EDITORIAL AS A REMINDER. Fellow students, here is the last regular issue of volume eight. We are indeed grateful for the support we have received from you and we hope that our efforts have been somewhat satisfactory to you. Before we place this little oak in the custody of our successors, we have yet one more duty to perform. In past years it has been the custom to present to the school a souvenir issue, one that will be worth while, and one that can be prized by the students as a treasure in years to come. In order to do this, we must rely upon you for photographs, cartoons, phunisms, stories, poems, etc. If these are forthcoming from the students we warrant you a school album, that you will be proud of when you are bowed in age, and your hair is white with the snow of years. Now students, you know the proposition made in the last issue. Don't let the prize go begging, but compete for one with a determination to win. KEEP BUSY. Activity is contagious, so also is idleness. One is actuated by a spirit to do something; the other by a spirit to do nothing. We as a school have been doing things about right let us keep it up. If we have one particular thing strongly in our minds, we are not going to be thinking of something of the opposite nature. Good work has been our boast, and let it always be. There are now many attractions outside of school, but shall we not look farther ahead than the present. It is no doubt a pleasure to stroll about in the park and enjoy the spring sunshine; but will it not be a greater pleasure to enjoy the benefits of well spent time, which will be with us when spring is past. Our school days are numbered, therefore let us be active and not idle. Spring fever, which is so easily contracted, is a contagious form of idleness. To prevent and cure means success. Activity is what we want. It has a double purpose, because it is the only prevention and easily obtained by those who will use it, and the only cure for those who are afflicted. Let us keep awake. The events of March 6th show us we have been awake. To sleep now means to expose ourselves to contagion. To be at work means success in everything. ACORN 13 SHORT CUTS. Life is full of short cuts. For a great many people it is one short cut from the cradle to the grave. Not necessarily in years nor in intelligence, but in respect to their sense of order, symmetry and tidiness. In this regard they are so full of short cuts that sidewalks cannot accommodate them. They would rather make crooked cow trails over the lawn than follow modern sidewalks. In their short cuts they have missed the path of manners and passed through the schools of vulgarity and slovenliness. Such are they who decorate our walls with vile sayings, whittle desks, litter floors, loiter in the halls and trample on the rights of our friend "Good Manners" shamefully. Now for the question, "Are you a short cut?" Judging from the scribbling on certain walls in this building, the trails over the lawns and the condition of some of the school furniture we have many among us. Owing to their activity there are parts of this building that would put a railroad water tank near a hobo district in the shade if entered in a contest for vileness. If you are interested in the good name of the "Purple and White" lend your utmost aid in shaming them out of our midst. THE GYM. He that boosts in earnest shall not boost in vain, for great are the possibilities of a determined man. Such have been the experiences in our school of late. Some time ago a movement was set on foot to provide a gym for Weber Academy. The students were enthused, the Alumni overcharged with ambition and the friends of the school in general wanted to see a gym at the Academy. In the midst of this enthusiasm came the summer vacation, our aspirations fell and the prospects for a gym become exceedingly dark. Soon after the opening of school last fall a successful attempt was made to arouse this enthusiasm, and as Prof. Porter states it, "We have all been exposed to the gymnasium baccillus and are sorely afflicted with gymnitis." This dreaded disease has become so serious that the Board of Education has taken steps toward its cure. They have consulted specialists on this disease, and have learned that the only cure for it is the erection of a gymnasium, where it can be eradicated through natural channels. So bright are indications that Principal Henderson said on a prominent occasion, when the gym was the object of discussion, "You can hear it coming, you can feel it coming, you can see it coming." So great has been the talk of the gym, that as David Eccles says, "It's