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Show 10 WEBER STAKE ACADEMY. thing that goes to make up a good working library. Additions both by purchase and contributions are being made to it from time to time. APPARATUS The Academy is fairly well equipped with physical apparatus to illustrate the prescribed courses. The more important items are a Wimhurst electrical machine, a Becker analytical balance with weights of precision, Ruhmkorff coil, movable coils, electric motor, Wheatstone bridge, rheostat, Geissler tubes, lifting and force pumps, adjustable inclined plane, galvanometer, electro-magnet, sonometer, lenses chemical thermometers, a variety of primary batteries, and a set of apparatus for students' use in the laboratory. LABORATORIES The laboratories, physical and chemical, are in the basement of the new building. The rooms are well lighted and ventilated, and supplied with steam heat and electric lights. The cabinet contains a representative collection of lead, silver, gold and copper ores, and concentrates from the mines and mills of Utah and adjoining states; a variety of igneous rocks from Central and Southern Utah; specimens of the more common minerals and metamorphic and sedimentary rocks; a number of cretaceous and tertiary fossils; a number of Utah stuffed birds and mammals; and a representative collection of land and marine invertebrates preserved in fluids. STUDENTS' EXPENSES Tuition is free. An entrance fee of ten dollars, payable in advance, is charged all students. OGDEN, UTAH. 11 Students taking laboratory work in chemistry or physics, domestic science, or manual training, are charged an incidental fee of two dollars to cover the cost of chemicals and other materials used. In zoology and biology this fee is one dollar. Students pursuing the typewriting course will be charged ten dollars a year extra. A fee of three dollars will be charged for the diploma issued by the Academy for the completion of any of the four year courses. These fees in all cases must be paid in advance. All the students of the Academy are held responsible for any injury done by them to its property. Board and lodging can be obtained at from three to five dollars per week. By students' renting rooms and boarding themselves these expenses may be reduced. ADMISSION The Academy is open to students of both sexes and of all nationalities and religious denominations. Candidates for admission must be of good moral character, and signify their intention to keep themselves in harmony with the spirit and teachings of the institution. Students are admitted at any time, but it is to their advantage to enter at the beginning of the Academic year. The entrance requirements may be satisfied by the presentation of certificates, or by examination as follows: (a) Admission on certificate. Students presenting a certificate of graduation from the eighth grade of the public schools will be admitted without examination to any of the Academic courses. Students beyond public school age who are deficient in some of the studies of the grades will be given special consideration. No student pursuing any of the higher courses shall be permitted to register for more than twenty or fewer |