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This year we find the school equally divided between old boys and new. The old boys are well aware, or should be, of our customs and ideals. It is to the new bo;v-s that this article is especially dircctcd, but it applies to the old as well.
When you entercd V. E. S. you found many thin~ strange and unusual. Some of you had nev-er been away from home before, and this created the double difficulty of haYin~ to struggle against both homcsich."D.css and a new em-ironment. Natmally, you arc prone to do that which you see others do-perhaps because you think it a custom, and perhap3 beeanse e'Vt'rythiug is so strange to you that you ha>e not had time to think and annl,,·ze for yonrselve . It is to such as these that we would like to emphasize the cardinal principle of this school-IIonor. School honor is 110t only being honest-it is more than that. F,,ery little thing that even one boy does reflects upon t}Jr school. Jf you are tempted to join nuy party that are going to do anything
that yon se<'retly know is not quite right-remember, that no matter wlto leads yon, or what the ocx·asion this sehoul
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stands for true manliness, and true manliness can only be
attained by keeping yoursdves clE'an in ever~· way. nnd think· ing first of tl1e school.
The boys who ha,·c gone out from here hove left thi!l in· stih1lion in onr keeping, and you, tho new hoys, a1·e ox· pectcd to measure up to the high standard de111audecl of m·ery true \T. E. S. boy. Wc arc still in the making, aurl wo must see to it that we make ours~hes true and sincere, that the work and desires of our founders be realized, and that we may be enabled to hand down to those who come after us priceless traditions of straightforwardness, honor, and unselfishness.
S. R. NcO.