PAGE 44 WEBER ACADEMY system, practicing for accuracy, legibility and ease in writing and reading. During the remaining time dictation is given, with accuracy still the paramount thought. The text is Phonographic Amanuensis by Pitman and Howard. Five hours per week throughout the year. Shorthand c and d.After a review of the text the student goes immediately to dictation, practicing for speed as he progresses, takes more difficult matter, including correspondence of great variety, legal forms, circulars, speeches, etc., transcripts of the dictation being made on the typewriter. A course in actual office training is introduced, the student performing the various duties found in the daily business routine of an office. Five hours per week throughout the year. Typewriting a and b.Each student is taught the use of the machine and its different parts, and is required to clean and oil his own machine from the first day he starts. Speed, accuracy and neatness are the qualifications every student is required to work for; no erasing is allowed, and each lesson must receive 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 copy and dictation for the acquirement of a high rate of speed is practiced. Thorough drill is given in writing legal documents, telegrams, cablegrams, invoices, freight bills, statements; also in billing, manifolding, mimeographing, etc Five hours per week throughout the year. WEBER ACADEMY PAGE 45 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. Domestic Arts. 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.