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the h8lJ-mile, while llulter, ':24, an!l
' . . a11rl woulrl Hhow his good sptnt.
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Hogers, ':23, also placed for Yirginia IC'ontinuefl until "ipril lith. On tb1s
in the sbot and ja,-c]in. clay, with our usual down('ast faces,
In the Freshman trials at Yir- we mournfully dragged our ,'Ult- ginia, Di('k Beasley, '25, \\'On the Cth- - - CONCERNING SPRING
V ACA TIONS
really g1ganhc effort to thmk, the ·"·ish to repeat the ubject in which athlete cleliverecl his opinion thus: he fails.
"You must go out for all the teams
you can. Maybe yoi.1 ain't much
good, but it wasn't nothing but plug- ging that put me where I am. Don't mind if you get hurt. That don't
One of tbe most objectionable and the most easily remedied defects in
our school life is the asking of uncalled for questions at all times and Theater. places. This causes the faculty a great deal of trouble, and it rarely does
the askers any good; so why should the troublesome practice continue?
There is absolutely no reason; the school should, therefore, get together
EYeryone knows what I mean. The foolish inquiries that all the 1spring vacation ? Only sluggishness, teachers have to confront every day in and out of the class. "What Clidjlovesickness, and homesickness. As
a result of the one-week "l~y-off," a boy gives..way to hls feelmgs and
drops m hts school work. The hoh- days are to refresh and put more
the masters must dread classes. Now why should there be such a pro-
fusion of these questions? Do the students feel any better after they
have worried the teacher into answering them, or, as· is more often the 1for one week, but as a matter-of-fact,
ca~e after being silenced by the instructor ? It is certain that class after they stretch over a penod of about ' . . . . twoweeks. That1s,aboythmkstoo class of 1d10ttc quesbo~s does not tend to make the faculty any mo~e much of home going, at~d naturally
I make on that last qui z?" " H ow m any questions are you going to give on the exam at finals?" "Have we e'l'er had that fifth question before?''
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MR. BAKER LEA VES
\Yhen :i\Ir. Baker decided to accept the position of chaplain at the Uni1·ersity of Louisiana for nest year, we all experienced the natural regret people must always have when a faithful public serYant decides to make such a change. At the same time we probably said, "Our loss is
Louisiana's gain"; or "after all, it is a bigger work than this," or something el~e in tbe same strain.
This article is not written, howeYer to express platitudinous regrets,
but rather to criticize our everlasting tacit assumption that the blessings of life at Y. E. S. are quite a natural occurrence, to be taken as a matter- of-fact and to be treated indifferently as such when, of course, they aren't. For example, e1·ery Y . E. S. boy knows·that l\fr. Baker has maintained the policy of sen·ing the school first. Sometimes you have used his Ford;
sometimes you have gone swimming at the Y. M. C. A. in his charge;
would do '"ell not to haYe a spring sometimes you ha,·e had the benefit of his coaching. All these, and other holiday. The boy \\'ho does not go
sen'ices, came solely through his kindness, and were far from being mere home wo11ld not get flrunk, he "'oulcl ca~ual eYents of life. But aside from a perfunctory and formal expression not 1tet love-sick, and the "sissy" of thanks, how many of you haYe shown a real gratitude, say, by a better achertiser of fashionable clothes kind of cooperation in the matter of Heligiou Instructiono 1\'ould not worry Ol'er his little
I don't mean to say that Mr. Baker expected anything of the sort, or that dainties. The teams would become better because the boys w o u 1d
he would haYe done differently if he had. I am sure that he wouldn't, not break training, the school aver- but tbe fact remains tbat present appreciation often helps a deal more age \\'ould be higher because the than posthumous praise when the fighting's all OYer. boy would not be loYesick, and the
Of course we don't like to see l\Ir. Baker leave, but after all, o.ur regret school Rpirit would of a higher stan- are merely useless and idle \'aporings unleR~ when we say good-bye, we (lard because the "sissy" boy woulrl
not worry over his soiled clothes ancl re olve to keep and presene the tbings for which he stands as whole- might take a little intere~t in school
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Naturally he picked a three-letter man first, and presented his ques-
tion.
After. nea~ly fi.ve minutes of a
lege, or for graduation. In other courses, makeup work must be done
in the summer and an examination taken in the fall if the boy does not
1·igor into what we bave to do. And then, holidays are supposed to last
m rel
between the P. 1.,
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the pnrt o[ a gent!Pm an. 'l'his would ~iYe the world a good opinion of him
. . . IexcelleJit, 8ncl we ha1·e every rea. on rolled tem1is courts. With all these
the -Freshman 100 yanl d8sh, ancl A. B. PINI(EllTON AND B. Z. GoRDON..,.............................Assistant Editors Yernon Cowper, ':25, tied for fir.'t in
W. B. DEW, JR..........:....................____________, _____________........___________News Editor the pole Yault.
R. F. :M:ASON, JR............._________________.....____________.........___________..Athletic Editor
A. K. LoFFLER, JR._.________.......___.....---·................----·................__....Meteorites ing a very successful wrestling sea- was the lowest species in the institu-
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make any fliJfcn•JJC·P to a ma11 who's < ae:hie1e1l when 011 :->aturday, II'Cllt to the man of fashion, and
l'acatiun . Amid general rejoicing captain, came in a c·lnHe o;econCI in we departefl this somber life fur the
In the
Xo. 12 rni1·ersi!y of \'irginia allll \~.
wi nt1•r lerm
:llarch '27th, ll'e lctt for tl1e EaHicr found that he should always dress
'l'lw "UerdoJI "
i':lonw" littt
disappoiutellecturrl was next, anrl he tolrl tllC' ('fi!Ji'uHe- - - NEW RULES
THE ENDLESS QUEST (Continued from page 1)
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