EDITORIAL The Annual Students! It is no easy task to publish our annual, and the staff, feeling the responsibility, would like the co-operation of the student body in obtaining material for our Souvenir. In former years the students have contributed liberally. The staff of each year has tried to make their year book a little better than the one published by their predecessors. Do you remember the Souvenir of last year? Unless we have your assistance, ours will not be an improvement. Any suitable story, long or short, will be accepted by the staff. Bring your kodaks and photograph the students in some peculiar position. If you hand in pictures of real school life, we will publish a book that will always be a true Souvenir. To those who are artists; use your drawing boards to cartoon the faculty or some of the other students. Snapshots of athletic events will add a great deal of interest to the publication. Seniors, above all, should do their part, as the annual is especially devoted to them. GET BUSY NOW. P. Within the Walls of Our School There is not a grander or more home-like place, or a more sociable community in this beautiful world of ours than in our school. We find work and sorrow, and love and happiness; and use them as our character builders. We could wish for no more. ACORN 11 Ruskin says: "A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation, and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies." This is a true motto of our faculty, our examplers; and when speaking of them, one may say simply, "fineness of nature." "Within the walls of our school," we find individuals of every character. But we have, however, as a whole, the best characters to be had. We have dared to combat against any school of our equality in any activity, and we have usually come out victorious. We should be proud, and we are proud. But though boasting, we are not above criticism. We must work and smile, smile and work to keep things moving "Within the walls of our school." E. C. Happiness Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the attitude of the mind. That happiness is the destiny of mankind, is proved by the fact that the things which make us happy are the simplest and holiest things, such as duty done. We cannot attain happiness so long as we are indifferent as to the happiness of others. When selfish people want to be pleasant and agreeable, they find they cannot do it because they have not formed the habit of doing things simply to please others. People would be happier if their homes were less pretentious and more comfortable. Idle and overworked men and women make a household unhappy. People who would be happy must cultivate regular habits of work and play. We miss many of the little things in life that make up the sum of happiness, by our anxiety to arrive prematurely at the great things. In the quest of happiness we cannot do better than to put into practice the precepts of the Persian, who said, "Taking the first step with the good word and the third step with the good deed, I entered paradise." Washington Irving has said: "How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles." P.