Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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 A study of economics gives chest- future secretaries a background in the economic foundations of the United States. An ability to manipulate office machines increases the overall amount of work accomplished and contributes to the ease and efficiency of office work. The ten-key punch is the fastest machine in the commercial office. It saves time because it records all the data, thus facilitating re- checking and correcting. It gathers, classifies and preserves data of all kinds and makes, uses and preserves records. Ingenious systems of record keep- ing and filing have been invented and scores of clever appli- ances and marvelous office machines arc available. As a four-year program, Weber will train business teachers and offer majors in accounting and business administration, and will continue with a separate two-year program. Economics is a science which is concerned with the communal problems of economic life. How men acquire wealth and how they use it are important to economists; but their principal concern is with the intricate interrelations of the various wealth-obtaining and wealth-using activities and their relation to the community. Like every science, economics proceeds upon the assumption that there is some sort of order in the phenomena with which it deals. There is some measure of regularity and predicta- bility in economic phenomena. The Business division offers classes in accounting, manage- ment, business law, salesmanship, advertising, business mathe- matics, statistics, calculators and personal finance. The Economics division teaches principles of economics, eco- nomic history of the United States, agricultural economics, economic geography, and current and industrial economic problems. 24 1

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Talma :e- E. Dclange Chairman The rapid increase of technology and industry guarantees future job security for business majors. The Business Department has as its purpose the training of students to enable them to earn a living and contribute to the advancement of the business world. Business has broken up into a large number of specializes! groups. There are hundreds of separate tasks today in con- trast to a few dozen occupations in our earlier history. The office of an enterprise is devoted to the direction and co- ordination of the various activities of that enterprise. O. M. Clark Daniel Favcto Paul M. Hansen Bill S. Hcnric Guy H. Hurst Edward C. Larsen Carmen Reeder Clarence G. Wilson A skill in typing is as beneficial to the general student as it is to the business major. 23

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Multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, per- centages. and subtotals are easily figured on the Burroughs key - driven calculator, an efficient machine which adapts to any office use. 25