CRIMSON AND WHITE
Friday, December 20,1935
THE MILNE SCHOOL
Albany, N. Y.
Volume VI,
Number 10
SENIOR
NEWS
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^ ERIDaY
CRIMSON AND WHITE
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DECEMBER 20, 1935
JOINT CHRISTMaS ASSEMBLY TODAY
BIRLS* ATHLETIC HONORS AWARDED
PLAY TO BE PRESENTED BY SCHOOL
RENSSELAER DOWNS MILNE
IN LAST TWO MINUTES;
MiiC HLtJ^G HIGH SCORER
The annual Christmas assembly will
be held Friday, December 20, at 1:00
o'clock in the Page Hall auditorium. The
program will be opened with the singing
of a carol; Miss Hitchcock will then
give out the girls' athletic honors.
A week ago tonight, the Crimson and
White team lost another close decision
to the Rensselaer quintet.
This makes
Milne's sixth loss out of seven starts.
The tewims were deadlocked after a fast
"flghtiJDg half. All during the second
half, both teams played at top speed and
were never more than two baskets apart
frcm e..ch other, ^^s seems to be the case
this year, Milne let their o|iponents get
away from them in the closing minutes to
score five points, ' v;hich put them down
in defeat.
A play, "Christmas in Albany," will
be given by students from both senior
and junior high school. The cast is as
follows; General Schuyler, LeRoy Smith,
Mistress, Jean Amblerj Peggy, Virginia
McDermott, Marion Fasholdt; Betsy, Lois
Blessing; Kitty, Leah Einstein; Phillip,
Robert Stevenson; Birch, Armon Livermore;
Peter, Dexter Simpson;/Master Livingston,
Edward V/alker, Foster feipperly; Mistress
Livingston, Doris Holmes, Roberta Brandwin; Alice Livingston, Elaine Belcher;
Master Van Rensselaer, 'TCl<3gsloy Grigg;
Mistress Van Rensselaer, Gertrude Wheeler; Johanna Van Rensselaer, Estelle Dilg;
Alexander Hamilton, Lowell Gypson; Saint
Nicholas, Alfred Metz; Prince, Robert
Nattell; Mose, George Proper.
The play is an original one and is
directed by Miss Frances Studebaker and
Miss Augusta Shoor of State College. The
committee of sets, costumes, and writing
consisted of Shirley Baldwin,
Doris
Holmes, Stanley Eddison, Foster Sipperly,
Anna Oliver, Vivian Snyder, and Margaret
Lasher,
The annual Christmas boxes will
also be judged at this assembly by a
committee of faculty members consisting
of Miss Martin, Mrs. Barsam, Dr. Frederick, and Miss Bills, These boxes will
be distributed under the supervision of
Roger Orton.
The assembly will be closed with
the singing of more Christmas carols.
SENIOR HIGH Pi^RTY TO BE HELD
FRIDAY, jANUiiRY 17, ..T 8:30
The senior high party, according to
president Raymond Hotaling, will be on
Friday, January 17, from 8:30 to 11}00
o'clock, Edmund Haskins hired the callers for the square dancing; one of these
callers will instruct the students in
the various steps, while the other will
do the calling. There will be refreshments and some decorations.
The main topic of discussion in the
student council meeting last Friday was
on changing the day of the meeting, due
to conflict with the girls' basketball
schedule. The meeting, hereafter, will
be held on Thursday, at 2:00 o'clock in
the same room.
A solution for the mural problem
has been re.-ched. It was planned that
Milne should give tea dances on Friday
afternoons, in the Recreation Center of
State College.
(Contined in ne*-t column)
The Rensselaer squad was a smoothworking team. Captained by i^l
Ewasco
they foughb their v/ay to victory. Their
center was the largest in the Capitol
District, weighing over tw®
hundred
pounds and standing over six feet tall.
Although Thompson, the center, has been
high-scorer for most of the previous
games, the Milne boys had comparatively
no trouble in holding him drwn.
The Milne quintet, led by Douglas
MacHarg and Bob Taft, who each scored
ten points, put up a hard game.
Their
passing game was the best that they have
had yet this year. With Rosenstein and
Hotaling fighting all the way, Taft
sinking "under the basket shots," MacHarg "popping up," N»rvell in the game
all the time until out on fouls, and
Simmons sinking his two foul shots, the
Crimson Tide forged onward.
It wasn't
until the final two minutes of the game
that the strain began to tell on our
squad, iiS has happened in many of the
games this season, the Milne team
lost
the game in the last minutes of pj-ay.
HI-Y WINS TOURNi^iENT
Last Tuesday night on the Y.M.C.A.
gymnasium floor, the Milne High School
Hi-Y captured the basketball championship of the district by white-washing
the Delmar chapter and downing Philip)
Schuyler. Before a group of
Milne
rooters, the Crimson and White clad
squad ran circles around Delmar to a
51-15 score. Although the Schuyler team
WT'..,s somewhat tougher, the Milne team had
no trouble in defeating them 27-22. The
line-up for Milne v/as MacHarg, Simmons,
Norvell, Hotaling, Feldman, and Sipperly,
MISS JOHNSON RETURNS
Miss L. li. Johnson, Latin supervisor, who has been absent for a week, is
back with us ogain^
She returned to
school Monday and reported herself as
"feeling fine again," She was confined
at home with a cold.
(0ontinued from first column)
orchestra v/ill be hired for the dancing. The price of admission has not yet
been decided upon.
FRIDAY
CRBiSON iiND V/HITE
CRIMSON AND m i T E
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WHiiT IS CHRISTMS?
What is Christmas? That is the issue that arises every year about this
time and is the question that one can
never solve. One cwn only have certain
ideas peculiar to himself and can only
expound these ideas to his fellow-citizens,
Christmas is a season of gladness
eUid joy. It is a time when all should
be gay and happy. It is a time for all
to rejoice. And yet, all people are not
happy on this day. Some have not food
or clothes, some are sick or dying, others are ignorcsnt of the Event which made
Christmas.
In the Church, Christmas is a Foast,
and a time to rodedicate one's self to
God, a season of te^-ching by some and
roceiving by others, a season of consecration.
In schools, the Christmas season is
a season of vacation. Every one is out
of school and rejoicing' correspondingly.
Older brothers and sisters are home from
boarding school or college, dances are
held, turkeys c.re e^-ten, flanks le;..p up
in the family firepl^^ce. Sports flourish also during the winter se..scn. Skr.ting, skiing- hiking, tobogganing", snowshoeing, all these are prevalent,
( Cont i nued in nex t co luimi)
DECEMBER 20, 1935
All these various ideas bBing out
the idi?in that Christmr.s is fun. Dances,
sports, get-togethers, caroling, and the
Christmas Spirit all tend to make this
season the most joyous that we know.
In closing", may we si.y
are just a few of the ide£,s
the design on the cover of
May joy exist in all, large
Merry Christmc-s cjid A Happy
you all!
that these
expressed by
this paper#
or small. A
New Year to
ikN UNFAIR RULH^G?
ikmerican sports have become so ccmpiicuted with rules and regulations that
they have triken on an aspect of some
variety of machine or systexr..
While
these rules are primarily to insure
fair play they are not always sufficient in covering" all instances in a
satisfactory manner.
The interpretation of interscholastic basketball rules is left, in a large
measure, to the referee in charge.
No
two referees will decide the same way about every point of the game. Sometimes
they fail to detect very evident fouls,
and often they call fouls for very trivial points, but this is due largely to
the inability to see each play from the
most advantc^-eous angle. Very seldom dr
you find a referee who willing"ly shows
partiality to either.side. It is an extremely difficult task to referee any
game with absolute fairness to both
parties.
Often a rule may be inadequate or
unfair. Recently the Crimson clad quintet invaded the home court of a highfliy
rated team in another city. They fought
through a fast game tr a 19-19 tie.
As
the additional period opened the opposition scuik a foul shot and took the lead
by the score of 20-19. With the characteristic last minute ccmeback the Milne
squad rallied and tallied a field goal,
just as the shot was fired that
ended
the game. However, instead of counting
the basket, and thus awarding the game
to Milne, the ball was called back because a Milne player had been fouled on
the play. This proved to be the defeat
of our boys. They v/ere not defeated by
the opposition or by an unjust ruling rf
the referee. They were beaten by a loophole in the rules of the game. Two bus
loads of Milne rooters went home with
the feeling that they had been robbed.
Does it seem right, that by committing a foul you should win the game? In
football the 'team favored by the penalty
hu.s a choice of the gain of the play
or the penalty. If they have made six
y^rds or so they rarely trice the penalty.
Why not have some regulaticn of the same
kind to cover this situation in basketball?
LOST:
purple woolen scarf from a locker last v/Qe?-£o If found, please return to
Ed.-ji.r
, hoiaoi^oon
Rev>fard.
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ERIDaY
CRIMSON AND WHITE
SOCIETIES
DECEMBER 20, ,1935
MIENE HOLDS ST. MARK'S
TO ONE POINT VICTORY
IN
OVERTIME
PERIOD
For about tho first time this year,
the Crimson and White team has hit its
stride in basketball* Last
Saturday
Quint
night
the
Milne
team
journeyed
to AmThe weekly Quin meeting was opened
sterdam
whore
they
enccui.terod
last
with (juotations from the Reader's Digest»
year's
champions
in
the
Catholic
Lecgue
The remainder of the olub period was devoted to swearing in the xam members, in one of the finest gomes of ball seen
who attended a Quin meeting for the by Milne rooters* Before two bus loads
first time* The Quin song was sung at •f* students from Milne, the Crimson Tide
held their opponents to a one j^oint victhe end of the meeting*
tory in an overtime period* This upset
of the prediction that Milne was to be
Sigma:
The meeting was called to order at swamped restored fnith in tho Tide*,
lis10 hy the president, Barbara Bladen* Strange as it may seem, the junior varsity. also held their opponents to a oneThe roll and the treasurer's report were
point
victory*
omitted because of the absence of Dor*
othy Thon^son and The^ma Sefall*
Playing on on over-size court in
Barbara Bladen gave the biegraphy the Amsterdam armory the Milne team
started off with a bong* Hard fighting».
of Edgar ikXlen Poa; the works were also
omitted because of the absence of Dcr«> clever passing, and good shooting with
endless following-up kept the Crimson
othy Harrison* "
sq.uad ahead all of the time. It was not
until
tho last few minutes thut the team
The officers were introduced to the
new girls*' Barbara Soper was elected begtin to weaken and St* Mary's were able
marshall* The meeting was adjourned at to tie the score at 19-19* Then with the
11130 after the singing of the Zeta boys tired but determined, a fast overtime period began* In fact, that period
Sigma song*
was tho fastest pace the Milne t a m has
ever kept*
Continual diving for the
The quotations next week will be
ball,
dribbling,
cutting, passing, and
from William Shakespeare* Betty Douglas
fighting
featured
the period* Unfortunhas the works and Mar jorie Stanton, the
ately,
on
unavoidable
foul was called abiographyt
gainet the over-^oger Milne boys and
that point won tho
But this point
Theta Nuj
D u r ^ a short business meeting, did not take any fight out -of., them and
until
the treasurer's report was giveiit^ A they sped up that endless pace
short skit was given with MTf Selkirk as the final gun sounded the end*.
toastmaster, Messrs, Haskins and Wilke
SpeolGl credit iiould be given to
in the leading roles, assisted by Mr*
all the players and to Captain Doug*
Bond.
MaoHarg, who ployed the best gome seen
A discussion was then held on the this year^ scoring ten points out of the
subjeot of the Reader's Digestr
Next nineteen*
week, Mr* Farringten will give a book
report,'
Adelphol;
Robert Jeldman gave a report wn
"Charles Lindbergh, Scientist,".fram.:the
Literary Digest, It concerned some of
the things which Lindbergh has done to
help science.
No Adelphoi pins are to lie: ordered
until next semeater^ .
BUG DUST
*
4>
Roger* I just got a car*
Arthurt Sedant
Rogert No, thanks, I'll stand*
Bob Feldman: I can't eat this soup*
Waiter!
Just a minute, I'll call the
CHRISTMnS CaOSSTINGS
heL.d waiter*
best
Bob| I tell you, I can«t eat this
The Crin^OA aad White sends
wishes to.
soup*
Head waiteri * I'll call thd manager Immediately*
ProfossQi' S^l^Sg principal, Dr*
Frederlok, principal of the junior high, Bob: I oan't eat this soup*
Miss Nicos, and the teachers, supervisprs, Manager{ thot's wrong with it?
BobJ Nothing; I ain't got a spoon.
and pupils of Milne High School.
Also, to those men and women who by
their efforts keep this building ^lean^ FQSti^r; Whot makes an engine run?
Mrs* Louise De Roy, Mrs* Lena Oilraore,
Bob Mapes; If you had hot coals in your
Mrs* Nellie Stevens, Mrs* Molly Doyle,
pants, you'd run, too*
Mr* James Lockner, and Mr. Andy Jaoger,
p