Show FEUDALISM AND CHIVALRY A most moat enjoyable time was spent friday evening by the students and friends of the latter day saints col lege at the school building during the rendition of an interesting and Ins instructive truo gramme pro after singing and invocation a very beautiful selection upon the guitar was given by mr albert morris which brought forth loud applause and a second display of his musical talents miss belle bel ie salmon then recited the two lovers and the bobolink in such a manner that the audience called for the rendering of the laughable n selection the mouse in the Ki kitchen teben ja professor willard done then took the lecturers stand his bis subject being feudalism and chivalry the question tion was waa thoroughly and clearly discussed it refers us back to one of the darkest eras of the worlds history to a time when might ruled the nations instead of right and when the strongest man in the community oppressed his weaker neighbors and ana made them his vassals A passing remark was made concerning the condition of rome prior to its downfall and of the barbarous hordes of northern europe encroaching upon her domains and who finally brough jb that mighty nation into subjects and scattered her civilization among people who knew not how bow to use it rome the speaker said when in the zenith of her glory was highly art and literature and other sciences were quite ex ten pursued it Is ig acknowledged by historians generally that the civilization of today is the fruit produced by the parent tree that existed in rome during the period of which we speak feudalism came into existence in the days of charlemagne at which time it was believed that the king owned every square quare acre yes every square foot of land throughout the empire and it is upon this belief that the feudal system is based the king of course could uld not till this land himself so he be would sublet portions of it to the barons who in return had to subscribe to oaths of fealty to the king these theme barons or lords as they were sometimes called were very wealthy and also powerful living in large castles built upon some high precipice which was often almost inaccessible these barons in turn divided up their portions among other men who like the barons had to bind themselves by oaths of fealty not however to the king but to the barons who rented to thorn thom the he land this second class clan would again the land and distribute it in like manner among their inferiors who patterning after their superiors apportioned it among their subordinates di and so on until it was divided among the freemen who were the poorest class and whose part was generally so BO small email that a subdivision was almost impracticable each alcot ment was known as aa a fiel or feud hence the name of feudalism the freeman was tributary to him from whom he be bad rented his bis small section of land and he was required under oath to support his master in any emergency and to give of hise his scanty canty production a certain amount for the subsistence tence of his master in like manner his master was subject to the one from whom the had received land and so on it ran through the whole system up to the barons who and a under rider oath to sustain the king the rise of chivalry was next taken up and a thorough review of its pro gross gress its chief objects object and a detailed description of the system were all ail elaborately discussed and the effects which it il produced in paving the way fora higher and more advanced stage of civilization at the conclusion of the ibe lecture a song entitled hark the merry drums was rendered with such pJ pleasing easIng effect by bv the harmony alee club of this city that they were brought forth a second time by the continued applause of the assemblage after which miss ottille ottilie maeser sang sweetly a well known selection the meeting then adjourned for one week |