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Show 24 WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH They represent the college in musical activities throughout the state. Band and Orchestra serve varying student body interests. The orchestra strives toward the artistic rendition of overtures and symphonies and takes an active part in the production of the college opera. The Department of Speech offers opportunity for student participation in plays and programs. The Department of Speech supervises the production of plays and directs all speech activities, other than debate. Play Production: Three full-length plays, together with a varied number of one-act plays, are presented annually. In these productions qualified speech majors are called upon to assist in various phases of the production, including work as assistant-directors. In instances of opera presentations, the Speech Department may forego production of a major play during the quarter in question and unite its efforts with those of the Music Department. Speech Activities: (1) Extempore Speaking: The James L. Barker Con test is designed to stimulate interest in extempore speech and to encourage competition between Freshmen and Sophomore students. The winner of this contest is honored by having his class numerals engraved on a silver cup, and by an individual cash award of ten dollars provided by the donor, Professor James L. Barker. Impromptu Speaking: The J. S. Lewis award is intended to foster impromptu speech competition among individual participants. The winner of this contest is presented with a gold medal. Oratory: Two traditional intra-collegiate contests in oratory are con ducted each year: (1) The Evelyn Nielson Woods contest provides as award a personally selected medal for the student delivering the best ten minute address. (2) The '05 Contest, initiated by the Weber Class of 1905, provides a silver cup upon which each year is inscribed the class numerals of the winning speaker. This contest is intended to foster oratory in the college as an inter-class competitive activity. Students who distinguish themselves in speech activities may achieve membership in the local chapter of the national Phi Rho Pi honorary forensic society. The Department of English offers opportunities for participation in student publications and forensics. The Department of English supervises all student publications. The WEBER COLLEGE - OGDEN, UTAH 25 The Department of Music offers opportunities for vocal and instrumental group organization. Each year the Department of Music concentrates its efforts upon the development and performance of a standard light opera, and an original musical continuity or a musical comedy written and produced by the department. The Dorian Singers, the Musettes, and the instrumental and vocal quartets, trios, and duets are composed of students of exceptional talent. Acorn is the college annual. Participation in this activity gives students two kinds of experience: editorial and business. Editorial work consists of planning the book, arranging art designs, pictures, cover, and format generally; of writing resumes of the year's activities, and of copy and proof reading. Business involves making contracts for photography, printing and engraving, soliciting, advertising, and selling the book. The Weber Sign Post is the college newspaper intended to provide practical journalistic experience for those who have an interest in newspaper writing. Scribulus, the college quarterly, was conceived to serve a three-fold purpose: first, to provide practical periodical experience for those whose primary interests are in creative work; second, to stimulate the student body generally to self-expression; and third, to give a more utilitarian purpose to class exercises in com position. The forensic program of the English Department includes extempore speaking, oratory, and debate. The Department of English directs all debating activities of the student body. Debating has as its curricular basis a course in argumentation. Those who represent the college in interscholastic competition are chosen upon merit from the school generally. Participation in one intercollegiate debate makes a student eligible for membership in the local Utah Alpha Chapter of the national Phi Rho Pi honorary debating society. The department each year sponsors the Novitiate Contest in extempore speaking, the purpose of which is to orient new students in Weber College and to initiate them into the speech program of the college. The English Department has the privilege of cooperating with the Speech Department in preparing students for two traditional intra-collegiate oratorical contests, the Evelyn Nielson Woods contest and the '05 contest. The Department of English sponsors each year the Weber College High School Speech and Debating Tournament. The Department of Physical Education provides for mass participation as well as for the exceptional athlete. The Department of Physical Education teaches the fundamental skills and strategy in various activities in the physical education classes. To provide opportunity for further participation of all students, the programs of intramural and interscholastic athletics have been organized. Interscholastic Athletics: For the exceptional athlete, interscholastic competition is provided in football, basketball, swimming, wrestling and boxing, fencing, tennis, track and field. These sports provide the competition between the junior colleges of Utah and Idaho. Regular schedules are arranged in the various events in the Intermountain Junior College Athletic Association. Intramural Athletics: For the mass of students, competition is organized in a larger variety of sports so that all members of the student body may compete in the activities of their choice. The program is confined to the various groups on the campus, and the management of contests is largely in the hands of student managers and directors under the supervision of the Physical Educa- |