Show In introducing WALDEMAR VAN COTT J I. I J the the originator of th the U University B Bill Dr Kin Kingsbury said He has taken as much interest in the University during the last ten years as any man in Utah Mr Va Cotts Cott's speech follows We can not express our full appreciation tion to the Legislature for their magnificent cent act for it is a magnificent act when you think ot of the large amount of money appropriated to be expended during the next few years years bearing bearing in mind the financial crisis that we have just passed through It is a ma magnificent act when you think that so much money is iR to Le expended for the purpose of building one public institution For all this what have ha we to pledge We pledge our senior senio United States Senator Frank J. J Cannon we pledge the other United States Senator Joseph Rawlins we pledge our Congressman William H. H Kin King in we pledge our elect Congressman-elect Brigham H. H Roberts we pledge our Governor Heber M. M Well Well all all alumni of the University of Utah We pledge also the board of regents who for for ei eight ht or ten years have spent much time without without without with with- out compensation esteeming it sufficient honor to build up a public public- institution In six years there has never been a penny paid for their services and they have never so much as suggest suggested d the possibilities possibilities possibilities of being compensated hereafter There has never been a suggestion that politics exist among them It has never t been su suggested that religion is known in all their actions and their votes their course has been to do what was best irrespective of religion We pledge something else our else our corps of instructors During the financial struggle our instructors even proffered that their salaries be cut tremendously in order that the University might live There is something else to pledge we pledge our alumni united and loving We pledge the honor of Utah that we shall go forward without expense and compensation and that we will exercise our best efforts for the interest of the in in- |