24 THE ACORN In Elocution II: "We should place King Arthur in the foreground because the queen and Lancelot are always scheming around him." Vilate: "Then he ought to be placed in the background." Prof. McKay: "Why did Hamlet suppose, that if he killed the king, that the king would go to heaven?" Harold: "He knew that the king was too tough to burn." Ethel: "What is a maxum?" Moroni: "A saying that is true." Bro. Shurtliff: "Oh no, not necessarily." Moroni: "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" is a maxum and it is true. Bro. Shurtliff: (Looking southward). "No, that won't hold true, because if I'm fond of a person I always want to be near ('er)." Bro. Porter: "Do you know of a place where I could board and room?" Student: "Yes a lady near our house." Porter: "Has she any girls?" Student: "Yes, two." Porter: "That's the place I'm looking for." Bro. Shurtliff: (In commercial law). "Discuss briefly the rights of married women to contract." Miss Farr: "I can't." Shurtliff: "That is what you are preparing for, is it not?" Miss McKay: "From Lancelot's character what moral truth do we learn?" Wilford S.: "We can't tell by the looks of a frog how far he will jump." Favorite Quotations Heber Foulger: "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would thaw, melt and resolve itself into dew." Minnie Brown: "If I were loved, as I desire to be." Willie Wright: "I trust I have not wasted breath." Mabel Rolapp: "Her eyes are homes of silent prayers." Harold Johnson: "Thy voice is heard thro' rolling drums." Bro. McKay: (before an early-class). "Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn." Mae Scowcroft: "By night we lingered on the lawn." Sylvia Shaw: "Be near me when my light is low. We have many ambitious students in the Academy. A few days ago some of the boys, wishing to be through with the Academy, and realizing that success is. attained by starting at the bottom of the ladder and going up round by round, went out into the new building and climbed up the ladders until they reached the roof. They gazed around them, and then looking down at the boys below, proudly said: "We are thru the Academy." THE ACORN 25 Bro. Porter: "Are there any questions you would like to ask on the examination we had in "Physiology yesterday?" Driggs, "Yes, I couldn't locate the diagram." Elinor: "Hurry Glen, the second bell has rung." Glenna: "O, nevermind, Porter is used to waiting. Mary had a little lamb, you've all heard that before; Beneath her hat its wool is a rat, in Mary's pompoudore. Mary had some water-cress to boil in grandma's kettle; Now while she yells, the forearm tells, "It was a stinging-nettle." Degrees of Comparison Positive Read (Leland). Comparative Reeder(Herbert). Superlative Red (Tracy). Music It is not the Grand Piano, nor the costly clarinet, Nor the dainty snow-white fingers o'er the pearly key-board fret; 'Tisn't Eve's complexion powder and the dainty diamond ring, That makes music stand out prouder, with the solos we must sing; 'Tisn't sister's graceful figure that stands forth to please the ear; The opinion (small or bigger) grows alone from what we hear; "Tisn't Brother's handsome stature that puts music to the song; 'Tis the main chord as we catch her that denotes the right or wrong. "Tisn't Poland's population that brings Paderweiski fame, Nor Beethoven's reputation where the Old World gets its name; 'Tis the man who does his duty by the talents of his soul, Where the music spreads its beauty, and its author leads the roll. Music isn't placed on paper to be read in silent awe, Nor to float as scented vapor where the rich man puts his claw; 'Tho' the trade-mark be neglected by the self-important band (?) 'Tis the harmony respected by the angels in demand. Walter Emmett.