the whole face puts on mourning for the death of self respect doing the lower when the higher is possible constitutes one of the greatest tragedies of human life our knowledge and development comes through experience from the cradle to the grave it is almost a continuous contact with environment through the senses this objective world acts upon and changes us thus we become educated being endowed with an imagination we are not limited to actual experience but we can picture the experiences of others and thus learn many of the most vital lessons of life these images may be gained through books or they may be acquired more vividly by lectures when students meet with the class of men who appear in our lecture course they come in contact with men of vast experience and men who have turned that experience to account and men who can draw such vivid pictures of life that the students receive impressions the influence of which can never be measured we can not come in close contact with such men as russell h conwell s h clark jacob a eiis and sylvester a long without being raised to a much higher plane intellectually morally and spiritually the following was our course for last year frederick e hopkins — golden fleece opie read — something i haven't given before jacob a riis battle with the slum whitney bros male quartette sylvester a long — lightening and toothpicks russell h conwell acres of diamonds montaville flowers — christmas carol george gilbert bancroft — hoodooe s h clark silas marner les miserables a servant in the house brand the committee has already signed contract for the following talent for next year ex-governor robert l bob taylor the new zealanders whitney bros quartette de witt miller leland t powers laurant magician edward p elliott thomas b green the whitney bros made a great hit last year and thomas e green is well remembered for his strong lectures given on the course three years ago the committee has been trying for years to get bob taylor who is considered by many people to be the most fascinating lecturer america has ever known leland t powers has also long been sought after by the ogden public he is recognized as the top notcher in dramatic reading several other numbers will be secured later and the school will follow its motto each year let the course grow stronger this year the academy entered the high school debating league to compete for the state championship each class had its own teams and debates followed by inter-class debates from which teams the school team was chosen this team composed of lawrence richards fred jensen alma winters and wm critchlow represented the academy at brigham on march 19 1909 debating on the proposition eesolved that the united states should permanently retain the philippines the acad emy team represented the negative side of the question and won the debate from the brigham high school which was rep