San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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WHITEANDGOLD 9 It would take volumes to tell of all the strange experiences of Sinkins during the year of his confinement with the goblins, of their strange cere- monies, their work, and their play. One day when lying down in the cave he suddenly felt cold, and started up only to find that he had been lying down before his own hearth, and that his wife, in order to waken him, had thrown a bucket of cold water in his face and was now standing near the door with the lamp in her hand says ing in a loud tone of voice hEleven oiclock, eleven oiclockf, as she impatiently waited for him to become aufhciently awake to go to bed. On inquiring if she had her skates which he lost in the wood, she gave him a sound scolding for inferring that she ever possessed such articles when he knew how she de- spised them. A In spite of the wifeis assertion that his skates and goblins were dreams, that his falling through the earth was in reality his falling off the sofa, that the fire flies were but the stars he saw when his head struck the hoor, Sinkins declares up and down that his experiences on that memorable night were too real to be mere dreamse-A. F. W. lllllllIIllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHII On the Other Fellow Heard in History conference: JThe Cave men came to the council dressed in their skinsf,-H0w about it, Miss Galliher? Miss G-d F-y Eng. ILeVVell. you begin and well sing out when you get on the plot. Mr. WesteWell, what are your troubles today? PupiI-hl have none; but Willyou please explain how x with the expo- nent zero equals I before you say anything ?,, Extracts from the Holwery composition of a FreshmaneiiLet us walk hand in hand, with Hawthorne, to bliss and happinessfiehHis characters are as clear and lucid as a full moon on a pitch black night. Mrs. Stephens, in AstronomyeDo we have any dark companions fol- lowing us? Heard in the oral reproduction of a story: itAnd the negro entered, pale and trembling? Mr. Thompson, on art-Yes, the old girls they used to paint were vastly different from our modern Gibson girl. Wanted-For an Xmas present by some of the boys in the chorus, a strong box in which to carry the tunes. IIHIIIllllllllllllllllll A number of articles accepted by the editor aad put into type have been crowded out of this issue.

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.ll. 8 WHITEANDGOLD Sinhinf' New Year's Eve On the outskirts of Sherwood forest, so renowned for the exploits of Robin hood and his bold followersthere lived some years ago Mr. Sinkins novelist, always engaged in writing half a dozen stories at once, but never, so far as records show, finishing any of them. As most great men have hob- bies, so also did Sinkins. His special amusement when waiting for an in- spiration, was to saunter off into the forest, a pair of large forceps in one hand and a jar in the other. He used the forceps to catch stray beetles and spiders, which he put into his bottle. Afterwards they were transferred to shelves at home, much to the horror of his timid wife. One afternoon on New Yearls Eve, as they were sitting: by the fire, Mrs. Sinkins, a rather eccentric personage, suddenly conceived the idea that she wished to go skating the next day, so she dispatched her faithful husband to the town five miles away for some skates, bidding him beware of goblins, which frequented the woods on that particular night of the year. Now Sinkins, though a novelist, was practical to a fault and-be it said to his shame-declared that he did not believe in such ridiculous things as fairies or goblins, and stated, moreover, that if he should happen to see one, it would soon be bottled along With the rest of his curiosities. Sinkins there- fore, left home with a light heart, reached the town, procured the skates, and started homeward through the woods as the sun set behind a neighboring hill. He soon came across a peculiar kind of iireily and in his eagerness to follow it: and add it to the rest of his specimens, he lost the skates and the way home also. After walking for hours and finding himself in the place whence he had started, he decided to sit down and wait as patiently as he could for morning to appear. His exertions had made him tired, and notwithstanding the fact that he was tired, cold, and hungry. he soon fell asleep. All at once a hand was laid on his shoulder and he was roughly pulled to his feet. Standing about him, he SIEIW imps, big, little, fat, lean, dancing and performing all kind of antics. The imp by whom he had been so unceremoniously awaikened seemed, both by his manner and dreSs, to be the leader of the band. Now before this host of uncanny beings, in pointed shoes and caps, and with hideously grinningr countenances, Sinkins was, to say the least, fright- ened; and when the king began talking, he, practical Sinkins, trembled in his shoes. The goblins, angry at having been disturbed in their games by a mor- ' tal, demanded in a hundred different squeaks, that he should be made to pay the penalty for his intrusion. At this the king informed him that on the last night of the year the woods were given up to the goblins, and that any mortal infringing on their privacy was condemned for one year to imprisonment in their underground home. When the proceedings had advanced as far as this Sinkins was dropped into a crack in the earth and fell until he reached a cave, lighted by fire Hies. Here he was taken in charge by a few imps, who, being too feeble and old to join in the sports, had been left on guard.

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mac White 31165016 Edited and Published by The Students of the State Normal School, San Diego Stat? EDITOR-I-N-CHIEF .. - - - - - - - - e GUSSIE STEPHENS ASSISTANT EDITORS Literary - - - - - : Emma G eorge Society - - - u - - - Ethel Crosby School Notes - - - - - Amy Johnson Exchanges - - - - - Claudia Adams Athletics - - - - - - Chas, Gurweli i REPORTERS Emma Spears. Marie Stoker, Mabel Stephens, Hazel Gebrielson, Olive Anlt, Bess Fouike BUSINESS MANAGER - - . - - - - - - ORRIN SMITH ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Harry Warriner, C. Smith Waiter Bi'gham Terms, 50 cents per year, payable in advance. Communications for publication should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chicf. Remittances and communications concerning advertisements should be addressed to the Business Manager. Ail subscriptions are payable to the Business Manager Any subscriber not receiving the WHITE AND GOLD ragularly will please notify him at once. The WHITE AND GOLD is mailed to any place in the postal union for 50 cents per year. Entered at the Post 0556: of San Diego as second class Matter. San Diego, California - . - - - December, 1905 THE PAPER, The White and Gold, has been resurrected! Was it a miracle? No, it was the result of necessity. When our student body woke up some eight or ten weeks ago, figuratively speaking, it went through the characteristic reactions of a waking man. It pinched itself, it rubbed its eyes, it shook itself out of the heavy stupor that has benumbed it during the past years, it arose and went to work. One of the first things it did was to look up the White and Gold, to familiarize itself with current events. But, 10! there was no W hite and Gold. Now however, thanks to the awakening we have experienced,our Rip Van. Winkle sleep is over, a new era has opened up before us. All the machinery is in splendid working order and it rests with us to keep it so. It is up to the student body from now on to shake off any symptoms of the ancient lethargy as soon as: they appear in order that the 01d drowsiness may never overtake us again. SCHOOL' SPIRIT. Some weeks ago a Vial labelled iiScho-ol Spirit Bacteria, was dropped by a careless hand somewhere in the Normal building and the air was alive with it. Once at liberty to move, the active little germ spread rapidly from the Biology laboratory in the west wing to the Physics laboratory in the east wing. There was no stopping or repressing it. With- in a few days the whole school had been inoculated with the lively infection. It differs from the yellow fever bacteria in that frost has no effect upon it. It attacks far more people than does the deadly typhoid fever germ. In short, it seems impossible to destroy it. During the football season it was in evi- dence everywhere, in the street cars, in the school corridors, at home and