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About five years ago this timo V. E. S. receiYed her first students into a sort of school-boy paradise, £or there wasn't a rule of any nature on tl10 plnco. What a change has been wro1.1ght in that brief period! As you gaze upon those four pages of official regulations in tho bulletin board and as you think of all the pet rulings which each teacher and counselor ha.s as l1is own special prerogative, to say nothing of the equally special ones to be found in every dormitoq, you sigh, perhaps, for "the good old days"; but at any rate, you realize
that the change has been a great one. The V. E. S. Faculty, you think, no matter what else it has done, bas been a most active l?ody legislatively. Or possibly you may recall my tell- ing you about the new school with absolutely no regulations, where everything is loft to the pupil's sense of what is right and wrong, eYen to the point of attending classes; and you con~lude that if the worth of an institution is all the greater, the fewer the rules, then you•· own school is leaving the ideal all too rapidly.
Perhaps you have run foul of those same rules, and for the "steenth" time that obtuse individual up on the third floor has said "no" very emphatically, and it's a day's rambling on the demerit track; and as you hit the trail, you feel that the whole thing's a mess anyhow, and so on in a similar Yein for the rest of what otherwise would have been a pleasant day.
Let's have a look about us, however, and see if we can't find a way out of the maze. Take such a matter as our all getting np at seven in the morning, or our having breakfast half an hour later-1.frs. Branham permitting, of course-