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are not compulsory are more valuable than those which are, and hence benefit the school, if a number are submitted. Out of school spirit, if not for personal ambition, therefore, you should try to compete for these prizes and it is to be hoped that many will take part in the contests this year. Don't allow lack of confidence in yourself to hinder you, for you arc probably as good as anyone else and would ha,•e just as good a chance to win the reward. Try it once anyhow.
One of the dangers which confronts prep school life is a tendency to allow profanity to creep in. It is unnecessary to give the all too-apparent results of this as A Caution. everyone knows how detrimental it is. So far, the lack of it has been one of the things Y. E. S. is most proud of, for in very few other schools is there so little as here. But it is an e,·er-prescnt menace, and once started will be hard to curb. Some thoughtless boys lately have begun to grow rather careless in the language they use and so let this reminder be a warning to yon and check any
tendency towards impropriety in speaking.
NoTE.-The greater part of the athletic department of this issue
of THE :METEOR was written up by Eugene Houghton.
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