46 WEBER ACADEMY ceive the teacher's approval before the student goes to another lesson. He is allowed to go from one lesson to another as rapidly as he is able. The Touch system is used exclusively. Five hours per week throughout the year. Typewriting c and d.For advanced students, writing from dictation for the acquirement of a high rate of speed is practiced. Five hours per week throughout the year. Commercial Law.This course comprises a study of those matters of law that have constant application to business lifecontracts, negotiable instruments, liens, guaranty and suretyship, interest and usury, sale of personal and real property, warranty, bailment, agency, partnership, joint stock companies and corporations, insurance, common carriers, attachment, stoppage in transit, real estate, banking, taxes, distribution after death, property rights, etc. Five hours per week during the first semester. Political Economy.This course consists in a study of the underlying principles governing production, consumption, exchange and distribution of wealth. The relation of capital and labor and other present-day economic problems are discussed with some emphasis upon industrial and political ethics. Bullock's Introduction to the Study of Economics is used as a] text book, with supplementary readings from other standard authors. Five hours per week during the second semester. WEBER ACADEMY 47 Farm Accounting.This course enables the student to keep an accurate account of costs, expenditures, income, profits, etc., of all branches or departments of farm life, and to determine at any time the exact financial condition of the orchard, dairy, field, household, etc. Goodyear Marshall text, which is used, is comprehensive, yet not too technical, and fills a long-felt want among agriculturists. Daily second semester. Required of all second-year agricultural students. Domestic Arts. Domestic Arts.This department occupies the north half of the first floor of the main building and includes three large, well-lighted rooms and a fitting room. The department is carpeted, and is furnished with drafting tables, separate sewing tables, fourteen sewing machines, dress cabinet, models, individual lockers, and a fine glass cabinet for the display of the students' finished work. Domestic Arts a.Students are taught the fundamental principles of hand and machine sewing. Practice is given in the drafting of apron and underwear patterns; and in the use and care of machines. Each student makes a sewing bag, aprons and a suit of under wear. Three two-hour periods a week during the first semester. Domestic Arts b.The making of underwear and a plain wash dress. Three two-hour periods a week during the second semester.