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Show I: NOTES OF "U" t - The students In experimental hydraulic ; fnglneerins at tho university spent A'ednesday In soma extensive tests on wooden stave pipe. Tho pipe was six inches In diameter, with a rated strength of sixty-live pounds hydraulic pressure. The students, utidor the direction of Prof. It. It. Lyman, set up the necessary apparatus. ap-paratus. flre.1 the hollers to generate nteam to pump tho water under high pressure, and gradually increased the pressure lb 1S5 pounds. Even under this sreat stress the pipe did not break, but the longitudinal seams finally spread to i Fuch an extent that sufficient water leaked out to prevent the further Increaso of pressure The results show that this particular pipe is especially hlch In riual-I riual-I Ity. Next week the same class will lu- ! rstlgate the oucstlon of. Impact water wheels of the Remer type. n j At the meeting of the senior class held ; Wednesday noon, the general sentiment ' expressed was to drop the plan to pro- j mote a circus, to be taken part In by i the other classes and the various organ 'zatlcns of the school. The class debt, the payment of which was the prime motive mo-tive for having the proposed circus, Id ai- nost paid, and If the class members who are still delinquent In an assess-msnr, assess-msnr, recently levied, will make the re-riulred re-riulred payment, tho debt will be entirely entire-ly cleared. It was also decided at the meeting to make an effort to have every senior wear his cap and gown at the weekly chapel exercises, beginning with Friday, April 0. There was some opposition oppo-sition to this action, hut a good majority of the graduates finally agreed to tho plan. it Senior mining students will' visit Bing-lani Bing-lani Canyon on Saturday and Suhdav, io study the methods of mining, both underground and In the open-cut oncra-Mona oncra-Mona at that camp. Prof. G. A. Ovcr-: Ovcr-: trom will accompany the men on the rip, and instruct them upon the essential essen-tial points of the work. . 4 The vice-presidents of tho "Woman's fugue" hav been called together by Miss Van Cott, for a meeting Thursday. While llss Van Cott will not reveal the nature of the matters to be discussed, it Is understood un-derstood that they are of the most vital importance. |