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Show PROF. PARLETTE SPEAKS. One of the high spots of the week was the lecture of Prof. Ralph Parlette of the University of Utah, given at the Bingham High School last Friday afternoon. after-noon. Principal Atkin extended an invitation to the pepole of Bingham Bing-ham to join with the high school m student body and hear this fam-r fam-r ed lecturer. The invitation was accepted by a large number and every available seat in the auditorium audi-torium was occupied. Prof. Parlette, without announcing an-nouncing a particualr subject, discussed more topics of vital human interest in the one short hour allotted to him, than one would expect to hear in an entire en-tire course of lectures. With unusual un-usual candor and forcefulness the speaker drove home to his hearers the main points of his talk, with stories, illustrations, witticisms and dramatic art irresistible. ir-resistible. "The university of hard knocks is the big school," he said. "You never learn anything any-thing but what at some time or other it will be just what you need." The speaker defined happiness hap-piness as "The music of our development." de-velopment." In conclusion the speaker admonished ad-monished the students to deve- Ilop their natural selves in order to be happy and above all else, make good in honesty. |