Ricker Classical Institute - Aquilo Yearbook (Houlton, ME)

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To MR. A. M. STACKPOLE Loyal Alumnus - Sincere Friend Devoted Member of the Board of Trustees, this issue of the Aquilo is respectfully dedicated I I . I I I I I I 5 I I I I I I I I nn---I!

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The cffquilo Vol. XLIII. Houlton, Maine, December 1931 No. 1 Editorials Members of the Board THIS MEANS YOU! Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editors Odds and Ends Alumni Editor Assistant Athletic Editors Exchange Editors Art Editor Assistant College Editor Senior Editor Junior Editor Sophomore Editor Freshman Editor Business Managers Faculty Advisor Faculty Manager Helen Wood Dwight Rafford Henry McBride Margaret Currier Floyd Haskell Phyllis Shaw Mary Woodworth Linton Hartt Lena Patchell Myrna Stevens Allen Moran Li-llian Jacques Olive Pullen John Pullen Myra Stetson Ruth Bates George Richards Paul Bubar Thomas Bennett Frederick Davis Elsie H. Lewis Hugh A. Smith Business communications should be addressed to the manager, and all other communications to the editor. Alumni and students are earnestly requested to contribute to the Aquilo. Personals are especially solicited. Terms: The Aquilo is published twice each year. Single copies, fifty cents. What are you doing for your school paper? Are you trying to improve it by enlarging it or providing better material or are you sitting back watching others work? Are you offering helpful suggestions to the editors or are you indifferent about the welfare of your school paper? Do not be afraid that your suggestions are not welcome, for they are. Each suggestion offered makes the work of the editor that much lighter. Your schoo-1 paper advertises your school. If you help to make your paper better and hear it praised by an outsider, you will be proud of your school and that you helped to make its reputation. Many people who read a school paper have the same im- pression of the school as they have of the school paper. Therefore by helping to improve your school paper, you are bettering the welfare and re- putation of your school. Henry McBride '33 SLANG Do slang expressions in the speech of your associates ever sound vulgar to you? Do you think that there is any distinction to be made among the various slang terms as to vulgarity? Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar, Shakespeare advised. He and most of his contemporaries not only followed this course closely, but I 1