Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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There has never been a more prosperous year than this in basket-ball at Alameda High. And what has done it? Hard work grit and a fighting spirit for the school has accomplished what noth- ing else could. It is true that our girls were defeated by Healds- burg and also by Berkeley, but began again with a new spirit. They defeated California College by a very large score not long ago, and came out of the Fruitvale game with flying colors, the score being 29 to 16. The Fruitvale game decided the sub-league championship and enabled the team to enter the semi-finals. The semi-final game with Healdsburg was played on Saturday, April 4th, in an Oakland gymnasium, and resulted in a victory for Healdsburg, the score being 16 to 9. The girls tried their best, and certainly played a splendid game, but the strength and speed of the husky country lasses was a wee bit too much for them. Although there will be no more league games for the girls to play they will continue their good work and endeavor to add a few more victories to the list. Miss Murray, the manager, has secured an able coach, Mr. Gray, of Oakland, and under his competent in- struction the girls are advancing rapidly. The line-up for the Healdsburg game was as follows: Centers—Irene Wood, Sylvia Strouss, Ethel Murray. Guards—Hermina Schlageter, Ruthven Sackett, Emma Naber. Goals—Nita Diamond, Martha Gordenker. Then out strode brave Horatio, With fire in his eye, And dared the naughty baseballs To e’er approach him nigh; Alas! a big one did it, And nearly hit his head, And though the sun were shining Yet he saw stars instead. And red!

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The Acorn Land.” The next meeting, falling in vacation, was enjoyed in the form of a picnic in Diamond Canon, and much pleasure was derived from the day’s outing. Sigma Phi Upsilon. Sigma Phi Upsilon reports favorably this term. At a recent initiation Heath Angelo and Harold Naylor were taken in. Homer Spence has been pledged. After having made a visit to chapters in the East, Guy Lands- burg has gone to Alaska with Henry Guerin for an indefinite visit. Phi Lambda Epsilon. A charter was recently granted Alpha Pi fraternity of the Ala- meda High School by the Grand Council of the National Academic fraternity, Phi Lambda Epsilon to establish a Chapter here to be known as California Delta. The initiation was held Saturday eve- ning, March 21, 1908, under the direction of California Beta, of Oakland High School. The active members initiated are: Paul Kuhns, Killiam Gale, John Siegfried, Edward Seagrave, John Coyle, George Davis. The alumni members initiated are: Howard Fassett, Joseph Emmal, David Clark, Loris Dexter and Kenneth Staniford. THAT FRESHMAN PAUL

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hon oo Dy ie U Fe3 On February 26th a try-out for selecting a team to debate “The Agora,” a girls’ debating society of Berkeley High, was held. The question was: “Resolved, That the government of the United States is more democratic than that of England.” Allan Beringer, Ernest Brown and William Wieland were selected to uphold the honors of Alameda High. The debate with Berkeley was scheduled to take place March 28th, but after the boys had done considerable work on the question Berkeley defaulted, leaving one cup debate at least to Alameda’s credit. The next debate to be held is with Lowell High School, the winner of the Lick-Lowell debate, and will probably take place around the last of May. Alameda is to submit the question. The semi-annual debating convention will be held in San Fran- cisco in the latter part of April. Alameda intends to send a large delegation to this convention, which will be entertained quite royally by the four San Francisco schools that are in the league— Lick, Lowell, Commercial Evening High School and Humbolt Evening High School. The Alameda delegates are looking forward to this meeting, for they are assured of a splendid time. EXCHANGES. We wish to thank the seventy-five or more schools who have sent us their papers, and regret that time and space do not permit us to criticize them all. in an editorial, states the advantages and disadvan- Olla tages of issuing their paper twice a month. We would Poddrida like to see the Olla Pod issued only once a month, if by doing this they could return to their former high standard. Not that the Olla Pod is below the average High School monthly, for it is still among our very best exchanges, but it is not as good as it used to be. We believe that if the paper was issued monthly again this former excellent standard would be reached.