12 THE ACORN and chemical laboratories, and above all with its new gym and thousand dollar apparatus. We shall then see a faculty of twenty instead of ten teachers. And we can have a great influence in bringing about this result. YOU and I may not be permitted to participate in the privileges and advantages of the greater W. S. A. In a few years we shall be in the exacting school of life solving the problems of competition. Life will then be a stearn reality. I look into that future and see classmates far apart and the ties of friendship growing fewer. Business worry shall have severed many of those connections which we now hold dear. The struggle to attain success shall have blotted out many of those cherished thoughts of school days. But there is one tie time cannot sever. There is one link care cannot break. That is the "Acorn." In the current number which comes to the office with the morning mail, in the bound volumes on the shelf of our library, we live once more in the academy of old. Names will be forgotten, memories of happy times and cheerful faces are dim and uninspiring, until this everlasting link between Alma Mater and student awakens all to life. Thus to middle age come youthful joys. And 'midst responsibility and care we bask with delight in the sunshine of our old college paper. The rose tree when carefully nourished Bears beautiful flowers each year; The sycamore, elm, and the popular, Shade homes that will ever be dear. The willow, the pine tree, the maple. The asp, e'en the sage-brush, too Each serves a purpose in nature. And to each our protection is due. There is beauty in all of our shade trees, And those yielding fruit in the fall; But the oak from our little "Acorn Will be choicest and best of them all. C. L. '04. ATHLETICS. A DRAMA IN TWO ACTS. CAST OF CHARACTERS. Purple. Blue. Lucille Parry. Effle Williams. Izze Pearce. Ethel Rich. May Higginbotham. Lily Gardner. Lizzie McKay. Bessie Shaw. Mina Parry. Carrie Jorgenson. Zella Stevens. N. Parkenson. Stage Manager A. M. Nelson. Asst. Stage Manager Merkley. Scene Lester Park Pavilion, Ogden. Time April 8, 1904. ACT I. SCENE 1. (Five girls in blue suits come in from One side of the stage. Five more in purple come from the opposite side. The crowd yell and wave their hands. Two men are seen standing on the floor with whistles in their hands. One with a ball under his arm. They all meet in the center of the stage, talk for some time, the whistle blows and they take their places, two Blues and two Purples at each end, a Blue and a Purple in the cehter. A large crowd is standing around on the floor and upon the stage. Purple and white flags are waving.) Lizzie Now, girls, play your best. Don't get excited, play quick. (Whistle blows.) Mina Hit it hard, May. Lucille Izze! Izze! Qui-qui-quick! (Izze catches the ball, tries to throw it to Lucille but Logan stops it, and THE ACORN 13 throws it back to Izze. Izze falls, Carrie falls on top of her.) Nelson Foul on Carrie, covering. Crowd What's the matter with Nelson? SCENE 2. (All players, except Lizzie and Ethel, line up at the basket. Lucille holds the ball ready to throw.) Izze Put ,-t in, Lucy. May Oh! too bad. Spectator Get with your man, May. Lily (aside to May) Quite pushing. Crowd That's the way to play it. Hurrah for Logan! (The ball is then taken from Logan, passed down the field to Izze, all the girls following it. Izze makes a basket.) Crowd What's the matter with the 'Cademy? She's alright. Who's alright? IZZE. SCENE 3. (Players line up as before. May knocks the ball down to one end.) Spectator Good for May. Effle Did you see that? Good girl, Lily, bring it down. (Lily captures the ball, comes down the stage on the run, throws the ball to Bessie who pitches a basket.) Carrie Do it again. Lucille O, I don't know. Mina Show me. SCENE 4. (The ball is thrown up, is hit and rolls onto the center of the stage. The girls jump on top of one another trying to get it. Whistle blows.) Nelson Foul on Izze, pushing. They line up as before while Lily throws a basket. (Logan yell.) SCENE 5. (Ball is again thrown up in the center.) Lizzie Why didn't you jump, May? May I did. Carrie O! catch it! Hold to it! Bessie I got it. (to Izzie) Get off. She then adds two more points to the score. Yah! Yah! Yah! Yah! Yah! Yah! Logan! SCENE 6. (Ball is tossed up. Lily hits it. Spectator That's the way to do it. That's jumping some. Lily (coming down the stage like a flash, closely followed by Mina) I got it, girls. Mina (catching hold and both falling) I don't know. (Whistle blows.) Nelson My ball. (It's between Izze and Lily. Izze hits it,but Logan catches it and Lily make another basket.) Crowd Get into the game, Ogden. It's 2-5. You'll have to hurry. (Whistle blows.) Bessie Time's up. Lily Goody! Goody! Ethel We're ahead. Crowd (Logan yell). Ten minutes interval. No music. ACT II. (Wjhistle is heard. All the actors return to their places.) Citizen No. 1 See the look on Izze's face. Hear May grit her teeth as she stands there ready to jump. Hear Lily return the compliment, then turn to see if the others are ready. All the others act as if they feel the same way. Citizen No. 2 There's going to be something doing this time; let's watch them closely. (The play begins. Crowd yells very hard.) Nelson If you boys don't cut that out, the game will be given to the visitors. Spectator Yes?