THE ACORN Published by the STUDENTS of the WEBER STAKE ACADEMY Entered as Second Class Matter January I, 1906, at the Post Office at Ogden, Utah, under the Act of Congress, of March 3, 1879 Subscription Price 50 cents per year Single Copies 10 cents editorial staff Editor-in-Chief Sarah M. Williams, '06 Literary Editors Jennie Groberg, '06; Glenna Wotherspoon, '07 Miscellaneous Effie Reast, '06 Cartoonist Wilford H. Shurtliff, '06 Locals Henry Jenson, '06 Exchange Editors George Ensign, '07; Florence Woolley, '07 Music Edith Ensign, '06 Alumni Edna M. Cardon, '99 Athletics Frank W. Becraft, '06; Pearl Cragun, '08 BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager William S. Wright, '08 First Assistant Business Manager Edwin Peterson, '06 Second Assistant Business Manager Bryant S. Jacobs, '07 Subscription H. Raymond Bingham, '06 Circulator Charles T. Jones, '07 Editorial iff The object of a school is to educate its pupils to know how to make the best of themselves; to help them to be better citizens in their home towns and in their country; to be better business men; better teachers, and better examples before their children, and to all the world. It is to make them better men and women morally, physically, and intelectually, and nobler in the sig'ht of God. The teaching's received at schoool have an effect for good or for evil upon the town. The progress of a town is marked by the teaching in its schools. If they are filled with the atmosphere of development, the town cannot help being progressive. Every one who breathes the atmosphere is busy, and everything shows and speaks of industry, while the opposite is true when scarcely any attention is paid to the school training; the town is obscure and its citizens slow, easy going, and almost ignorant of the rest of the world. One educator has said: "Show me a thrifty town and I will show you a good school system at the back of it." The school systems adopted today are progressive. The Universities and Colleges are teaching along lines pertaining to the prac- THE ACORN 11 tical and most useful things in life. Manual Training, Domestic Science, and Domestic Arts departments are to be found throughout the country. Buildings especially adapted to these subjects are being built, and the progressive spirit of the people is being shown by the large numbers of students who are anxious to attend these schools. The Weber Stake Academy has a larger enrollment this year than ever before. We are crowded for room. One of our former instructors, Thomas E. McKay, while visiting us last November, made this remark: "Well, I see, you are still two in a seat and one in the middle. I'm glad of it. I hope you'll soon be two in a seat and two in the middle. Yes, even more crowded than that; so crowded, in fact, that the walls will have to expand in the erection of the new building towards which we are looking, and hoping for its completion in the near future." This remark has been almost literally fulfilled. We are so crowded that we can hardly say there is a place for anything. The Commercial and Domestic Arts Departments have had to change places; the typewriting room has been fitted up as a temporary Physical Labratory; the typewriters have been transferred to the teachers' office; the class rooms must be used for band practices, a different room each day; the Study Hall, for an assembly room, study hall, library (because of lack of room for study in the library;) and sometimes as a class room for penmanship and spelling; the halls and stairways are too small and are, therefore, crowded, during the change of classes. There are so few class rooms that classes must meet at 7:45, some from 12 to 1 and even others from 4 to 5, in order to let the students get the subjects they wish to take; the labratories are not large enough to be properly fitted up with the essential apparatus needed in the studies. We must have room. We must have a larger building. We have the smallest building in the state for a school of our capabilities. We are living in the second largest city in the state, a city considered to be the junction city in the west, a progressive city. Shall we be satisfied to let some of our sister towns smaller than we keep ahead of us? No; most decidedly we cannot; we will not. We must have departments for Domestic Sciences and Manual training, and to accomplish this we must have a new building.