Show 7 b'i'UD PAGS Two Wttti Logan Utah by tbs Earl A England Publishing Company mail matter September 19 1908 at Logan Utah Entered as second-claBMdsr the Act et March S 18S7 Acceptance tor mailing at special rate of postage prodded lor In Section 1103 Act of October 3 1937 authorised S " STAFF - - W1LFORD D PORTER Editor REPORTERS Allie Burgoyne Alden Lilywhite Virginia Wardleigh James Scott Phyllis Ballam Susie Niles Beatrice Allen Verda Dowdle Volume XXVI f i i--‘ ii Kipling’s Poems Read OF SCHOOL Published Weekly by Students of Utah Agricultural College 22 1918 L I N T PRESIDENT INSPIRED BY SPIRIT STUDENT LIFE August IS Number 29 Friday June 22 1928 ANOTHER “LIFE Whenever an Aggie thinks of the U A C he thinks “Student Life" The terms are almost synonymous Ti e name is weD chosen and it has bfen the aim of the publication’s many editors to live up to the name The Institution has made history in many ways Records reports and memoirs have been written but no document has ever been compiled that has chronicled the heart-thropulse-bealikes and dislikes the spontaneous outburst ef powerful energy and youthful criticisms of the Aggies as has Student Life In its evolution the “mighty sheet has passed from a pamphlet of literary endeavors to a newspaper patterned after the leading dailies of the country Each foster father has contributed a few cogs in the wheels of progress until now Student Life has re-- i (fjyed favorable comment from the leading critics of the ’ scholastic) VfV-- ' It is tfcmopes of the staff of “Life” that the ideals of its builders will be maintained during this summer session We cordially Invite those of you who have pushed a pen or have dreamed ofp'ushin bwer tb'tontribute to these columns such items that you feel would be of interest to the group bs ts ’' I There is something abbut the quest for knowledge manifested during our Summer Sessions which inspires a’l of us who are connected with the Institution It may be that these mountains and valleys of ours were fashioned for great enterprise that in their presence only the best Where else on earth and the most sincere is appropriate could great teachers find a more fitting environment for their teaching? The finest in literature art music and philosophy should be at homehere And those who have explored thoroughly say that this region is unsurpassed and equalled by only a few places on the continent in richness of material for study and research in natural history The aspiration to buiki here a national centre for summer Study and recreation as a result of this year’s experience is coming nearer to fulfilment The men and women who cone from throughout America as our guests each summer have greatly enriched U3 to have them here is a great pleasure The College fortunately is still free from the burdensome formality and rigidity which frequently dome to institutions There is no educational tradition which we cannot violate and take pleasure in violating if it is an We are trying to prevent interference with progress from institutional arteries our hardening The Summer School belongs to every student and teacher We solicit the help of every one here in making the enterprise better with every year’s experience E G PETERSON President Notes on The Eminent Group ofJLecturers Calling-Car- d BASSETT The Runaway Place (with Elise 1909 At the New Underhill) Theatre and Others 1910 Boy 1912 Scouts of Berkshire Boy Scouts In the Dismal Swamp 1913 Barn Doors and Byways Who Found Dr Bassett was born in Salem 1913 The Man Wla November 38 1872 He was Christmas 1913 Boy Scouts in the White Mountains 1914 The Instructor of English 1900-0- 5 at the Idyl of Twin Fires 1915 New assistant professor 1905-1- 3 TCTnlbta associate Ywk 1915—Gre Scouts of the USTTPTsily professor of Public Speaking at Wild Cat Patrol 1915 Plays and 1912-1- 3' The Bird House Players 1916 University of Washington Man 1916 Peanut Cub Reporter associate - professor of EnHe Is now a mem- 1916 Green Trails and Upland glish 1913-1- 9 1917 1917 Newark ber of the American Association Pastures of University Professors Associa- Boy Scouts In Glacier Park 1918 tion of Academic Teachers of Echoes and Realities (verse) 1918 In Berkshire Fields 1919 Public Speaking Modern Language Association of America Phi On the Edge of the Wilderness Beta "Kappa and Alpha Kapjfit 1920 B8r"Stouts at Crater Lake Lambda (Beta Chapter) Since 1922 Penguin Persons and Pep1922 1919 he has been a professor at permints Queen Victoria the Stanford University Dr Bas- (a play with David Carb) 1923 sett is also the author of A Hand Boy Scouts on Katahdin 1924 Book of Oral Reading and con- Skyline Camps 1924 The Actor’s tributions to educational Journals Heritage 1924 He is a lecturer on dramtic topics DR WALTER RICHARD EATSUPT NEPHI CHRISTIAN ON Sheffield Mass will lecture daily at 11:00 a m and on Tues- JENSEN Salt Lake City Utah day and Thursday at 7:30 p m will be the lecturer on Friday at the third week of during the second week of the 11:00 a m school Supt Jensen was born in summer session Dr Eaton was born In Malden Ephraim Utah June 18 1880 He of Mass 1878 He was a reporter on was teacher and principle assistwas public schools 1897-19the Boston Journal 1900 with the dramatic department of ant In botany 1907-0- 8 professor of botany and plant pathology-1312rlthe New York Tribune '! 902-0- 7 eUtah Agricultural dramatic critic 'New: writ j 6iin jincfc-19- 0 'Be Baa1' bean 190j-08- J Youqg president Brighattl inLogan Utah 1913-2- 0 doing literature ‘work' being dra- College matic critic for the American structor'5 Cornell University 1920-2- 1 He is a member of the A A and the New Magazine 1909-1- 8 York theatrical eour He Is a A S- - Botany Society of AmerSciences Phytoica member of the Nation InstituAcademy tion of Arts and Letters and is pathology Society Sigma Xi Delthe author of the following: ta Theat Sigma and Phi Kappa American Stage of Today 1908 Iota DR LEE EMERSON ATTRACTIONS MANY Because of its many features the U A C summer session promises to be the leading foundation of learning in the state Those who have planned the courses should be complimented on their foresight in including so many interesting studies Leading educators from the intermountam west- have been attracted by the excx'elient schedule of suffTTTTer study principals teach Coadhes geologists musicians to spend Institution of the ers have gathered under the wings come that only from their vacation time in receiving inspirations the association with master minds - play-leade- rs A MOST WORTHY ADDITION has had the pleasure of climbing one who Every ' ! th college hill by the south and west path will read with delight the announcement that the Bluemell property has been purchased and in due time will blend in with the landscape' of the beautiful campus of the U A C After the newly acquired property has been touched by a master’s hand the entrance to the campus will become one of the many delightful spots on the most Beautiful campus in America ‘ ’ ‘ ‘ TRUE AGGIE SPIRIT The results of the campaign made by the Alumni association for library funds have proved beyond a doubt that there are hundreds of loyal Aggies throughout the country that were wait- mg for a call to show that their Alma Mater was near and dear ' t t i : '' to their heartsIt Is now the drearA Of those who fiavelielped to eponsorjhe ' future'5 the Worthy cause that ‘some dav in the ’ campus wdl be graced by 'a library building of which the state can well be proud Great institutions grow slowly as a rule and the U A C is no exception When her alumni grow to be daunted by the thousands instead of by hundreds and her graduates have found their desired places in the sun then will the various projects attempted grow into a realization more rapidly - ! nt Stanford California is scheduled for the first time as a special summer school lecturer of this institution: He closes his lecture scenes today at 11 a m 05 Col-leg- GIVEN LY BASSETT ON THURSDAY RILEY’S SHOULD II E?— PERHAPS Following is an excerpt from an article published in the-Junissue of he “Rotarian” which deals with a current problem in which many are interested : “Should your boy go to oUege? Yes if he is interested in books and study and is willing to do his best at whatever he undertakes in college whether he likes it or not Yes if he wants mental training and if he shows intellectual fitness for some line of work and will make the real work of the school his chief inter- est If soqial affairs and the incidental things of college are his chief interest valuable as these things may be if he must be sent ralhertbango frpQ) personal urge I should say “No” No one should go to college who finds the real work of the school a drag and a burden and a bore No one should go just because other people are going as one might join a church when a revival was in progress and everyone else was doing it” U of Utah and her Masters de FOR SUMMER STUDENTS gree at the University of Wisconsin In addition to that she Continued From Page One has done work with Professor la said by some critics to be one Clark of Chicago and other lead of the finest comedy roles in ing men In the field of Dramamodem drama The particular strength of the tics in the United States- Miss Caldwell has been very promiplay lies In the well done conof situation and nent In the dramatle work of the tent and very natumalness of state Several of the plays prethe humor itself There is not sented by the first one manufactured phrase or Drama league in SaltCommunity Lake forced situation in the whole were coaehed by her She City had play The humor the life and charge of the dramatic work of movement arise naturally from the L D S college lor a time the situations and has been connected with The puy thW year will be other schools of the state tinder the direction of Miss MarThe college play was read yesgaret Caldwell who is teaching terday and discussed Instrucdramatics at the college for the tions regarding tryouts will be summer session given Monday and It is IntendMiss Caldwell took out her ed everything will be well under bachelor of Arts degree at the way PLAY CfiOSEN - eon-blnati- on ' CHARM around the tail of It” Dr Bassett then related Riley’s story “telling how the Hoosier first found that he was a poet (Continued From Fag On) He said that at one time Riley tion of Riley’s birthday' The fell out of a window and struck governor of the state in 1913 the pavement below When his issued a proclamation making parents picked him up they found that he was a poet Riley’s birthday a holiday “Riley's dialects are not a “Riley made a living out of what he wrote Most poets would manufactured type” continued starve to death if they depend- the speaker “He knew just how of his dialects should be written ed entirely upon the sale their works for a livelihood but because he was giving it directhe made a fortune It is said ly from the lips of his associates’ Dr Bassett then read “Knee that he made a million dollars out of his poetry and left a Deep in June” In his comments use he said that Riley coy Id large part of it to the schools of "dialect --use conld lit aha’ yet u ?!' i Indianapolis its correct forms our in language “Hi s style Is so smlple and apespecially when he was speaking pealing He wrote naturally and of his fencies Tp illustrate this to take he didn't have trips quality Dr Bassett read “The abroad to get subject matter and South Wind and the Sun” inspiration “The chief thing about Riley's “There Is always music in his success is his sense of humor” works even in his dialects- - He said the speaker “He wrote most did not pretend to be a poet-Hof his poems to be read by himsaid that he was merely a self from the platform and humHe wrote about people or is best for the public He he knew Perhaps some some of doesn't go to the extreme He his poetry will last Some might combines humor with good sense be of permanent value It is and sympathy He wrote to the clever and we enjoy it because heart from the heart we know the Hoosler and his Among a number of poems Dr dialect Bassett read were: "The Huntto ers” “Out To Old Aunt Mary's” “Riley didn’t take kindly education His father was a law- “The Old Band” "The Train yer and he said that James was Misser” also a short story enthe worst case he ever had He titled "The Nest Egg” show and joined a medicine traveled with It until all the Better Late Than Never we fairs In the country closed for Abel— The wind is rising the winter and then he painted must hug the shore have Mabel— Maybe you will fences to get enough money to return home’ enough nerve lor that Later he made enough money A correspondent asks how to according to his own statement to gratify his greatest ambition: develop will power We suggest “to buy an overcoat with fui trying to follow a diet list e rhy-mast- rasassnsasasar- - Dr By Bassett WE FEATURE SANITATION— MODERN BARBER and BEAUTY PARLORS — 13 West Center Street — Phone 1210 In Lecture JJfe and Works of Noted ish Author Discussed Engl- By Stanford Professor who “Everyone has A DELICIOUS FOOD Candy is a delicious form of energizing food Eat a few bites every day for enjoyment for energy and to relieve fatigue Keep Candy Handy read knows Kipling’ said I)r Bassett in his lecture Tuesday morning “Kipiing has moved more peothe English speaking than any other author lie was born in 1863 at Bomlie is not old acbay India cording to the times Kipling is still going lie was taken to England tor his education and when he was seventeen he returned to India where he joined the staff of the Civil and Military Gazette the leading paper in India While here he wrote most of the stories now found in “Plain Tales from the Hills” a volume which was written while the author was still under twenty He was an accurate and keen observer He was always in motion and his motions were abrupt His editor tells the story that Kipling splashed a great amount of ink about the office He wore white trousers and when he would din hig pen deep into the inkwell and throw ink about his trousers were covered with the writ illff fluid All ofthe ink however didnot TaH'ori his ctothes lie produced more than 25 volumes within 30 years with total of volumes bearing his name ?§P gdgerweKthp people of the world to read a new poem from the pen of Kipling that they were cabled across the sea Of all his poems “Recessional” was the only one that is not copyrighted It is said that Kipling wrote the poem and threw it into the waste paper ple in world W F JENSEN CANDY COMPANY Wholesale Retail - times better business than paradin’ in full kit JULIUS Is five yrtu-fan- wind ne - far-flun- - by-wa- FROM do-do-- do Sea-men- ’s spital - tide The troop ship’s on the tide my boys th troopship’s on the tide train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide O it’s “Special Yes makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep Is cheeper than them uniforms an’ thev’re starvation cheep An’ hustlin’ drunken soldier when they’re goin' large a tit hbbs An' " I spoke to ntract an’ prayer: God of our CoHe says to my INDIA FAR-AWA- Y Mr C S Parmar of Hoshlar Pur is registered in our summer school Mr Parmar obtained his grade and high school education in India Three years ago he came to this country for tha purpose of obtaining a college education He chose the University of Idaho as the school that he would like to attend and for his Major he chose Chemistry It is Mr Parmars ambition to obtain a Masters degree In Chemistry before returning to his native land and he is undecided on the Institution in which he wishes to finish his work Mr Parmar says that this in Ameriopportunity of studying an1 ca was given to him by ' organization in India whose purpose it is to collect funds to send a limited number of young men to foreign lands for advanced study An’ I wanted to preach Religion handsome an’ out of the wet But the Word of the Lord were lain on me an’ I done what I was set India I have been smit an’ bruised as warned would be the case An' turned my cheek to the smiter exactly as the Scripture says But following that I knocked him down and led him up to Grace op Sun-dawhenever the 1 s$as is calm I use no knife no pistol an’ I never talk no harm the Lord abidith back of me to guide mv fichting arm I sign for four pound ten a month and save the money clear I am in charged of the lower deck an' I never lose a steer I believe in Alightly God an’ I preach His Gospel here An’ we have a preaching ' An’ -- could be The gave a drunk civilian room but ’adn't none for me They sent me to the gallery oi round the music ’alls But when it comes to fightin’ Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls! ' - ' ' For it’s Tommy this an’ Tommy that an’ "Tommy wait outside” But it's “Special train for Atkins” when the Trooper's on the OF BASSFTT cy m as BY DR Confirmed from page on Then It’s Tommy this an’ Tommy that an’ “Tommy ’owl opment of the pltt to murder yer soul?” But it’s "Thin red line of ’eroes” Ceasar showing the pain and anwhen the drums begin to guish under which Brutus sufroll The drums begin to roll my boys fered preeeeding the murder and the drums begin to roll the dread he felt toward the eroes” O it’s “Thin red line of Bassett Ides of March” Dr when the drums begih to i showed by reading parts of the roll scenes the murder of Ceasar and We aren’t no thin red ’eroes nor the confusion which followed He we aren't no black guards also portrayed Brutus' failing of too in placing too much confidence But single men in barricka most other people by permiting Mark remarkable like you to speak at Ceasar's funour conduck Antony An’ if sometimes eral The scene Dr Bassett made ' 'Mr’ trail paints: very”" Effective" tty' 'reatnfrg""130lh Why single men In barricks don’t and Antony’s speeches Brutus' saints into plaster grow He briefly reviewed the mutiny I While it’s Tommy this an’ Tommy which followed the funeral also that an’ Tommy fall be- - the quarrel between Cassius and the Brutus He closed by reading ToindJ— But it’s “Please to walk In front death “scene df CasSluS- ’and’ Bruv sir" when there’s trouble in tus and the tribute which Mark the wind Antony pays to Brutus when he There’s trouble in the wind my finds him dead boys there’s trouble in the O it’s “Please to walk in front basket His wife rescued it and sir when there’s trouble in had It printed but the author did the wind not think very highly of it was $5 “Although Kipling paid o’ better food for us an a word for his writings he was You talk schools an fires an all: We'll waK for extry rations if you words Dickens was gCOd but Mr treat us rational are writings padded Don’t mess about the cook-roo“When Kipling began to write slops but prove it to our poetry was highly polished Words face were carefully selected and the The widow’s uniform is not the soldier-ma- n poets did not have much to say s disgrace He grew impatient of the - percent expressions For it’s Tommy this an’ Tommy His wwds were startling blunt an’ "Chuck him out that and made' people sit up and pa “the brute!” attention He was daring in the But It s "Saviour of ’ls country” use of words and subject matter when guns begin to shoot He had the throb ard beat of a Yes it’s Tommy this an’ Tommy suc7500 horsepower engino The that an’ anything you cess of Service is due largely to please the fact that he copied the rhy- But Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool— thm of Kipling ' You bet that Tommy sees! "Sometimes the rhythm comes first and then the subject follows MILHOLLAND’S CONTRACT This was the case with the writ- The fear was on the cattle lor ing of "The Ballad of East and gale was on the sea West” the author went around the An' the the pens broke up on the lowoffice beating out the rhythm beer deck an let the creatures fore he found a suitable subject free — His melody is not like that of An the lights went out on the Keats Shelley or Tennyson but he lower deck an' no one down has a meter like the Salvation Arbut me His vocabulary is so my band g different It is rough edged I been stagin' to them to keep and comes ( directly from bad’em there the fisherman y the Canadian For the quiet lower deck is the danger-ouse$- tthefrontlersmah and trooper constant requirin’ from the highways andi fare of life He doesn't preach but he An’ ' give to me as the strongest teaches expresses the Kipiing man though used to drink race a spirit of the Anglo-Saxo- n and swear or the spirit to spirit of subdue all parts of the globe Ev- I see my chance was certain er since Drake circumnavigated bein’ horned or trod the 'globe the English have been a race of explorers There is no hint For the lower deck was packed with steers thicker n peas In of revolution but one of law and pod order He Is full of humor origin- An’ amore pens broke at every al and often turns a joke on himso I made a contract roll— self” Dr Bassett then read the fol- An’ with God by the terms of the Contract lowing poems written by Kipling: as I have read the same TOMMY I went into a publie ’ouse to get n If He got me to portalive I would exalt His name pint 6’ beer The publican 'e up an' sez “We An’ praise His Holy Magesty till further orders came serve no red coats here” The girls be'ind the bar they He saved me from the cattle an' laughed an' giggled fit to die He saved me from the sea I outs into the street again an’ to For they found me' tween two myself sez I: drownded ones where the roll me — O it's Tommy this an’ Tommy had landed An' a four-inc- h crack on the top that an’ of my head as crazy os could “Tommy go away” be But it's "Thank you Mister At kins” i But that were done by a stanchion When the band begins to play The band begins Xo play my boys An’ an’ not by a bullock at all -Play still tor seven weeks the band begins to play convalesstag of the fall O It's “Thank you Mister Atkins” An’ readin' the shiny Scripture when the band begins to texts in the Ho- play I went into a theatre as sober CAESAR” THEME LECTURE For An’ An’ An’ vs The skippers say I’m crazy but I can prove ’em wrong For I am in charge of the lower deck with all that doth belong— Which they would not give to a lunatic and the competition so strong The Easiest Way Clara— I've discovered a man who knows how to remove freckles moles double chins all sorts of things- He actually makes a face look ten years younger Dora— A real beauty specialist - eh’ Clara— Oh jao— a photographer From Another Angle a hurtin” trio was crossing a large nasture Corntossel” he "Say there shouted to a former In an adjoining field “is that bull coming there safe?” “Wa-aldrawled the farmer “I reckon he” a dang site safer than A city chan out on ” “I never puts on My ministers no more than they can bear are list now” "So back you go to the catle-boa- ts you an’ preach My Gospel Effective there The chief irr irriined to believe t !) ’’For human life is chancy at any that a crossed wife might be the cause of the fire— Scranton (Pa) kind of trade But most of all as well you know Times —We are inclined to believe when the steers are mad-afra- that a crossed wife might be the ‘So vou go back to the cattle-boa- ts cause of anythin" am’ preach ”em as I've First Coon: "Do vou know said about what’s been ‘They must quit drinkin’ an' mmt studying dead'v poison swerarin’ they nrlstn’t knife Second Coon: That’s easv Whv on a blow there's a poison In India that kills "They must quite gamblin’ their you the moment it touches you wages and you must preach First Coont That ain’t the deadit so liest poison It's embalming fluid ‘‘For now those boats are more dead before it touches you like Hell than anything else I you’re know” Have you seen anything of I didn’t want to do it for I knew your ntsfer whereabouts what I should get 1 think they’re in the wash id ' |