resented by an exceptionally strong team on april 16 1909 the eureka high school team three girls and the principal their coach were the visiting team here in ogden and debated the same question the eureka team won the decision and thus left the academy out of the next preliminary and the final debate but left them in the field with an exceptionally bright prospect for next year one of the university men a judge of the brigham debate paid the boys the high compliment of asking them to give him their word that when they had finished high school they would enter the university with the purpose of debating on the university teams the academy is justly proud of its debaters and hopeful of next year's outcome during the past school year the club has been studying the works of our standard authors the first semester we studied alice carey's poems and george elliot's famous middle march the last semester we have enjoyed a series of lectures on health given by miss zina larkin and have taken up owen meredith's poem lucile in connection with our literary work we have had occasional dinner parties in our club room on december 17 the girls entertained the basketball boys and coacli harker at a christmas tree party one of the most enjoyable events of the season was a ban quet given february 11 to the faculty the basketball boys of brigham city high school and of the weber academy the banquet was served under the able direction of miss eva farr the domestic arts department and the tables were dec orated in red and white and the color scheme harmonized throughout the courses early in the year the eosebud girls met and elected the following officers : president norma sears ; vice-president minnie jensen secretary bea brewer j treasurer nell wilson the following outline was prepared for the meetings in each month : first tuesday literary session ; second tuesday lecture third tuesday etiquette fourth tuesday magazine review we have had very interesting lectures from mrs j m morrell mrs d e shurtliff and miss ivy cleghorn on the evening of december 18 the club gave a leap year party of course it was voted by all present to be the social event of the season the girls who were present certainly deserve credit for the way they treated the boys clara schumann was the daughter of frederick wieck and was born in leipsic september 13 1819 and died at frankfort may 20 1896 she studied under her father and it was not long before her ability manifested itself in 1828 clara wieck veek made her first appearance in public at a gewandhaus concert playing the f minor concerto of chopin her astonishing skill and interpretative insight won her many distin guished friends among them being the aged goethe whom she met at weimar she then toured europe and achieved enormous success especially in paris where her genius won her such friends as mendelssohn heyerber chopin and kalkbren ner in 1837 she was made imperial pianiste and excited the admiring envy of liszt not yet come to his own in 1840 she married robert schumann in spite of active opposition on the part of her father the happiness of their union and the devotion she showed to her husband made one of the most beautiful romances in the history of music schumann's nervous system broke down at dusseldorf and subsequent insanity which culminated in his death seemed only to increase her devotion to him after his death clara schumann resumed her concert career until 1878 when she became a teacher of piano at dr