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OPINIONS
The Meteor
Volume XXXIV January-February, 1950 No. 4
Issued by the students of the Virgini11 Episcop11l School. Lynchburg, Virgini11, monthly during the school ye11r 1949-50 except holid11ys.
Entered liS second·cl11ss m11tter September 28, 1928, 111 the Postoffice 11! Lynchburg, Virgini11. under the Act of M11rch 3, 1879.
A Bowl of Cherries
Coach Johnston, after the second Woodberry-Forest Basketball game, played there, which we lost, said, "Well, they must've wanted to win more than we did." Maybe he was
right. Perhaps there were other fac- tors present. But, at any rate, the crowd surely wanted them to win; from the cheerleaders (three of them) oil the way down to the littlest first former, all were hungry for a win. And they were all there to back the team up, too, to the last whistle. And do you know, the team they were so fiercely backing up hadn't won a gome before they played us. Those yells must've helped a lot.
Now, for o contrast, switch to the Fishburne-V. E. S. game. The home team won, but there the similarity stops. Oh, yes, there was some yell- ing, but the cheerleaders with their
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SfANLEY SMITH Editor-in-Chief
cheers . . .
we'd better leave that subject until we can elect a new Pep Committee.
But there's something else that the boys up in Orange had that there was a scarcity of around Mid-winters. They had dates ... you know, girls. Nearly every boy in school had a girl at their dance. Of course, we didn't hove Hal Mcintyre, but we did hove o good band. The decorations
maybe weren't the best, but there were decorations. There were plenty of chairs to sit in, should the damsels tire, and punch of sorts at inter- mission, should it be to your fancy to partake of some. What was it, gentle- men? Why wos it only six or eight couples appeared? Bashful? Lack of finances? Whatever it was, it caused a lot of folks around the school to doubt the sanity of some of the stu- dents.
What we're pointing for is some or- ganized school spirit, both in school life and in sports. We don't much like the phrase, but there are times when it is necessary. It's not a ques- tion of whether or not you can do i t - you proved that you could in football season, with o winning team, of course. The question is, will you get down to the gym when the team plays
ond support it with all you can? The school needs wins, and in order to win, the teom needs you to cheer them on.
That's the woy it is. What're you going to do about it?
CHARLES BROOKS
WILLIAM BEACH
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PHILLIPS BRAXTON
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Sound Effects
There was a flop and a bang. Those, respectively. were the main character- istics of the end of the first term and the beginning of the second. Oh, by no means did the flop include every- thing, although it seemed pre- dominant ot the time. But no, for the school ~ad just finished a pretty suc-
cessful week of exams. Then, on Satur- day afternoon, the students turned all out for the V. E. S.-Fork Union game, and what a thriller that one turned out to be. And everybody was feeling good ...until the dance came along that night. It was reported, rather optimistically, that it was flooded by all of ten couples. It would be nearer the truth to halve that number. Thus did the flopped effect begin to assert itself. It was short, but sweet.
The second came soon enough afterwords. Dr. Barton called the stu- dent body into study hall the follow- ing Monday morning. After a brief
preface, he announced that the faculty had chosen to appoint three new counselors. The appointees were
Fred Woodward, Frank Farmer, and
Ben Parrott. And to follow that up, the Headmaster announced further that there would follow a general room-changing spree.
And that was about it. But then, the "bang" was by no means diminished when, last Wednesday night, movies were shown in Study Hall with t h e a s s i s t a n c e o f Ben Kavanaugh and his father. The films were of the world series, and a second one on "Football Thrills of 1949."
And such are sound effects at dear, old V. E. S.
Mind Over Matter
The following grades the Meteor is proud to print as the term aver- ages for the one ending January 30,
1950. These comprise the Honor Roll for the term, ond act as basis for study-out, along with the last month's
averages.
94.4 93.8 93. 93.
HUNTER
PETE
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