Ricker Classical Institute - Aquilo Yearbook (Houlton, ME)

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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

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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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Page Eighteen The Aquilo they also made their characters con- verse in the same manner. Slang may mean either vulgarity or poverty of ideas. But more often people -have recourse to such colloquial expressions merely to avoid mental effort. Some peop-le contract the habit of employing slang in their sP09Ch 110 such an extent that they become ignorant of the proper terms. Others, through a false notion of propriety, go to the opposite extreme and omit it entirely from their conversation. Slang may often be disposed of by calling it vulgar, but not all slang is disreputable. On the contrary, it may be graphic, vivid, or even humorous. Your best guide in using it should be a sense of fitness and a realization that an excessive use of slang will deprive it of -whatever vitality it may have. Patrick Martin '33 SUPPORT FOR OUR TEAMS It -is natural for people to crowd to see successful teams play games. Everyone certainly doesg the box- receipts of baseball and football teams th-at are consistently victorious bear witness to that. ,We find the stands of professional baseball parks actu- ally jammed' when a well-know team is playing. On the other hand, less successful ball clubs often have com- paratively few spectators at their games. The same applies to schools and colleges. If a team in any sport acquires a good reputation by winning a hard game, everyone immediately wishes to see it in action. But the minute the team apparently becomes ineffective, the crowd turns elsewhere. In a smaller .institution like our own we find again this same thing true. Anyone who looks about him can see that everyone 'hastens to see our best teams play, while they say, Let's go to the movies if another is to play. There is no doubt that every single player on these teams is playing every bit as hard as others on more success- ful teams. Victory or loss often is taken into account far too much when we cniticize the results of our games. Because any team is having trouble to win, that is a very good reason why it needs all the support -we can give it. Let's back all our teams up to our greatest ability. Cecil Porter '33 MAN AND NATURE Nature does many things which seem peculiar to man. She functions according to a schedule of her own. She has an appointed time for every- thing and she performs her duties accordingly. She brings forth each fruit and flower, each plant and herb in its season. But man has not been satisfied with Nature's plan. He has always been trying to speed her up a little. He has made fertilizers to en- rich the soil, he has removed forests, and utilized swamps, marshes, and barren lands. He 'has invented machiinery which can do the work more 'quickly and more .efficiently than he can do it himself. He has invented a machine to dry his hay so that he will not have to depend upon the sun to do it for him. He 'has done all these things hoping to be m-ore successful, to become more wealthy, and also to be happier, but what has he accomplished? Consider all these great inventions. Have they really been successful? Con- sider how he has made nature yield more than was her plan to yield. Has he made his welfare and the wel- fare of ihis fellow men better? Have all these things brought 'him great -wealth and happiness?