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The Meteor
February 25, 1948
Issued by tho students of the Virginio Episcopo! School. Lynchburg, Virginio, monthly during the school yeor 1947-48 except holidays.
Subscriptions, 25c per copy; $2.00 per yeor EDITORIAL BOARD
PAUL TAYLOR Editor-in-Chief
OPINIONS
Exertion-Or Stagnation7
A good deal of talk about com- pulsory othletics at V. E. S. has sprung out of the recent debates on this subject. Certain boys have even gone so far as to conduct a poll among the members of the present athletic teams to find out their opinions. In general, the feeling seems to be thot boys would continue to "go out" for athletics even if compulsory othletic1 ot V. E. S. were abandoned.
But do we operate on the basis of compulsory athletics? It's true thot boys are required either to try out for a sport or ottend the "4-F Squad, but this is far from a system of com· pulsory athletics. The majority of the members of the 4-F Squad get very little and often no exercise in the afternoons. Instead they loaf around
for an hour or else go to Peakland. If these boys, provided they are physically able, were on some team, they would be doing both themselves
and the school a service.
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If this system is impossible to adopt
here at V. E. S., perhaps the 4-F
Squad could be better organized.
Perhaps its members could be given as acting calisthenics or, if their reason for not versity u being out for some team is that they States. are not good enough, could choose Shanghai teams and play football, or some versify, other game. In this way, they coulo
learn the fundamentals of the major
sports, and at the same time get the
exercise so vitally needed by all boys.
At any rate, this would be better than
having them do nothing at all.
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Entered os second doss molter September 28, 1928, ot the Postoffice ot Lynchburg, Virginio, under the Act of Morch 3, 1879.
Suckers
Eight new students have enrolled in Virginia Episcopal School for the new semester which began February. The new students include two Lynch- burgers and are as follows : William
Byrd Buckley, Hampton; James L. Clarkson, Jr., Millboro; William Henry Clements, Jr., Riverside Drive; Bar- bour Frye, Roanoke; Francis Patrick Kavanaugh, V. E. S. road; Reginald H. Nelson, Richmond; Thomas C. Trumbull, Raleigh; and Henry J. Tuck- er, Halifax.
And Now There Are 14
The following boys were appointed Counselors at a meeting held by the faculty W ednesday night, February 4, 1948: Charlie Cardwell of Richmond, Virginia; Jack Pancoast of San An- tonio, Texas; ond Armstead W ellford
Virginia.
These three
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boys are consistently high on the honor roll.
The New Look
The hall in the basement of Moin Building by the old school store is no longer a congested bedlam punctu- ated by cries for "goobers" and "monkey balls." Mr. Gannaway has supervised the transferring of the store to the recreation room in the base- ment of West Dormitory. There a partition with a counter has been con- structed to separate the store from the rest of the room.
An improved store is not the only benefit from Mr. Gannaway's efforts. The odjoining recreation room has also been rejuvenated by the addition of numerous brond-new chairs to solve the seating problem. The ping-pong tables have been shifted to the east
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last edit, end of the room, with new nets ana not been
paddles provided. ably hav Cigarette disposals will be placeo bring ou
around the room for the convenience boys on of the weed burners, who it is hopecf librarian will make good use of them Md keeF is hoped the room presentable. to co-opE
A quintet of boys have been chosen as they a by the student body to act as ad· volue. visers to Mr. Gannaway and as a bodyguard to the often mistreateo
room. These boys are Tommy Battle Conven Vic Cornett, Billy Nutt, Fred Ogden
and Hinks Rinker. A set of simple As the rules has been drawn up for the plan we patrons of the Rec. Room, no elab- ago, bo orate by-laws, just the minimum re· table dis stra ints necessary in order to keep the already ~ room in a reasonable facsimile o found hi decent order. which bo