The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-06
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University of Utah.


Professor D. r. Allen conducted a
successful chapel last week. Professor
G. Q. COray will follow him.
Rapid progress is being made upon
the university buildings. Work upon
the first story of the physical, the sec
Ond story Of the library, and the third
story Of the normal is now being
pushed with vigOr. The lack Of stone,
the one hindTance during the winter
months. is now removed. stone being
furnished in large quantities.
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Messrs. n. T. Porter, Arthur yelling
and Ernest Bramwell. the three
debaters who were chosen on
Friday to represent the university
in joint debate with the University of
Nevada, have already been challenged
to a contest upon the same question.
The challengers, Messrs @. c. Riser,
w. l. Dunn and II. T. Herbert, viii
take the negative. This contest will
take place probably next Friday.
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Mr.. McGhie will meet the second year
girls this week to help them in begin
ming their chorus work.
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The Historical society spent the day
yesterday in Emigration canyon. These
students, with those Of the botany
class left the city on the Salt Lake
street cars at in the morning and
went directly to Fort Douglas. Here
they were shown through the barracks
by the kindness Of the fort officials.
The students then crossed the foothills
to Emigration, went into the canyon
and there enjoyed the day. Mr.. L. E.
Young accompanied the students to aid
them in approaching the historical con-
nectiOns Of the scenes and DR.. Orson
Howard went to aid the students OF
botany.
It is understood definitely that the
joint debate on May % will be the first
Of a permanent interstate series. The
arrangements made for this event are
permanent series is tG be left to the
mutual action of committees selected
from the faculties of both universities
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The interstate debate viii be held in
the Salt Lake theatre. The Theatre
orchestra has been secured for the Oc-
casion. University students are al
ready looking forward with expectation
to a very successful meeting. The fact
that this is the first debate of an in
terState nature that has ever been held
in Salt lake makes the contest inter
esting, not only to university students,
but to the public generally.
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The number of students in the fourth
year Of the normal course viii be aug
mented next year by a contingent from
the Cedar City branch.
In a class meeting held last Tuesday
the third year nOrmals decided to ar
their work this year. The exercises
viii be substantial and marked by a
university rather than by Z lass spirit.
The instructor in French and German
next year will be DR.. George T. FlOm
of Vanderbilt university. Dr. FlOm
graduated first from the University Of
Wisconsin; later he did work in the
Vanderbilt institution and took his
doctors degree at Columbia. He has
since Travelled abroad. and is at pres
ent engaged as assistant in modern
languages in the Vanderbilt university
at Nashville, Tenn.
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The fourth year students vigorously
deny. that they ever voted their SYM
pathy to the second year class in the
coming debate between the second and
third year students. They did how
ever vote their hearty support to the
younger Of the two contending classes.
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Professor r. r. Lyman will address
the people Of South Jordan tonight
upon The American School System.
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The prospects of a large summer
school become constantly better In
quilies are made even from adjoining
states. and circulars are being sent to
Idaho Wyoming. Montana and Ne
vada.
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Considerable work is being done upon
the campus, putting it in shape for next
Saturdays contest. The places for
jumping are being prepared; the ring
from which the hammer is to be
thrown and the shot put has been
placed, and the race course, twenty
four feet wide, is being ploughed,
banked and rolled.
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The teams to contest next Saturday
are the track teams Of the Brigham