Show o IV STUDENT LIFE arc good reasons for hoping- that - they will get into fine shape in time hnt with Rudolph McCloud and Crane in the wood wind section it is "solid” right now The trombones are lining up strong too and the knockers who spent most of their time last year trying to kill the band will be wise to shut up or get into condition to say “I told you so” when we are a "sure enough” creditable organization next spring There is material in the college for a 14 piece orchestra this year and there is no big reason why the difficulty of obtaining music for our Saturday night balls and for other times when we need music can’t be overcome right at home and in quite a short time too The old players are feeling good over the prospects and if you have this kind of ability you will do well to seize the opportunity to be tried out for the organization There is sure to be trouble if Capt Styer orders more bugles than one each for the cadets Even now when there are only three dozen trumpets bugle calls from those with fancy embellishments to the crude but lusty efforts of beginners rack the nerves of Logan people at all times mostly at midnight lien is very much relieved to learn that the traps are not to be excluded from the new orchestra The band has been practicing in chapel at 4:30 This is better than tk drill hour practice of last year because prolonged chapel talks don’t cut our time to five minutes and we now drive nobody crazy There are the usual number of people whose interest in music is roused only by the Chance it may afford them to escape drill There are a large number of piano and vocal students Prospects are favorable for a mandolin-guita- r club Library Mores The list of periodicals subscribed for by the library remains the same with the exception of a few additions The Architectural Record American Dressmaker Irrigation Modern Age Life Language Motes Musical Courier New York Times Saturday Review and Table Talk have been added A list of the periodicals received by the library was published in the April number of Student Life for 1904 This list will be of interest to new stu- dents Modern Eloquence edited by Thomas I Reed a work of 15 vol umes is among the new acquisitions - of the library It is a comprehensive compilation of modern oratory the aim of its publishers being “to supply the public with the best after-dinnspeeches lectures and occasional addresses delivered in this country or abroad during the past century” Among the government documents received during the past summer is a volume entitled “List of er |