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Show SOLONS VISIT THE UNIVERSITY Senators and Representatives Representa-tives Study Needs of Institution In-stitution and Enjoy Fine Luncheon. A large number of members of the Legislature spent most of today at the University of Utah, in an inspection and study of the needs of the institution. institu-tion. A party of about eighty, includ-, ing legislators and their friends, left the city on trolley cars at 9 o'clpck in the morning. The visitors alighted at the foot of University hill and visited first the hydranlie laboratory. A meeting was held in the lecture-room lecture-room of the physical building, at which President Joseph T. Kingsbury, Dr. Mer-rill Mer-rill and Prof. Stewart told o'f the University Uni-versity and its work. President Kingsbury Kings-bury explained the recommendations made in his last annual message. Following Fol-lowing this meeting the visitors separated sepa-rated into groups of six or eight members mem-bers each and were shown about .the buildings and grounds by professors and instructors. The machine shops, laboratories labo-ratories and metallurgical mill were visited. vis-ited. In' the laboratories and other de- ?artments students were at work, so hat practical information might be received. re-ceived. A largely-attended Meeting was held in the assembly-room of the museum at noon.- Here President Kingsbury spoke again, and brief addresses were made also by William W. Biter, chairman of the board of trustees; Richard W. Young, Senator John Y. Smith, Senator Williams, Representative Tolton and others. Luncheon, prepared and served bv students of the domestic science department, de-partment, was enjoyed in the normal building later. |