Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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tEfje Scorn of tfje fEHcber tafec Scabcm? years in length has an opportunity of becoming efficient,—yes expert in commercial branches, in connection with general high school work, if he but have the desire and determination. In this line of work there is an urgent necessity for high ideals. The student who starts his work in typewriting and shorthand with the intention of learning enough to enable him to take a position at the bottom of the stenographic help in some office, realizes his desires to the extent that he is able to take a letter at a moderate rate of speed and make a fair transcription. But the student who enters the work with a position as court steno- grapher in view, who sees a speed one-hundred-seventy-five or two-hundred words per minute ahead of him is the one who is going to get the position that pays the salary, and it is he that is going to make rapid strides in the business world should he choose to leave the stenographic profession. And in book- keeping the student who desires to learn how to keep books in a small grocery store or meat market usually acquires enough knowledge of the subject to post sales slips, and keep a simple ledger; but it is he who is determined to be the head book- keeper of a large business office that usually fills that position. Efficiency should be the watch word of every commercial student. It is within the power of every one to be an expert. Skill in shorthand is but the conscious training of mind and body to act unconsciously. Skill in typewriting is but training the fingers to obey, me- chanically and with mechanical accuracy, the command of the brain. Through a commercial course there is an opening to the business world for any young man. Why not be a good penman? You can. A halt should be called on the poor penman. It would add very much to the appearance of the bulletin boards and to your work. How would it be to have a whole school of at least mod- erately good penmen? The best student in bookkeeping is the one who does en- tirely individual work—dependence never develops independence. [19

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tBfje orn of tfje Wtttbzv £ tafce gkabenip Next year, in addition to this, instructions will be given selecting different cuts of meat, the best methods of baking a: boiling, deep and shallow frying, and carving and serving foot The principles taught in this class are put into practice each student in the kitchen. Five hours a week will be devot to this work. Fruit work will be given the first third of next year. Tf includes, first canning all seasonable fruits by the vario methods, making all kinds of preserves and marmalades, givii different methods of making jellies, ketchups, spiced fruii sweet and sour pickles, and meat relishes and second, lextur on the chemical nature of fruit, its acids and sugars and t value of fruit as a food, and its action on the human systei Four hours a week will be devoted to this work. In addition to this, a course including all kinds of plain, ai some fancy cooking, and, covering in a general way, all su jects with which a house keeper in moderate circumstanc needs to be familiar, will be offered. A three course lunch w be served daily during the winter months, each member of i. class preparing some portion of the meal and assisting in t' serving of the plates. They will also take turns in waiting the table. The confidence and skill thus acquired are invaluat to the students'. Rooms will be fitted up and furnished for the use and co venience of this department. Commercial department i otesi Business men have been and are still complaining again the inefficiency of the large army of stenographers and offi workers that are being turned out, each year, by the mai commercial schools of the country. This should make eve: young man or young woman who undertakes this work dete mine to make himself or herself an expert. Every student a tending a school giving a commercial course of two or mo 18]

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Cl)t iScorn of tfje S Ieher italic £eabemp Brighter days are in store for the commercial departmen The increase in facilities and additional teaching force to 1 added next year will make it possible to introduce advance ideas and to strengthen, very materially, the present work. Next year the bookkeeping department will occupy the lar$ room on the second floor of the new building. This room w be newly and specially furnished. The students in first year bookkeeping have done better at more work than students of previous years. Most of them w complete the three budgets of the Sadler-Rowe system. The first year phonography students completed the manu about April first, and since that time have been reviewing ai practicing for speed. fEfje TSMay of a Ptrb One afternoon while I was sitting on a box at the south ei of an old shack, my attention was attracted by a male sparro looking for straws with which to build his nest. He was, as afterward found out by comparison, an unusually large ar beautiful specimen. He seemed to know that he possessed mo: than ordinary strength, as he seized a large straw from whic hung smaller ones and a bunch of matted string. I thoug that he had got hold of more than he could carry to his nes but I was mistaken. He dropped his load, hopped around several times before he could decide on the best way to tal hold of it, picked it up, and flew with it to a nearby fence. I- rested there for a moment and then flew to the roof of a bar From there he hopped with his load to a place under an eav where he was helping his mate to build a nest. I sat and watched the two work for some time. Then tl thought came to me, “catch Mr. Sparrow, and see what h mate will do.” I got a long piece of string, made a slip-kn loop in one end, and greased the loop so that it would si easily. I then got a ladder and climbed up to to the nest. 20]