Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-04
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That most OF us want quite little of

And the aim OF this doggeraI is ,o
teach ~
Ihat most OF us want quite little OF
each"
one of the hits Of tho evening was
made by Miss Irene Young who had for
her toast, Last Year" She said:
.rS Cur grand old poet, Longfellow, says,
limo Is with materials filled;
our todays and yesterdays
| Are the blocks with which we build .,
ana SO during the past year. we each
nave used our 965 blocks. Some Of them
nave been 80 light and airy that we
h1Ne easily tossed them into place
while others have been so heavv thnt
1t required all our strength To even
move them. Some have been lust right
but one by by one we fitted I'm our
blocks made last year"
10 those whom we welcome tonight
as Alumni for the first time. last year
marked the completion Of the founda-
tion OF the structure they are raising.
Now they are ready and no doubt
anxiously waiting for the to-morrows
to become to-days that they may prove
the worth of these yesterdays.
For some OF us, that is for those
who graduated one year ago. the
materials given us last year. put our
groundwork to It's first test. And we
have found wherein those blocks so
easily fitted do make indeed a poor has
Is upon which TO place the heavier one
OF real life.
To the other alumni last year may not
have been SO important. 1t was Just
one more layer nearer the completion
or roof of their mansions.
But whether last years blocks be
near the ground or the sky may they
all be firm and solid and able to stand
the weight of future ones And when
those future ones come on, when next
year and each succeeding becomes in
turn last year, and when our structures
are completed. may our Alma Mater
be proud to say that her children
wore the builders
John ID. Spencers toast was 'oU Ao-
tors" and he commenced with a rem
iniscence of Toastmaster Whitney as
an actor back in the remote days when
he posed rs an Indian who shoots a
waterfall In canoe. The performance
was in Gibbs barn. and the waterfall
WAS board balanced from the loft
above TO the ground floor. Before the
cue for the Indians entrance a storm
arose outside. and the owner of the
barn brought In his cow which had
been obligingly removed for the per.
Torrance, and tied 1t to the waterfall.
When Mr. Whitney appeared at tho
top OF the board in the improvised ca
nue., the COW broke loose with the wa
terfall and ran with 1t and the Indian
through the audience, scattering terror
and confusion and breaking up the
play a narration that brought down the
house.
From this Mr.. Spencer went into
more serious vein, taking the students
as actors in the wings of life waiting
for the cue to their entrance on the real
drama OF life. He said good name for
this play was Saints and Sinners"
and he sketched varieties of both kinds,
men and women, and showed that there
are other aims in life than to make
names ana places in the front ranks,
the daily life with its possibilities Of
heroic action was the real test, and
while one might even go down to de-
feat, this does not matter if tho fight
has been nobly fought. The speech was
an admirable one and had great round
Of applause.
The exercises closed with a short ad-
dress by the POSTMASTER which dis
missed the throngs in laughter with Its
humorous illusions. He babe the grad
yates "Godspeed" and the affair ended.
the banner event of the association.
An orchestra stationed In a corner
furnished program of delightful music
throughout the banquet.
Great credit reflects upon the presi
dent and various committees of the
alumni who arranged the program and
banquet. and especially to the former
and to Miss Van Colt, dean of the
women, to whose energy and tact tri-
butes were paid by the various speak
ers during the evening.
Among the guests of the evening
We're Judge Straup and Atty.-Gen.
Breeden