Show THE STUDENTS SOCIETY g k y t A According to announcement previously pre- pre prel l made the Students Society Saints College of Of the Latter-day Latter 1 i met net last night for its organization s for ft r the present academic year Atthe At Ati i tile the hour of opening the main room of the the Social Hall Han was well filled with students and others Dr J E Ec f r Talmage principal of the College announced aced that Instructor Willard Done had been chosen by the Faculty l E- E Ey V ty y to act as president of the society a whereupon Thereupon that gentleman took his hie place After the usual opening exercIse Brother Done delivered a brief ad- ad ad on the subject Advantages of Incidental Instruction He re- re ret re referred t tarred to the general object of the society which is to provide the students with opportunities to pin gain instruction outside the regular order of their studies In the class room While it itt 18 necessary that th t students in pre pre- preparing preparing preparing paring themselves for the various pursuits of life shall give full atten- atten x to the branches necessary to fit f c work and not allow i them bem for their their energy to be dissipated in other directions it is still necessary that the mind be occasionally relaxed and turned to other subjects and matters clatters of importance not included lei Ita H the regular courses The speaker speaker speaker- dwelt upon the necessity of acquiring acquirIng In Ing a practical knowledge of the affairs airs of life that education may mayy mayr r not hot have a tendency toward cram cramp cramp- cramp j p z IDA fag the mind and making us com com- comparatively com i 2 useless in the labor ex- ex exl expected y ex-y peeled l of each In this w This This This-s tendency will be checked by th the Judicious mingling of instruction r by the Students Society Society MiMes Misses Elizabeth Barlow and andr r Mamle Mamie Clark rendered a vocal duet and aDd were followed by Miss Katie Y Young in a pleasing recitation Dr I rJ J E Talmage Talmage gave an Inter inter- interS S esting and instructive address on the subject Science and Art He compared science to theory and art to practice showing the necessity necessity necessity sity of a union of the two in all the labor undertaken in life life- He dwelt at some length upon the gradual the development of the various arts proving proving- their dependence upon the tools and materials used in their perfection When wood was used exclusively for statuary a stiffness of contour was the result of the necessity of following the grain of the wood and it was not until stone and iron were adapted to the purposes of sculpture that material advancement was made in inthis inthis inthis this art The history of all other arts and sciences is similar We Weare Weare Weare are too apt to boast of our own peculiar tastes and ideas regarding proper forms of art and view wIth indifference that of others whom we consider less leBS advanced in civili civili- civilization civilization than ourselves But many of the inhabitants of nations which we consider half civilized have this advantage over they us us they consider an imitation of nature to be prefer prefer- preferable preferable preferable able to any 8 artificial production Science seeks to present before us the objects of nature in their true light This should be the object of art but in later years the tendency has been to present the artistic ideal rather than the reality We should hould seek to cultivate our minds to the full appreciation of the beautiful no matter in in what form it is presented to us After the rendition of a humorous reading by Brother Guy C Wilson and an organ solo by Miss Katie Romney President A M Cannon delivered a brief address tou touching hing upon the future of the youth of Zion and the necessity of their preparing themselves carefully for their duties The President ent announced the next meeting of the society for Fri Fri- Friday Friday Fri Friday day Oct 25 at p m |