Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-23
REORGANIZATION OFsIuDESrs.


After the regular opening exercises
n this society last night Professor
Done stated that, according to the
announcement 10 the circular Of the
college, the faculty had appointed In
s,rucisr John n. Woodbury. chairman
vi The society Tor the ensuing year lie
siso announced that to tho regular list
81 last years ,nictrs would be added
two mo'e, Ga, aui second vice
CD mau. 1le election " Cihrais,
r,.ulung In the following u.o.gV, was
then proceeded withi Secretary, Miss
Maria janice; corresponding srgfeIaryi
Flank usmillcE nrst vice chairman,
brigham A. Peiklrs; second vice
chairman, Gwendolin Lewis. Short
speeches Of acceptance we're made by
each Of the newly elected tillcets.
Professor Done addressed the society.
Husald Il was lut organized i've years
ngo Tor the ccial benefit a students
WHO havo not tho chance 81 listening
90 advanced Literary aud hcioutinc
treatises In ihtii regular courses. In
nll truv education there h one Thing
We must carefully guard against and
that IL becoming dogmaic orpedaniic.
Just NO soon a. We iUtm fAed aud uu'
chnngehble views on different subjects
then does our progress become retarded
and finally stand SIN. There u no
man kuOws everything, aud the more
one knows the more he sees there Is TO
know. As the country boy, scaling
the peaks Of his mountain home,
reaches the top Oh 10 him. a towering
summit he beholls far above him yet
one more, one seemingly insufmount-
able, man has never yet beon able 10
reach tue top 0f the highest mountain
in our material world, much less
NJ In the world Of knowledge. Isaac
Newton, man before whose ~.
perilr intellect the brightest among
u Ia hut a spark, when he was about
% lay down his life said, al seem 10 be-
a child that has boon playing upon tho
sraihore picEing up here aud there a
pretty pebble aud gaily tinted shell
aud examining them, while tho whole
ocean OF Undiscovered knowledge lies
vet before me-" This organization
has started out to make IA true stu.
dents. Its a sludonts' society. We
welcome 70 IT. sessions all who feel
disposed 10 miuglo with ", aud trust
that should any onH eater this temple
OF learning with a feeling akin 10
iTlyolity that spirit may ba rebuke1 by
the pure feeling u education that i'm.
pcfmratps these walls.
Missi GWtudOln Lewis IN q charm.
ing manner rendered u musical svleC-
u N,
Instructor Maycoek addressed the 40.
oiety lor short time. lie dwelt upon
the term society and showed how it
was q at we may advance our mutual
Interests by miugling In each Others'
company. There are two kinds u
society. When man cannot be- with
his fellow hoiugs he can yet live In his
own Clety, in his own thoughts. But
were lac placed In suchi a condition,
this would tend 10 degrade rather than
elevate him. Lot him be- with eiu-
Gated u, r-0us and ho viii advance, but
let him find company lower than him
self he will rettograuc. Man II a
sociable being ami A. such fitted for
society. We hOle that those who
come among us may not 20 backward
but rather advance
Chairman Woodbury. briefly adj
dressed the asfembluge and the beue.
iiction was pronounced by George
Crosby,
Adjourned Tor one week.