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Show ORATORY ID WIT AT BANQUET OF THE , COLLEGE MEM Nearly one hundred university men, including several from Salt Lak' last nighl nJoyed at the Weber club the first banquet of their newly organized association. It was a least of oratory and a continuous flow of wit. First on the program was the toat to Old Glory', an expression of undying loyalty, given standing with enthusiastic enthusi-astic vim. Plans and specifications of the nw University club house were expl lno and indorsed. The reasonable rental to be charged was approved. The mayor delivered one of his ehnr acteristic speeches, evoking applause Supremo Justice Valentine Gideon spoke briefly but eloquently. He spokr encouragingly of public improvements. "When I first came to Ogden," he said, "1 waded through a sea of mud up Twenty-fifth street. The improvements improve-ments on Washington avenue consisted consist-ed of plank sidewalks." Condon's Masterpiece. Dr. Amasa S. Condon, poet laureate of Utah, recited with splendid effect a beautiful poem of boyhood, telling of the laughable boyish habit of carving carv-ing in th nnow the names of boyhood sweethearts. This really great poem dwelt upon the Joys of juvenile life, the woes of the middle-agi d men, the fond recollections of the aged, their happiness in recalling the joys of early youth, when they were as virile as young oxen, as hopeful as young cherubim, cher-ubim, undaunted by the strife and tho noise of the workaday world. This recitation rec-itation was splendidly given and evoked evok-ed long-continued laughter and applause. ap-plause. The genial doctor was voted a Royal Good Fellow and chief of the Tribe of Abou Ben Adhem Other Jolly Speakers. Other speakers who kept the ban-queteers ban-queteers in jollv mood were Colonel C. A. Boyd, Dr E. P. Mills John C. Littlefleld. Reinhart L. Gideon. Senator Sena-tor Joseph C Chez. R. C Gwllllam, Dr. Reinhold Kanzler, Pr. Keith, David L. Stine, Julian Bamberger, Dr. Zolun ski and J. A Howell. The university men. were pleased to hear that ground has been broken for their club building. They also were delighted on hearing that an effort is to be made to persuade Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane to deliver deliv-er an address under auspices of (he University club vhrn he passes throuch Ogden on his way to California Califor-nia next month. The banquet was, in all respects, a red-letter occasion, replete with merriment, mer-riment, but sustaining a serious purpose pur-pose of upbuilding and achievement for the glory of Ogden and the common com-mon good. |