8 WEBER STAKE ACADEMY, to hear speakers, orators and singers of national as we I as international reputation. Therefore, students who attend the schools at Ogden have many advantages not enjoyed by those studying in institutions less favorably situated. GENERAL PURPOSE The aim of the Academy is to promote the moral, intellectual and physical development of man; to make out of our boys and girls self-governing and self-directing men and women. Special emphasis is given to religious education, in accordance with the sentiments expressed in the above extract from the Letter of the First Presidency. The principles of the Gospel are systematically studied from the standard works of the Church, with a view of creating faith in the minds of the students, and a sense of moral responsibility in all their associations and duties. By application to the principal, students who are non-members of the Church may be excused from studying theology. In addition to the regular prescribed courses in theology, the Academy offers all the regular courses prescribed by the High School curriculum; and these are so arranged as to prepare the student for advanced work in the higher institutions of learning. BUILDINGS The Academy is located on Jefferson avenue, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets, opposite Lester park. Up to the present time one large building has sufficed the needs of the Academy. It is two stories in height. The rooms are large and well lighted, and are rovided with steam heat and electric lights, and all the OGDEN, UTAH. 9 other necessary appliances. The first floor is occupied by the Preparatory, the Domestic Arts, and the Domestic Science departments; the second by the Library, the Study hall and Reading room, and several Recitation rooms. The new building, ground for which was broken in the Spring of last year, is now ready for occupancy. It is a beautiful brick structure joining the old building on the west. It is seventy-six feet wide by one hundred five feet in length, with two stories and a basement. On the first floor is located the principal's office, waiting room, commercial department, and six class rooms, the largest of which is twenty-eight by forty feet, and the smallest eighteen by twenty-two. The large lecture hall, with a seating capacity of about twelve hundred, and three good sized class rooms, occupy the second floor. The basement contains a large room fifty by sixty feet, which will be used for the Manual training department; the physical and chemical laboratories, each twenty-eight by twenty-nine feet; also modern equipped baths and toilets, etc. The rooms in the basement are as well lighted as any in the building. LIBRARY The library is a neatly furnished and well lighted room adjoining the large study hall and reading room. The shelves contain valuable works on theology, literature, science, history, mathematics, pedagogy, physiology, and some rare books on American Archaeology. The large study hall and reading room, which is comprised in the library, is furnished with convenient reading tables sufficient to accommodate two hundred students. It is also furnished with reading slopes for the leading news-papers and current magazines. It is supplied with every