Show m mI M. M S. S BREEZES I I. I Mr lVIr received a letter last week from the American Company Company Company Com Com- pany inviting the students of Steam Engineering Engineering Engineering En En- to be present at a test on theair theair the air compressor and boiler plant in Bingham Bingham Bingham Bing- Bing ham canyon this week Several boxes of chemical apparatus and chemicals were received last week Among the apparatus were thirty-five thirty sets of fine burettes for the quantitative students besides and flasks Willard McRae was absent all last week on account of illness R Ralph lph Watson and William Travers are assisting Dr Acree in analyzing some soils and foods Les Groesbeck was absent part of last week When last seen he e was disappearing disappearing pearin down the path with Miss Rich Rich- ards Rumor says says says-Farmington Niels Niels' Christensen has just finished making a copy of a large map for Mr Pack The Surveying class will soon resume its field practice The department of Metallurgy will soon have a building of its own It will be built somewhere near near the shop We cant cane get et too much room Dr e Talmage is world working g- g hard on some heretofore unknown minerals Th The dark room for photographic work york in the department of Geology y is almost finished L The recent break in the steam mains clearly shows that our heating app apparatus ratus is IS not prop properly constructed We should be able to shut off the heat from one of the buildings buildings- without affecting the oth oth- ers Let one of the Engineers show how to do it THE OPTIMIST AND THE PESSIMIST Mark Twain says that a pessimist is isone isone isone one who having the choice between two evils chooses both the Philistine says heis he heis heis is one who has been intimately acquainted acquaint acquaint- ed with an optimist Both are perhaps nearly right The professed pessimist and the professed optimist are equally disagreeable One hears of general optimists optimists optimists op op- but we may be sure they are not of the professional kind It is told of Von Hartman that notwithstanding notwithstanding not not- withstanding the pronounced pessimism of his writings he lie was the most jovial and genial of men But then he lived life as he lie found it and as his buoyant human nature made it His philosophy well well that was quite another matter I suppose he wrote it to please the pessimists pessimists and to give the optimists something to be disagreeable about Doubtless at the day of judgment both pessimist and optimist will be consigned to the lower re regions ions the p pessimist because because because be be- cause he lie will find there an existence such as as he has professed this life to be the optimist because he lie would would be out of a ajob ajob ajob job anywhere where else Job j |