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LETTERS
I om journeying to Annapolis in the mor· ing with the purpose of making myself knoot: to the leaders of St. John's College wi· hopes for occeptonce into thot instituti this February . . .
It hos long been my desire to purs• knowledge under guidance instead of ~~ sorbing experience in o hophozord ond wi
nilly foshion . . . I
If I hod o little money, I would make y~ Yo ume XXXI presents of books thot I hove found e -
lightening to the point of being revelation
I should not be prescribing reading molt
to my teachers: but from o sofe distance
moy be forgiven. Tom Poine's "The Age Every Boy c Reoson" is undefeotoble ond I cannot u
derstond why it hasn't swoyed mountai~ Soon ever1 Howord Fost's "Citizen Poine" is olso go~ book from J
reoding ond is the onlv woy I ever found I~ o;erted ·n 't 11
aforementioned work. "Generation of y: . . • a ers' by Philip Wylie I consider realism in wh1ch IS m1mE nutshell. W . S. Moughom's "The Rozo
Edge" sounds like o "hudunit" but isn't . \-Vrite the
The very best in literoture hos yet to b line below written, but I will send you o copy of eo • · including the one I write about you. Wh tlons by che sholl I entitle it? 'Goodbye Mr. Bonl spaces. Sign might be suitoble. Drop it in t
Morcue Childs' work, "Sweden, the Mi folding ii
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE MEfEOR:
In the beginning please be assured tha' this le•ter is written in the spirit of friendli- ness and construclive criticism by one who is vitally interested in The Meteor and all
·hings pertaining to V. E. S.
You printed in your last issue a short
article on the alumni who had visited the school recently. Some doy you will be an olumnus ond then you will reolize thot the alumni of on institution form a very im- portont nart of the life of that institution. They like to be noticed, they like to see their nomes in print ond they like to feel !hot they have not been forgotten. Many of them pion to send their sons bock to V. E. S. ond many of them hove already done so. You ond your alumni editor were very careless in •he writing of this article in thot there were ten errors in spelling the nomes of olumni. Not only tho!, but you had nomes of boys who hove never been enrolled in the school. Again, in some instonces the forst names of boys were not ~iven ot oil. These are sins •hot o publicotion should never commit. On your moiling list of the last issue you had the names of three boys who had given their lives in the service during the last war.
Your olumni editor should keep his eyes open ot all times for the appearance of alumni on the campus and when he spots one, he should speak to him and get his nome ond address ond the year he left school ond other information about him.
One other suggestion: Some of us think there should be o literory corner in The Meteor. Why not consult the English de- portment each month ond get one or more themes that hove been turned in by boys? They will odd o great deol to the publica- tion.
Most sincerely yours
J. W. Gannaway.
The Meteor agrees that the rebuke of Mr. Gannaway is a just one. It can offer only the plea that it is a poor orphan that has just lost the only mother it ever had, the former
Miss Louise Jacobs,* proof reader extraordinary, guide, counselor, and friend. It will try to stand on its own feet in the future, even without her support. Ed.
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Mail from Yale
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Dear Mr. Follett,
Upon hoving my thoughts turned to reo
with T yrone
Joan Blondell
IN LYNCHBURG-IT'S
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Life up here is tough, in o word. The b ,
time, os you phrased it, is getting me do~ Tore Thanks Five subjects, six doys of closses o week p publish the fourteen hours of dining hall work o week criticisms in ~ lot: _ond I live o~out holf o mile ov:-oy fro bers of the tt oil 1n o decrep1t, run-down, rebudt An-
barracks. W e get o respite Soturdoy for~ search for t Princeton game; then get one the seco a whole des for the Horvord game; then Thonksgiv1 The Libra !'m d~finitely coming home. I heor V. E. critical slips 1s hov1ng the weekend too for o change. • .
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Arlington, Virginia.
Suddenly I hove the urge to write you o letter . . . You ore . . . perhaps trying to reach me by telepathy. That's how it usually works with me. "Well, well, here is a letter from Ramsey Imy nome is never spelled right, I mean 'correctly'), I wos just thinking about him ond here is o letter from him. Isn't thot strange?"
Hove only recently returned from "Miom- oh." I worked on o dredge boot for six weeks ond found health, happiness, ond new experience. Never hod o doy off . . .
*Porodoxicolly the "mother" of The Me- teor ceosed to mother it when she left the Mutual Press to become Mrs. L. R. Magri.
die W oy ." exploins the successful co-oper live movement . . . Isn't the middle w~ alwovs preferoble? No?
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I. How ml Ramsay a prize for excellence in En~ . Just a 11t
Iish Composition in 1946 (The Meteo oft·W~ d
Andy Ramsay.
The Joys of Truancy" won Alumm read? · f!'
· 1Y ....For fun;
3. What
· 1t was but 1ve re
....It was reading.
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My English might interest you. I'm over~ foldmg In th ing 85 in it. We just hod mid-term exoo
So for it's Chaucer's "Canterbury Toll
hastily ond deeply covered: then we'll t~ Morituri T up Spenser: then the Bible or ports there
I t s n o t o n e a s y c o u r s e ; i t i s proctic~ sophomore English, and English ot Yole not considered too hard ...
Please give my regords to everyone the
especially Messrs. Borton, Bonks, and Ganr th I t . woy. Jack Carpenter. e as IS:.u
publ'cation To paraphrase the mot;o of t ing fight w
Salvat1on Army, last years Mete1 !complete w
editor ~ay be down, but we dou weapons (see that he IS out. Ed.
tic channels by o letter from our esteerm.
Doily "News" offering me o chance to opp
for on opportunity to "heel" Itry out for)
next spring ond to be let off my bursary j rea or strug
while I do it, ond upon finding somethi
that nearly looks like o lull Iunbeliev~b
ot Yale), I decided to toke a few minutes. A
University.
The purpo each reader of every bo
a hard heart be signed or