Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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SUPHOMORE SIMPER I NGS. Miss Stearns: I move that a note of condolation be sent. Dr. Davis: No! No! No! No! Miss Fisher, where-'s your head? Miss Fisher: fmeeklyj-On my shoulders. Guileless Sophomore: Cwho has submitted to becoming the subject for an experiment in Psychology, upon being informed that it is one for visual stimulil-O, dear! I wonder whether I have it bad! Dr. Davis: No! No! No! Mr. Vtfesterlund, that is not at all the right idea. W'esterlund: XVe1l then, that is not what I mean. The Fusseragette: Cin chapel in third periodl-If I go out the win- dow you'll have to answer for it. The Fusser: That's easy. I'd answer Absent Dr. Davis: fin Sociologyl-What is the great American national game? Sophomore voice from the rear: Poker! Sophomore Co-ed: fexplaining an error in recitationl-Why, Pro- fessor, that was just a lapsus lingerie! Dr. Davis: What relation did Comte bear to Sociology? 'Sophomore boy: ifrom the back row where he has not been paying attentionj-Ah! Er! I don't exactly remember but I think he must have been a second cousin. Metcalf: fcriticizing in Athenaeanl-The musical numbers were ex- ceptionally fine. I don't know anything about music myself. THE OPTIMIST T0 HIS LIVY. I don't know much about this Latin bookg My knowledge of the language is quite slimy My hopes and fears alike depend on him Who deftly reads my mind with just a look. Translation always was a beastly bore, Construction is so deuced hard to get. In class the words come easy, ah! but yet The bluff won't work with Doctor any more. But yet I hope the worst w0n't beeso bad, Tho I can't tell how I shall forge along, If I but go, I'll sing my little .song And try my best to keep from getting sad. -J. H. S., '13. 172

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BALDNVI N SCHOOL. Within the Macalester College campus, separate from the collegiate department in name and Work, and yet thoroughly identified with it, is the preparatory department. The preps ' themselves with an affectionate regard, and the college students with an assumption of superiority, have both dubbed this institution the prep school, but its real name, the name of the school for which the charter was granted, is Baldwin School. For a number of years this name was dropped to avoid confusion with an insti- tution in the city called Baldwin School. lt was called, in the meantime, the Macalester Classical Academyg but it has been decided recently by those in authority to return to the original name, in spite of the fact that the 'fclassicaln name seems more appropriate, since the college has located her HI-lall of Famew in this department. Baldwin School then, is an institution which prepares its students for the standard courses of any college, and the work done in it stands high among schools of its class. The history of the preparatory department begins with the history of the college. When, in 1885, the college opened on the present site, two of the three classes which were enrolled were in the preparatory department- Thus, from its beginning, has been demonstrated the popularity which it has continued to enjoy. Last fall the college students were asked to change sides with the Academy in chapel, and the modest t'preps were put on the P1'esident'S right hand. Naturally, this caused some serious derangements in the habits of certain members of the faculty, and before everything was readf justed to the new order, some of the professors, forgetful of the change, addressed their announcements and chapel talks to the Academy students. Unused to so much attention, they were, at first, too astonished to appre- ciate it, but the profs soon discovered their mistake and now never look at the younger half, excepting when some noise is made. Slanderous allusions to the southwest corner had, then, to be directed to the northwest corner. ln one of the old Junior Annuals, it is stated that the history of an Academy student is one continuum of ice cream parties, sleigh rides, and picnics, but this is not the case, although there are many cases even in the Academy. They have their own work to do and go at it as earnestly and sincerely as their elders. In a word, Baldwin School is the place' where the duties and pleasures of school life are happily combined. -M. M. D.. 174