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Show 22 THE WEBER COLLEGE LIBRARY The Library adjoins the Study Hall and reading room. It contains valuable books on philosophy, religion, sociology, philology, natural science, useful arts, literature, and history. A carefully selected list of books is added each year by purchase, and many others are contributed by friends of the school. These are classified and catalogued according to the Dewey system. The reading room is furnished with individual desks accommodating about three hundred students. ORGANIZATION The Weber College includes (1) the Senior High School, and (2) the College, which includes the junior colleges of Arts, Literature, and Science; the junior college of Business Administration; and the Normal Training School. The high school and the college are separate and distinct institutions. The college occupies the entire Library floor; the high school, the remainder of the building. Each has its own time schedule, the college operating on a sixty minute period and the high school on the forty-five. The high school holds devotional exercises daily; the college only on Wednesday and Friday of each week. In each case attendance is required. For purposes of discipline and instruction the college and senior high school are considered a unit and are organized into departments. Each department is governed by a head of the department, with the rank of Professor, and instructors with the rank of Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Instructor. The head of the department is responsible for the disci- THE WEBER COLLEGE 23 pline of all students in his department and for the successful organization and presentation of all courses pertaining to it, both in the high school and in the college. By this organization and government students are rigidly governed, and all courses carefully graded from the tenth grade of the high school to the sophomore class of the college, inclusive. STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS, ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS The Student Association of the Weber College is an organization of the College and the Weber Senior High School students; its purpose is to regulate student activities. The executive body of this organization is known as the Board of Control. Its membership is composed of representatives from both the Weber College and the Weber Senior High School, the president of the school, and one student and one faculty member chosen by these officers. The Board of Control has general supervision over all affairs of the Weber Student Association. The Student Association presents during the winter a standard modern play. Places in the cast are competitive and are open to all students of the Weber Student Association. The Weber Debating Society comprises all classes of the Weber Senior High School. Every year each class selects a team to compete in the interclass debates. The names of the winners in these contests are inscribed upon a silver cup which was presented by the class of 1905. Try -outs are held to determine which students shall represent the Weber Senior High School in the regular state contests. |