The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-23

legiate meet. The university will bt
represented in the coming contest II
original narrative by Mr.. S. L. Rich
ards. Each narrator will be limited tC
twenty minutes. The probable judges
to decide the merits of the contest vii
be Hon. w. H. King. Judge Dickson
and third person to be chosen b5
these. The contest is arranged to TAXI
place on Friday, May ;. The contest il
debate and original narration will be
held in the Salt Lake theatre at pm
Messrs. Cannon and Morris took &c
Provo 400 tickets, and the academy
students feel that this number is no,
large enough. They hope to bring d
crowd of 900 students and friends.
The athletic contest will begin at II
am. on the same day and viii include
almost all varieties of field sports. Be
sides games of basket and BASEBALL
for each of which earnest preparation
| is being made, there will be the half
mile run, the 100 and the fifty-yard
| dashes, the broad jump drumming and
! standing), the high jump, pole vault
hammer throwing and shot putting.
Some of the university boys who are
working to place themselves IN condi-
ton for the field sports are MeSsrs.
| Hatch, Brown and Riser for the racing
and jumping, Messrs. Gatehouse and
| Anderson for the hammer throwing and
shot-putting. and Messrs. Rigby, Pat
! terson and Porter for the pole-vaulting.
/ Mr.. Porter last year vaulte6 ninety
/ two inches, and this year he has beaten
! his own record. In addition to these,
| the baseball boys are hard at work.
! The athletic contest is under the man.
/ agement of Thomas Mckay.
The university debaters are earnestly
/ preparing for the contest. They are
! members of the Rhetoric II class, and it
| is their good fortune to be doing at
/ present advanced work on drSumenta-
ton. This will give the boys the OPP
portunity of brushing against each of
| their classmates upon the subject for
debate. They will be pitted in turn
| against each two meberS of the class.
| Chapel exercises during the coming
week will be conducted by President
Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon church.
Friday afternoon, at the university,
the friends and active workers in kim
dergarten in the city celebrated the
anniversary of the birth of Froebel, the
| founder of the kindergarten method.
The afternoon was spent in pleasant,
| informal way; some kindergarten
games We're played, an eXtemporaneouS
programme was rendered, and light re-
freshments were served. Professor
Stewart of the normal school and Miss
Dopp and Mr.. Mcknight of the train
| ing school were guests.
D. s. Mcdonald of the Brigham City
high school was a visitor at the uni
versity last week.
Miss Mary c. May, director of the
kindergarten department of the nor
NAL school, was last week elected presi-
dent of the State Kindergarten assc-
citation. Her assistant, Miss Donette
Smith, was made corresponding secre-
| tary of the association. Professor
Stewart, who was president during last
year, was made a member of TIE board
! of directors, as also were Mrs. Rebecca
h. Little and Mrs. Emma McVicker
VINO are active members of the board
of regents of the university.
The facult=r, at its last meeting Sc
lected the graduating students who are
to represent the classes of '99 on COM
mencement day. Mr.. II. Claude Lewis
! VIII be Valedictorian of the college
class, and Miss Virginia \. Bush VII
perform Il similar Office for the normal
graduating class. The class members
are well pleased with the choice Mr.
Lewis Will represent the largest College
class that will have been graduated,
and Miss Bush will read an essay for a
graduating class of over seventy in
humber, by far the largest normal Class
ever graduated from the normal school,
a mass-meeting of students was held
in the art gallery last Friday, in the
interest o. the Dramatic and Athletic
associations.
The study of English is both bene-
fetal and entertaining. 1t comprises
not only the reading, careful study and
class discussion of classics. but an es-
sential part of the culture to be de-
rived from the study of English comes
from hearing an actor or a good eloeu-
zionist interpret the characters we have
studied. Miss Katherine Oliver. the
able Scotch reader. will soon visit our
city again, and she is especially fitted
to enliven the beauties of literature.
She brings to her work the love, gen
ius, enthusiasm and untiring industry
OF a master-mind and sympathetic
heart