Academy of the Holy Angels - Echoes Yearbook (Fort Lee, NJ)

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'C' Zigi gifs ? ' rs 1'9'9,'8 . .f Q s N, 9 , Wal 4 f f -5? 15.5 CCL5gY x 'g xxxxxxx uunnx A Students Alphabet A is for ambition, With which all students work. B is for basketball, Which none of us shirk. C is for Caesar, And Cicero, too. D is for diametersf I've heard of them. Have you? E is for English And Ethics-oh, dear! F is for French- Parlez vous, Monsieur? G is for Grammar, as: 'ilt is I and not Mef' H is for headaches From studying History. I is for idle, Which We never are. J is for Jupiter, From Roman Hist'ry afar. K is for knowledge, The cause of our Woes. L is for long study, Of which everyone knows. M is for Mathematics, With its rules and its figures. N is for notes, Whose taking fatigues us. O is for operations Which we'll never forget. P is for Physics O'er which many fret. Q is for quizzical, Which all students are. R is for resource books, From which We never stray far. 76

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' 4 F-7, 4 41 X 125 5 mi' ,fm if ,ala Mans Ill :nuuunnu nun 4 -+'E ,s,sef -Z WF: xxxnxx ua uw xx xx i 5 fy, Q 1 xffzf 5 i C1 of fi!fuf 1.9.Q. 8 E rw 4 ' ' -.11 I f' . si- Hb' ,NY-rfzf I 3, 1 'A 'E , ,V ,Vw 3-:Ei 1 113 'b' c..t 1 XX Y to a certain extent, it has been harmful-not in itself, but in its misdirection. For example, I have said that one of the chief causes of the sympathy for the criminal lies in the realiza' tion of the injustice and incompetency of our present criminal laws. Nevertheless, in spite of its defectiveness, nothing can be accomplished by abolishing overnight the present system of dealing with criminals. And this is what society, actuated by sympathy, is now tending to do. just now there is a widespread movement for the abolition of capital punishment. Disregarding the arguments for and against capital punishment, if it were abolished and life imprisonment substituted, it would mean that every murderer in the United States would be sentenced to the average confinement of from ten to fourteen years, under our present criminal law. Such would be the whole chaotic state of affairs if society were to succeed in abolishing our present criminal system. We all know that this criminal system is defective. Nevertheless, as yet it can only be modified, and only gradually can it be reformed. Imperfect as it may be, it at least affords more protection to society than would some of the more humane but impracticable schemes for its improvement. And, after all, this is the most important thing to be conf sidered-the protection of humanity. Then again, here is another proof of the misdirection of the sympathy for the criminal. We all know, of course, that the proper training of young men and women will solve the problem of crime. But, in the meantime, what are we to do about the girls and boys who have matured into womanhood and manhood only to menace society? Are we to allow them to kill and plunder while we placidly wait for the time when the perfect moral train' ing for the younger generation shall be found and put into effect? Whatever can be said in extenuation of criminals, it must be admitted that there are certain criminals today who cannot be reformed, and if society is to preserve itself from destruction, it must apprehend and convict those members of the community who have become menaces to the rest. If, in the future, this sympathy is rightly directed, it will succeed slowly but surely in revolu- tionizing our whole system of treating criminals, until a method has been found that will ful6ll the true purpose of our criminal law-to reform the criminal so that he can again take his place in society and, most of all, deter the mass of potential wrongfdoers. -HELEN OLIVA, '28 Winter If you listen, you'll hear some good news- King Winter is on his way, In his regal robes of ermine, Trimmed with crystals, sparkling and gay. His retinue accomp'nies him hither, Earls Skating, Tobogg'ning, and Skiing, And a whirl of merry festivities Will now spring into being. So go, spread abroad the message That the North Wind gave to meg Then, carefully groom for his advent, That you also may join in the glee. -MARGARET M. EISENMANN, '28 75

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4: N-3, O 6 4:1 .5-15551 53:32 fi- 1'9'Qf'8 '3' IIIlllllllllllllllllllill ,C V iifgjtr . ummm uxxnxxxxxuxuxswu f -'af -I: - 1 ' S is for Science And sieves and Spanish. T is for our teachers, From whom all care we'd banish. U is for Universities Where learning abounds. V is for vacuum In our brains never found. W is for Wisdom And the work needed to fix it. X is for 'xaminations, From which we would 'xit. Y is for our Yearbook, The pride of the class. Z is for zeal, Not least, though 't is last. -MARGARET M. EISBNMANN, '28 The Little Blue Book With Our Marks We once knew a book-at Hrst it was new- Oh, the prettiest shade it was, so blue! With spotless white pages and so nicely bound, With cover so trim and edges so round. It was used, it was used, it ne'er wore, We'd be glad if it wasn't no more. Oh, that little Blue Book with our marks! To hear them was never a lark. We were either proud or shy, As we felt every eye, And at every new number We'd smile or we'd sigh, If they were very bad we would frown, While the class seemed to smile all around. Till we finished we bore it, We always abhorred it, The little Blue Book with our marks. 77 ALICE DECKBR, '28