Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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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.

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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 The El Gabilan, from Salinas, Cal., a quarterly, is very él good throughout. ‘This paper shows what a school Gabilan can do when they issue their paper only once in three months. It is certainly far better than any monthly we have received. The cover is very artistic, the paper is of a high quality, the printing is very well done, and it contains plenty of interesting and clever stories and joshes. We consider these points to be the chief aims in High School papers. Our only grammar school exchange, The Target, from Che McKinley Grammar School, Berkeley, Cal., is equal Caraet to a large number of our High School exchanges. We wonder how you maintain your paper without the aid of advertisements, when most High School papers have a hard time to get along with them. Keep up the good work, Target. The March edition of The Cricket, from Belmont, Cal., Che contains some very interesting stories. The whole Cricket paper is good and bright and interesting, every de- partment being well edited. That’s a pretty cover, too. The Bell, April issue, from San Jose, Cal., is another Che paper that is very well arranged. The numerous cuts Bell and cartoons certainly add wonderfully to the appear- ance. It is a pleasure to receive such a lively looking paper. The March issue of The Oracle, from Bakersfield, Cal., Che has arrived. We believe that The Oracle could be Oracle made to look much more attractive, both inside and outside. Get a cut for the cover, and some new cuts inside, for they all seem crude and unfinished. Enlarge the size of your paper a little, so as to leave more room for margins. Then The Oracle will be very creditable, as there is very good reading matter throughout. The first issue of The Cogswell, from San Francisco, Che Cal., is very interesting. Here is another example of Cogswell a very well-printed paper, with good cuts. One thing, though—we do not think it adds to the appearance of the fly-leaf to stamp “Please exchange” on it. If you are kind enough to send your paper to some other school they ought to return the kindness without being asked to do so, and in the ma- jority of the cases this is done. We are glad to see that many of our exchanges arrived in envelopes. This custom is rapidly gaining hold, and before the year is up we sincerely hope that all the exchange editions will have given up the barbarous custom of murdering the exchanges, or at least of rolling them so that the receiving editor has to brut- ally tear them to pieces in his effort to get at the exchange.