Erskine Academy - Pinnacle Yearbook (South China, ME)

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- 6 THE PIN NAGLE the school building. Since Xthis has begun a decided improvement is no- ticed in regard to the book-casesgftlfesks, stage and dressing rooms. Everything in perfect order. A monitor is chosen to serve for a week with two boys and two girls under him. The monitor divides the work among them and each one has his or her special duties to ful- fil. The students show a great interest in this and much rivalry is shown among the monitors, each new monitor striving to accomplish more than the one before him. The monitors are chosen every Monday by the principal and a discussion follows, everyone partaking, in reference to better im- provements and complaints on the work of the preceding week. As this plan has so far proved 'a success it will probably be adopted. Physical Culture Physical culture for the girls as well as the boys has taken its place at Ers- kine. Daily the girls go through their gymnastic exercises in the open air. Tennis will be commenced in ai few weeks and games between classes will be witnessed. The girls favor a base- ball team, as much enjoyment was the result of the little baseball practice they had in the fall. They have their own diamond, balls, bats, etc., and a girls' baseball team is heartily favored by all the girls. A The thousand dollars which we were to raise toward the gymnasium fund has been obtained. The work on the gymnasium was begun last fall, but on account of the early winter weather it had to be discontinued until spring. A large supply of the material is ready at hand. XYho will not be glad when the carpenters make use of it?

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THE PINNACLE vin.. IX. SOUTH CHINA, MAINE. NUMBER Published hy STUDENTS OF ERSKINE ACADEMY I solvrn cn:N.x, MAINE. NELSON PRINT, - W1L'fON, BOARD OF EDITORS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ,,..,....., ....,...,.,....,..,..,.,.,...,...........,....,......... D OROTHY FARNSWORTH '23 ASSOCIATE EDITOR ..,..., .......,.,.......,.....,.... E RLENA SABIN, ' 2-1 LITERARY EDITOR .....,.. ...,.. D OROTIIY FARNSWORTH, '23 LOCAL EDITOR ,...,..,. . .,.. ...,,..,.....,.....,.. A NNA PERKINS, '23 ALUMNI EDITOR ....,..... ......, ..,...,.....,. L I 'IE BASSETT, '25 ATHLETIC EDITOR ...... ,..... ..............,, L E WIS TURNER, '23 EXCHANGE EDITOR ....,..,.. .......,..,,,.,..,...,......,,...........,...,.......,..,.. .... I I 'ILLIJINI FOSTER, '24 PERSONAL EDITOR ...,.,.. .,,.....,,...,......,...,....,.....,...,...,........,.............,...... D ORIS SHUMAN, Ex-'22 ASSISTANT PERSONAL EDITORS AUDREY FOSTER, '23 .,..... ,.,.. ................................ ,.., ........, , ..... ,...,,....,, .......,.. V E R N E J ONES, '23 BUSINESS STAFF BUSINESS MANAGER .,.....,...,..,........ ,.....,......,......................,,.. , . . , . ,.., NMYRTIS SANBORN, '23 ASST. BUSINESS MANAGER ..,...,... .....,.,... ....,.....,...,.,..,,............., IN I ARION BROWN, '25 Elllllw is I--L .4-5 I iiilllll G IIIIIIf.IIIli.,,NllIIlll.1I-I . 1. M III simmer' If ' NIJIIIE EDITORIALS Once more it is graduation time and another class is leaving dear old Ers- kine. It is going forth into a larger school and leaving their places to the Juniors. After four long years of pa- tient toil the class has reached its goal for which it has been striving. Now new and harder lessons must be learned and perhaps not so free from sorrow as these have been, but if we follow the lessons diligently pursued at our alma mater, the lessons of the world will not be so hard to learn. In the future we will meet many new ac- quaintances and friends and perhaps drift away from the old ones made at Erskine, but often our thoughts will wander back over space and time to our happy high school days and above all to our truest friends. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days. And we know this will be true in re- gard to the class of l923. Student Government Student Government is being tried out at Erskine. The principal object of this is to improve the appearance of

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Ll ERARY. JUST THE SAME, oNLY DIFFERENT Everything had been in a rush at the small hotel in a town in New York and now end, good that the day was coming to an all were tired enough to wish a nightis sleep. At a rather late hour a young man with several heavy walked into the ofhce and asked for a night's lodging. The proprietor, bags Mr. jones, eyed him rather queerly as though he thought the stranger might be up to some mischief. jack Riley, as was his name, gave him a pleasant Smile, and a servant was ordered to lead the guest to his room. Mr. jones retired not long after' this and called a substitute to .take his place until the hour of twelve, at which time all would be closed. As the clock was about to strike that hour another young man arrived, who greatly resembled jack. In fact, it was almost impossible to distinguish one from the other, however, if one were acquainted with them, he would find quite a difference. Jack's jolly smile was not reproduced on the face of the second, but in its place was a stern, set look as well as a decidedly haughty bearing. The new arrival informed the clerk that he was a candidate in the coming election for the ofhce of city clerk. The rooms of the two young men were just across the hall from each other and were just alike, but the things that the occupants did varied greatly. The stern young man said over a bit of his political speech in a very digni- hed way and then retired. jack, who at the present time was working as a traveling salesman and was trying to sell fire extinguishers, was that night to try out a clever trick which had worked well in many places, but was destined not to here. After being sure that everyone was quiet, he crept out into the hall. Then he took from his bags a lot of electrical works and placed some in each hall. XVhen they were put in action they looked exactly like fire, pouring forth a red blaze and black smoke. As jack had noticed that the door of the old butler's room was not shut he crept softly in and placed one of the contrivances beside his bed. The old man kept on snoring. If an earthquake came it could not wake him. It happened, however, that fire was his worst dread and that any bright light would awake him. jack set the apparatus to work and hid behind a door to see what would happen. It surely was a joke for in not less than a mintte out ran the old butler in the worst fright possible, crying as loudly as possible, Fire! Fire! and at once rang in the alarm. In less than tive minutes people were rushing from all parts of the building. The fire engines were soon there and not knowing the joke, the men turned on the hose. The brave men were sent up to rescue the perishingg however, as jack was about to make them think that he put an end to the fire by means of his extinguisher, one of the firemen saw h.m. Thereupon, he rushed out and informed everyone that it was a false alarm. Our political man being in a rage at such a trick went to his room and once more retired. The hotel managers were very anxious to learn who did the trick, and as the fireman thought that