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Rene RE MERE HERE HEHE RE RE MERE MERE RE ERE EE TB RE
A CHRISTMAS DAY.
One day, a little while before
Christmas, Harry and May Nelson
were walking in one of the down-
town streets of the city in which
they lived. The air was clear and
frosty, though the sun shone.
“Now, look,” said May.
“Yes, I am looking,” interrupted
her brother.
“Don’t tease me,” continued
May. “I am going to tell you
my plans about Christmas. I want
to make somebody happy this year.
You know we always have such a
fine time every Christmas that I
want some one else to be made
happy, too. That is just why I
came down this way.”
“Well,” said Harry, “ Who are
you going to have this year? To
be sure, you came down here, but
I don’t see as you are any better
off for making anybody happy.”
“T think there is more of a
chance of getting the people who
do not haye a good time down here.
But, say, I wonder where that little
girl is going!” 7
The children rested their gaze on
a poorly-clad little girl about eight
years old, who entered a door and
called her mother. The door was
then shut, and May and Harry
heard no more.
“Here’s our place, Harry,”
” said
May, excitedly. “Oh, but you will |
help me, won’t you?” she whisp-
ered, imploringly.
“Why, yes,” he answered.
“Let’s go, in.”
The two walked up to the door
of the little gray house where they
had seen the little girl disappear,
and knocked. The same little girl
came to the door and kindly asked
them in.
Of course, Harry and May went
in and were seated in a small,
dreary room. A woman in slovenly
dress came in from a back room to
see who had entered her house un-
known to her. She stopped on the
threshold and gazed at the two lit-
tle children before her. Her own
little girl stood trembling in a cor-
ner, hardly daring to breathe for
fear her mother should be dis-
pleased. She had seen May’s quick
glance around the bare, dirty room,
and, as it was the first time in her
life anyone so sweet and beautiful
had entered her house, she felt her
first thrill of shame and mortifica-
tion. But her mother seemed not
to notice it and was rudely staring
at the children.
“How do you do?” said May
in her sweet, childish voice. “TI
know you do not know us, but I
want to make friends. May we
play with your little girl?”
“Well, it is rather funny for a
couple of youngsters like you to
| come walking into a body’s house
and want to make friends when you
| don’t know nothin’ about us or we
| about you.”
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The woman’s voice was harsh
and the tears came very near, but
May choked them back and Harry
spoke up bravely:
“Our names are Harry and May
Nelson, and we want to play with
your little girl, and please what’s
your name and your little girl’s,
and please let’s go out-of-doors and
play, its so—so nice out,” and,
quite breathless, Harry arose from
his chair.
The ragged little girl in the cor-
ner came forward, now smiling,
and said: “ My name’s Hope Grey
and we will go outdoors and play.
I am awful glad you have come
to play with me.”
The three children went out,
and the friendship thus strangely
begun continued strangely and
pleasantly for an hour. Harry and
May learned that Hope’s father
was dead and that her mother
worked for her living. Most of the
time Hope went to a public school
near by.
“Tt will soon be Christmas and
then we will have some vacation,”
she said. “I’m sorry. I had rather
go to school than stay home.”
“Did you ever see a Christmas
tree?” May asked.
“Yes, lots of them in the mar-
ket,” answered Hope. “Never
anywhere else.”
“Do you think,” continued
May, rapturously, “that you could
come to my house Christmas day
and see one? I am going to ask
your mother if you may.”
“Oh, Mrs. Grey,” she cried,
running to her, and in her eager-
ness grasping her hand. “Oh,
Mrs. Grey, do you think you could
let Hope come to my house and see
a Christmas tree, Christmas morn-
ing? Oh, please. I live at 130
Thompson street. Just a lovely
walk from here.”
How could anyone, however
hard-hearted, resist such earnest-
ness?
“T will see,” said Mrs. Grey,
with a gentleness in her tone.
Somehow the child before her re-
minded her of better days, and tears
came to her eyes.
Hope was so surprised that all
she could say, as she bade the chil-
dren good-bye, was, “I will surely
try to come.”
At nine o’clock Christmas morn-
ing, sure enough, a little girl was
seen coming up the walk. May
hastened to meet her, for it was
Hope. When they came into the
parlor, there in all its beauty stood
the first Christmas tree Hope had
ever seen. It ‘was loaded with
pretty things and the floor beneath
was covered with packages.
Hope gazed awestricken, fas-
cinated. It was so beautiful!
The three children played for a
while and then Mrs. Nelson came
in and was introduced to little
Hope. In the quite hour that fol-
lowed Hope heard the beautiful
story of the Christ-child and
learned why Christmas is cele-
brated. It was with many thanks,
she left her kind friends and hast-
ened home.
Her mother met her with a
happy smile, and said, “See, what
a lovely dinner our dear fairies
have sent us.”
That night as Hope related her
story her mother told her one just
like it, which she had been taught
in her childhood, and together they
wept and rejoiced and both knew
that there were better days before
them.
“Mary Adair,” ’o7.
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INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF
A FRESHMAN AT X_ UNI-
VERSITY.
if
There is an old custom at X Uni-
versity which has been handed
down from one class to another for
many years. It is known as the
“Walk Around,” and consists in
the freshmen passing around the
campus and around the largest
dormitory called College, a
certain number of times agreed
upon by committees from the four
classes. This seems easy, but it
takes on another aspect when one
learns that at one place in passing
around College there is only
the space of about six feet between
it and the building containing the
steam plant, and that during the
“Walk Around” the whole sopho-
more class is generally mobolized at
this point prepared to die rather
than let the freshmen through,
The “Walk Around” occurs
about a week after college opens
and between eight and nine Pp. M.
No announcement of the day or
place of meeting is made in the
freshman class, but when it arrives
everyone seems to know it. It is in
the air, it seems.
And so, on the morning of Octo-
ber sixth, soon after chapel had
been dismissed a rumor became
current among the wearers of the
green tassel that the rush would be
that night. During the afternoon
I managed to sneak my football
suit out of the gym. and took it to
my room. About 7.30 Pp. m. I got
into the suit and made my way by
back streets to the observatory. On
the way I was forced to hide in the
shrubbery twice until parties of
sophomores passed me. The ob-
servatory sits on a rise of ground
back of the campus, and at night
is bathed in the gloom of a cluster
of tall pine trees.
I took my station in the shadow
of a large pine and waited. I had
not waited long, however, when I
saw a shadow creeping through the
trees toward me. Immediately my
heart went into my mouth, Was
it a soph. or only a friendly junior?
I held my breath and strained my
eyes through the darkness, but I
could only distinguish the dark out-
line of a man. He approached and
was passing me a few yards away
and I could see that he was also
peering around, as if in search of
someone. I was all indecision.
Should I speak to him or let him
pass by? If he were a soph. and
I should attract his attention, our
meeting place would be divulged;
but, should he be a freshman and
I should let him pass, he might
think that he had made a mistake
in the rendezvous and go away, and
we needed every man. This last
decided me. “Is that Nineteen-
Nine?” I called, in a low voice.
“Yes,” he answered.
“All right,” I said, “come over
here; I guess we are the first ones
here.”
After that they came fast.
Groups of two or five, and once in a
while one lone freshman. Each
new group kept shy of us until
they heard the magic words “ Nine-
teen-Nine,” and then they would
join us and wait for the next group.
I will not attempt to describe the
various costumes that could be seen
in that crowd. Football suits, old
ragged coats, heavy sweaters, here
a football helmet and there a nose-
guard.
Soon after the crowd had begun
to reach good proportions I noticed
a movement at one side and some-
one said, “It’s Captain D.- ad
That was the signal for those of us
who were on the football squad to
make ourselves scarce, which we
did, some, including myself, with
more success than others, for it
must be explained that all football
men should keep out of the rush.
Those that the captain caught, how-
ever, subsequently got back into the
tush, because, for the time being,
their zeal for 1909 was greater than
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their sense which should have told
them that if they were injured dur-
ing the rush, it would mean just
one man less on the squad.
As soon as the whole class had
gathered we were formed into line
by the juniors, four abreast, and
firmly clutching the man in front
of us. Then at the signal, we
started and slowly the long line
wound out of the deep shadows of
the pine trees behind the observa-
tory, down past the chemical labora-
tory and onto the campus.
Marching down the southern edge
we turned and started along the
eastern side and then the fun be-
gan. On the slope to the west of
us were stationed several sophs.,
who, starting on a dead run, would
throw themselves bodily into the
line, hoping either to push us over
the sidewalk and off the campus,
or at least to interrupt the march.
One of these men whose courage
I shall never cease to admire came
down the hill at top speed and di-
rectly at me. The next instant I saw
him leave his feet and shoot through
the air, and, although I braced my-
self to receive the shock, I was
bowled over like a toothpick. The
next thing I knew I was lying on
ground, the only thing I could see
being a jumble of flying feet and
legs as the balance of the line
scrambled over me. When they
had passed I picked myself up,
and grabbing my helmet and nose-
guard, which had been torn from
my head and luckily lay within a
few yards, I started on a run to
catch up with the line, which was
now going at a fast trot. I had not
gone more than about five yards
when I fell head over heels over a
fellow in a white sweater who lay
stretched out on the campus. He
was apparently unconscious, which
I afterwards learned was true, but
I had no time to spend with him.
So, again picking myself up, I
caught up to the line and nearly
regained my old position.
No more resistance was offered
until we reached the narrow open-
ing between College and the
steam plant. There was the whole
sophomore class wedged in the
opening ready to receive us. About
twenty-five yards from them our
line was divided into two flying
wedges, the first composed of about
one-quarter of the class, the second
of the balance. At a signal the
small wedge started, and, running
at full speed, plunged into the wait-
ing sophs, and began to mix it.
About twenty yards behind came
the big wedge. Of course, when
the big wedge hit the sophs. they
were busy mixing it with the first
wedge and hence had no time to
brace themselves for this second
and heavier attack and we could
feel their line gradually give way.
Being in the front line of the big
wedge, I was, of course, one of the
first to get through, and, with a
few others, turned to attack the
sophs. from the rear, and, grab-
bing them by the hair, a leg or an
arm, we pulled them away from the
opening.
While engaged in this pleasant
and gentle pastime I felt a hand
grip my collar and heard the voice
of Captain D. yelling in my
throbbing ears:
“What are you doing in this?
Aren’t you a football man?”
“Why, I only play on the scrub,”
I answered, hoping to get off in that
way.
“That doesn’t make any differ-
ence,” he yelled. “ You get out of
this and stay. out.”
A senior’s word is law, so I pro-
ceeded to depart, but when I turned
the corner I came upon a crowd of
those who had gotten through and
who were so intoxicated with vic-
tory that they were preparing to
go around again. I tried at first
to persuade them that it was not
necessary, as we were only required
to go around once this year, but,
seeing that it was of no avail, I
joined them and we proceeded to
go around a second time. This time
we met greater resistance, for sev-
eral of the sohps., in desperation,
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lay flat on the ground in front of
the wedges, the front lines of
which tripped over them, while
those behind, not knowing what
had happened, pressed on until the
small opening between the build-
ings was piled six feet high with a
mass of kicking, struggling human-
ity, but again the sophs. were
forced to give way and we tumbled
through, victors.
After spending fifteen or twenty
minutes giving class and college
yells with the numerals of the vic-
tors and vanquished on the end we
dispersed to our rooms, completely
fagged out, to bind up our sore
heads and bruised shins.
I do not know from personal ob-
servation, but they say that next
morning chapel looked rather
deserted.
195,”
A GOOD STORY.
There are only a few really great
short stories in English literature,
but the greatest of all these, by the
common consent of all classes in
the reading world is “The Christ-
mas Carol,” by Charles Dickens.
Who does not know Scrooge and
Marley, two old pessimistic wor-
shippers of the golden calf, with
only one difference. Scrooge still
had a human heart and it kept time
only with the chink of his golden
coins. Yet above all these facts
there was the capability that lies in
every heart, no matter how tightly
closed against his neighbor and the
outside world, behind the wall, that
selfishness inevitably builds around
one; and Marley, a poor ghost, with
only a regret and never a hope.
How well the great writer draws
upon the web of human interest
one figure after another of people
who loved one another as they
should, Old Scrooge has the
spectacle of Christmas joy forced
upon him and in spite of himself
carries home to his desolate fireside
the picture of life, and love, and
hope blended with poverty, or pain,
or even riches.
He has life, but what else? Fancy
teases him in his loneliness. Dreams
come to him when he sleeps, all
that makes life worth living passes
before him. All that he is missing
is brought before him, and the
hopelessness of death, without the
preface of a useful life overwhelms
him until his agonized regret
appeals to us more strongly than
his meanness. And the awaken-
ing of Scrooge shows us a man with
a heart and soul forever reformed.
After we know Scrooge’ there is
apt to ‘live in us a greater capacity
for kindness toward those warped
natures one meets at every turn.
They close the door of joy upon
themselves. They live in a world of
bitterness as they trudge down to
the end of life, unloved, unloving,
to die unregretted.
But, far hidden though it may
be, there is in them the breath of
life given by the King of Loving
Charity; there must come an
awakening in this life or in the
next, and where contempt is appar-
ently due we can easily conjure
Marley’s ghost to our assistance by
fanning the spark that is in the
withered old heart by our own for-
bearing geod nature and accept-
ance of the good life offers us.
So it is, “ The Christmas Carol”
is great. It reaches us heart and
soul. We live in love for the peo-
ple in it, for they are the people
around us. The spirit that binds
the world of men and women calls
out to us from its pages.
Christmas brings out the best
that is in us, so the Christmas spirit
calls loudest to us when we spend
a few hours with Scrooge. Memo-
ries come dancing around us hand
in hand with fancies and anticipa-
tions. We are in a new world, a
pleasant world, a living world.
After all, there are only the insen-
sible pages before us.
So hail to the great stories that
break the hum-drum of every day.
Hail to the greatest of these, “The
Christmas Carol.”
EO. C;
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ALBANY, N. Y, DECEMBER, 1905.
No. 2
Published every two months during the school year by the students of the Normal High School
BOARD OF EDITORS
Editor in Chief
SARAH SWAYNE, '06, Q. L. S.
B. Rut Boyce, '07, Zera SIGMA |
Jennie Coventry, '06,Q.L.S. J
Erie. Bretrensrein, '06, Zeta Sioa
Manet Woop, '06, Zeta Sica f
Epirn Jones, ’07, Zeta Sica
Epwarb O'ConNeLL, '07, ADELPHOL
KAatHarine Parsons, '07, Zeta SIGMA
. Le Roy Herper, 06, ADELPHOL
LIFFORD S. Eyory, '08, Tuera Nu
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EDITORIALS,
“At Christmas play and make good
cheer
For Christmas comes but once a
year.”
But in our joy and gladness let
us not forget Him, in remembrance
of whose birth is this glad season.
As He endeavored to alleviate man-
kind’s trials and sufferings, let us,
as we commemorate His birth, try
to help our struggling comrades
and to bring some happiness to
those about us. Let us try, not to
attain great heights, but to do the
small things graciously; accept
kindness with humility and to
count gifts as privileges and not
sacrifices. May we heal the wounds
of misunderstanding, jealousy and
regret from our hearts, and let in
the gentler and truer Christmas
spirit. And, as we ring out 1905
and welcome 1906, may our hearts
be singing:
“Peace on earth, good-will to man.”
Several very good cover designs
were handed in. The board thanks
the respective artists for their
prompt replies to its call. Some of
the designs showed real talent, and
all were remarkably well done.
After a careful consideration of the
different designs it decided to use
the one drawn by Frances M. War-
ner, ‘07, as the permanent cover
design.
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Clifford S. Evory, ’o8, has been
elected as assistant business man-
ager of The Crimson and White.
ALUMNI NOTES,
‘05.
Georgie Adams has secured a po-
sition as junior clerk in the capitol,
Helen Carroll is teaching school
in the Green District School, East
Greenbush, N. Y.
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Sophie Thornton is attending the
Albany Business College.
Mary Mattimore, who was liter-
ary editor of “The Crimson and
White” last year, is now on the
editorial staff of “The Echo.”
Ex-Captain Cox, of the baseball
team, was hit in the arm by a
pitched ball. He sustained a slight
injury which keeps him off of the
Cornell freshman team.
04.
Mary Danaher has returned to
Pratt Institute in order to finish
her course in art.
‘03.
Elizabeth R. Sherman is ill at
her home in Coeymans.
- Elizabeth I. Gardner is teaching
at Hagedorns, Saratoga county,
New York.
ol.
Grace Stowell has resumed her
art studies in Rochester.
Ellis B. Garrison, who entered
Syracuse University, has been
obliged to leave on account of his
health.
Anna B. Stoneman has resumed
her art studies at Pratt Institute.
Eleanor V. N. Van Alstyne has
entered Barnard College.
"99.
Raymond Watson Jones, who is
taking a post-graduate course at
Cornell University, has been elected
president of the Deutscher Verein.
98.
Grace A. Lacy, who has held a
position as teacher in one of the
Watervliet public schools, has ob-
tained a leave of absence and is in
the Adirondacks for her health,
93-
Miss Myra Long, of New Scot-
land, N. Y., was married November
15, 1905, to David Long.
SCHOOL NOTES.
The Zeta Sigma and Quintilian
Literary Societies and the Adelphoi
Fraternity have presented the High
School with two large palms, a
large fern and two smaller ferns
for the chapel. Having placed the
palms and large fern on the plat-
form and the small ferns on brack-
ets by the back windows, the chapel
is greatly improved in appearance.
The school is very grateful to these
organizations.
To give the seniors a rest and
the juniors a little practice in re-
citing, during the second quarter,
the junior class has taken the place
of the seniors in rhetoricals. As a
whole, the rhetoricals of the junior
class have been excellently ren-
dered.
Beginning with this year, fort-
nightly compositions are required
from all the students of the High
School. Essays written by mem-
bers of the senior and junior classes
must consist of at least 300 words;
those written by members of the
sophomore and freshman classes
must consist of at least 200 words.
They are handed in on Thursday,
corrected by students of the College
and returned, either on Friday or
Monday. Then corrections must be
made and the composition rewrit-
ten and handed in again on Thurs-
day. The object in the mind of the
faculty in having these composi-
tions is to give the students prac-
tice in writing compositons, a good
knowledge of the laws of punctua-
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tion and a greater facility in ex-
pressing their thoughts. However,
choice of subject has been left to
the student, and, consequently, has
caused consternation throughout
the school.
A glee club has been organized
having a membership of about
twenty-five girls. The girls hope to
steadily increase their numbers.
Miss Ruth Boyce is manager and
Miss Katharine Parsons is treas-
urer. Professor Belding, of the
Normal College, is kindly instruct-
ing the girls on Wednesday after-
noons,
Room 309 has been fitted up as a
physical laboratory for the classes
of the High School. This is very
welcome, for heretofore the College
physical laboratory has been inac-
cessible to the High School stu-
dents.
The positions of the pictures in
the lower halls have been changed,
and in the places of our old friends
we find new favorites.
A new boys’ society has been
recently organized, with Clifford
Evory as president and LeRoy
Fowler as secretary. It is called
the Theta Nu, and, although there
are but few boys connected with it
as yet, they hope to have a larger
society soon. Already have the
students welcomed it and wished
the boys of the Theta Nu years of
prosperity.
We have enjoyed two vacations
already this year— October 3oth
and 31st, and November 30th to
December 5th.
Thanksgiving exercises were
held in the chapel on Wednesday,
November twenty-ninth. The fol-
lowing program was excellently
rendered :
Selection 2-53.05 Over the Waves.
Girls Glee Club.
Pilgrim’s Chorus.
jaumes.
Piano Solo.
Recitation.......... Bobby's Petition.
Bertha Bott.
Vocal Solo....Queen of My Dreams.
Verna Fowler.
Recitation........
Plea of the Pocomtuc Chief,
Edward O'Connell.
Cornet Solo. .2s crs esse es Selected,
Cornelius Wilde.
Recitation........’ ‘Thanksgiving Day.
Marée Jennings.
Vocal Solo........ Over the Heather.
Jennie Coventry.
Recitation.. .
The Twentieth Century Agent.
Katharine Parsons,
Piano Duet..... The Witches’ Frolic.
Marguerite James, Gertrude Valen-
tine.
The following lectures have been
given by Dr. Aspinwall during the
fall:
October 20.—On Paris, before
the Kappa Delta Society, of the
State Normal College.
November 9.— On Rome, before
the First Baptist Church, Rensse-
laer.
November 27.—On Rome, be-
fore the Third Reformed Church,
of Albany.
December 2.— On Paris, before
the Saturday Club, of Cohoes.
Miss Grace Gilleandeau, of the
Rye Neck High School, has entered
the junior class.
Misses Hourigan and Everhart,
of the Albany High School, have
entered the senior class.
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Misses Mary and Jessie Harp-
ham, of the Canastota High
School, have entered the senior
class.
Mr. Clifford Clark, ’07, third
baseman of last year’s baseball
team, has returned to Albany, but
is expected to leave soon for a vaca-
tion in the south.
As a result of a successful invi-
tation, Russel Meany and Harold
Van Ostenbrugge were taken in the
Adelphoi Fraternity.
Underneath is a diagram show-
ing the result of the second quar-
ter’s election:
President, Edward J. O’Connell;
vice-president, George Weaver,
Jr.; secretary, Niles Persons; treas-
urer, Warren Brewster; corre-
sponding secretary, Harold Van
Ostenbrugge; chaplain, Keller
Ziegler; sergeant-at-arms, Russell
Meany; master of ceremonies, J. L.
R. Herber.
The Fraternity is looking for-
ward with great expectations to the
annual banquet, which will be held
about January first or second.
ATHLETICS.
The gym is open and it is surely
a source of great amusement to the
boys.
The boys’ basket ball team is go-
ing to start practicing soon. Many
games are scheduled by Manager
Robinson.
The girls are doing some fine
work at practice. Twenty games
have been scheduled, the first for
December tenth. Among the most
promising players outside of last
year’s team are Misses Marsh, Ful-
ler and Steward.
The first game will be on Decem-
ber eighth. The team will be as
follows :
Forwards — Parsons, Marsh.
Centres — Wood, Danaher.
Guards — Shifferdecker, Harlfinger.
The boys are about to organize
a hockey team, which will prove a
good one, for there are many good
skaters attending old Normal.
OUR EXCHANGES. -
We have received several new
exchanges this month, which we
cordially welcome, for we are al-
ways glad to add a new name to
our list. Some of the school pub-
lications, however, are not very
prompt in sending their papers. We
should like to receive our exchanges
as early as possible.
Owing to lack of space we are
unable to criticise all the ex-
changes received, but we wish to
mention the following:
The Canary and Blue, of Allen-
town, appears this year with a new
cover, which is a great improve-
ment on the former one in every
way. The literary work is excep-
tionally good, and, as a whole, the
paper has improved greatly.
The Blue and White, of South
Bethlehem, seems to be the only
one of our papers whose work is
evenly distributed. However, it
shows the fault so common among
our school papers — careless proof
reading on the part of the editors
—a thing which greatly detracts
from the general appearance of a
paper.
30 THE CRIMSON AND WHITE
We all know how hard it is to
obtain literary material for a school
paper, but it hardly seems the
place of the High School Chat, of
Michigan, to so severely criticise
another paper, as they do the Illi-
nois Criterion for not having suffi-
cient literary work. The Chat
contains. six pages of advertise-
ments to only one story of about
two pages. The story, however, is
unusually good.
A new cover and excellent liter-
ary work have considerably raised
the standard of the T. H. S. We
wish to make especial mention of
the prettily written story in the
October number entitled “ Giovan-
no’s Home Coming.” It is well
worth reading.
It seems, High School Critic,
that with a school of 275 pupils you
ought to be able to support a larger
paper, containing more literary
work and showing more school
spirit. We find that your exchange
column is wanting.
The Yula Delta, one of our Cali-
fornia exchanges, is a bright, breezy
little paper, and we always enjoy
reading it.
The Red and Black, from Penn-
sylvania, is a very artistic publica-
tion. The cover and most of the
cuts are exceedingly good.
We are always glad to receive the
Albany Academy Cue, and we
place it among our best exchanges.
The arrangement of material is
good and the paper is to be con-
gratulated on its long list of
exchanges.
SMILES.
E. Clary Hey, Persons, what
are you doing in the first year Ger-
man class?
N. Persons Oh, the faculty
liked my work so much that they
gave me an encore.
Misery.
Little lines of Latin,
Little feet to scan,
Make the mighty Virgil
And the crazy man,
Thus the little (!) lessons,
Which Miss Hall imparts,
Floor the mighty (?) Seniors,
And break their little hearts.
Why is Harvard like a red sugar
heart? Because it is crimson and
it never beats. (Great Guns!)
Why is the wind blind? Because
the wind is a zephyr; zephyr is
yarn; a yarn is a tale; a tail is an
attachment; an attachment is love,
and love is blind.
Zera SicMa, TAKE Norice.
McGinty had a little dog,
McGinty called him Enza,
And every ‘time he oped the door,
In—flu—Enza!
HEarpD IN THE GERMAN CLass.
“Hans sang unter dem Fen-
ater 0% tet
B. Bott (translating) — ‘‘ Hans
sang under the fence! !” (Great
Scott, Bertha !)
Ad urbem ivit Doodlius, cum
Caballo et calone,
Et dixit. “ Macaroni!”
Omavit pluma pileum
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AND WHITE 31
Whenever we sing the. rousing
chorus of “Old Glory” in the
morning you should hear the
whole freshman class shrieking out,
“ Ta-ran-tu-la — Ta-ran-tu-la! ”
Some one suggested that the Class
of ’o9 was “ bughouse.”
Have you heard of the new Theta
Nu?
It is new both to me and to you,
How wise we would be
If we knew, don’t you see
The things the new Theta Nu knew.
LOST.— An _ Adelphoi __ pin.
Initials E. O’C. on back. Finder
please return to president of the
Adelphoi.
N. B.—Don’t let any girls get
hold of it or it’s gone for good.
EXAMINATIONS.
The members of the N. H. S.
With trembling do await the day
When knowledge gained is brought
to test,
aay yiop yore wo adoy puy
away,
With questions on Geometry,
French, Algebra, and History.
The Greeks, though theirs be worst
of all,
With Spartan courage meet their
fate;
Such questions Plato would appal,
But they the questions calmly wait
On accent, verbs which end in “me”
And words declined in genders three.
Ah! now the dreaded season's past,
We only wish it were the last
We'd give our books and pads galore
Were such exams ne'er heard of
more.
B. C., a Greek Student.
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