The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-19
COLLEGE EXERCISES.
Reorganization of the L. D. S.
Students Society
IN THE SOCIAL HALL LAST NIGHT.
willard Done Selected President-In
Address by DR.. j. L. Talmage-Other
Proceedings.

At the appointed hour, 80 las evening,
the students and professors of the Latter
day Saints college, together with numer-
GUS appreciatiye visitors, assembled in the
Social hall to participate in the reorganiza-
ton of the Students society for the cur
rent collegiate year. The exercises were
opened, interspersed and closed with appro-
pirate selections by the college choir. AT
the beginning of the proceedings the prin-
cipal, DR. J. E. Talmage announced in be-
half of the faculty that Instructor Willard
Done had been selected as president of the
society.
Mr. Done thereupon took charge,
and after the usual opening exercises, de-
liyered an interesting brief address
on 1.-THE Advantages of Incidental
instruction" The speaker showed
the necessity of stepping aside from
80 other practical though perhaps
ahclassified facts of general interest and
importance. He dwelt in an instructive
way on the relative worth of The various
branches Of secular knowledge.
Following this, Miss Elizabeth Barlow
and Miss Mamie Clark rendered the vocal
selection "Murmuring Sea" in very pleas
ing way; and were followed by Miss Katie
Young in an appropriate selection. Dr.
Talmage then delivered half-hOur address
on 'Science and Art showing with
great clearneSs the twin-relauonshiD of
these two factors of human knowledge.
There is, he said, an intermixture of art
and science in every branch of mans activ
ity. Science is comparable to theory; art,
more properly to practice. Art, therefore,
depends largely for perfection upon its
tools and the facilities of manipulation.
AS long as wood was used as the sculptor's
Iqedium, all statues were cramped and
Harrow. The folds of drapery were
parallel and unnatural, to correspond with
the grain of the wood, and the largest
figures had to be crowded within the limits
of tree trunk. But when discoveries
were made that marble could be sawn and
chiseled, and iron be soldered. sculpture
took gigantic strides of progress The
main obstacle to the advancement of print
ing as an art was the lack of a suitable
fabric to receive the impreSSion-nOt so
much the want of type or dies, for the
practice Of striking off medals, coins and
other impressions was known long before
the time of Gutenberg and his contem-
poraries. The artist follows his ideal
oftener than he copies nature. Science
/, dI1lts with nature-alike with the mote
4 dancing in the sunbeam, and with the sun
imsef whirling through infinite space.
srt, however, seeks to please, and the
fperation of the pleasure sense in man Is
subtle and ineXplcable. AS an example:
we love bilateral symmetry, and even
carry our taste for such to state of pain
ful exactness; some oriental nations abhor
such.
We should learn to appreciate the beau
tiful in any and every form; and to see
beauty in order and system, for such is ma
ture, and nature is but the visible manifes-
tation of divine will.
Following this address, a humorous read
ing was given by Mr. Guy c.. Wilson, and
then President 4. NJ. Cannon made brief
closing remarks. The gentleman referred
in an impressive manner to the destinies
awaiting the young people of to-day, and
to the advantages afforded them for ad-
vancement, He encouraged all to seek
their duty's path and assured them that
JOY awaited its faithful pursuit
The meeting then adjourned.
The record of this worthy society during
its last years. sessions is one of uninter-
rupted success; ind we doubt not the pres
ent course will add to its laurels. The
public have shown their appreciation by
steady attendance and anything short of a
crowded house is unusual.
A hale old man, Mr.. James Wilson of