ACORN Staff Literary Department Editor-in-Chief ALMA WILSON '11 Associate Editor FRANCIS BUDGE '11 M. RAE BARLOW '11 Literary Editors MYRTLE R. YOUNG '12 IRVIN NELSON '12 School Notes LEONE ENGSTROM '11 Alumni LILA ECCLES '10 Athletics ANGUS McFARLAND '11 Staff Artist ELLIS BARLOW '11 Reporters ISABEL REVERIDGE '11 DICA DARBY '12 IVA STEERS '13 MARY JACOBS '14 Business Department Manager, LAURENCE W. RICHARDS '11 Assistant WM. J. CRITCHLOW '11 Assistant, CLARENCE S. McCUNE '12 Assistant, LYMAN GO WANS '12 Assistant, JACK ECCLES '13 LITERARY Signs of Spring Hail to the Springtime, Balmy fresh air. Green grass and flowers, Grow everywhere. Whispers of Summer, Borne on the breeze, Birds singing gaily, Up in the trees. Faculty teaching, With 'martyr-like' air, Students too languid, And drowsy to care, Boys with 'Spring Fever' Girls lazy, too. Sluffing Exams, yet They hope to get through. Superior Seniors, Too wise to work, Sleepy-eyed Juniors Grumble and shirk. Freshmen and Sophomores, Won't do a thing; These are sure signs Of coming of spring. Who Got Stung? It is customary at the Academy of Montrose for the Seniors to give, on the first day of April in every school year, a grand reception to the Freshmen. This reception, which is usually the closing ball of the season, is conceded to be the biggest event of the year, even bigger than the Junior-Sophomore ball, which opens the season so elaborately. It was now nearly time for the Senior-Freshmen ball. Everybody was eagerly looking forward to it and preparations were being carefully made. The Seniors had already put to work several committees, prominent among which was an attendance committee, whose especial duty it was to see that all Freshmen and Seniors would be present on that great occasion. At the meeting of this committee the following resolution was adopted and ordered published throughout the school in conspicuous places: