20 WEBER COLLEGE WEBER COLLEGE 21 The Moench Building now has twenty-two lecture rooms, eleven laboratories, an auditorium with a seating capacity of seven hundred, and a modern library with stack rooms and reading rooms sufficient to accommodate an enrollment of one thousand students. The laboratories are well equipped, new apparatus and furnishings being added each year. Mono graphs and reference sets are being supplied continually to the library, thus keeping its facilities abreast of current developments and needs. The College Gymnasium, built at a cost of $300,000.00, is situated on Twenty-fifth Street between Adams and Jefferson Avenues. The building, dedicated January 9, 1925, serves both the community and the college. Extensive remodeling on this building during 1934 and 1935, resulted in the addition of a west entrance and the completion of other improvements. The gymnasium building contains a large ballroom, newly decorated; a large gymnasium floor, with a balcony of fifteen hundred seating capacity; four handball courts; tiled swimming pool; archery range; indoor golf net; boxing and wrestling room; shower and steam rooms; and locker rooms. LIBRARY The college library occupies space for general reading rooms, circlating library, and a library office. It contains standard, general, and special reference books fully catalogued according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System; current periodicals selected with a view to the needs of various departments of instruction; and newspapers of local and national reputation. The collection of the International Relations Club, donated through funds made available by the Carnegie Endowment Fund; and the collection of the Child Culture Club, donated through funds made available by club women of the local organization for the use of students unable to purchase text books, are recent acquisitions to the resources of the main library. AUDITORIUM The college auditorium is equipped for the presentation of musical and dramatic programs. Through the enlargement of the stage, accommodations for sizeable performances are possible. Lighting effects and new stage sets have been procured, one exterior and two interior sets being newly constructed. On the walls of the auditorium is hung a collection of oil paintings and water colors that add appreciably to the cultural atmosphere of the hall, and redecoration of the entire room has furnished a background of quiet dignity and harmonious color. The pipe organ as well lends a similar refinement, provides an enjoyable feature to college assemblies, and serves in the interests of community programs. THE PURPOSE OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE Weber College is a two-year institution of college grade which offers professional and cultural courses leading to degrees offered at higher instituoins, and semi-professional and cultural courses of a strictly terminal character which are designed especially for students who intend to complete their formal educational training at the end of their college sophomore year. It is, therefore, both a terminal and a lower division college educational institution. The purpose of the college is five-fold: 1. It offers opportunities for a college education to high school graduates or adults who desire to avail themselves of its geographic and economic advantages. 2. It offers professional and cultural courses leading toward advanced degrees. These courses parallel similar courses given at standard universities. 3. Through the specially designed terminal, semi-professional, cultural, and occupational courses, it endeavors to satisfy the needs of those who are not interested in college graduation. 4. It stresses the formulation of character building ideals. Training for citizenship is emphasized. Attention is paid to the development of a higher appreciation of culture and to the acquisition of values that will enable one to enjoy better his leisure as well as his vocational interests. 5. Through an effective guidance system, an effort is made to assist the student in finding himself and his place in the complex society, of which he is a part, by giving him constant informational and inspirational direction along all lines of activities. In other words, the objective of the college is not the mere formal presentation of subject matter, nor the mere emphasis upon an acquisition of facts, but it is essentially the education of the student.