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Show ASSEMBLY HALL 100 SILL MIS FIND Overflow Greets Appropriations Appropria-tions Committee at Uni- versity of Utah. It took less than one-half of the students stu-dents at the University of Utah yesterday yester-day to convince visiting members of the state legislature that the institution is gadly in need of a new assembly hall. After every seat in the building was filled and all the standing room was taken, the remaining students of the Institution were unable to gain admittance to the assembly assem-bly hall, where Governor Simon Bamberger Bam-berger was advertised to speak. Governor Bamberger was unable to visit the university with members of the joint committee on appropriations and the committee on education, as lie had planned, and his failure to appear at the weekly assembly of the students was met with disappointment on the part of the students and faculty. Representative Alma Greenwood aroused a hurst of applause lasting several minutes min-utes when he told the students that, so far as he was concerned, he was willing to vote at this term of the legislature to give the students an assembly hall. 1 Representative Joseph E. Cardon was almost al-most equally successful in winning the ap-! ap-! proval of the students when he said that I "ways and means will be provided where- by you will get what you want in the very near future!" Dr. Grace Stratton-Airey, Senator Stringham and Representative D. D. Rust also spoke at the assembly. All the speakers explained the difficulty which the state is facing in the wav of expenses and a $.SOO.O00 deficit left over from the last legislature, but all expressed the opinion that the university was In need of new buildings. x The visitors were given an exhibition of collese singing and cheering, and Representative Rep-resentative Rust appeared particularly impressed. "It's more fun to be a college man than to be in the legislature," was his idea of the matter. Once when one of the speakers ex-, pressed the opinion that a new gym- : nasium was needed as well as an assembly assem-bly hall. Yellmaster Clark Young took the floor long enough to ask the opinion of tlie students on the matter. "Y-E-S-S" was the answer which came back, with such a roar and such spontaneity that the legislators were not left in any doubt concerning the student viewpoint. 1 There was plentv of life at the meeting, meet-ing, despite the fact that not all the students stu-dents could get into the building, for the assembly was in the nature of a rallv for the basketball game last night, as well as a welcome to the legislators. The rally I was continued after the visitors iad left .the hall on a tour of inspection of the institution. President John A. Widtsoe conducted the party through the university gymnasium, gym-nasium, the luncheon room and the various vari-ous buildings in which class rooms and laboratories are situated. In his report to the legislature he had reported the whole plant inadequate for the needs of the number of students now attending the Institution, and yesterday he merely pointed out the reasons for his report. |