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CROSS COUN'1.1RY RUNS BEGIN
Much to the delight of the cross- country fans, practice was com- menced last week with approximate-
ly twenty-five candidates. The run is the same as that of last year, con- sisting of th'ree and a half miles of
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THE METEOR PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS
(Continued from page 1) No.3 ed in your body-and what boy is not?-follow the instructions and
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son especially is doing well, for in
the meet with the Navy he came m
second. The Navy man broke the
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THE METEOR NOVEl\1BER 5, 1926
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ALUMNI NEWS
IN AND OUT OF V. E. S.
Amoug the numerous visitors to V. E. S. over the week-end of Octo- ber 23rd were Mr. and l\1rs. F. L.
Cook, who visited their son, Fred. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Vance were with us to call on their son, "Dazzy." Mr. and Mrs. B. V. Bboth were also here to see their son, but only remained over Sunday.
Mrs. A. A. Sizer motored over from Charlottesville to pay her re- spects to her son.
Mrs. K. F. Bowman and Miss K.
Bowman, both of Warrenton, visited
recently in the Rector's Apartments. Miss J. Grasselli, of Cleveland, Ohio, accompanied them.
COMPLrMENT ARY College Pharmacy The Little' Drug on the Corner
Issue9. by the students of the Virginia EpiB<:opal School, Lynchburg, Va., semi-monthly during the se1>s10n of 1926-27
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get this exercise.
DT. Davis's Special Oornrnents
Two of our alumni at the U. Va.
have been honored by being taken
into honorary societies. Hardy Dil-
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, ., has been taken in the 'lngon Soct-
Here is the full general statement Editm·-in-Ohief "In examining a group of boys
J. MoYLER, JR........................................................................Editor-in-Chief whose age limit runs from twelve to
Associate Edttors nineteen there will be found a mark-
F. H. MILLER AND F. DAY.................................................Assistant Editors ed contrast in the physical develop-
R. B. MoRRIS................................................................................News Editor ment. It might be asked why such
N..T. GREEN, JR.......................................................................Athletic Ed~tor an examination is necessary, for
It. ·E. WINF:REE................................................................................Meteontes boys of this age attending a prepar-
at~ry school are considered fit J D. READ......................................................................Circulation Manager enough when application is formally
Freeman Dance, '22, has left Georgia and has come to Virginia to work. He is still with the South-
eastern Undr.rwriting Association and is doing fine. We have heard from another of the class of '22, Randolph Tayloe, who is now work- ina in a bank in Alexandria, Va.
bV. E. S. is represented on the Var- sity cross-country team of U. Va. by
W,: S. WILKINSON, JR...............................................................Alumni Editor .
made to enter; a certain number, however of a supposedly healthy group w'mbe found to have physical defects if not some actual dtsease.
As thorough a study as possible can not be done, but the procedure of determining Wf'ight, height, and chest expansion, with inspection and examination of the body, is suffi- cient to find defects which retard a boy's progress or endanger his future health.
"The examination this season has disclosed the usual percent or residia
of childhood infection; such defects
as shortenina and atrophy of an ex- tremity can"be traced to infantile paralysis and accidents of various kinds in early life; and there were several individuals where possibly serious disease was imminent. As
a whole the group did not impres~ est. the examiner as being as physically
Business Manager G. H. BoYD
record and Hutch was only ten
D. L. FORSYTH
E. N. RAYMOND
MR. H. w. MATTFIELD, JR. SPORTSMANSHIP
'. yards behind him at the fimsh.
·. 'I11;lere is sportsmanship in everything one wishes to do, and it is up to h e individual to fulfill his obligations as a sport.
, rf·t ~!)n,er~tlly one thinks of some sort of outdoor,~port or some variety of
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athletics when he hears the word "sportsmanship.
illg this, for he should remember a person can be a good sport in many
different ways.
Here in V. E. S. one can notice in some instances a decided lack o£
good sports; in fact, in many in tances. A boy who has created disord~r J.n 'study-hall, or in some place requiring quiet, and has been demented, m many cases calls the counselor or teacher cheap. Is this being a good
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tus Hutter, who is playing regular full. Pheby Phelps, also of '24, is doing well in football at ·wake For-
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-sportsman?
is toO bad that a boy who knows that he has broken the rule kicks because
Wrist and Arm Bouquets ~
Then there is the athletic phase, not in regular games but in pick-up
week-end of
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fit as in former years, and it is rec-
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whd, when they are losing, continually object-quite pettily-to some acts
I s this being a sport ? Frequently a boy may receive a low mark
Of course not, and these boys
of the opposing side.
.only make themselves undesirable players by their actions.
immediately to affect those boys who .ft"
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his lesson. If he is a sport, he will accept it in good faith; but do a certam set of boys here m school
are not trymg or some eam.
T. N. DAVIS, M. D.,
do that?
nothing but criticisms of the teacher. For some unknown reason these boys are, according to their evident idea, always right and the others are wr~ng.
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, When V. E. S. meets the Episco- pal High ,Scho0l at Alexandria, this will be the fifth annual contest on the football field. Thus far E. H. S. ha:s four victories to her credit.
The .past record is as follows : 1922: E. H. S.- 9; V. E. S.-0
1923: E. H. S.- 7; V. E. S.-2 1924: E:·H. S.-38'; V. E. S.-0 1925: E. H. S.-20; V. E. S.-0
Episcopal has had a poor season tmd ·the · lntlications are that we sh6uTd break their string of victo- ries. Here's hoping !
V. E. S. will meet the Blackstone Militar:y_Academy for the third time W,.I)Ur history on the 13th. In 1918 'Mr. Crockett's unvan{)_uished eleven trimm~ them at the "Island," 26-0. Two years later we lost to them at Blackstone, 27-7.
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56 Some time ago, I came across a quotation (of whom, I cannot remem- ~~
her) which struck me very forcibly. It was phrased in that peculiarly 59
contradictive style which commands attention and inspection. Now since 60
the idea is an old one, and therefore firmly established in our code of eth- 61 · d 62
ics, it is especially fit to be d1scusse . 63 "Anger is the defense of the weak." In giving way to any violent emo- 64
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tion, the greatest !!'enius places himself on the level with the_ commonest 65 u 66
son of the herd. Conversely, it is the truly great mind that will not suffer
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his consciQusness to be dominated by any instinctive flash of his will. For 68 example, he must be able to observe that a certain person is badly disposed 69 toward him without actually feeling it, without experiencing any appre- 70
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The writer of this does not mean to Imply that only a mmonty m v. E. for boys between the ages of thirteen S. are sports. On the other hand, he is me_rely attempting; to show th~t and twenty:
there are a certain number of boys who fail to fulfill their sportsman s .
duties, and although no names are mentioned, the reader will know who the .:1
ciable emotion. It has been said that there is no surer sign of a great mind __T_a_k-en-from the Ninth Year-book of than that it refuses to notice annoying and insulting expressions, but the National Society for the Study of
straightway ascribes them to the defective knowledge of the speaker. There Education.
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First National Bank Building
is a translation of Gra.cian that sums this up very nicely. It runs, "Noth- ing is more unworthy of a man than that he let it be seen that he is one."
T he record book of the examinations will be in my class- room for the next few days and can be .consulted by boys during recesses. You will kindly refrain from look- ing up any boy's record other than
your own, however, unless the other boy is present and allows it.
J. K. B. SCHOOL HOLIDA Y TEMPORARIL Y
CHANGED
In order to permit the student body to attend the V. M. I.-David- son football game, held at the
Lynchburg Municipal Stadium last
surrounding territory.
entries in the daily runs realize that
Many of the it is a full three and a half.
MR. HUTTON ATTENDS MEETING
On October 29 l\1r. Hutton trav- Saturday, the school holiday was
eled to Washington to attend a meet- ing of the Church Schools of the Province of Washington, which was held at ·St. Alban's School. At this
meeting he had the good fortune to hear an address made by the Bishop of London.
celebrated Saturday instead of Mon- day. The METEOR expects that the school as a whole would not mind having both Saturday and Monday holiday every week, as was done this
past week.
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V. E. S. has alumni on the Vir-
O'inia freshman football and cross-
~ountry teams also. Churchill Dunn,
'26, is playing in the line on the foot- i~
ball team and William Dew, '26, li Flowers
and George Phillips, '26, are run- ning on the cross-country team.
This year we have three of our '24
alumni on the University's Varsity
football squad. These are Bledsoe
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Rollins, '24, and Gordon Peyton, '25, paid us a visit. Asher Payne, '26, now at V. 111. I., was here for a short time on Saturday after the V. M. I.- Davidson game. We were mighty
alad to see them, and we hope that
~ll of our alumni will come to see us
when they have the chance. . Eric Price, '20, has now gone mto the typewriting business in Stam-
ford, Conn.
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