14 THE ACORN What made the members of the English History class laugh so much on Dec. 4, the day when Ray sat with Elenor? Mon. Dec. 4 Prof. Terry takes a holiday. His absence has been accounted for. Lawrence Greenwell (at Typewriter) I'm on a strike. When I'm on a strike I write poetry (We wish he'd contribute some of it to the Acorn). Why did Bros. Terry and Bitter congratulate each other so heartily on the morning of Dec. 6? Wm. McKay. What is there between the molecules? Browning. It must be condensed space. Doxey. Christmas is a bad day. Peterson. Why? Doxey. Oh a fellow recollects his innocent boyhood and all that. Prof. McKendrick (giving a review example in Geom). If bacon is 12 1/2 cents per pound, beans 7 cents per pound, how long will it take water to flow from the Atlantic to the Pacific in a 3 inch pipe? To Charles: When sending a letter, a parcel, or Acorn by mail, always write the name of the Town or City, the name of the Person or School you are sending it to; also the State and Street Number, as there may be other parcels in the mail that same day. Prof. Lind (In Physics). Earl, where are barometers used the most? Ballantyne. In the U. S. Weather Bureaus. Wm. McKay. You mean Weather Dressers. Prof. Lind (In Physics.) Wm. how high must the tube be? McKay. "Eh? Uh?-? -!!?" Prof. Lind. "It must be as high as?-? As high as? As high as? At least as high as? McKay. Uh high. Prof. Lind. No! No! That is perfectly meaningless. Victor Olsen will please follow out all instructions given to Parley Belnap in the November Number. Where did that pound of butter, which was left down by the tap in the lower hall, come from? (ask William Brown. Perhaps Priscilla could enlighten us a bit.) "How can we as Latter-Day-Saints help but grow faster and faster every day? Every-thing is helping us. Overcoming the obstacles placed in our way by our enemies, make us stronger. Psychology gives us a big lift. Pe- THE ACORN 15 dagogy wishes us success. History has formed an alliance with us. Archeology pays her tithing (more every year.") S. D. Bradford. "You are free; you may do anything you please, as long as you please to do what's right." D. O. McKay. "I would rather a student would write five sentences and tell what he knows, than to write five pages and try to tell what he don't know. Wm. Z. Terry. "When pens and paper areas cheap as they now are, there isn't any excuse for any one's not being able to write clearly, neatly, and rapidly." D. R. Shurtliff. If you get a clear understanding of a subject you must get right down to the bottom of it and work out the primary practical principles. Don't hunt for the rules, make the rules hunt you." W. M. McKendrick. "The best habit that one can form, is one in which he can economize his time, and then use it to the best advantage." J. G. Lind. "Without training in Domestics every day life is incomplete." Sarah T. Evans. Bingham. How can I remove these spots from my coat? Shurtliff. Apply a pair of scissors and perform the operation as indicated. (In Advanced Rhetoric, speaking of the marks made between the eye brows, by old age) Earl. I have noticed Bro. Lind has those marks between his eye-brows. Bro. McKay. O no he hasn't! He is only a young man. "To give attention is to give both your eye and mind, not just your eye." L. E. Cowles. "Keep your attention fixed on one subject at a time. You cannot travel two roads at once." Chas. Bitter. "Strive to fit your position in life. Let no opportunity slip by that you might have cause to say "It might have been." Jennette McKay. "Train your minds to be keen; for a keen mind finds music in everything when seen in the right light. Thoroughness comes only through hard fought practice and effort." J. E. Ballantyne. Bro. Bradford (In Psychology, looking at the boys.) Of course you can't carry this out fully unless