ACORN Staff Literary Department Editor-in-Chief ALMA WILSON '11 Associate Editor FRANCIS BUDGE '11 M. RAE BARLOW '11 Literary Editors MYRTLE R. YOUNG '12 IRVIN NELSON '12 Student Body Activities LEONE ENGSTROM '11 Alumni LILA ECCLES '10 Athletics ANGUS McFARLANE '11 EVA DRIVER '12 Exchange VIOLA TAYLOR '12 Staff Artist ELLIS BARLOW '11 Reporters ISABEL REVERIDGE '11 DICA DARBY '12 IVA STEERS '13 ROLAND REEVES '14 Business Department Business Manager, LAURENCE W. RICHARDS 'll First Assistant WM. J. CRITCHLOW '11 Second Assistant LYMAN L. GOWANS '12 Third Assistant JACC ECCLES '13 Subscription and CLARENCE S. McCUNE '12 Circulation J THE ACORN Skeeter Above the din and hubbub of an athletic room in a small middle-western college, a voice was heard to exclaim, "I tell you I won't have it, Baum can't play basket-ball, and I've told you so a dozen times, why he's simply rank, yes rank, you heard me the first time. He ruined our star play yesterday by throwing to left forward instead of back to center, as I've told him X41C means; I can't and won't trust him. I'm going to put "Dutch Koerner" in Baum's place. I'm cocksure that "Dutch" won't fumble the signals." As he left the room the speaker said, "You can holler all you want to, I'm Captain around here and am going to do as I please." Bert Anguish was captain and righ-guard of the "Medland Basket-ball Team," and was wrought up over the way "Skeeter" Baum, had continually mixed up the signals the day before at a practice game. The next day the Medland College, that is the team of the college was going to play the championship game off with a rival college of Cedarburg, a small town about forty miles to the south of Medland. Anguish being the captain of the team, had naturally set his mind upon winning this game, but when one of his best players had bungled up the practice game, the captain was feeling quite blue. Anguish knew, as well as the others in the team, that Dutch Koerner was not as steady a man nor as good a player as Baum, but he told his team-mates that Dutch was a better man, knew his signals better and was quicker in tight places. Though the captain knew he was falsifying when he said it, he was discouraged and so was reckless. Meeting Baum in the corridor of the library that afternoon Anguish said to him, "Well, old man, I guess we'll have to put Dutch in your place for tomorrow. You certainly are out of sorts and I'm afraid you will lose the game for us. Sorry, Skeeter, but maybe next time you will be in better trim. Hope to see you at the game, anyway. So-long." Whistling a popular rag, he went sauntering out onto the campus leaving a disconsolate and very forlorn looking young man, who shoved his hands into his pockets and went gloomily to his classroom. After leaving Baum, Anguish went over to the "frat" house to see Koerner. There he was told that Dutch was either at "Bill's Inn" or some pool house near there. Making his way down town, Anguish met Koerner coming out of the Inn with flushed face and talking boisterously to some one back of him.