Show STUDENT LIFE disprofessional men there will be cussions on engineering subjects delivered bv members of the socieNearly all the old members ty have returned and in addition there are eight new ones The society labors under disadvantages school during the early part of the most year A great many of the active engineers are members of the regular football team Others are working with the team As a result their spare time is all given to that work and the society must suffer However after the football season is over the work will The orbe followed as outlined ganization stands as follows : President James T Jardine Vice President R B West Secretary Treasurer P G E T Kirk Peterson: Custodian J If Smith The new class room and office for the Civil Engineering Department are completed The classes in Mechanical Drawing and Descriptive Geometry Drawing are larger this year than usual A number of junior Engineers arc taking the elective course in Engineering Astronomy Professor J W Jensen who has been unable to take up bis work at the college owing to a severe attack of typhoid is with us again lie began bis labors Tuesday Nov io Mr Mathews was called home some time ago by the death of bis mother We welcome bis return to school 55 and extend our sincere sympathy Mr Krank Thatcher who has been absent for some time has resumed bis school work Aq ricu rural No! I as That the subject of irrigation is receiving considerable attention in the East was evidenced at the recent congress in Ogden no less by the large number of Eastern people who attended than by the numerous inquiries and comments they made upon the subject Then again two years ago when the Utah Experimental Station under the direction of Dr Widtsoe started investigations on the “Duty of Water in Irrigation” no financial aid could be secured from the department at Washington to assist in the work Dr Widtsoe with bis characteristic “push and energy” commenced the investigations alone as far as aid from Washington was concerned The results of the first year's experiments were so striking as to arouse the interest of the officials at the Washington Bureau They investigated onr reports and came to the conclusion that the work undertaken here was becoming of such vast importance to the Arid West that it was worthy of their support Next year one-haof all the expenses incurred in the irrigation investigations of this station will be paid by the Bureau at Washington This means an additional revenue of several thousand dollars for our experimental work lf |