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 James M. Thomas '11 Subscription West O. Lindsay '09 Circulation Francis K. Goddard '09 Editorial Hearty greetings to the readers of the Acorn. May they be many. The Acorn is especially grateful to the faculty and students of this institution forlaunching, as it were, this vessel laden with the best literary and educational interests and ambitions, into the waters of a coming year. Although the first attempts of its pilots at directing its manoeuvres in unknown ports have not been as promising as had been hoped for, a fair insight into the workings of the system has been gained, and if violent winds of literary material only blow in the right direction for a few months they may arrive safely and victoriously at their goal. Students, remember, especially you who have, as yet, contributed nothing to the support of this paper, that the Acorn is yours. It is your privilege to make it a flying messenger and representative of a real, live Academy or of a thing of the past whose wheel is rolling back down the hill. The Acorn solicits the aid and interest of the whole student body and sounds a call for more supplies to carry it to the harbor of success. THE ACORN 9 Students, while we are at home during this short vacation let us endeavor to show our parents that we appreciate, more than ever, the sacrifices they are making for us in allowing us to attend school. Let them know by words and actions that we realize that their duties are increased on our account and that we are grateful for their consideration for our welfare. Let us apply ourselves earnestly to our studies at school, that we may realize full value in knowledge, power in mind and strength of character. Thus, we repay a little of the debt we owe to our parents. "Sincerity is an inward light by which one's whole being is illuminated." Dr. Hopkins. Never allow yourself to live for anything less than your highest ideal. If you do, you'll deteriorate. Fresh air and a great abundance of it is the Japanese rule. The Japanese rarely sleep with their paper windows closed. In the morning, one of the first tasks is to go out of doors. Then they take in deep breaths of air. The Japanese women breathe very deeply as compared with their American sisters who are such slaves to the dress habit as to make deep breathing impossible. Japanese look upon full, deep breathing as being the most vital force in life. The best of exercises are of little value when the breathing that accompanies them is not done properly". "So live that your face may be an open book, from which may be read the simplicity and innocence of childhood united with the full development of mental powers and high accomplishments." An Expert Opinion. "Will alcohol dissolve sugar?" "It will," replied the Old Soak "it will dissolve gold, brick house and horses and happiness and lov and everything else worth having.' A Bachelor "A singular being," and "a target for a miss." Patience Noah Webster worked thirty-six years in making a dictionary; Bancroft worked twenty-five years on a history; Stevenson put in fifteen years of drudgery on a locomotive; Edison labored eighteen to twenty hours a day for seven months on his telephone to reproduce the single sound of the letter "s".