1916/17 School Calendar

This calendar describes the school year of 1916/17. This and other articles may be found in the University Archives.

Citation for this article is: "Calendar," Training School Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1917, pp. 98-99.

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1916

September

26 - Old girls - osculation.
27 - New girls - matriculation.

October

8 - Society initiation. The goats and greasy poles of the new girls' dreams made a reality.
9 - Seniors begin teaching in the practice school.
17 - Seniors give an order for their class rings.
20 - Nothing doing - cloudy weather.
21 - Anxiety among the Seniors - their class rings have not arrived.

November

17 - Senior tree-planting.
27 - Thanksgiving german.
28 - Thanksgiving basketball game - burial of the Juniors.

December

14 - Order for the Senior rings countermanded.
15 - North Carolina Day.
17 - Senior bazaar.
22 - Smiles! A's looking for Santa Claus.

1917

January

5 - Work begins - enough said.
22 - Excitement in the music department - musical concert by Mr. George F. Boyle.
23 - A new order made for the Senior rings.
24 - Beware! Seniors are "traveling" tonight.
27 - Senior chapel exercises - James Whitcomb Riley

February

1 - First day of a new month.
20 - Holiday - girls go to Raleigh.
23 - Mail flooded with letters from A & M
26 - Just a blue Monday.

March

23 - Seniors begin their career as farmers.
24 - Intersociety debate - Poes won.
25 - New hats go to church.
31 - Seniors win the loving cup.

April

3 - Panic!! Three bells ring - Mr. Wright only wants to give the combination for the new postoffice boxes.
6 - War declared.
7 - Junior class banner lost
19 - Mr. Wright returns from an out of town visit.
20 - Junior class banner found.
21 - O joy! The Senior rings have come.
23 - Senior play - "The Rivals."
25 - New word added to the Senior vocabulary - "graduation."

May

20 - Preparation for final exams.
22 - Still cramming.
28 - Reports!!

June

6 - Climax - graduation.