The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-22
or girls life. Only they can bring that

or girls life. Only they can bring that
to light.
IF there are any here, and 1 know
there are such here, who are attending
this shool under difficulties, and who
have to make sacrifice of any kind in
order to be here; let ali such believe
that it may be a blessing to them that
they are here under such circum-
stances. History is aname with the
names of those who have made their
way upward under stress of untoward
circumstances, and many more have
succeeded and have been made happy
! through the operation of struggle than
| history has named. l told you last
spring that some time l would attempt
to point out to you a fallacy in the
| closing lines of Tennyson's beautiful
Break, break, break. You may recall
that the last stauza runs:
Break. break, break,
| At the foot Of thy crags, o sea,
! But the tender grace of a day that is
dead.
VIII never come back to me.
'Now, 1 endorse the poetry, but 1
| object to the kind of psychology sug-
| gested. There are no dead days You
and l must not comfort ourselves with
the thought that we can shut a mis-
used day out of life, and we need not
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for any day of grace or of usefulness
which we may spend. The tenderness
of every gracious day we have ever had
comes back again and again, reinforced
and glorified by all the tendernesses of
all succeeding days. And so there are no
days that are dead There are wrecked
days; the coasts of character are piled
high with them, and they live con-
slant barrier to the souls progress
erla cIa Il
of unpleasant memory or of unholy in
fiuence, but the record of days, either
sweet or bitter. persists to sweeten or
embitter life. We might as well try to
stab and bury a shadow as to annihi-
late a day.
No action. whether foul or fair
Is ever done but it leaves somewhere
A record. written by fingers ghostiy,
OF a blessing or a curse, and mostly,
! In the greater weakness, or greater
strength
OF the act that follows it.
Among those who visited the school
! that morning were: E. W. Wilson,
James Brown Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Smith
of Iowa. parents of Mrs. A o. Clark;
Rev. F. L. Arnold.
The biographical department has re-
Gently been enriched by the donation of
the Loofbourow collection of minerals,
shells and curios- The collection was
made by Mrs. Loofbourow during her
life time and contains many rare and
beautiful shells and minerals, as well
as a large number of interesting Gu
rios. The bulk of the collection was
obtained on the Pacific coast, through
occasional specimens are from the
south sea. islands, and other parts of
the world. The High school appreci-
ates the generosity of Judge Loofbou-
row in adding to their museum. the
equipment of the biographical labora-
tory has been enlarged by the recent
purchase of a number of Bausch and
Lomb compound microscopes, a full set
of dissecting instruments. Individual
aquaria, and an articulated human
skeleton for use in the physiology
classes.
An important and novel auxiliary to
the High school is its eating hall. If
some day at half after twelve you were
to enter it, by way of the basement
entry, you would find what is probably
the largest lunch room in the city.
And after the first glimpse of activity