Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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112 | [ The Acorn DEBATING Hurrah for our debating team! may they always be as successfi as they were Saturday April 25th when they defeated the Salt Lak High School. This is the first debating our school has ever done and the victor; certainly reflects credit on our institution. The Salt Lake boys came up very confident of winning. It wa perfectly natural that they should be; because they had debated befor and had been in oratorical contests, while our boys and girls were in experienced. Because our team lacked the experience, they seemed t study harder, and under the direction of Mr. J. P. Goddard, hunte' reference books and filled the boards in room twelve with outlines Their victory was anything but an easy one, and was due to their har study and constant application to the question before them. A debating team is nearly always judged by rebutal speeches. Ou students showed their ability when they were giving their final talks and certainly outclassed Salt Lake, although the visitors were stronge than our team in delivery. But students, our team’s career has jus begun and they need our support. The next debate will take place i Park City, and then the final will be held in the Salt Lake Theatn Students, let the team feel that our hearts are with them. OUR NEW PRINCIPAL Wilford M. McKendrick was born in Toole City, Toole Co., Utal January 12, 1870. His first blessing was that of noble God fearin parents who encouraged him to obtain a perfect education—physica mental, and spiritual. He attended the district school until he was fifteen when he be came a student of the B. Y. Academy at Provo under Dr. Carl C Maesar, from which school he was graduated with the degree of Bache lor of Pedagogy in 1895. The following year he was one of five teach ers to receive the church degree of Bachelor of Didactics. He taught his first school at Lake Point, Toole County, when h was seventeen years old. Two years later he became principal of th district school at Monroe, Sevier County and in 1895 was appointed ir 1 'M

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The Acorn | | 111 A REVERIE Every evening just as darkness Falls upon the silent earth, And the wintry landscape fading Mingles sadness with our mirth, Steal I softly to the fireplace, Where I love to sit and muse, While the leaping flames go dancing Up and down the blackened flues. All alone here with the shadows Flickering on the darkened walls, While the wailing wind of winter Down the wide old chimney calls, Long and often do I linger, Gazing where the embers cast Glowing paintings of the future— Fading pictures of the past. On one side, the ruddy firelight Stretches in its rosy hues, Visions of a brighter future With success and joy, its dues; But among the fairest pictures, Darker spots are found as well— Sorrow, pain and often evil Are the things the spots foretell. On the other side, the embers Dying down to ashen gray. Reproduce to tender fancy Dear old times long passed away. Half forgotten joys and sorrows, Blended in a dimmer light, Flood the heart with half sweet sadness, Vanished days come back tonight. Dreaming here I sometimes wonder Whether in far distant years, As an aged woman waiting, Free from all youth’s hopes and fears When the trails of life are over I shall watch the dying light, Picture with its last faint glimmer Future days without a night. —Pearl Smuin,’08.

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| The Acorn 11 13] structor of Mathematics in the B. Y. Academy at Provo, where he re- mained until 1898. From 1900 to 1902 he did missionary work in the Southern States Mission, spending the first nine months in the South Alabama Confer- encc and the remainder of the time in the office at Chattanooga where he had charge of the correspondence of the mission. He is remembered in t.he South todav as the Mormon debator who did so much toward allaying the prejudice against the church throughout that section of the country. He was victorious in the encounter with Rev. Haynes, a Cambelite minister in Alabama and travelled eight hundred miles to defeat Rev. Lee Jackson before an immense audience in Mississippi. He became a member of the faculty of this institution in 1902 and has been one of its most energetic workers as well as one of its most loyal supporters since that time. During the first year, he suggested the possibility of a Lecture Course and was immediately made chairman of a committee of three to work out the details incident to the establishing of a permanent course in the institution. The committee has known no other chairman and the success of this great boon to students and the public generally, is due principally to his earnest efforts and his never failing faith in the judgment of the Weber County public. He has been a true friend and staunch supporter of Principal McKay, and probably no teacher has ever deserved and received more of the love and confidence of principal and students than has this great hearted man. In introducing him as the new Principal, Bro. McKay said, “The night was never too dark, the way too long or the task too great for Brother Me Kendrick, when it was for the good of the school. During the six years we have worked together, he has never once said no; more than that, he has never quibbled.” The future of such a man is easily predicted; by supporting he has earned the support of teachers and students, by being a true friend he has made a host of friends and his future must be a brilliant one. “A man he is to all of us most dear; So kind and thoughtful, sympathetic too, Our hearts respond his slightest word to hear, In him we recognize a leader true. O may the Father who doth bless us all Direct him always with the greatest care; And may the angels heed his slightest call, And answer promptly every earnest prayer.”