Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-19 | Page 8 | Students Employ Fire Hose in University Class Clash

Students Employ Fire Hose in University Class Clash N a class fight between the sopho- I mores and freshmen of thj University Uni-versity of Utah yesterday the upper marble floors of the main administration building were turned Into wnat one might well call one of President John A. Wldtsoe's prized Irrigation canals. The sophomores sopho-mores were holding a song practice in the music room when freshmen rushed up the stairs in an attempt to break up tfre meeting. The lookouts were, however, "on the Job," and previous pre-vious arrangements made with a fire hofee proved the freshmen's undoing. As the flood from the hose was turned on the oncoming students the first-year first-year class was slowly borne downward down-ward by the tide of water. A coun- ter-attack was soon planned which, had not Dean Milton Bennion interfered, inter-fered, might have resulted in the freshmen regaining their lost ground. In fact, one well-planned charge was made, which, however, was counteracted counter-acted by manipulators of the faithful hose. This time Dea.n Bennion, pushed upward by the freshmen, was among the number in the "casualty list." With the arrival of other faculty fac-ulty members, who formed "a bar-. bar-. rler," the conquering sophomores proudly came down the stairs, girls leading. If a forced "armistice" had not been declared, the battle might have been renewed. The class hell came as a "peace treaty," and freshmen fresh-men students returned to their classes to ponder all afternoon of what might have been.