Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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THE ACORN 7 Thy rod shall defend me, thy staff be my stay, No harm can befall with my Comforter near.” The music died away with a low, sweet moan, and Clare stood beside Bob asking him if he liked the song. “Like it! Why I thought the angels were singing me back to life,said Bob with deep emotion. “I suppose you’ll come to meeting now, won’t you! You know I have asked you so many times. “Yes, I’ll come,” said Bob, and sure enough the next Sun- day he was sitting beside his grandparents in the church. True he never gave his strict attention to the preaching, but when Clare sung, no word escaped him. No one can repent all at once. Bob struggled long and earnestly to conquer his inner self, and when he felt that at last he had succeeded, he read the announcement of the marriage of Nona Everett and Louis Lorimer. All the old bitterness and rebellion returned for a time, but the words of the song came back with double meaning, and he conquered the second time. He still continues to live with his grandma, although Ills parents recovered their wealth and his mother continually writes: “T don’t see why you don’t come home, Bob. You must like cod-fish better than you thought you would. I’m sure you don’t get your plebian ideas from me.” Lillian Guthrie, ’09.

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6 THE ACORN wonder that Bob is as good as what he is, having such a mother! How is Bob any way, and does he like cod- fish as well as ever; Don’t, by any means, let him see this letter. Well, grandma, I’ll not be home for about two weeks, for Nona wants me to go home with her for a visit; my light has burned so low that I can’t see the paper and so au revoir. Sue. As soon as the letter was finished, Bob grabbed his cap, and left the room. He would not stop, although he heard his grandmother say distinctly, “Poor Bob.” Whither he was go- ing, he knew not or cared. The thought uppermost in his mind was to get away from everything. Nothing mattered much now. Suddenly he stumbled over something, and looking down he saw the steps of the village church. Completely exhausted, he sank down on them, and covered his face with his hands. “Why, Mr. Lorimer, however did you walk so far, and what are you doing?” asked a child’s clear voice, and glancing up Bob saw the little girl he had met several times by the sea- shore in his evening walk. “I don’t know how I walked so far, and I don’t know what I am doing,” said Bob. The girl opened her blue eyes in astonishment, and then laughed. “Well, since you don’t know what you are doing, suppose you come into the church, and hear me rehearse the song I am going to sing Sunday,” she said. “I haven’t been in church for so long that I wouldn’t know how to act.” “The more reason you should go in now and learn, when there’s nobody to see you ’cept the organist and me.” With a sudden feeling of awe, Bob sank into the seat and heard as in a dream the words of the song: “The Lord is my Shepherd, No want shall I know, Through the valley and shadow of death though I stray, Since thou art my Guardian, no evil I fear,

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rijr vl corn PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE WEBER ACADEMY SIX TIMES DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR. Subscription Price....................................Seventy-five Cents per Year Souvenir............................................................Two Dollars EDITORIAL STAFF. Editor-in-Chief ..............................................Edna V. Woods 09 Associate Editor..................................................Frances M. Rogers Literary Editors............................Minnie E. Jensen 10, Norma Sears ’II Miscellaneous..........................................................Lenora Brown 10 Locals .................................................................Lila Eccles ’10 Exchange Editors.................................Alma Winters, Mabel Rolapp 10 Cartoonist....................................................Ephraim Tillotson ’10 Music .......................................................Beatrice Brewer 11 Athletics.....................................Veda Farley, ’10 Burton Driggs ’09 BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ................................................Fred Jensen ’09 Advertising Manager.............................................Victor H. Sears '10 First Assistant.............................................Joseph M. Eccles '10 Second Assistant.................................................Herbert Reeder ’10 Subscription.......................................................West Lindsay ’09 Circulation ..................................................Francis Goddard 09 Taking a backward glance of the work of this year The Acorn staff is not altogether dissatisfied with the official organ of this institution. A great amount of hard work lias been done both on the paper and in our efforts to fit up permanent head- quarters. Thanks to the loyal support of the business men of Ogden; we have been able to see our way clear to the furnish- ing of a cosy office in the basement where ail Acorn business is carried on. We hope that now, simply because school is over that the students will not cease to patronize The Acorn ad- vertisers. We are also grateful to the students and faculty for their support in numerous ways.