SCHOOL NOTES Lecture Course Chancellor George H. Bradford appeared on Monday evening, November 10th as the second entertainer of our lecture course. He lectured on the problem of social education. He has spent his whole life studying that problem and the results of this study, as he gave them, are of particular interest to us as students. In his work he went into the slums of a city where education was much needed and built sort of an educational center. He went into an "undesirable neighborhood" in a big city and made it a beauty spot. Then he began to feel that he knew something about the education of the masses. Mr. Bradford said the problem of education was neglected and that many men went into ecstasy over a blue ribbon on an old trotting horse when their boys could not win even a yellow ribbon in any kind of contest of intelligence. He also showed by illustration the cause of the difference between the positions and salaries of two boys who started in High School together. During the first vacation both boys worked on the railroad, but only one returned to school in the fall. The one: student graduated and became conductor while the other remained a brakeman. The conductor was promoted until he reached the desk of Assistant Superintendent. The brakeman "twisted brakewheels" for the remainder of his life. "If you are working for one hundred dollars when you are worth two hundred, somebody will find it out." At the conclusion of the lecture, Mr. Bradford pictured educational America as the leading nation of the world. He saw England on the far away horizon in the light of the setting sun, and on the ACORN 15 morrow he beheld America, in all her splendor, in the light of the rising sun. Mr. Baumgardt came to us on Wednesday, November 19, 1913, as our third lecturer. He visited the school in the afternoon and lectured to the Student Body on the Venetian Republic. He pictured Venice in southern Europe in the fourteenth century as the leading power of the Mediterranean and related how, through her activity, she became known as the Venetian Republic. He said that in her glory this Republic produced some of the greatest men of the world. When Columbus discovered the new continent the water trade routes were turned toward America, and thus the Venetian Republic fell. When Napoleon visited this country on his trans-Alpine expedition three hundred years later they surrendered very meekly to the great soldier. In the evening Mr. Baumgardt delivered a lecture entitled "An Evening With the Stars." With the photographed views of the heavens and body of the solar system it was highly entertaining. The educational side of the lecture was also pleasing. We learned from the pictures some things about our great universe that formerly we knew nothing of. Hamlet On the evening of November 18th a party of Seniors, chaperoned by the Misses Pearl Cragun and Rosella Ferrin, went to Salt Lake to see Robert Mantell in his Shakespearean repertoir. Mr. Mantell, one of the few who figure in Shakespeare, appeared four times at the Salt Lake Theatre, as King John, Hamlet, Macbeth and Lichelieu. The Senior English class was studying the tragedy of Hamlet at the time, and to get a better understanding of the work of England's greatest poet, they took advantage of the rare opportunity. The party returned to Ogden at midnight via the Bamberger Electric line. Each member expressed his great appreciation for this class of art. In Devotional In general assembly on November 12th, Thomas E. McKay addressed the students. He related the story of General Custer's error in judgment which caused the tragedy known as Custer's Massacre. This with a view of impressing the students of the necessity and advantage of pulling together and supporting the faculty. The lesson left by the speaker was an impressive one. Miss Holberg and Miss Kathryn Bassett took part in the program