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THE METEOR
VoL.XIV JUNE 5, 1930
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a close vote' with Peter H airston. as his leading rival. Bill has consist- ently averaged better than 85o/o dur- ing the three years he has been ~t V. E. S., and is fitted for the posi- tion. He is a counselor and three-
No.14 Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Va.,
semi-monthly during the session of 1929-30 Subscription, 15 cents per copy; $1.75 per year
· EDITORIAL BOARD F. RICHARDSON HILLIER
Editor
Managing Editor..................................................................E. R W. McCABE accept what she has attempted to Photographer to THE METEOR................................................C. M. HENKEL give us and when we have been Typist to THE METEOR......................................................J. M. McKIMMON forced to take it we have become Faculty Adviser....................................................................MR. J . K. BANKS better men for it.
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C. H. McNuLTY R M. WRIGHT W. C. WILSON
L. c.DEBERRY J. W. ASHTON E. A. BELMORE
Reporters
And so, the passing editor of THE METEOR feels sure that he l1as the entire Class of 1930 with him when
he so incapably tries to thank V. E. S. for what she has given us and to feebly apologize for not hav- ing done more to better her name.
And to every member of the Sen- ior class, the staff of this pa.per bids a simple and at the same heart- feeling "Good-bye and Good Lucie"
DID YOU KNOW THAT-
Mr. E. N. Tucker, by teaching physics at night, managed to teach nine classes a day; in addition he found time to coach Midget teams take long hikes, play much bridge, and drink quantities of tea.
The school under the leadership
of Bishop J ett built a road in one
day.
There were 13 boys, out of the
original 60, from Philadelphia, dur- ing the first session. One boy that
year was older than any member of the faculty excepting the rector and vice-rector, for he was twenty-four.
The gymnasium is nearly the same
dimensions of the famous temple at
Jerusalem.
The main building is constructed
exactly with the compass-north and south.
When the present Senior master
in his first year fell ill with the flu,
school shut down on the following
day, and so his record of not missing
time from illness was saved by a .
narrow margm.
The dances were held at one time
in the dining room.
Iron Men ·
Our only undefeated team outside of track was the football team of 1919. When this team went on a trip, only two counselors (out of the eleven) were left in school to keep eight periods. This aggregation were
a bunch of iron men. They took only two substitutes besides their eleven regular players (and th11t made up most of the squad). They had to take a train at 6:30 in the morning to go to Bedford, 20 miles away, to play in the afternoon.
It was not until after the main building was erected, that it was dis- covered that no provision had been
made in the plans for a place to eat. That's why we eat in the cellar.
In 1927 a boy attending school at that time took first place in the high hurdle event. He had a cork leg and ran the race in the time of 17.3.
Floyd Day, in 1926, broke the school record in the 440- yard run with only 1 shoe on (time 0 :53 1-5).
John Maybank has made every touchdown that has been made against D. M. I. in the last three years.
Duval Goldsmith pole vaulted 12 feet in practice. He set the school recordinameetat11ft.9in.
Mr. Ripley could get some point- ers from these.
BUSINESS BOARD
CASKIE E. NORVELL, JR. Business Manager
Assistant Business Manager........................................................R. J. DILLON Assistant Business Manager....................................................R P . SMITHER Circulation Manager................................................................G. W. FoRSYTH Assistant Circulation Manager....................................................W. T. LoNG
Entered as second-class matter September 28, 1928, at the Post Office at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1928.
A JLATTER OF POLICY
Though THE METEOR did not take All-Southern Honors, in the Private
School Class, this year as it has done in the past, we feel that the staff of '30 adopted and held to a rigid and ~ruccessful policy.
The principal feature of the 1930 policy is that this, the final issue, is being edited by an entirely new staff which will serve for the s~s~ion 1930-31. This change was brought about to remedy the rushed conditJons of the first few issues of the new term due to a new and inexperienced mff. In the past this has been one of the major troubles of THE METEOR
in its opening issues.
As we have said, we strongly approve of the policy of the late staff
and the staff of '30-'31 will continue in its footsteps.
At this point we wish to explain some points of our policy which are
not understood by outsiders, and for which we have been criticized by our exchanges.
of M-ETEORS that are sold at school are circulated to the advertisers, ex- changes, and patrons of the school. These outsid~rs are not in~e~ested in essays or in jokes of the type that the average high school ongmates or plagerizes. Though we do not wish to be taken as an ultra-serious bunch of intelligentsia, we believe in a paper which is nathing but a neAVspaper.
We quote from the critici~m of the Washi~gtori and Lee Scho~l
nalism. "The absence of JOkes and poems m your paper, an eVIl whiCh IS common to this type of publication, is to be highly commended. The adult, rather than the childish, should always be striven for in high school
papers."
Secondly we do not approve of an exchange column, other than the
recognition of all exchanges in the opening issue. If we must criticize our contemporaries we will give favorable criticism and advice, or none at all, because we do not consider ourselves in a position to do so nor as author- ities on the subject of newspaper work.
Lastly, THE METEOR will continue to advocate a press association for the Virginia preparatory schools. This subject was discussed in an edi- torial published earlier in the year. Since then we have had several inquiries as to what we meant by it. We firmly believe that there is a
need for an association of preparatory schools, with a limited membership, and with membership by invitation only. Though such a plan is already in practice, being used at the University of Virginia, it is handled on a large scale with many different classes of schools. We feel that a great deal more could be accomplished if several delegates from each of the leading preparatory schools of the State could come together and talk
over their troubles and receive advice from the others.
With this as an explanation, we feel sure that no one will be either
astonished or shocked at any seemingly peculiar move we may make. FINIS
There have been happy days here for all of us; days which we can look back upon with pleasant thoughts. There have been other things ; girls, dances, games, math. All of them have played a part of our life here. We are losing all of them. Perhaps it is best that we should lose some of them.
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D. M. I.
First we mention our "pet subject."
print only news in our columns. Some of the news is necessarily stale to the student body but it must be remembered that over twice the number
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Life, after all, has not been so terribly hard to us.
We have been watched,
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We make im earnest endeavor to
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Harris, P., rL... 3
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EIGHT NEW
INITIATED TO V-CLUB
Gulick Stars for Diamondmen in Diningroom; Mellor and Long Are Amusing Trackmen
Several days ago, the usual initia- tions for the "V" Club were held, although there were but eight new members to be gathered from both track and baseball.
For the greater part, the baseball boys proved to be a greater success, from the spectators' point of view.
The school found out that Mellor
Soon we shall no more be students of
I . F r e d C o o k , ' 2 9 , a n d Clai~rn~ Darden, '29, made their numerals in
For some of us the sun is low.
the Virginia Episcopal School. The sun will have set and left us feeling as if we have lost something which we can never regain. And we shall haft. Our preparatory school days will be over. "Finis" will be written across the portal which can never again be open to us. Some of us have been successful and popular. Others have been less successful and popular, but all of us have made friends ; some who we leave behind us and some who go with us, probably never to be seen again. ·
tongue-tied. . The y~mnger Long, who was un-
personatmg a farmer, was quite
amusing, as he drove imaginary
duc~sou~of the grass, which_he was
rakmg with a great deal of Vlolence. ginia, visited the school last Sunday It was_learned later that Mr. Daw- Payne Quarles, '27, has been mad~ so~ paid the club fifty cents to have Business Manager of Tke OtJWJier
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as boys should, and taught the things about honor that make it the most vital part of man's makeup. Char- acters have been built, and we have
been prepared to face difficulties of every sort. vVe have met a great many types of boys and men and hare become better men for it.·
All of these things, and many more V. E. S. has given us and very few of us have repaid her. Some-
times we feel as if we have been very, very feeble in our attempts to re-
ciprocate. We have even refused to
SENIOR CLASS ELECTS (Continued from page 1)
William A. H obbs, of Norfolk,
after
letter man. .
Nat Green of Norfolk, Va., will
give the class prophecy. He is on the H onor Committee, captain of Track, editor of THE METEOR, and trea~rurer of the "V" Club.
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GARNET SLUGGERS LOSE E'INAL GAME TO D. M. I. BY 6 TO 2 AT DANVILLE
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only three hits during the remainder
of the game.
The Bishops were unable to gather
enough hits to net any runs until the seventh, when Luck drove a liner deep into left field for a home run. 'rhey added another run in the eighth when Hobbs received life on Miller's error and scored on Clemen's double.
TheV.E.S.nineputupahard fight to overcome a six-run lead but it seemed impossible, due to the splendid work of the D. M. I. ballis-
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valedictorian
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representatives of the University of North Carolina.
The boys from the University of
Virginia were: William Cabell, '26, Ben Gordon, '26, John Risher, '28, Raleigh Taylor, '25, William Dew, '26, Pembroke Taylor, '28, Thomas Humrickhouse, '27, A nderson Roundtree, '28, and Lewis Shrady, '28.
. From Other Colleges
Fred Cook, '29, and Claibourne
Darden, '29, both of W ashington and Lee, Dick Lee, '29, of William and Mary, Robert Saunders, '29, of V. P. I., and Duncan Hamner, '27, of V. M. I., Alfred Wilson, '29, Harry Forsyth and Robert Wayland,
'27, and Frank Couch, '29.
Frank Parrot, '27, has pledged
Theta Chi Fraternity at U. N. C. Lonnie London, '27, has made Phi Beta Kappa (honor society) at U.
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Alumni News
6 Dick Lee, '29, spent the week-end
of May 25th and 26th here.
1 The boys who came back to cele-
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O brate Field Day were Phillip Pel-
O ton, '29, Thomas Glascock, '29, Jim 0 Hubbard, '29, Stuart Carr, '29, and 0 "Billie Barnes, '29. These were the
had not taken off his winter under- monogram in track at V. P. I.
wear and was unable to find his Harrison Nicholas '25 and John
pan~. Unfortun~tely, _Archie was Heald, '28, made their va;sity mono-
workmg under difficulties, for no- grams in track at V. M. I.
body could understand exactly what Ashby Patteson, '29, made his nu-
he wanted. He seemed to be a bit merals in Freshman track at V M
N. C.
cock, '29, have made their Freshman numerals at U. N. C. in baseball.
Eugene Houghton, '23, has been transferred to the sales service of the Firestone Tire Company in Roches- ter, N.Y . While here he was editor of THE METEO~ mgr. of football
and baseball, and a counciler. Make Letters
· John
Miles, '28, made a varsity
Milton Barber and John Pea-
Freshman track at W & L
George Moore '29 ~hoi~ a Delta
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ting about with the spirit~whipJ>E:t, been made Circulation Man~r u· John. Long_had some difficulty m College Topics, University of Vir- d
Tau Delta at th~U~versityof Vir-
this done. student comic at the Univeraity of
Dog Face, the elder was seen trot- Virginia. John Risher '28 h!f tl