The Acorn Published by the Students of the Weber Stake Academy Subscription Price Fifty Cents per Year Single Copies Ten Cents EDITORIAL STAFF. Editor-in-Chief Rosella Ferrin, '08 Associate Editor Katherine McKay '08 Literary Editors Pearl Cragun, '08; Frances Poulter, '08 Miscellaneous Beatrice Barnes, '08 Locals Clarence Wright, '08 Exchange Editors West Lindsay, '09; Edith Barlow, '08 Cartoonist Vera Browning, '10 Music Myrtle Ririe' '09 Athletics Wilmina McFarland, '08; George Burton, '10 Alumni Edna M- Clegg' '99 BUSINESS STAFF. Business Manager Heber Woolley, '09 First Assistant Harold Johnson, '08 Second Assistant Charles Owen, '08 Subscription Fred Jensen, '09 Circulation Francis Goddard, '08 Editorial This is indeed a Thanksgiving Day for the students of the Weber Stake Academy. This time last year the faculty and students were busy soliciting funds for our new building that it might be under cover before the stormy weather began. Now we are comfortably located and enjoying the benefits of their labors. We certainly owe our thanks to the members and friends of Weber Stake for their able support. The students desire to express their appreciation to Mr. J. W. F. Volker for his gift to the school of a set of "Messages and Papers from our Presidents;" also to Mr. Benjaman Goddard for the Indian curio known as the "Pupu" with which he presented the school. We hope this will prove to be the neucles of an academy museum to be established in the near future. STICK TO IT. Students, we have started out to complete another year of school life. Shall we as many who have been here before us, find success and happiness awaiting next June ? Today we have an opportunity shall we ever have it again? Who knows? We should make the best of each moment. Let's take Bro. Grant's advice: "Don't fail." If we learn but one thing this year, let us learn this lesson, for we shall find it the source The Acorn 17 of more satisfaction and happiness in life than any other one thing. All things are within the power of the man with a will. He who conquers self is the greatest hero. Shall we allow some little thing to stop our progress? Nothing in the world ever gets large if we take care of each little thing. And am I not master of myself? Woe to the man who is not. His must certainly be a miserable end. Let us go at all things with this in mind: "I am master of my fate, I am Captain of my soul." If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If one makes up one's mind to do something, one must succeed, not only for the benefit gained by the act, but also for the purpose of gaining power to do. "That which we persist in doing becomes easy to do, not that the doing becomes easier, but that the power to do increases." Keeping this in mind, together with wisdom to know what to do, our path in life will be paved with success. RECREATION Recreation necessarily occupies an important place in school life. Occasionaly, students must have something besides hard study. But great care should be taken in choosing the proper kind of mental as well as physical rest. Our lecture course is given for the purpose of providing a profitable diversion from class work. Here we come in contact with great thinkers who give us fresh material, not taken wholly from books. This is an educational opportunity which no student who is really trying to improve his life, can possibly afford to miss. Dances and parties are given from time to time for our social development, which is most essential in this world of action. We cannot do anything without coming in contact somehow with our fellows. We certainly should not be able to enjoy life, entirely separated from society. Books other than those studied in school are among the principal means of spending leisure. In the choice of these, is one of the most decisive factors in determining character. We may read books that will do us as much good as our studies, those that will give us elevating thoughts, or we may choose another kind with the reverse effect. How have our great men spent their leisure? What have they studied by lamplight in a garret? Take Franklin or Lincoln for example. Leisure moments can be made as profitable as study time, if we will but study how to direct them along lines of improvement. The true student is measured not only by his class work as by the manner in which he spends his spare moments the kind of recreation he chooses.