EXCHANGE Ogden, Thanksgiving, '09. Fellow Exchange Editors: Up to the present few of our old exchanges have appeared, so we are compelled to make a general criticism of last year's work in the world of school papers. As it appears to us, very few editors on our list seem to realize that improvement is the real object of exchanging ideas and making criticisms. Evidently, however, this idea is not generally accepted. For illustration, a paper may be criticised for mixing ads. with the reading matter because it mars the appearance of the book. We fully realize that space in the reading matter is more desirable to the advertisers, but they will "come through" anyway if nobody gets the inside page. This friendly advice apparently has no effect because said paper continues to arrive in its original jumbled-up style. Another common fault is the brief acknowledgment of exchanges thus: The is good. The- is excellent, etc. Nobody receives any benefit from such "criticism." Indeed it is hardly worth while commenting on them at all unless you have some real criticism to offer. Your continuing to receive a paper is evidence sufficient that it is exchanged. The fact that, generally speaking, the same criticisms appear month after month leads us to believe that most of the papers received by the exchange editors are looked over, acknowledged and then tossed aside. Where this is the case the exchange department may be considered an almost useless expense. When you receive a criticism, take it to the department it concerns and consider it. Either commend in a manner that others may notice what you consider good criticise so that others will not make the same mistake or say THE ACORN 21 nothing at all. If you have a comment to make, make it, and do so in a way that will help some fellow paper. Don't flatter. Don't "slam." Give and take in a spirit of mutual improvement. Let us raise the standard of our high school papers. Yours for the better, THE ACORN. Elva Hansen, an old-time warrior of the gridiron, now an instructor in the W. A., is the proud papa of a bouncing baby boy. Student Life. There i$ a $mall matter which $ome of our $ub$criber$ have $eemingly forgotten. To u$ it i$ nece$$ary in our bu$ine$$. We are very mode$t and do not wi$h to $peak of it. Freshman (passing plumber's shop, reading sign, "Cast Iron Sinks") "Anybody knows that." I shot an arrow into the air; It fell to the earth, I knew not where, Until the man on whom it fell Came around and gave me-the information. Foresight Foresight is where we are able to blunder into success without looking surprised. A freshman gives the following justification of Sunday study for himself: "If a man be justified in helping an ass out of a hole on the Sabbath day, how much more would the ass be justified in helping himself out." Teacher "I want each of you to make a sentence using the word delight." Freshman "De wind came in de window and blew out de light." "A thimble," answered small Emerson, "is a diminutive truncated cone, convex at its apex and semi-perforated with symmetrical indentations."