THE WEBER STAKE ACADEMY Eight years ago President Woodruff issued the following instructions to the presidents of the several stakes of Zion: "We feel that the time has arrived when the proper education of our children should be taken in hand by us as a people. Religious training is practically excluded from the district schools. The perusal of books that we value as divine record is forbidden. Our children, if left to the training they receive in these schools will grow up entirely ignorant of those principles of salvation for which the Latter-day Saints have made so many sacrifices. To permit this condition of things to exist among us would be criminal. The desire is universally expressed by all thinking people in the church that we should have schools wherein the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants can be used as text books, and where the principles of our religion may form a part of the teachings of the schools." It was through this source of inspiration that the Weber Stake Board of Education was organized and finally a school established which gradually grew in numbers until the board was compelled to erect a building of suitable dimensions to meet the growing demands of its patrons. Through the years of hard times which followed its erection the withering hand of want was keenly felt, and for a time it even threatened to entirely close its doors. A prophecy, however, was delivered by an Apostle of the Lord that its doors would be kept open, and unexpectedly the sacred word was fulfilled. The institution took as it were a new lease on life, and notwithstanding the chilly hand of want, again commenced to grow through zealous teachers, until it again found a sympathetic chord in the hearts of the people, a responsive echo in the breasts of faithful students. As a result the board is prepared to-day to offer better inducements through the blessings of the Lord than ever before. By reference to the faculty it will be observed that the teaching force,has been increased over the number employed last year. This will enable the institution to change from half an hour to hour recitations. As a result the teachers will have more time to enter into the spirit of their subjects, covering larger fields and doing more thorough work. In laying out the work, also, the spe- cial object in view has been thoroughness and practicability as well as adaptation to our wants and conditions as a people in a business, literary and scientific point of view, as well as morally and religiously. In short, the object has been to educate the whole student instead of producing an intellectual development only. Hence the following COURSES OF STUDY have been laid out: A HIGH SCHOOL COURSE, designed for those who desire to obtain only a good district school education, and including the following studies: Arithmetic, Geography, Reading, U. S. History, Orthography, Penmanship, Natural History, Hygiene and Theology. A TWO YEARS' NORMAL COURSE, designed for those who desire to qualify themselves for teaching. The course includes all the branches demanded by law to be taught in the high schools of our first class cities or counties, and embraces the following branches: Theology, Grammar and Composition, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geography, IT. S. History, Physiology, Elocution, Peamanship. Physics, Physical Geography, Civil Government. Bookkeeping, Botany, Theory and Practice of Teaching. A THIRD YEAR NORMAL, including the following branches: Natural Theology, Rhetoric, English History, Geology, Psychology, Zoology, Political Economy, Geometry and Latin (optional.) A SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY COURSE, a continuation of the third year normal and including in addition to the two former, the following studies for graduation: Chemistry, Astronomy, Logic English Literature, General History, Latin, German and French (the last two elective.) For the living languages practical teachers, as far as possible, have been employed who speak the languages as used in the native countries. In addition to the above regular courses the following two additional-courses will be given: