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Digital Commons @ George Fox University "The Crescent" Student Newspaper Archives and Museum 4-1-1913 The Crescent - April 1913 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "The Crescent - April 1913" (1913). "The Crescent" Student Newspaper. 117. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/117 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Museum at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in "The Crescent" Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE CRESCENT VOL. XXIV. APRIL, 1913 NO. 7 prit “The April fools! The April fools! What happy folk are they! They’re light of head and light of heart, And dance the hours away! Young Love, with fluttering purple wings, Blithe Hope for them is new, And they believe—the trustful things!— That all they say is true! Sweet simpletons! But who would frown And shake their air-built castles down? For dark were life, and full of sighs Should all its April fools grow wise.” All-Fools Day or the first day of April is so called from the old custom of sending unwary persons on boot less errands or making them the victims of practical jokes. One explanation of this custom is that in the Middle Ages scenes from Biblical history were repre sented at Easter without any feeling of impropriety. The scene in the life of Jesus where he is sent from Herod to Pilate was represented in April and may have given use to the custom of tricks practiced at this sea son. The phrase of “sending a man from Herod to 2 THE CRESCENT THE CRESCENT 3 Pilate” is common in Germany today, to signify send ing about unnecessarily. scholarship arid knowledge of the subject. But The custom may be the remains of when we enquired about the work done by you a Roman cele in bration, the “Feast of Fools,” derived from college, we learned some things which caused us to the East. reconsider the matter. The Hindus practice similar customs on the thirty-first We found that during your en of tire college course, you had persistently March, at the Huh feast. In France the unlucky refused to take party who any part or exhibit any interest whatever may be fooled is called, un Poisson (fish) in the affairs d’Ayril; in oi the college except your studies. You seemed not Scotland a gawk (cuckoo); in England and to the United realize that you owed anything to the college, and States an April-fool. M. J. re fused to do anything, even to help clean up the campus, or help the college paper, which would tend toward a better school. You did not consider your relations to 3Looft ZIjeab your fellow-students, even to your class; you refused to attend the activities of the college, such as socials, athletic A certain member of a certain class in a certain col games, debates, State Oratorical Contest, etc., lege, after especially he was graduated from that college, applied those which would cost anything. Your en for a position tire attitude seemed in a certain high school as instructor in to be to do nothing, or expend no Mathematics. energy, time money He was anxious to secure it, for it was or unless you could see an immedi a good paying position. As he had made ate return to yourself. The idea of doing for others for good grades his college work averaging 96, having received sev more than is required of one (which every teacher, at eral prizes least, ought for scholarship, he felt sure that he would to have,) seemed entirely lacking in you. get it. We realized that a man 22 years of age cannot When change this position which he so greatly desired, was his habits and ideas very radically. We could given to another member of his class at college, whose see no reason why you would have any different attitude average grade toward these things for his entire course was only 89, he when you became a teacher. We surprised was and asked to know the reason for the action knew that a man of such disposition, and having such taken by the board. They wrote him the following letter: an attitude toward these activities of the school, how —, Oregon ever good a student he might be, would never make a success as a teacher this Aug. 20, 1914 in high school, or any other. Dear Mr. For despite any opinions you may have on the matter, Yours of 10th inst. received, and we shall be glad we consider athletics, socials, school paper, etc., as im to give reasons for our decision. When the applications portant, because helpful to both school and students. of Mr. X and yourself came to us, it seemed at If a teacher refused absolutely to show any interest in if first as you were the better fitted for the place, considering them, he would get in “bad” with the Student Body, and be so unpopular as to make his classroom work a 4 THE CRESCENT THE CRESCENT 5 complete failure. Indeed in this high school, the Stu line for their new ship, the Imperator. It is by far the dent Body would probably run him out of school in less most powerful searchlight ever designed for ship-board. than a month. It throws a beam of light seven miles on sea and may Also we learned that you have neglected a very im easily be seen thirty miles when directed against the portant feature of an education—the development of an clouds. It will pierce fogs and will make another Ti ability to speak in public. This would be another great tanic disaster practically impossible. There seems to handicap for a teacher in high school. be a supply for every need, and electricity is doing a So we have chosen Mr. X as instructor here, feeling great share of the supplying. that hislower average was partly due to his work in Here comes Antoine Pollak with a system of tele athletics, debate, college paper, etc., and that the work graphing by which 40,000 words may be sent in an hour. done by him along that line in college, will insure an This beat’s talking all hollow, let’s quit. active interest, and an ability in similar activities here. Robinson Crusoe is to have a wireless. I mean, We know that this will make him more popular and ver there is to be one established on Juan Fernandez Island satile, more valuale, and better fitted in every way for made famous by Crusoe. Too bad poor Robison did not the position here. have one in his pocket when he landed. The idea that a bookworm must make a good teach Marconi always has to “butt in” when he hears wire er is out of date. Scholarship and book learning are less mentioned. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com necessary, but a teacher must be something else besides pany (not United Wireless) has let contracts for the a good student. We feel that Mr. X, because of his building of stations that will make trans-Pacific com wide experience and varied activities, is more broad and munications possible. Japs will come on wireless then. capable as an instructor. Sir William Ramsey says that he has found helium Hoping this explains our action sarisfactorily,——,we and neon, two very rare gases, in X-ray tubes, and their remain, School Board of presence can only be accounted for by the transmutation -— — Per of the metals of the electrodes or glass into gases or by (R. S. L.) the forming of these gases from electrons. (Electrons are particles of which electricity is composed. They weigh about one-thousandth as much as an atom of Iatet in (ftectrIcItp hydrogen.) Ramsay favors latter explanation. How ever further experiments may bear this out, a new theory will have to be developed. In view of the great Titanic disaster, very a inter The government is not behind. It uses electric ma esting bit of news comes of a new 80,000 candle-power chines to count its paper money and envelopes. The I electric searchlight for steamships. This I searchlight machines not only count the money but in some cases is manufactured expressly for the Hamburg-American bunch and wrap it. They count more than twice as 6 THE CRESCENT THE CRESCENT 7 fast as by hand and much more accurate. A. C. and Prof. Burt, of Hillsboro. Olaf, the crown prince of Norway has a tiny auto Preliminary to the closing debate of the season. propelled by electricity at about seven miles an hour. which was held at P. C. April 18, Albany changed from With the top up it is not half as high as a man. the negative to the affirmative side of the question, Measurad, but measureless subtly conveyed, thereby gaining the advantage of having been on both Fluid intensity, spent and repaid, sides and consequently being better able to meet the at Light-giving, heat-bringing, motor supreme, meeting credit Life bearing, death dealing force of our dream. tack of their opponents. This was a to Working the miracles sought by our mind both sides. The Albany men were in good shape and Tool of divinity used by mankind. showed a thorough knowledge of the question while the Little we know of it—must we demand! Quaker team had improved at least 200 per cent over Faith we have now; shall we soon understand? the showing made against McMinnville.