Page 5 - 1952 VES Meteor

Waiter's Racket
Every institution has its rackets. Al- though the job of waiting on tables could hardly be termed a racket, it certainly affords plenty of benefits. The job is not by any means a sine- cure. However the fruits reaped (in the form of food, and plenty of it) by the work far overshadow any work in- volved. After the meal proper is over, the waiters sit down to a table heaped with prodigious amounts of food. In
short, we eat like kings.
But every job has its trials and tribu-
lations, and waiting is no exception. Should one of the waiters accidentally break a plate or spill some coffee, he is good-naturedly lynched upon his re- turn to the kitchen. But it's all in the day's work.
/ ,nd on top of all these victuals, we get paid for our services.
Some of us, who have a tendency to toss manners and etiquette to the four winds, find refuge on the waiter's table, where the "garcons" disregard all decorum and, as was said before, "eat like kings."
Here's our infamous staff in action: As the Great White Father taps the sung, a solemn silence commences for grace, broken o nly by harmonious syncopation from the kitchen, as de boys team up with "Frankie" on a little rendition of "Sixty Minute Man" ... Then as the bourgeois population seats itself, there is a slight disturb- ance as "Jungle Jim" trips over a conveniently-placed andiron, spilling good food all over Gu. What a waste? (Tch, Tch) ... Then the career of solemn faced "Scrooge" McDowell, the glue-fingered slip-artist comes to an end as he is nabbed picking Banks' pocket. (And that ain't hay!) ... Of course the head waiters, Samuel and Frederick, put a quick stop to all this tomfoolery. Men of iron, these head waiters. Hard workers, too . . . But look yonder! Here comes "Atlas" Antrim, carrying five full trays in one hand, and making obscene gestu res with the other. "The full stature of manhood" (heh) . . . Suddenly the
Great White Father once more sounds the bell and puts a stop to these grotesquely ludicrous capers, and, the meal ended, the po' li'l waiters come into their own ...
Mind Over Matter
The following grades the Meteor
is proud to print as the term aver- ages for the one ending January 26, 1952. These comprise the Honor Roll for the term, and act as basis for study-out, along with the last month's
Inclosure
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of huge rots ott11cking him ond devouring him to a writhing skeleton. He 11woke usuol- ly screoming or trembling oil over 11nd in o cold swe11t. He would try to forget his dreoms ond potiently move the stone up 11nd down.
Suddenly, it moved outword with a gr11ting sound obout o holf inch. The sound echoed oil over the holl of ch11mbers. He used 11ll of his strength in excitement ond ogoin it echoed through the damp v11ults. He be- come exh11usted ofter on hour's work 11nd dropped to his me11ger bed.
He 11woke ond heord o new sound echoing throughout ·he bl11ck corridor. It wos the pulsoting sound of dripping woter from the stone he had dislodged!
He loid himself under it, frontic with thirst, ond woited until his mouth w11s filled by the dripping woter. Then he gulped it down greedily. The w11ter hod such 11 nauseating toste thot he olmost spit it out. It wos bitter with the taste of decoy ond mold, but it WIIS cool ond wet and had o better flovor thon rot blood.
"I hove food ond woter now," he thought, 'I con m11ke it eosily."
It seemed olmost six months since he hod storted when he finolly pulled the stone out triumphantly.
The stone itself weighed obout o hundred pounds. Hafez wos so weok it would toke him doys to pull it out only o few inches. It must hove been obout o yord long.
"The job is nothing from here," he medi- toted in the dorkness.
He chuckled gleefully. The chuckle sounded now like o cockle when the fiendish echo returned. He tried desperotely to tolk ond found he only squowked horribly. He wos terrified.
"Just o bad cold," he onswered himself, "nothing to feor."
To distract himself from this horror he went to work on the second stone which eosily c11me out in o few hours. He fell down exho~sted 11fter this, sleeping for 11 fortnight it seemed.
When he woke up. he felt str11nge. He didn't remember opening his eyes. His eyes 11pp11rently had become occustomed to the d11rk, therefore h11d lost their reflex of clos- ing in slumber. He owoke 11nd, thinking of the tosks 11he11d of him, immediotely threw his whole concentr11tion on it.
The soil w11s very soft, but it w11s slimy 11nd smelled holf-rotten. He w11s digging ot o slightly inclined upword ongle when he heord obove the ringing silence o dozen rots or more scompering olong the intricote corridor, squeoling ond terrified. He wos confronted by o feorful question.
He knew the rots now os he knew his honds. They were frightened. The only thing they were frightened by wos he, but they were on the other end of the corridor, com- ing tow11rd him in error. A holf-dozen scompered into his cell in blind terror while the rest proceeded down the holl. Abruptly o groting cr11sh wos heord, then o pouse of deod stillness, then onother crosh; the still-
(Continued on poge 7, col. 3)
THE METEOR
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THE SCHOOL
averages.
I. 95.8 2. 95.3 3. 94.3 4. 93.8 5. 93 I 5. 93.1 7. 93. 8. 92.6 9. 91 6 9. 91.6
.....Stokes ......Johnstone
......Fore .Barker Houck ..... Lyle .Farinholt, B.
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Kemper Hotelling, E. ........Turner ...Spencer Steiglitz, B. . Fulton Steiglitz, N. Schilling 15. 89.4 . .... ......... ......... . . Giles
I0. 91.4 II.90.8 12. 90.4 13. 90.2 14. 90.
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..... . .. .. .............. ...Baber ................................Winfree .. ....... .. ........ ...... Davidson
16. 89.
17. 88.8
18. 88.4
18. 88.4 .........................Smith, N. S.
20. 88.2 .......... . . .. . .... .McDowell
21. 88. . . . .. . .. ....... 22. 87.7 . ............. .... 23. 87.6 . ........ . .. 23. 87.6
.Grubb . Pierson Carrington .Ruffin
.. .Hudgins
25. 86.
25. 86. . ......... .... . .
25. 86. ...... ...... .
28. 85.8 .................... Atherholt, W.
29. 85.5 . .. .... ..
721 Moin Street
Phone B-2837
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Reynolds Drug Co.,
Incorporoted
Prescription Work Our Specialty
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
Heyward Jones, 0. ...Keefer