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Show The '08 Summer Survey HE course in surveying "2" is unlike other laboratory courses given at* our University, in that its six weeks are spent enjoying the vicissitudes and pleasures of camp life. The prospect of work at a time when everyone else was enjoying vacation appeared appalling to the Juniors when just one year ago they contemplated their trip to some mining camp for a six weeks' course in mineral surveying. But those who took the trip during May, June and July, 1907, no longer look back at it, nor the time spent in the field, with regret, but rather with sweet recollections of six weeks of jolly, rollicking days of bliss, filled with fonder memories of true comradeship and fun.The engineering class of 1908 chose Eureka as the camp at which they should do their surveying, partly because Mike Downey lived there, and assured everyone of a good time, and also because one Dotty Havenor, queener and ladies' man, had been there and declared that he could vouch for the camp. Park City made a strong bid for the honor of entertaining the Juniors, but the Irish element represented by Downey and Havenor won out over the efforts of Lulu Sut-ton and other stalwarts from the Summit County camp. And the Irish element rather asserted itself throughout the trip, for the names of the ladies in the camp either began with "Mac," or ended with "ity," or else their hair was of a reddish hue. But "society" is common everywhere, and Eureka furnished only its share. A volume might be written of the many visits of one Junior, "Skyn" Lyon, to a certain bishop's daughter, and much more might be said concerning(157) |