for admission to the Preparatory course must have completed the Seventh Grade as pre-scribed in the public schools, and must present to the committee on credentials and entrance examinations, satisfactory evidence of their promotion, or pass an examination in the studies of said grade. Students presenting a certificate of graduation from the eighth grade of the public schools will be admitted without examination to the High School or the Normal Course of the Academy. Students above public school age, deficient in some of the branches of the grades will be given special consideration. No student pursuing the higher courses will be allowed to register for more than twenty hours' work per week, nor will changes in registration be permitted except by a special vote of the faculty. BUILDING: The Academy Building is located on Jefferson Avenue, opposite Lester Park. It is two stories in height, and is sufficiently large to accommodate three hundred students. The rooms are large and well lighted, and are provided with steam heat, electric lights, and all necessary appliances. The first floor is occupied by the Principal's office, the Commercial and the Preparatory department, and the Physical and Chemical Laboratories. The Art Gallery, Library, Assembly Hall, and several recitation rooms, occupy the second floor. WEBER STAKE ACADEMY. 11 LIBRARY. The Library is a neatly furnished and well-lighted room adjoining the assembly hall. The shelves contain a number of valuable works of reference in literature, theology, history, and science, and the tables are supplied with the leading newspapers of the State. During the past year several valuable works have been added through contributions and purchase. LABORATORY. The Laboratory is well equipped with apparatus to illustrate the courses offered in physics and general chemistry. The most important items are a Winhurst electrical machine, a Becker analytical balance with weights of precision, a Ruhmkorff coil and moveable coil, electric motor, Wheatstone bridge, rheostat, Geissler tubes, lifting and force pumps, adjustable inclined plane, galvanometer, electro-magnet, sonometer, lenses, and chemical thermometers. The cabinet contains a fair collection of gold, silver, lead and copper ores, and concentrates from the leading mines and mills of Utah; specimens of the more common rocks and minerals; and a number of cretaceous and tertiary fossils. One section contains a number of stuffed birds and mammals, and a variety of zoological specimens preserved in alcohol. STUDENTS' EXPENSES. Tuition is free. An entrance fee of Ten Dollars, payable in advance, is charged all students. For the Commercial Course, an additional fee of Ten Dollars is added to cover the extra expenses involved in giving this course.