CRIMSON AND WHITE
Friday, November 16, 1934
THE MILNE SCHOOL
Albany, N. Y.
Volume V,
SENIOR
Number
NEWS
m i M l RCD
GUN CLUB
TO HOLD FIRST TR.P-.&Ii)OT
TOMORROW ..T C..RVIL F.^mi
STUl^MT COUNCIL AIMOUNCES
SMvII-raimL DANCE liSC. 19
IN NEvV RECREATION CENTER
Tomorrow morning at 11^00 the Milne
Rod and Gun Club v;ill meet in Coach Bicker ^s office and go thence to the Carvill
farm for their first meeting' of the seasons Under the direction of Coach Baker
the "boys try their skill at shooting
clay pigeons. The individual scores are
kept at each meeting and at the end of
the yoar a prise is given to the one
v/ith the highest total score«
The Milne Student Council announces
a semi-formal dance to be given Wednesday evening, December 19, at 8j00 ui the
Recreation Center in Hawley Hail former"^;
ly known as the "Old Gym^" The Council
has not yet decided upon the price of
admission per coupleo The dance is being held in order to raise money for the
murals and is open to everyone^ Tne Student Council has appointed the follcwing
committees to take care of the business
end of the dance, Raymond Hotc.liA^s
Robert Fovvler, and Roger Orton will hav;
charge of the ticket sale. The orchestr:
committee consists of Edv/in Blocksidge
and Dunton Tynano William Perkins
and
William Hotaling will ra«nage the advertising end of the dance, and the cloakroom^ Carolyn Mattice and Lois Lant^;
v/ill arrange for the chaperonsc
Anyone owning a regulation shotgun
Coked to bring it. Those v/ho have no
gun, and cannot borrov/ one, may obtain
par'uial use of some member's gun<. The
shells and pigeons are distributed by
Coach Bakers a small tax bei.ng- imposed
cn c^ach boy. After trap-shooting, some
of the fellows have rifle practice. If
.anyone owns a rifle, he is permitted
to bring it along.
Edwin Freihofer will again hold the
position of business manager for the
c.lubr. These people who were last year's
o'ub members and are again enrolled arej
.^dv/in Freihofer, Harry Witte, V/illiam Emc r -J/ ) Clarence
Chatterton, Jay O^Brien,
Richard Thompson, Cecil Hastings, and
Sheldon M a d in.
VAN BUREN VARSITY TROUNCES
MILNE IN PRACTIGS C^AIvIE, HO-S
The Milne High School varsity basketball team had a practice game Tuesday ^ November 13, in the Pago Hall gvniia.sium v/ith the Martin Van Buren varsity
team of Kinderhooko The
score was
20-6 in favor of the visitors. Captain
"Sonny" Blocksidge was high scorer for
Milnec The line-up at tho start of the
SPEWCER STRESSES IMPORTANCE
game for Milne wasj forwards^ Blocksidge
•OF STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE
and MacHargs center, Simmons; guards, Rosenstein and Thompson. The substitutes
Colonel Per Ramee of the United
included Smith, Wltte, Norvell, and Dear
States Army spoke in a Milne assembly
Monday, November 1£, at lljOO.on the sub- styne. George Bohaker is the coach of
.iect, "Our System of National Defensec" the Martin Van Buren team.
;e stressed the importance of a strong
:;.':ifensOi stating that both the V/ar of
The basket-ball schedulo for :}hr
.812 and the Civil V/ar could have been Milno team has been announced by jT.;
prevented if the United States had been O^Erien, basket-ball manog'or^
Home
bettor prepared for foreign attacks. He
Dec. 8
Strafford
advised the boys of Milne to join the
Home
DeCe 15
Jefferson
[-Jatioral Guards, the Reserves, or even
Troy C. D«
Home
jano 12
the regular army as soon as they v/ere
Away
Open
Jan. 19
old enough.
Home
Feb. 1
Open
Troy C. Do
Away
Feb. 8
Col. Ramee is the instructor of MilHcm^e
Mohawk
Feb. 15
itary Tactics in Troy and a member of
Home
Feb. 23
State Fro Eh
the National Guard. He has been on duty
Home
Mar. 1
Open
in the Philippine Islands for sixteen
Mar, 9
Cobleskill
Away
yearso He has a son in V/est Point, a
son in Annapolis, a daughter in Stc.te
A l l home games will be played in
College, and another son in the Albi-.ny
the Page Hall Gym at S-OOo
High School.
i^OVEIfflii:?. 16
GKIkSON IdW WHITE
CHIMbON ia® WHITE
Helen Cibson
Barby.ra Eirchsnough
Carolyn MattIce
Edw:.n Blocks idj^^e
Olive Vroman
Osmund Smith
C^ilvln Dutcher
Christine Ades
Luise Morrison
Sara Kossler
I.ois Lanta
Virginia Hall
Mary York
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published weekly by the
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Terms;
vance«
Crimson
School,
and
Al-
Milne, we cong'ratulate you, Milne
is a perfect example of the practlo'.^bility and superiority of that pl^n wljich
has been the "bug'aboo" of more than oxie
instructor and school principal - Student Governmento
Under this plan^ almost all school business> social and
otherwise (with, of course, the teachingdepartm.ont as an exception) is
carried
on by the students themselves,, Ar.'.i3 this
is done through the medium of a studentelected Student Council, the name of
v/hich is self-explanatory.
Officers of the school are studentelected alsoe Through the Student Council, matters such as the-Trc.ff.io Sytrtem,
appropriations from the school's Student
Tux Fund for various school activities,
and school dances are handled successfully, The Student Council is at once
legislative 3 judicial, and executive.,
and, through its representatives, re-fleets the attitude of the entire schoo]
Student Government can not be trusted in
the hands of those unfit for the privilege, Too often it has been a miserable
failure.
Therefore, Milne, again wo
congratulate you.
^jiilcOO per year, payable in adFree to students paying student
taxo
JUST A COLlMvf
BiiNG*
VEESE:
THE OCTOBER HONOR ROLL
The Senior High honor roll for October v;as made public to the Milne students in the November Z issue of the
Crimson and V/hife, And-,d distressingi-ji
b'ma.i'1 ~honoi• "roTlTt was., too? Four seniors.. two juniors, and two sophomores,
only9 had averages which reached the
liiarko For a school possessing- a scholastic reputation such as Milne*s where
each student must make a special application to enter and take special
entrance examinations, eight honor students is a remarkably small percentage
of bhe Senior High students which number
approximately 185.
How to explain this deficiency?
porhaps the Milne students donU realize
that there are valuable college scholarships which each honor student has an
exoollont opportunity of winnings Perhr.ps the Milne students feel that "just
getting by*' is a sufficiently worthwhile
aim for high school, not realizing that
each tiling mastered today miiikes tomorrow's task easier. Perhaps - oh, there
are innumerable suppositions that can be
made, but none of them are justified.
Milnu can and must have a larger honor
roll for November,
I never road a decent column-,
I hope some day I will,
But I can toll you any day,
I»d rather read than write cno5
DOPEY-JOKEY:
Erjglish teacher; Come, come I V/hat
book did A^ A., Milne write?
... Swat: Milne the Floss,
miOREES:
0. Vroman with mouth closed.
Fred Dearstyne not singing.
Davis v/ithout the horse,
FLASH:
The gal from South Brooklyn is ro\
idly recovering from her recent 1.
cut.
EXTRi^:
Three Junior High lads reportec.
looking at "IVIurals" in library.
FROM OUR COLUM TV/EKTY YIilARS AGO?
Dr. Plier Oars appointed principa"
after Board of Educ..tion row.
Oo Jo Smith receives 26:^ pri2:o fo;.*
being most promising fi-eshmanc,
• It's alv/ays best to start a coiumj.i with
a bang,
-V/o Tar box
CTlIivlbOW AKD WHITE
MILNE GLEE-CLUB 'TO SING
NIGHT OF CHRISTMAS PLAYS
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Under the txxtele^e of Dr, T, Frederi'vk H. Candlyn, of State College, the
Iviil::^.e High School Glee Club is learning'
several pioces" which'-'they "v/lll sing the
night of the presentation of the Annual
Milne Christmas Pla/s on DeCo I?,
The
chorus has been practicing the songs,
"Good King Y^enceslas/' "God Rest
Ye
Merry Gentlemen," and ".Ve Three King's,"
The Glee Club meets in room 28 of
Richarson Hall every Vvednesday at 11-00.
There are enrolled at present forty-one
students, twenty-two girls and nineteen
boys, from both the senior and junior
high schools. Dr. Candlyn has expressed
the desire to have more boys who sing
tenor in the club., The large number of
basses does not balance well with the
small amount of tenors. All who wish to
try out for the Glee Club should be
present at the next meetingc
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QJJIN:
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Quotation's were from 19th century
poets. An entertainment committee wi'tli
Barbara Eirchenough as chairman was selected. Refi eshments for the Hush were
also discussedo
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DRIBBIE COLUiVil'
The first function of the senior
high school was held one week ago toC^i'j,
and everything was peachy. The plays
v/ere all very good and so was the dancing. The most important Thing of the
evening was that the so-callr.l v">rr.3hers
did not have such a good time be cause
they could not get
There wero many,
yes very many turned away. This goes to
prove that they can and will be kept
av;ay from our social affairs o
One of our school's most popular
fellows had a little accident on a bus
last weekv
It seemed that ho was not
paying attention to what he v/as doingand he walked into a pest and cut his
head just above the eye. Oh^ well, nev
a soft post.
P..Lev/is Stutz and Edo Case spent
the w e e k - e n d at their homes last v/oeK^ •
They both attend Colgi-te. With ,them camo
some very good poetry* that is,
they
thought it v;as goodo l U l give an excampie .Ji'
"Tv/irJcle, twinkle little star
Hov/ I wonder what you are
Up above the y/orld so.high,
Just like a gosh darn light bulbc."
' This only goes to prove that youi tvmo
in college is not v;asted.
Did you all enjoy 0. Jay Smithes
poetry last week? I think thr.t v/e should
be mcde by a committee with Holon Gibson; have some moreo ,
as chairman^, It was decided to send Cord
-So nny B10 ck s i dg e
Randall^ who has appendicitisa. card'
now, and a book later.
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GIRLS TO PLJLY HOCKEY GAlvLE
SICMA;
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WITH IViOUNT PLEASANT TODAY
' Roll call for Sigma*s meeting last'
Tuesday v/as answered by quotations from
This afternoon at "two o'clock , at
Louis Untermeyer. The literary program' i3everwyck Park, the Milne girls' varsity
consisted of reports by Louise Morrison,' hockey team will play the team fro^
who gave the life of the author., and [ Mount Pleasant High School of SrhenocGertrude Vvheuler, who gave the works. tady- The original date was Gaturda;^'
Several suggestions for the initiations, November 17, at 10;00, but at
Mount
v»'ore offered,
Pleasant•s request it was changed. A
good turn-out and support of the studo;
ADELPxiQI:
At the Adelx:)hoi
Meeting- Tuesday body is expected.
Fred roarstyne gave a report on the book5,
"One Hundred Million Guinea Pig.s>" by
Arthur Kallett and F. J- Schlink. A f t e r
ON ARlYilSTICE DAY
the report the members asked Mr, Dearstyne several questions,
The V/orld War came to an end oj
Mond.;y, November 11, 1918, • at elovc:
o»clock A. M.,. The armisticQ which wc.r,
A discussion "on having a dance to
imposed upon Germnay by ,the Allies an^.
raise money for the society was held.
It was decided that the matter be laid 'the United States was _ signed by the
German plenipotentiaries, near Senlis.,
on the table until next v^feek so that the
France,
at five o^clock A., M.., and the
members could think it over^
hostilities ceased at eleven o'clock. On
that day, a silent tribute is giveeverywhere to the memory of the deac.
G H E E R - L E A D I N G T R Y - O U T S ON T U E S D I . Y
soldiersr. "Lost we forget" is the preThose in -the Senior High School who
vailing thought of the day, which i?
did not have a chance on Thursday and
demonstrated at eleven,, when "every fac;
Friday to try out for cheer-leading, mtiy is turned to the east and the fields oi
try out on Tuesday, November 20, in room Flanders.
320 at 2:00.
Invitations to the
I
Quin Rush
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will'
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