CRIMSON AND WHITE
Friday, January 10,1936
THE MILNE SCHOOL
Albany, N. Y.
Volume VI, Number 11
SENIOR
NEWS
?AETY WEEK FBOM TODAY;
10 BE IN NEW GYMASIUM;
SQUARE DANCE illATUEED
MILl^ TO PLAY RENSSELAER
TONIGKT ON AV/AY COURT
TO OPEN 1936 SCHEDULE
The senior high party will take
place in the new gym on Friday, January
17, from 8:30 to 11:30, Nelson Karl*s
seven piece orchestra will furnish music
for the dancing with George Cole as vocalist, There will "be both round and
square dancing, Seeley Funk has charge
of the refreshments. The gym will be
decorated with balloons and c»rnstalks
as diosen by the decoration committee,
consisting of Mary V/inshurst and Lois
Nesbitt,
Tonight on the Rensselaer High
School court, the Crimson and White basketeers will atten^t to start off the
1936 season with a barig by averaging the
defeat they suffered at the hands of the
blue and white quintet. In the previous
encounter the Milne squad went down in a
5 point defeat on their home court.
The student tax ticket is necessary
for admittance, and no outsider may attend, Foster Sipperly is in charge cf
the door.
The Crimson Tide got off to
poor
start this season winning one out bf 8
games. With two weeks of vacation practice and a good rest the Milne squad
should be able to break into its stride.
The last half of the schedule is equally
as difficult as the first.
When the Milne squad goes into acChaperons for the dance will be Misa tion tonight the some team v/ill be in
Hayes, Miss Wheeling, Miss Gushing, and
uniform; This includes C&ptain Macllarg,
Dr, Fredericks,
Korvell, Rosenstoin, Simmons, Hotaling,
Taft, Sipperly, Creesy, and Carvill,
AiVEERICAl^ SCHOOL OF AIR
EVERY DAY AT 2:30 O'CLOCK
Milne stadenta'aay "listeii vto •>th€r
American School of the Air any day at
2:30, The school radio is in room 228,
and permission to use it may be secured
from Miss Co.nklin, The purpose of the
American School of the Air is to give
the children that which they mi^ht not
otherv/ise be able to take advantage of.
Some of the sub fleets covered in these
broadcasts are music, history, curpent
events, science, art, gepgraphy, literature, and poetry.
There will be only two more gomes
this moiithi On January 19, Milne plays
the Cobleskill team on the Pcge Hall
court; and on January 25, they rlay St.
Mary's, also at home.
TEA
DANCE
i;S
POSTPONED;
NORVELL IN CHARGE OF FIELD DAY
The first tea' dance, which was
originally scheduled for this afternoon,
was p6stponed unti,! some Friday afternoon after mid-year examinations.
Ralph Norvcll was appointed chairman of the fi^Bld day conr^nittee.
Places
The program far next week is as
thct have been su+^gested are* Averill
follows*
Park, Tho Methodist Farm on Croo?rfted Lake,
Jan, 10 - • Current events
the Y. M. C. A. Camp on Purden*s LaJce,
Jan. 13 - . History—San Antonio
and
Lyons Lcjce, Only competitive swim.Jan. 14 .• Art—^"//oven pictures and their
ming will be allowed. If, however, the
stories
students in general arn alJcwed
to
Jan, 15 - Geography—Dfieiper
Dam
and
swim. Coach Goe^/ey and Miss Hitchcock
Kiev
Jan. 16 - Music—The Leprechaun (Priroary) will arrange for life guards.
Jan, 16 - Elementary science—^How
new
Ray Hotaling, president of council,
kinds of plants and animals
ahnounced
that homoroom.s should arrange
came •
a
time
to
hold
class mGetirigs for the
Jan. 17 - Vocational guidance—Careers
in governmental service
election of class officers.
Special
Jan, 17 - Current events
permission may be obtained from the
Jan. 20 - History—^Pittsburgh
faculty for a time and place to hold
Jan. 21 - Literature—The deeds of Sir
these meetirigs.
Geraint
Ei/otjzr
CRIMSON AND V/HITE
X^IDaY
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JANUAltY 10, ]9:55
The other two clocks should be placed 'n
the boys* and the girls* locker rooms in
Milne, They, too, would help the student to be sure of arriving in classes
on time.
CELViSON AND ^//HITE
Barbara Birchenough Editors-in-chief
Arthur Thompson
John Winne
Leslie Sipperly
Literary Editor
V/alter Simmons
When Milne clocks are not running,
Boys» Sports Editor
Jean Graham
some classes are dismissed before others,
Girls» Sports Editor
Elizabeth Simmons Student Council Editor which causes some confusion in startirjg
the next class.
The same condition
Sally Eyan
Joke Editor
prevails on a smaller scale when stuVida Benjamin
Headline Editor
dents have no access to
clocks.
Some
Doris Shultes
Art Editors
others,
less
arrive
at
classes
on
time;
Ruth Mann
fortunate, or less able to guess the
time, are tardy.
Reporters
Virginia Tripp
Virginia McDermott
Discuss this project in your home
Gertrude Y/heeler
Hazel Roberts
rooms. You, and not the other fellow,
Patricia Gibs«n
Barton Zabin
are tha one to get behind this project
and give it your full support. The betBusiness Department
ter that support is, the sooner we will
Robert Mapes
have
clocks in the annex and locker
Business Manager
William Freedman
rooms
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Distributing Agents
Billy Burgess
-V. Tripp
Selden Knudson
Mimeographers
Gordon Robinson
Howard Collins
TB/rE*S GETTING SHORTER
Printer
Some one ought to invent a way to
avoid the crowds v^hile doir^ Christmas
shopping, and the solution "stay at home"
wouldn't help.
Miss Catherine E, Wheelir^g
Faculty Adviser
Mr, Harry Gumaer
Student Adviser
Published weekly by the
White staff at the Milne
bany, New York,
Terms:
vance,
tax.
Crimson
School,
and
Al-
$1.00 per ye^r, payable in adFree to students paying student
MORE CLOCKS NEEDEDI
Have you ever had the experience of
thinking you had plenty of time to get
to your class after lunch, and then
arriving in that class five minutes
late? All the way to Miss Shaver's
office and back, you heartily wish that
there had been a clock in the locker
room or annex, as the case may be. But
there is no clock in either of these
places and, unless the students will
support this idea, there will be none.
Some are fortunate enough to possess watches and may set them by the
school clock. But what of those people
who do not have watches in school? Must
they be continually guessing at the time
when they are not in a classroom?
How
much better it would be for all concerned if only three clocks were added to
those already in use.
The first clock should be placed in
the annex and should be set exactly with
the Milne clocks. It is quite a distance
from the annex to Milne's building when
one guesses wrongly at the time,
A
clock in;.the Annex would abolish this
game of chance and be a really worthwhile addition to the school,
(Continued in next column)
But now that that worry is over, a
far bigger one presents itself,
It*s
one of those things that takes all the
joy out of life. You know it's coming
and there is one v^ay tc be prepared to
meet it. Of course there are always a
few who don't need to cj^am and that explains the secret of their success.
It's awfully hard to get down to
work, especially after a vacation. The
day everyone came back they looked as
though they needed one inste..d of just
having' been on one. The teachers must
have a trying time tryirig to awaken
memories to the fact thc.t there are such
things as French verbs or that algebraic
equations must balance.
But, seriously, let's forget about
vacation and all the sleep we missed and
get down to business.
How many times
have you heard the familiar expression,
"If I only pass, I don't care what I
get." Well, that is not the attitude to
take any more. It should be "How high a
ninety can I get,"-^for to some of us it
means our last year and we want this
year to be the best of all. Time passes
quickly—almost too quickly—and soon
school worries will be all over.
Let's
cooperate with the teachers because they
want us to get through as much as we do
ourselves,
^L.V.S.
ACKNOV/LED GEMENT
Crimson and White wishes to annouQce that the Protestant p£.mily Welfare Association, in a letter to
Miss
Halter, acknowledged the Christmas boxes.
FRIDAY
CRIMSON AlviD WHITE
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SOCIETIES
JANUARY 1 0 ,
1936
SENIOR GIRLS BEAT JUNIORS
Br BASKETBALL GAME MONDAY
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l«<ltt>fcltLSt(if%S|(9((
^ulnj
The meeting was called to order by
the president, Leslie Slpperly, and the
quotations were from Rudyard Kipling,
•quotations for next week will be from
Nathalia Crane,
The new members who were not sworn
in last week took the oath this week.
The society discussed plans for a Solomon Grundy party to acquaint fully the
new members with the upper classmen and
to raise money for the club.
It was decided to change the date
of the :;iuin-Sigma dance as it came on
the same night as the Coble ski 11 game.
After some difficulty in choosing a new
date, February £1 was approved of in a
joint meeting of the two societies.
Theta Nu;
The regular meeting of Theta Nu was
held last Tuesday in room 126 from 11:00
to 11;30. The membership cards and pins
were ordered.
George Farrington gave a report
She White Leopard, by Fletcher.
S igma:
Zeta Sigma Literary
called to order at 11*05.
Society
on
was
The roll was called and quotations
were from William Shakespeare. Marjorie
Stanton gave his biography and Betty
Douglas his works. The author for next
v/eek is John Galsworthy. Virginia Soper
will have his works and Jean LaGrange
his biography. The minutes were read
and corrected and the treasurer's report
was given.
T he dii te for the quin-Sigma dance
wc.s voted on for February 21.
A motion
v/as mc.de and carried that the Quin-Sigma
dance be semi-formal.
The price was
fixed a u
The meating was adjourned
after
Quin had joined Sigma to discuss the
coming dance.
Adelphoi:
Seeley Funk gave a report on The
Aftermath of Sudden Death. It dealt with
the manner in which humrxns are repaired
after an accident.
An informal discussion followed.
The interclass
basketball
games
started last Monday with the junior
first team playing the senior first
team. The seniors won with the scofe of
6-0. The senior line-up was as follows*
Ruth Mann, Barbcj^a Birchenough, Jean Graham, Sally Ryan, Ethel Gillespy, Vivian
Snyder, Elsbeth Fromm, and Cora Randies•
The junior team consisted of Frances
Bremer, Janet Bremer, Frances Levitz,
Carolyn Hausmann, Virginia Zelsey, and
Betty Potter.
The sophomore second team played
the freshman first team, and the sophomores were victorious by the score of
6-2. The girls that played on the sophomore team were: Lois Nesbitt, Frances
Seymour, Patricia Gibson, Mary Winshurst,
Damia Winshurst, and Jean McDermott. The
freshman team was composed of Virginia
Nichols, Susrja Poole, Ruth Selkirk, Jane
Phinny, Ruth Rasp, and Charlotte Kcrnit.
HI-Y, G. A. C. DANCE ANliOUNCED
It has been decided by the Girls*
Athletic Club and the Hi-Y Club that
they will have their annual dance this
year. As yet no date has been set, but
it has been voted by the two clubs that
it will be informed and the price
will
be .'I?!.00.
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"BUG DUST"
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Now, Bob was a boy quite shy
The' he never did tell us why
But he v/asnH a ninny;
•Cause he fell for a Ginny,
These juniors I
Lois was a girl quite smooth
Of whom all the boys did approve.
Then Brud came a l o n g —
Who'll ring the gong?
"Line forms on the right."
Doris was a girl quite sweet
Who knocked Bob off his feet.
They have plenty of quarrels,
But they ut.tang'le the snarls,
Cooll
We had a vacation, called Christmas,
And now that it's gone, how we miss it*
At school we are back,
Oh, alas, and alack.
But then, there's c.lways Easter.
FRENCH CLUB DISCUSSES MOVIE
At their meeting last Monday in
room 135, the French Club discussed the
picture, "The Tale of Two Cities." They
plan to read "The Hunch-Back of Notre
Dc.me" during the club period. They will
read the book in English.
The French I classes have planned
to carry on correspondence with French
high sch.ol students.
•We got tired here.—Notice clever
ing."
"Rim-
GLEE CLUB STARTS NEW WORK
Last Wednesday the Glee Club decided upon severi.l tv;o part songs for
their new work. They will sing the three
songs from Shakespei.re which were arranged by Dr. Candlyn, and "V/ho Is
Sylvia," also by Shakespeare.