Show t NEWS OF THE WEEK t tt t f Chapel Prof Coray is chaplain this week jt J. J Normal and Historical The Normal and the Historical Soc Society ety postponed their programs of last k Friday 4 until this week on account of the preliminary debating cont con con- t test st st. JI For Scofield Fond The The training school has contributed a little over twenty dollars to the Scofield miners' miners fund The year first-year students students students stu- stu dents also have taken the initiative initiative initiative initia initia- tive toward making a collection among themselves E. E Thundering Oratory Last Wednesday afternoon some of h the stud students ts thought there was a th thunderstorm Others declared it was only members of the prelim prelim- j. j inary team practicing their debates debates debates de de- bates on Capitol Hill One or two thought possibly it was Robinson alone S J 4 fJ Fire Lab The Lab The The in cupboard or closet under Miss Hewett's desk in the laboratory building caught on fire one day last week but was heroically extinguished by several of the lab students who happened to be in the room Had Hadit it occurred at time night-time the laboratory laboratory lab lab- c oratory building might have been beena j a mass of black ruins the next morning As it was however the loss was trifling it being fully covered by the top of the desk I- I Supposed Petrifactions The Deseret Museum recently received a number of concretions of strange shapes These concretions often often s J occur in stratified rocks and by their forms suggest petrifactions of various kinds Among the latest accessions are forms sent in as petrified peas cocoanuts cocoanuts cocoanuts cocoa- cocoa nuts human fingers and the like one the finder su supposed to be the foot of an Indian pa pa- A few years ago one was sent to the museum as supposedly a petrified bird so much did it resemble a bir biro t 1 Varsity Ball Next Next Saturday I evening May 12 after the intercollegiate intercollegiate intercollegiate inter inter- collegiate athletic contest on the campus a University ball will be given at Christensen's by the theA A Athletic Association Many of the visiting students will attend and andall andall andall all the contestants will be given complimentary tickets and considered considered con con- l as guests of honor The price of admission will be fifty cents each The committee appointed appointed appointed ap ap- pointed by President Morris of r the association to get up the ball I consists of J Jay ay Groo and Joseph Anderson The ball will doubtless doubtless doubts doubt doubt- less s be an especially memorable sPi one 1 t. t o v Preliminary Debate The The preliminary preliminary preliminary pre pre- contest for the selection of the three best debaters to represent represent represent rep rep- resent the University in the Utah- Utah Nevada debate occurred in room 28 on Friday afternoon before an audience of students and profess profess- ors The committee of professors consisting of Dr Kingsbury and Professors Babcock Roylance Marshall Lyman Toronto and Instructor Howell selected N. N T. T Porter Ernest Bramwell and 1 E Arthur Welling as principals and Walter Evans and Oscar W. W Carlson Carlson Carlson Carl Carl- 3 son as alternates The defeated unfortunates were H. H B. B Fry Ezra Robinson and George S. S Gibbs Fifty Patriots Fifty of the leading students believing the declarations of the alumni that ones one's college days come near to being the happiest of ones one's life only according to its degree of S social pleasure have declared their r willingness to make everybody know what a treat is waiting forthe for forthe the students and the p public cn en the evenings of June 15 16 and 19 1 They voted to do their best in an effort to sell at least ten tickets each for the presentation of Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Shake Shake- As You Like It L 4 speare's by bythe j the University Dramatic Club out under the campus trees The pre presentation presentation of the play is a big undertaking undertaking undertaking un un- resting heavily especially especially espe espe- i c ally on Miss Babcock who will give her services in its direction 1 and on George Riser and his associate associate associate asso asso- j helpers in its management 1 ft It is believed however that the undertaking will meet with favor favo among the students Jf t t |