The Acorn PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE WEBER ACADEMY SIX TIMES DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR. Subscription Price Seventy-five Cents per Year Single Copies Fifteen Cents EDITORIAL STAFF. Editor-in-Chief Edna V. Woods '09 Associate Editor Frances M. Rogers Literary Editors Minnie E. Jensen '10, Norma E. Sears 'II Miscellaneous Lenora A. Brown '10 Locals Lila Q. Eccles'10 Exchange Editors Alma R. Winters, May Belle, M. Rolapp '10 Cartoonist Ephraim G. Tillotson '10 Music Beatrice X. Brewer'11 Athletics Veda M. Farley, Clyde L. Clark '09 BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager G. Fred Jensen '09 Advertising Manager Victor H. Sears '10 First Assistant Joseph M. Eccles '10 Second Assistant Herbert Reeder '11 Subscription West O. Lindsay'09 Circulation Francis K. Goddard '09 Editorial THE ACORN wishes a Merrry Christmas and a Happy New Year to its many readers and patrons. Especial thanks should be given to the business men who have so loyally supported our paper with cuts and advertisements. Students, remember that it is your duty to patronise these people and give them the support they deserve. Generosity and thankfulness go hand in hand. As Christmas is near let us remember these two virtues. Give for the best benefit which may be obtained from a gift, and appre- ciate all gifts no matter how small they may be. No matter what may be our desires and our pleasures during this vacation, let them all count toward our moral, mental and physical growth. Have a purpose in all, and make these holidays the most pleasant and yet the most profitable ever spent. The way to "knock" our paper: Don't subscribe, borrow your neighbor's, it's easier. THE ACORN 11 Never hand in any material, but criticise relentlessly. Don't use your "blue tickets". We regret very much that the Salt Lake High School has seen fit not to participate in the State High School League; for Basket Ball. If there are any clear cut reasons for this attitude, we are not acquainted with them. It has been asserted that the Weber Academy and All Hallows College are Church Institutions, and therefore are not eligible to enter the State High School Athletics. We say Athletics, because if the Salt Lake High School were right in their interpretation of the rules of eligibility, it would mean that many other High Schools in the State would be eliminated, not only from basket ball, but also from base ball and track athletics. The school at Salt Lake cannot afford to make any such interpretation, for the establishment of such would be well nigh an impossibility. But we should like to ask the S. L. H. S. what difference religion makes in a basket ball game. And since when have they decided that "High School" means necessarily "Non-sectarian School"? The Weber Academy and All Hallows are accredited High Schools, and their students do none but High School work. If the S. L. H. S. wishes to discredit the fact of these two schools being High Schools, what classification will they make of them? Certainly we are not a uni- versity, though we have a basket ball team which we would be willing to enter against any university team. It seems to us that if the S. L. H. S. is afraid to play against us, the thing to do would be to own up, instead of hiding behind the weak-kneed subterfuge which they have invented as their reason or excuse for not entering the League. They might just as well admit that they will not enter the League because there is in it a team superior to their own team, against which they are unwilling to play, knowing themselves to be sure of defeat. We thank them for their exalted opinion of our team and assure them that it is well grounded. Debating in the Academy is to be one of the main features of work this year. At last faculty meeting instructors Hintze, Cleghorn and Wetzel were appointed as committee to take charge of all matters pertaining to debates. This is a hint for all the classes to select their best material,and to select it right away. Inter-class contests must take place before a team representing the best talent of the Academy can be chosen to debate with outside schools. To encourage inter-class competition, a silver trophy cup will be offered this year. Final ar-