Weekly journal-miner., 1915-08-25
REGRET SUMMER
 SCHOOL HAS ENDED
Special Correpondence.)

II-AOS l 4-A4 T. mug 1S.--1 lluay anu the 18th All will agree that it is an unlucky day. Just the thing that the students who have been attending normal schools summer term have been trying to keep out of their mem ories is here like a cyclone-summer school is ended. Eight weeks were only too short for a stay here. All wish that school could be extended at least another month. When peo- pie are treated as royalty as the stu dents have been at the Flagstaff Nor nal they always regret leaving for other quarters. During the past eight weeks all who have been here have not only enjoyed themselves but have at the same time been accomplishing a great amount of study work as well.
 Among the recent happenings Of note was the play or opera "Dr. Faustus," presented by the Normal School faculty. MT. Thorpe tool the leading part of pr. Faustus; he was well supported by the other mem bers of the faculty. The feature that made the play most interesting was that it has been handed down through the ages, from early part of the fifteenth century or the Elizabethan age. In presenting such a play the faculty gave to the students and the citizens of Flagstaff a glimpse into the theatrical world of the past; something that IS not often seen on the stage at the present day.
 Saturday, week past, more than half-a-hundred young men and women from the school were invited out to the Saginaw lumber camp for a days visit. The crowd left Flagstaff early in the morning in a special car. Twelve miles out from the city at small station called Belmont the spe-. cial was met by the Saginaw lumber train. After another ride of some twelve miles the lumber camp was reached and dinner served The table groaned under its load of good things and despite the attempts of the hungry crowd to diminish its fill ed dishes there was always more After dinner August Lindstrom, the camp manager took the visitors to where the logs were being fel1ed and loaded onto the cars. Everything was new to the students. After the lumber industry had received its due share of attention a side-trip was made to some nearby volcanic caves. These caves were not discovered un- til about two years ago. In some o' his rambles near the camp Mir. Lind strom suddenly stumbled upon them, Access is gained through small open ing in the lava; the cave extends back underground for more than a mile and a quarter. In some places 1t is thirty feet in height and about forty feet in width. The roof is arched, giv- ing to the whole a most beautiful effect. No doubt ill few years this cave will be one of the places of in terest that are advertised extensively to attract tourists to the west Home was not reached by the students un- til late hour. Dr. Blome and Miss Barber accompanied the party. All who made the trip are enthusiastic over the hospitality shown them by the lumbermen; the visit will remain vivid in their memories as long as they live
 Yesterday afternoon the students were invited to visit the Lowell Ob scrvatory which is located west of Flagstaff on Observatory Hill. Need l less to say everyone who could spare the time took advantage of this rare opportunity. When the last of the students had reached the observatory E. C. Slipher opened the doors to the big dome where the twenty-four inch refractor is located and invited all to enter Mir. Slipher was very kind and went into full details in ex plaining in the simplest manner pos sible the workings of the big instru- ment. Most of the observation work he says, is done by the aid of photog raphy. The eye cannot remain on one fixed object long enough to be of any advantage. By long exposures of several successive nights, distinct celestial bodies hitherto unseen by the eye are discovered. The human eye is far inferior to the photograph ic plate and more than this the photo graph once taken is permanent and remains forever, for comparison ir years to come, with exposures taken at different times and in different sea sons. It is only since the higher de- vclopment in photography that the real truths are beginning to be known. This twenty-four inch re- tractor Is said to be the fifth greatest