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VoL. XII
JANUARY 19, 1928
The Meteor
=~T~H~E~~M~ET E~O~R~==== T o the Editor:
No. 7
Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Va., voted to stick heavily and quickly
semi-monthly during the session of 1927-28 Subscription, 15 cents per copy; $1.75 per year
it is a good thing to put a ban on Editor-in-Chief....................................................................B. D. CAUSEY, JR. profanity, for all of us use it too
Managing Editor....................................................................E. N. RAYMOND much, even when there is no excuse for it; but what we DO object to is
this organization.
William \Vilkinson is showing up
well on the U. Va. freshmen basket-
ball squad.
Garland Hutcheson is a caouidate
for the Virginia freshmen indoor track team.
Benjamin Gordon is acljuncting for the position as manager of the
H. A. LAMAR
J. w. GRUMIAUX
Reporters
H. P. BOGGS
N. T. GREEN
E. l\1. C. QunmY
G. C. BARKER R. l\1. WHITNEY
having the counselors-leaders of
our school-going around swearing
like sailors, calling us anything they
like and getting away with it.
The Staff
Everybody hates to be bit, but they
Business Manager....................................................................J. :III. D. H EALD hate it lots worse when they can't TT. Va. wrestling team.
Assistant Business Manager....................................................C. D. HAMNER bite back. The counselors are sup-
Abie Graves is· on the Virginia
mrsi ty wrestling team in the 125-
pound class.
Loyd Smith is continuing his
sprinting career with the Virginia freshmen indoor track team.
. George Philips, Dick Beasley, and Joe Hutcheson are members of the Virginia indoor track team.
Frank l\Jleade, captain of the Vir- ginia basket-ball team, is starring for the Orange and Blue quint.
Circulation Manager................................. ..............................D. L. FoRSYTH Assistant Circulation Manager..............................................R. C. CANFIELD
Faculty Adviser..............................................................MR. T. F. JOHNSTON
pos!?d to report themselves for swear- iug yet it is doubtful if as many as ten counselors have reported them- selves in svite of the fact that almost
every counselor in school swears con- sistently. If a counselor can not be stuck and will not report himself
DO WE WANT TENNIS LETTERS NOW1
There seems to have been some comment as to whether we should have (which is his duty), how then, ran
minor letters awarded for tennis and wrestling this year. This question he honorably stick anybody for cuss- · seems to have decided itself very conveniently indeed, for as THE METEOR ing? We want to know ! And how?
goes to press the latest decision of the faculty is that there will be no
wrestling team this year. This leaves tennis as the only sport in which
minor letters are to be given.
If there were any reason at all for giving minor letters it seems· to be
because wrestling was something that deser ved compensation. T ennis was ~nc.ludedalongwithwrestlingthoughwedon'tseewhy. Probablybecause 1t IS' the only other sport in which we compete with schools out ide of
, Lynchburg. It seems that soccer deserves more reward than tennis even
. though its schedules are restricted to Lynchburg teams, and even cross . country requires a great deal more training than tennis will ever need.
If we give minor letters to tenni , soccer and cross country ought to get ~hem too. This would obviously be too many letters. Over half the boys I~ school would wear some kmd of a "Y" which, though it might be dis- trngUisha.ble to a V. E. S. student would look like any of the rest to an outsider.
Tennis has· never been a very popular sport at Y. E. S. for a team. None of the tennis teams in the past have had an interesting schedule. Track and baseball absorb most of the spring athletic ability about school
anyway and the teams would have a hard time getting candidates unless they were from one of these squads. Statistics will show that the majority of tenms men already have major letters in other branches of sport. Also the tennis players of the past have spent little energy on tennis, exerting most of it toward track or baseball. .
Since tennis requires s·o little training; it not an especially popular sport in V. E. S., and most of the tennis players haYe letters already, there seems no reason why It deserves a. minor letter any more than soccer and cross country, but to give all of these teams minor letters is out of the question.
---0·--- WRITE YOURS NOW!
Once upon a time, in a certain city, there lived a boy whose name was Simon P. qrastinate. He was born of poor but honest parents, and he was a good Chnshan, a devoted son, a loyal V. E. S. student, and a subscriber
to THE METEOR.
. One day Simon went hunting. An old coon, intent on escape, fled from
him mto a hollow log. Our enthusiastic Nimrod followed him. While he was. inside the log.a severe storm came up. Simon, to escape a wetting, decided to remam ms1de the hollow tree. It rained and rained and rained.
· When the clouds had passed away, and the sun had reappeared, Simon
endeavo~ed to crawl out, but was frustrated in his purpose. The rain had
~o~ed m the dea~ wood, and so swelled in that our hero was penned
Inside. ~1s frenzied efforts were of no avail. He was stuck, tight and
fast, and It seemed, forever, there was no hope of escape. Simon resiQ1led 0
himself to his awful fate.
Ash~ lay th~re, in the darkness ?f the log, all the a.cts of his life passed
before his fevensh eyes. When arnved the thought that he had neglected to pay for his subscription to THE MiETEOR, he actually felt so small that he scrawled out of the log with ease. '
Needless to say, THE METEOR received his check the very next morning.
HOW MANY SPORTS CAN V. E. S. SUPPORT1
To many of the old faithful students o·f V. E. S. it must have been qu.ite a blow to receive the news that there would be no wrestling tean1 this year. For the first time in the history of the school, the G. A. A. had ruled in favor of awarding minor letters for wrestling. However, the reason that there will be no team is the lack of candidates.
We do not hold the least bit of hard feeling toward those who might have gone out and didn't. We don't believe that the school has any such feeling. Instead, this unfortunate occurrence is something tl1at was bound to happen, only nobody seemed to realize it before. In the rapid growth of this school, too great strides have been taken in athletics as well as some other things. The suprising development of V. E. S. into an out-
standing school within a short period has not been without its bad effects. Several years ago the student body of V. E. S. was composed of an uh'us~ly large number of athletes who were good, that is, in regard to the size and youth of the school. V. E. S. defeated larger schools with regularity in different branches of sport. But the truth was that V. E. S. was doing the uriusual in this respect. The youth of the school could not stand the pace set. The lapse which was unavoidable is now here and it
finds the school in a position in which it is trying to do more than it can
Alumni News
\\'illiam (Petit) Cabell, '26, is
for any kind of profanity whatso- now a member of the University of
ever, it eems to us that some sort Virginia varoity glee club and is
of check should be placed on the therefore in position to make nu- counselors themselses. Of course merous trips about the country with
Soccer Schedule Junior Lell!Jt