Show I ublished Weekly by the Students of the Utah Agricui tural College VOLUME X LOGAN UTAH FRIDAY MAY a 1012 NUMBER 28 The Piper Thy Birthright Hush! the wondrous silence! April winds ore still Listening to the piper Coming o'er the hill Thy birthright royal heritage Is the fair unsullied day To keep it so upon thy strength The supreme test may lay Lend not thy thoughts to mar it Nor words of thine to scar it Nor deeds of thine ill star it But keep thy royal heritage The fair unsullied day Nearer nearer coming Hark the merry notes! Like bird voices pouring From a thousand throats Like the waters rippling Through the rustling sedge Or the willows soughing O'er the river's edge THE LIBERATED TONGUE It Like the tender calling Of the Cushat dove Or the voice of Echo Mourning for her love Like a pean of triumph Borne o'er distant scaur Comes the magic piping Of the piper from afar How our pulses quicken As he draweth near What mad joy to follow To follow without fear Elias J Mac Ewan A M ATTEND COMMENCEMENT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT ’ Although tin first incumbent of the chair of English at flu The piper and his lay Utah Agricultural rolled' was To trip with winged footsteps Homy L Eveiett A M who oc-- i Along an Arcadian way upicd the position from 1800 toj Through a myriad meadows 1802 yet Professor Elias J Mae-- j That are forever green Ewan A M is the real founder By woodland spring and fountain of the Department Mr Everett Where profane foot ne'er has although a very scholarly gentle-mabeen had little chance to ae- tmiplisli anythimr by way of To follow follow after outlining permanent policies or The piper and his lay establishing tradition during his To forget The Coltwo years of service Remember no yesterday li lie had just been founded and Hark the merry piper I English like every other departIs he god or man ? ment was in the experimental O'er the hill he cometh stage Tin number of students The great god Pan! (Continued on Page Two) To follow follow after n to-morr- The lu calaureate sermon on on May 20 class day exercises May 27 and the commencement rounim on May 28 followed by e the alumni banquet and constitute commencement a significant term in college life We cannot exaggerate the importance of commencement nor can we do too much to make it a noteworthy period in the school year Members of the board of trustees will be in attendance at there functions partly for their social and educative value but primarily for the pur-- I m of measuring the growth of Now the leading" the U A ( (Continued rn Pane 7) I ball--thes- i : S 'X ¥ 1 F r VY A 4 u - 1 i - i 1 V i ‘O to award a valuable pace lo the bora-- f e decided has Life" "Student art In order lo stimulate interest in high gtade In the shape 0 a tentaUve caption m a sea ed lucubrations Your half-ton-e above the A tudent who evolves the best title for em elope addressed to ' box before The Contest Editor must he in Student Life sixp that every muscular movement reacts upon the mind that the effort to do careful exact work with the fingers for instance develops in some way the mind But no one lias seemed to discern that employing the tongue carefully in articulation has any reactive effect upon the brain While it is not a matter of exact demonstration it may be held that the exact functioning of the “unruly member” is invariably accompanied by a more exact functioning of the mind in all directions The habit of precision in ppeeoh cannot but react to produce gen- cral habits of precision Space wi1! not permit a lengthy discussion of the value of “exercises in Oral English” but we may say in Oral in brief that exercise English serves first to the faculties of thought and speech r eeond to correct faulty thought ’processes third to clarify tin mental content and fourth to confirm the mind in the things that it knows — In the final an- alvsis is this not education — To know what one knows and to know why he knows it and to 1 'i&f - believed is commonly 9 m Wednesdap next |