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An Excellent Pro­ gram Music School Faculty Gives High Class Recital As One of the Numbers on Regular Lecture Course. In spite of the obvious disad­ vantage of not being* able to pre­ cede their appearance by the usual exaggerated reputation and made to order photographs common to lyceum products, the'B. Y. U. Mu­ sic School faculty received a warm welocme and scored a hit. It is a very difficult task to satisfy a home audience, but the good or­ der, rapt attention, and hearty ap­ plause at the recital Friday eve­ ning is pretty fair circumstantial evidence of success. If more were necessary it could be found in the many favorable comments by competent critics. Aside from the musical talent present, one flattering individual ventured his professional opinion as an aesthete that it was the best looking* company that has smiled on a Pr.ovo audience this season. We are not the only ones who appreciate our Music School as is shown by a paragraph from the last Chronicle: "AttheB.Y.U,atProvowe find a student body enthusiastic over music and the fine arts; we find a live band; a thorough going orchestra; an opera company of forty students; a music depart­ ment equipped. with pianos, vi­ olins, flutes and cornets; and back of it all the MAN who is respon­ sible for this magnificent condi­ tion, a man who lives, breathes and has his being in his Music School." Judge Booth will speak at the Sunday evening meeting on "The Legality of the Book of Mormon/* /We wish to •congratulate the • of U. Dramatic Club upon its successful presentation of "Tre- lawny of the Wells" in Provo, Sat­ urday evening. We were more than pleased.

 Announcement THE FARMERS' AND HQ USEKE EPER'S 1 SCHOOL WILL BE IN SESSION FEB­ RUARY THE SEVENTH TO THE ELEVENTH' AT THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNI­ VERSITY. THE LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS WILL BE GIVEN BY A SELECT FACULTY FROM THE UTAH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, SUPPLE­ MENTED BY SOME WHO HAVE BEEN DOING RE­ SEARCH WORK IN T|HE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE. ALL ARE SPECIALISTS IN THEIR LINES;; SOME HAVE A NATIONAL REPUTATION, REGULAR MORNING CLASSES WILL B E CUT SHORT SO THAT ALL STU­ DENTS MAY ATTEND THE FORENOON LECTURES. TELL* YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT IT.

 SUNDAY SCHOOL PROGRAM. The subjects of the B. Y. U: Normal S. S. for next Sunday will be the following: Church History—F. W. Kirk- ham.'"The Need of Church Or- •,, ., ganization. Missionary Class—Earl Glade. "A Typical Street Meeting." Y. M . Class—Fred Buss. "At­ tention." Y. L. Class—Miss Reynolds. "A Lesson on the Apostasy." New Testament—C. E . Maw. "A Sermon on the Bread of Life." Principles of the Gospel—N . L. Nelson. "Foreordination and Predestination," continued. Book of Mormon—A. N . Mer­ rill. *'The Probability of Joseph Smith's Story of the Origin and the Final Disposition of the Book of Mormon." Church Ecclesiastical History— —Tohn C. Swenson. "Paul's Tri­ al."

 

The ability to write history is not an innate power of the human mind. Uncivilized races have no impulse or desire to leave to posterity an accurate account of their deeds; nor do they possess naturally the power of reproducing their experiences objectively. As with young children, so with them, fact and fancy mingle quickly and inseparably. Their narratives take on inevitably a poetical form; their historical occurrences are transmitted only in song and story, where art has its due license. Only after a race has reached a considerably advanced stage in civilization and has become politically organized does objectivity become sufficiently developed and distinct and the interest in leaving accurate records of the great events of a time sufficiently strong to make possible the writing of history.

Evidently oral tradition cannot remain unchanged or uncorrupted very long; whence, history, in its very nature; demands a written record. The traditions of those who do not write inevitably undergo corruption and intermixture in transmission. Such traditions are termed legends. A considerable body of a people never rise to an appreciation of real history; and among such legend continues to hold sway. Hence, we may in this way have the two currents of written history and of unwritten tradition running on side by side, the latter treating, to some extent, different aspects of the same events as the former, but more especially dealing, in poetic way, with older, prehistoric occurrences. The popular legends of this kind, when brought together, give use the folk-books of different countries.

History further differs from legend, on the whole, in kind of subject matter. It treats, particularly, large movements of public import, the popular leaders, wars, etc.; while legends deal more especially with private or personal matters, such as appeal to the 