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John Tucker Percy was recently elected treasurer of the L ynchburg Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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James Lamart Garffer is con- nected with the West India Machin- ery and Supply Company at San
Juan, Puerto Rico. '30
Richard Holberton is the proud
father of a baby boy, born at the
From The Belles of Saint Mary's the goats, we proceeded up the comes the following little bit of stairs, into the attic. It was dark
T. H. pARTRICK B. F. REAGAN
R. T. STONE
B. c. CLARKE
D. F. LANGHORNE
C. R. W. ScHOEW R. A. RILEY
E. S. PEEL
K. F. BROOKS
chool recently. He is a special agent tight.''
match on each floor, in a front win- dow so we could see. I noticed his voice cracked as he made a parting
jest and disappeared into the house. "We saw the light in the first floor, then after an interval, in the
second. Then we waited for the third story, but all we saw was a sudden flash. No light appeared in the win- dow, so after about ten minutes we decided to investigate, and see if he was playing a trick on us. So, in a body, nineteen members and
IDqr :!lrtrnr MARCH 1, 1940
NUMBER~
ALUMNI NEWS EXCHANGES
'20 In perusing through a few of our
Robert B. Albertson is practicing exchanges (of some literary merit?) law in Seattle, Washington. we find the following excerpts:
'21 From The Monthly Chronicle oi John M. Roberson is professor of E. H. S.:
AN ALUMNI REUNION
A Short Story
by
FRANCJ s HARRISON, '34
( ontinued From Last Issue.)
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VoLUME XXV
Issued by the students of the Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Va.,
semi-monthly during the school year of 1939-'40 except holidays and examination periods.
Subscriptions, 15¢ per copy; $1.75 per year 1,400 copies of this issue
EDITORIAL BOARD
HENRY c. BOURNE, JR.
The fanner heard that Henry
Ford was seeking tin for use in his we arnved at the old haunted hou
Reporters
Robert E. Gooch, III, visited "But I thought he was pretty one m first. We told h11n to light a
for the New York Life Insurance Company in Lynchburg, Va.
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Madison H. Haythe is a stock broker with the firm of Shields & Company, Wall Street, N. Y.
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Oscar M. Deyerle, Jr., is living in Richmond at present. He is a H. B. THOMSON ................................................Assistant Business Manager representative of the Flat-Top Fuel
W. J. LoNG ........................................................Assistant Business Manager Company, of Bluefield, W. Va.
"He was."
The other night I held a hand
So dainty and so sweet.
I thought my heart would burst with
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So loudly did it beat.
No other hand into my soul Could so much solace bring
As the hand I held the other night - Four aces and a king.
P. C. RoBINSON BUSINESS BOARD
EDWARD A. MITCHELL
Business Manager
W. B. STALNAKER..........................................................Circulation Manager T. S. RoBISON..............................................Assistant Circulation Manager
Entered as second-class matter September 28, 1928, at the Post Office at Lynchburg, Virginia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
A good many people have, from time to time, criticized the idea of
having an Honor System. These people, for the most part, have never
come in contact with a system such as exists here at V. E. S. or at
most other Prep Schools and Colleges throughout the South, and although
they claim to know a great deal about the whole thing, the chances are
that they really know very little about it as it truly exists. Their pet
argument, when theY) try to batter down the System, is that they don't
see why one boy should be expected to tell, or tattle, as they usually on February 19th. He is a coach of Love is two fool things after each
put it, on another for a breach of the Honor Code. They don't seem basketball at Fork Union Military other. to realize that the majority of the boys who live under it don't look Academy.
upon it as tattling; on the other hand, they look upon it and consider Richard Lipscomb Dabney is with
it as their duty. They realize that the Honor System is a great benefit the Jemison Realty Co., Inc., in
to them, not only in molding their characters, but also in allowing them Birmingham, Ala.
"Yes, you've guessed it, he was And if you'll butcher hand in mine stark mad! His overworked nerves
greater freedom around school; freedom that they would never have if there was no Honor System, freedom that the Honor System itself makes possible.
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tain of boxing at V. E. S. and head We'll seek some ham-let far a~ay;
h a d s n a p p e d a t t h e s i g h t of this I)..V. I
very often, things that happen almost every day on the campus, and show the Central Glass Company in Hunt- you how it is much easier for boys to live at a school at which there is ington, W. Va.
caress
And cleaver road to happiness.
CONFIRMATION SERVICE
ably, as we later discovered.
"Old fellow, that was exactly nineteen years ago--one for each
on the anniversary of that date, one .-
an Honor System, how much more freedom there is in such a school than in one that is so unfortunate as to not have an Honor System.
Angus Crawford Randolph and Spotswood Stoddard, fourth year medical students at the University
ruary 27th.
D?uglas Lund, also fourth year
. \" fraternity member! And each year ·-.
On Monday mornings boys who are free to go to town go to Mr.
Mattfield to get permission. When they are asked if their reports are of Virginia, visited school on Feb-
of the boys has gone crazy-not Fr On ~unday evening, February raving, but stark mad just the sa.me. '-·\",
off, they merely reply that they are. Their word of Honor is accepted
without the slightest question. How much easier and freer this is than
if they were forced to bring a signed statement from each master who
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18th, Btshop H. T. Phillips held the They're all gone, now-it's the nme- annual confirmation service in tl1e teenth year and I'm the nineteenth V. E. S._ chapel. There were only member. But I'm not crazy! They
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zoology at Syracuse University, Syr- acuse, N. Y.
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"It ~as close to midnight when latest mechanical marvel. So he It certain!y did look spooky e se.
took the roof off his barn and sent M. D., is a physician at the ~lue it to Detroit. A week later, he re-
. , ven
Dr. Randolph Beaton Turnbull,
Ridge Sanitorium in Charlottesvtlle, ceived the following communica- who had already been throug~
must have seemed like to the goat tion: "Though your car was in. a enough to have broken their nerve
very bad condition, we can promtse However, that one goat was stili
MR. W. H. ARMSTRONG......................................................Faculty Adviser Electric Power Company. "Borrowed it from Jones." mud: as possible, we s~nt the cocky
Editor
F. M. SIMMONS ANDREWS..................................................Managing Editor the Lynchburg Rotary Club. H~ rs
Virginia.
Harry D. Forsyth is president ~f
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delivery by the first of the month."
''Where did you get all the had intended.
cocky, so we went on with what we GEo. WHITAKER..........................................................................Photograph.er employed with the Appalachtan money?" "'Wanting to save the others as
Virginia Baptist Hospital on Feb- ruary 26th.
School:
Life is one fool thing after an- hair matted and the lips set in a
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Walter Holberton visited school other.
corner, there was a human hand-a TYPICAL horrible bloody stub of a neck, the
had reported them, saying that their report was off. How much more mecl1cal student, visited school on two candtdates for confirmation this can't hurt me! I'm safe! I'm not lq·
work this would make for all involved. Also, the same thing holds good
when calling permissions are asked for. There is no red tape to go
through. Everything is so simplified. At night when boys go to see
teachers during study hall they must take columns to go, but do they
have to bring back a slip from the master instructing the counselor to Carolina. take the columns off? Certainly not. As is always the case where :1n
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Honor System exists, the boy's word is sufficient.
In spite of the fact that it really shouldn't happen, once in a while
members of the student body are caught out after lights. If they have not been off the school property their word is accepted. They are not given the third degree or any such thing. They are merely asked if they have been off school grounds and if they say that they have not, that is all that is necessary. Their word on the subject is sufficient.
~a~ments, he came to Jesus." This soothingly. "I forgive you-youve Jimmie Davis, star track man and ts tn reference to the blind beggar had enough?"
The Honor System also works for the benefit of the teachers as well
as the students. Actually, it gives them more freedom. They can put andria next fall.
a quiz on the board and leave the room with a perfect assurance that
there will be no cheating while they are gone. This is not so in schools
that do not have an Honor System. Teachers in the majority of public father in Raleigh, N. C. schools must remain in the class room throughout a quiz to see that
nothing underhanded happens. Also, the Master can allot a certain
amount of time for his quizzes and know that no more than that will
be used without a notation made on the paper to that effect. He doesn't
have to take up the papers at the end of a period and then give them
out again during another period when he is free to see that the boys will not take too much time.
So, you see that the Honor System is also founded on a basis of practicability as well as on an ideal. Of course, the ideal must be there first, for without it the System would not be practical; it just wouldn't work. Remember that the idea of the Honor System was started here in school by the boys themselves. And they were indeed a farsighted group, who saw that it would not only help them to mold their character for their Jives in the world, but to make their lives here at V. E. S.
much freer than it could ever be without the Honor System.
Bishop Phillips closed his serm.on portance of this incident lay in the with these words: "May ~od;~~~
the 27th.
Vaughn Winborne is a law stu-
humor.
What a difference a comma does flashlight.
make!
Women are pretty, generally around the room, and over in one
speaking.
Women are pretty generally into a knot. He was staring into
speaking.
Next we have a few extracts from spoke to him. We walked over and
The Midway Student of Lane High picked him up. Behind him, in the
BUTCHER BOv'S LOVE SONG
stiff grin.
"On close inspection we saw that
there was blood on the goat's mouth. He had eaten a part of the bloody neck of the head.
I never sausage eyes as thine
Robert C. Lalance, former cap- And liver round me every day grinning head. We were very sorry, ·-v.
To prove our point we will take things that happen around school coach at V. M. I., is working with We'll meat life's frown with love's but the damage was done, irrepar- ,,..r_
year, Bruner Tucker and Waldo crazy!"
Foster. Simpson had jumped up and ~e-
Bishop Phillips chose as his text gan to shout. Jackson grabbed htm for a very inspiring sermon, the and calmed him down. .
bnef passage: "Casting away his "That's all right, now," he s~td
pre?iclen.t of the student body at the wh? came to Christ outside of "What do you mean?'' asked
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dent at the University of North '36
Umversrty of North Carolina is
Jencho _and cried, "Jesus, thou son Simpson. ·
lis~ed in the new edition of Coliege of Davtd,_ have mercy upon me.'' "That goat was my brother," satd
Who's Who. At_1Cl ,Chnst, turning toward him Jackson. v
Willie Gordon is out for track at Said, What wouldst that I do un~o
Carolina. He will attend the Vir- thee?" The beggar answered with
The Bishop said that we must 1
ginia Theological Seminary at Alex- ;!lat great faith which he possessed, resolve by God's help, to do _as tl~t
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James ~· ~~tterfi_e!d, Jr., sopho- n~o.re at Vtrg1ma Mlirtary Institute, v1s1ted school on February 22nd.
Clayton Moore, student at Uni-
versity of North Carolina, was at
school over the week-end of the 24th.
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Jack Saunders is on the staff of
T_he Daily Tar Heel at the Univer- Sity of North Carolina.
Lord, that I may receive my sight.'' beggar did in throwing astde us And so,_ the Bible says, "Cast1·ng mantle and coming to his Lord. !0
Gus Tucker is in business with his '38
away 11s garments, he came to fight and overcome our
John W .
Hancock are out for winter track at the University of North Carolina.
will-
Foreman and
Charles
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Jesus."
Bishop Phillips said that the im-
I 1. J sus anc set our goa m e ·
fact tha~ thi.s poor man threw away you that power to develop tn yh d that wl~tch Impeded him in coming selves that fullness of ma~,00 to Chnst. So, he said, each and which is your most justly due.
every Olle of tts l1as sotne fauIt or defect tl t · 1 lei'
He contt'tlued wt'th the confirma- · · 1 · 'tl1 a few re·
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that 1f we are to go the limit we marks addr~ssed to the candidates.
must cast aside those obstructio~s. Many of us are kept back by such
~aults as selfishness, laziness timid- tty, etc. It is our task to o~ercome
we ~e able to reach out for 'Jesus Chnst.
The literary meet with St. . --' S I l f Rich-
Clmstopher s c wo o . 111ond wil~be held her~t~1 ~;,z;
11 day cvenmg, Marc t •
judges will be from town. L:.......:__ _ _~----
by our own
these handicaps
power- then, and then only will
to us, and I can tmagine what "t 1
as pitch, and our only light was a "One of the boys played the light
corner, we found the goat crouched space and did not move when we
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