24 ANNUAL CATALOGUE Award System The Award System stimulates extracurricular activity and honors meritorious students. In order to stimulate extracurricular activity in the college and to compensate the students in some manner for such activity, an award or honor system is maintained by the Associated Students of Weber College. Activities eligible for awards fall into two groups: interscholastic and intramural activities. The interscholastic activites are athletic sports and speech activities. Athletic sports include football, basketball, track, wrestling, boxing, swimming, tennis, and fencing. Inter scholastic speech activities include debating, extempore, oratory, and interpretation. The intramural activities are based on personal competition for participation privileges. They include: student publications, drama, music, and student body government. Awards, in the form of medals for sophomores and certificates for freshmen, are given for participation in the various school activities. Recipients of awards are eligible to membership in the "W" Club, an honorary organization. Higher awards are given to members of the Orion Club, composed of the ten to fifteen outstanding students in the Sophomore Class. Assemblies Assembly programs are educative and cultural in their nature. The general weekly assembly programs are prepared under the supervision and guidance of the Assembly Committee. The student body is encouraged to present as many programs as it is capable of presenting. It is the aim of the committee to design programs that are educative and cultural in their nature. The best of talent in and out of the college is secured. Attendance at assembly is not compulsory. Lyceum The College Lyceum Service creates a center of art and culture. The College Lyceum Service is maintained for the purpose of creating a center of art and culture in the community. Lecturers, musicians, and dancers of national and international reputation are engaged to appear on the regular lyceum program. From ten to fifteen numbers are presented each year to the students and patrons of the college. Students maintain these programs by the payment of a lyceum fee which makes it possible for the students and the patrons of the college to attend without charge. Employment Bureau The Employment Bureau assists students to find employment. The Employment Bureau of Weber College, established on a permanent basis in 1937, is maintained for the purpose of assisting students to obtain employment while attending college, and helping to place graduate students in permanent positions. College trained men and women with superior efficiency are always in demand in the industrial area of the West. Weber College hopes to serve both students and business executives by establishing contacts for them which will result in their mutual benefit. Students wishing to avail themselves of this service should register with the bureau upon entering school. The service is free to all regular students. WEBER COLLEGE 25 Scholarships Weber College grants scholarships to incoming freshmen. Weber College grants to incoming freshmen twenty general full-tuition scholarships each year. Recipients of these scholarships are determined by the principals of the high schools from which the students are graduated, the number of awards to any one high school depending upon the number of students from that high school in attendance at Weber College at the time the scholarship grants are made. Beyond these general scholarships. Weber College awards annually a varying number of special music scholarships, some full and some part-tuition, the recipients of which are selected by the Head of the Music Department at Weber College and passed upon by the President of the college and the Faculty Committee on Awards and Scholarships. Higher institutions of learning grant scholarships to Weber College students. Higher institutions of learning annually offer scholarships to Weber College graduates. The Utah State Agricultural College and the Brig-ham Young University each give one full-tuition scholarship. Students recommended from Weber College have been successful in obtaining scholarships from the University of Southern California, Occidental College, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the College of the Pacific. Weber College students have also won the Willard D. Thompson scholarship to the University of California, and through competitive examination, the privilege to enter the California Institute of Technology. Community Projects Community organizations assist worthy Weber College students. Chi Omega Sorority: The alumnae organization of Chi Omega Sorority, in Ogden City, established as an annual social service project, in 1934, the raising of a fund to assist a Weber College girl in obtaining an education. The applicant for this fund is recommended by the Scholarship Committee of Weber College upon the bases of scholarship, participation in student activities, and personal need. Junior Child Culture Club: At the beginning of the 1936 spring quarter the Junior Child Culture Club, of Ogden City, adopted as a project the helping of worthy, needy students of Weber College to obtain text books on a loan basis. It is the purpose of the club to add to the Weber College library each quarter, current text books so as to build up an adequate library section of texts and reference books to serve students in this capacity for future years. A student welfare committee receives requests for the use of these text books. Guidance Program Through an effective guidance program Weber College assists the individual student to adjust to college life. The Committee on Student Guidance directs the work of student counseling in Weber College. The chairman of this committee, the Dean of Instruction, devotes most of his time to interviewing students and advising them about their work and college problems. All registration must be approved by the Dean of Instruction. At the close of each fourth week, the instructors are required to file with the Dean the scholastic records of all students who are doing unsatisfactory work. Students who have failed to maintain a C grade average at