Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-06-04 | Page 15 | Utah and Idaho New

y r q u to i 2 S S 'S oI I I Utah and Idaho News I I 1 r I I LOGAN OGAN GAN June Juno 4 Special It It I Ia is isI a ft popular belief bellet an among ong th the college colleg I students that there Is a conflict be beI between between be- be I tween science and religion stated Dr Dr J Joseph seph F. F Merrill superintendent dent of ot L. L D. D S. S church schools In delivering the annual commencement commence commence- ment nent baccalaureate sermon to the 9 8 graduating class of ot the Utah i 1 Agricultural college Sunday mornIng morn- morn Ing ng In the Ule college chapel Dr Merrill Merrill Mersill Mer Mer- rill sill chose science and nd religion as theme for his address I The The conflict lies Iles not between science ence enco n o and religion but science and theology There Is considerable difference of meaning in these two O Ot t terms that are used so Interchangeably Interchange Interchange- abl abI ably the speaker d declared lared He went ent on to show several instances es of bf f fallacy In science wherein I facts of ot a few tew years ago I have fallen through the discovery I. I of ot new theories I According to Dr Merrill l Many students think that there Is den deli 1 1 and certainty In science and that religion Is enshrouded In j vagueness and uncertainty Science Sd- Sd ence taxes the Imagination as much mucha a does does religion In science weI we wo I I I ti trust st our sense of ot perception In I S religion we trust our spiritual In Intuition Intuition inS In- In S tuition the speaker said S 0 i In concluding he declared that Individuals individual of firm finn religious beliefs arc able to truthfully sa say I know 1 as well as are arc scientists In making his annual report I President E. E G. G Peterson gave a few remarks on the basis and status on which ih the college is founded and presented a summarization of ot the past school year In attaining a total registration of 1222 students S l the In the regular courses of the in inS institution In- In S an Increase of 5 per pel cent over the preceding year rear was made 5 The most noticeable recipients of S. S this Increase were the branches of I agriculture and home economics Aside from this students were I registered In the summer school and in iq extension classes and correspondence study courses malIng making mallIng mall mal Ing a a. total of 2183 He stated that the Alumni association asso asso- elation of the college has accumulated a library endowment fund Inasmuch as the Institution has far outgrown the capacity of ot Q prese present t library the president expressed his his' desire that a new adequate library building be constructed constructed constructed con con- on the campus Marked l Improvements at the col col- during the past year include the completion of the stadium the erection tf t the clinic building completion completion com corn of the heating plant and extensive extensive ex ex- ex- ex improvement of facilities at atthe atthe atthe the cOll college ge barns S. S The program began with a piano solo If I 1 Were a Bird played by Miss Ludean Rogers followed by bya a song America by choir and congregation and invocation by JoS Jo- Jo S 1 I R. R Quinney Jr The choir sang Ave Vernum by Mozart after which President E. E G Peterson Peter Peter- son Eon on presented the reports of the The quartet then president played Moonlight Sonata which was followed by I Dr Ir r. r Merrills Merrill's I ser ser- mon Tho The string trio played a se se- se lection and benediction was offered by President J. J W. W Funk The program program pro pro- gram grain was concluded with the marching out of ot the graduates dur dur- ing which Mi Miss ng s Rogers played a aplan piano plan solo These exercises sa saw v the largest graduating class in the history of the school students receiving their bachelor of science d degree deree ee