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team. If they don't like to lose to Editor-in-ChieL.................................................,...............B. D. CAUSEY, JR. V. E. S. I doubt if it would be a
Managing Editor.:......................,...........................................E. N. RAYMOND good idea for them to organize one
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either.
The soccer teams in Lynchburg
only play prep schools."
Hirons : ( Uut out by censors.)
The officers of the V. E. S. Club at the U. of Va. this year are Beas- ley, R., president; Hudnall, vice-
The
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Alumni News
Abie Graves, wrestling for the
H. A. LAMAR H. P. BoGGs J. w. GRUMIAUX N. T. GREEN
' E. M. c. QUIMBY
G. C. BARKER R.. M. WHITNEY
Pelton: "I think it's a fine president; Forsyth, M., secretary ing one of the ridge teams in soccer thing. It will advertize the school and treasurer. Since the holidays it
The Staff
anything if we beat them." showed up well in the recent game Luck, W. : "I think we should with Woodberry Forest.
Reporters
Yankees on a balmy summer day. Business MA:Ua.ger....................................................................J. M. D. HEALD One day a V. E. S. team was beaten
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little and practice long shots.
When it comes to picking an all- city team, V. E. S. has already de-
feated one all-star Lynchburg team, so when the time comes for the team
are few that could have expected him to average seven field goals a game and a little over fourteen points when he is assigned all the tough guards wherever he plays. Hill held
THE METEOR Garnet Garnerings
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the fact that the Virginia Episcopal lads are the kings of all the village and vicii\ity in soccer. Unfortunate-
P erhaps V. E. S. did lose to Lynchburg High School in basket-
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Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Va., ball out there is no getting around opinion of t17e renewal of athle_tic University of Virginia, won his
FEBRUARY 2, 1928
have about as much chance of beat- as the Red Sox have to shut out the
and bring the two schools into a closer bond of friendship."
has not had any official functions. Several Alumni were at the school
Mr. Johnston: "Since the ma-
Assistant Business Manager....................................................C. D. H A:r.£NER 1-0, but that was a team that had jority of our students come from expecting a dance. Among the num-
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Circulation Manager...............................................................D. L. FORSYTH ~siaf.a.ijt Circulation Manager..............................................R. C. CANFIELD
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Faculty Adviaer..............................................................MR. T. F. JOHNSTON
WHAT VALUE HAS V. E. S. 1EWELRY1
_ V. E. S. has changed in one respect this year to a drastic extent. This
ii in reg-Brd to the jewelry that many of the students· wear. Never before has the V. E. 8.' student gone. in for pins, rings, and keys as he has done thia year, and the result is that some of the most insignificant students ~~.bout the school 11-ppear to be big noises to the outsider. THE METEOR is gp).J¥l that so many of the subscribers patronize its advertiser, the College
harmacy. But this new fad for jewelry is going to do the school no good .,nd· it seems that the more deserving students of Virginia Episcopal School should be more than indignant over the present state of affairs.
The first change that is obviously necessary is to place some regulation on the type of rings and pins, that are V. E. S. rings and pins. Shall the ilChool be content to sit back and let the College Pharmacy sell any style
jewelry as V. E. S. jewelry? Shall the type of rings that the school &hould have be left entirely to its discrimination? As things are going now, anybody can wear almost any kind of ring or pin that be wishes.
Those who can afford the most, wear the best jewelry, but often these are persons who really deserve nothing that can be classed under the head of
V. E. S. jewelry.
Then we always come back to the question: Should there be any
significance in a ring, pin, or key that bears the school seal? There
certainly is not now and there never will be unless steps are taken.
the present conditions the "V" club pin is worthless since much more des~rable pins can be obtained and to the outsider they seem of much
more value.
There is no need for the ordinary V. E. S. student wearing keys and
pins. There even should be some limitation upon those who wear rings. Any boy who comes to V. E. S. for part of a year or goes to some other school the following year certainly does not deserve to even wear a ring. There should be a standard V. E. S. ring for boys who have been to V. E. S.
for more than one year, or for boys who go into college from V. E. S. to wear. Then there would be some value in the ring but at the same time
any deserving student would be eligible to wear it. There could also be a special ring restricted only to graduates, and that means those who get
diplomas.
There is also a definite place for pins and keys. The "V" club of
course should have its pin. And the Dramatic Society and the METEOR staff could receive as reward for their toils the privilege to wear either a pin or a key as decided upon by the respective organizations. Any other recognized organization in school could have its pin or key also. In this
way jewelry would mean something. It would be an honor to wear a pin, ring, or key and outsiders WQuld be able to distinguish who was who at V. E. S.
The G. A. A. has made a sensible move in the regulation of letters, already this year. That concerned only the athletes, though. This ques- tion of jewelry is a challenge to the entire school. Shall we continue to sit back and let the value of the V. E. S. seal be cheapened? Shall we
have no regard for the significance of V. E. S. jewelry? Someone may say that the situation bas reached such a point that it cannot be interfered with. But it is getting worse every day. The longer nothing is done, the sooner a V. E. S. ring will be worth nothing more than a German pfennig.
KEEP UP THAT SPIRIT!
' V. E. S. cheering stock took a sudden upward rise last Saturday night and the student body took it upon themselves to show Lynchburg what is meant by that term, school spirit. It is easy enough to back a good team. That can be_ done without much difficulty. But to back your team whether you Win or lose is the real test of school spirit and that is wh~:re V. E. S. has shown its real worth in the past and is where V . E. S. showed it last Saturday night.
.· The·high school has twelve hundred students, V. E. S. about one hundred thirty. And the fact ought to imp:ess the people or Lynch- ~urg: that V: E. S. had as many rooters at the game as Lynchburg High, and~sforch~ering,V.E,S.didtheonlyc)leering. Allthiscameabout, notw1thstandmg the fact that L. H. S. was the favorite, and was the bome tea!Il. .
· The team showed a great display of spirit on the floor too. Towards the end of the game when there was no doubt as to the winner, V. E. S. outplayed L. H. S. during the first part of the last quarter.
What the school wants to realize now 'is that this game i s in the past ' Ol:d both' our loBBes were to a high school. We're facin'g prep school~
never played before and bad not had Virginia high schools, athletic contests with such schools must
any practice. It was about what undoubtedly interest their stu-
over the week-end of January 28th ber were:
that the winners were offside when schools, the better."
they scored. So really V. E . S. L...--------------..1 should still have a marless record.
is one of the members of the Va. mile relay team that competed in the
Milrose games, New York. J ohn M. Goldsmith, '24, is one of the two
Coach J ohnston has two junior teams, one of them the first team and the other, one that the rest of the League will offer some competition.
As for the first team, in the game
with Rivermont they were leading at years. A. M. A. should be a hard the half, 5-0, so Mr. Goggin, who fight when we play them here Satur- takes a sort of fatherly interest in day, but Episcopal High and Swave- the promoting of soccer in Lynch- ly follow the next week-end. Epis- burg, asked Mr. J ohnston : "I wish copal High has beaten A. M'. A. and
you'd tell your boys to let up a little Swavely has beaten Woodberry. Both
this half. I wouldn't like the River- these games are to be played away
mont team to get discouraged and and will be a hard test.
quit the league." So Coach John- Everybody expected Captain Bar-
ston told his charges to ease up a ber to be a star this year. But there
'from Lynchburg to play Roanoke, h·im to six points but Barber was a
Mr. Goggin can see if any of the players from the city teams can take a position on the V. E. S. first team and he will get his all-stars sooner than any other way.
V. E. S. can well put their con-
fidence in Coach Payne, because he
has shown that he can develop a
good little basket-ball team. Lynch-
little off on his shooting that night
1928 Track Schedule April1 H.M.A.,R.-M.A.,here.
April 11 S. :M:. A., here.
April 21-Woodberry Forest at
Orange, Va.
April 28-St. Christopher's, here.
burg High is the only team so far May 1 Virginia State Meet at
that has been able to put it over on
him and that still leaves his record
with prep s c h o o1 teams clear.
L . H. S. undoubtedly has a powerful
aggregation and there are few teams
that will win from them. ----------------'---------------- here. Wins over them will put to naught what happened against L. H. S.
It would not have counted anything for us if we had won those