26 WEBER ACADEMY, OGDEN, UTAH A public library, containing several thousand bound volumes and the leading magazines of the country, is open to the students. Opportunities are always plentiful to hear speakers, orators, and singers of national as well 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 1907 one large building has WEBER ACADEMY, OGDEN, UTAH 27 sufficed the needs of the Academy. It is two stories in height. The rooms are large and well lighted, and are provided with steam heat and electric lights, and all the other necessary appliances. The first floor is occupied by the Domestic Arts, and the Domestic Science de-partments; 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 1906, 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 fifteen hundred, and three good sized class rooms, occupy the second floor. The basement contains the Manual Training rooms and the Zoology, Botany, Chemical and Physical laboratories, and Band room. 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 newspapers and current magazines. It is