22 THE ACORN Remarks heard at the Junior Character ball: "Principal McKendrick (speaking to Joe E: who was dressed like a girl): "Well Joe, you've got most of the girls beat a city block." Professor Davis: "Thad's knees come together like a home run." Professor Davis: "For goodness sake, what is the matter with Treseder's walk? He walks with a kind of hesitancy or a sort of lisp." Jensen (calling at Claramay's house. Her sister answers the door): Is your sister in? Yes. Is your father in? Yes. Well, goodby! Victor (speaking of mental telepathy): "I made some one call me up the other evening- for no reason at all." Alma: "Well, I'll bet I know who it was." Can anyone guess? When Miss Cleghorn was reading the names of those who failed in English Literature, Joe Eccles turned to Mabel and said: "Oh, Mabel, my heart has jumped up into my mouth, don't let it jump out." Alberta: "That is perfectly, comically funny." Mabel: "Listen! Is that the Glee club singing?" Fawn: "No, I think they are moving the chairs." Fawn: "Which one is he?' Celia: "You know, the little floppy one." Professor Jensen: "Mr. Thomas will you please give the definition of insect or indicate the difference between an insect or a bug." James: "An insect is a thing much smaller than a bug. I didn't look up the definition, but this is one of my own." Floor manager (at the H. C. P. matinee): "Buffalo! (meaning Buffalo glide). Boy (engaging the dance): "May I have this buffalo?" Girl: "Yes, if you can catch it." Pearl was giving an outline on dancing. Margaret (in a whisper): "Illustrate, Pearl." Pearl: "Shall I illustrate?" Miss Cleghorn: "Well, if you choose." Myrle: "Is this piece written in flats?" Leone: "No, of course not, it is in the treble clef." THE ACORN 23 The "by-word" of the sewing room, "Now girls there's too much talking." Professor Jensen: "We will start reading with Lawrence and go 'south." Leland Reed (who was listening to the band practise in the room below): "Can't you hear the vibration of that music in your feet?" Horace Nelson: "The man was keeping a diary or dairy, which is it?" February 24 Mrs. Shurtliff and Miss Cragun were each presented with a box of beautiful carnations by the Rose Bud Sorority girls as a token of appreciation for their aid in the entertainment of the Granite and our own basket ball teams. It has been recently discovered that some of our students can do two things at once: chew gum and the English language especially in devotional. Blue tickets no joke, it's a stern reality. Domestic Science Notes "We may live without poetry, music and art, We may live without conscience, and live without heart, We may live without friends, and we may live without books, But civilized man cannot live without cooks." On January 26, '09 a dainty oyster luncheon was served to the Sorority girls in the school dining room. The occasion being the second number of a series of lectures outlined in the Sorority literary course. The lecture on "Self Mastery" was given in a very interesting and instructive manner by Sister Shurtliff. The second year Domestic science girls have made arrangements for practical work in camp cooking and also menus for picnics. February 15, '09, Ruby Cross and Bardella Barker gave a valen- tme luncheon in the academy dining room. The color scheme of pink was carried out effectively in the table decorations of pink carnations, the napkins were of dainty pink and the place cards were heart shaped valentines tied with pink ribbon. In the menu the valentine idea prevailed.