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ns Burns suggests, from "their bctte1· art of hiding," but not nsua11y. You meet these individuals intimately day after day, nnd you know that. they don't avoid demerits because they arc abnormal geniuses and that they don't droop under their goodness. In fact, thoy arc real boys, who may enjoy life more tlum you do, simply because their time is their own, and :Monday is always a holiday, and they don't run their heads into that twenty demerit rule. How do they do it'l Simply by acting like sensible human beings, instead of put- ting behind thel}l every vestige of sense, so soon as they hit the school property; and by minding their own business. And like your own law-abiding father, who never thinks of tho legal volumes in his lawyer's office from one day to the next, these same boys aren't g:reatly'bothered by our own elaborate rulings.
I suppose you sometimes think that some of us-and here I speak for.the Faculty-spend a pretty considerable p;rtion of our time in enforcing and administering objectionable rules. I myself pretty frequently feel that life is one endless argument on the interpretation of rules and regulations. How about letting us display our ingenuity in some other way? I think we'd like the chance.
Again, you may feel that personally you aren't doing V. E. S. much good. You may think you are too young or small. You are bnt an average student, and, work as hard as you will, you never can get more than the myst.ic eighty-eight on those themes. You haYen't athletic skill, or you haven't any of those indefinite qualities which enable one to adorn tl10 choir, or take a part in a show. But no matter whether you do any of these things or not, every V. E. S. boy can at least help in cutting down demerits, simply through the exer- cise of a little more grey matter, and he will thereby help to make a more orderly and a happier community. Not only
that, but you will be making unpleasant laws nothing more
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