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THE SCHOOL
The Headmaster's Study
"Now for a whole hour in this hard seat. What a life! Well, I don't have t o work while old Doodleheimer is checking the roll. I wonder if I can
borrow a nickel for a coke at recess. Maybe Sheep will lend me one. There go the study-outers. I wish I could go. Sit in their rooms all the hour, feet propped up on a table, and de nothing. W onder how they manage it. Old Doodleheimer's looking at me mighty straight; maybe I'd better get to work. What do we have to do in Algebra? Oh , stated problems. I never could do them. I'II wait for the fifteen-minute limit and then go get some help. What about Latin? Sen-
tences to write; they're always hard. I don't see why he's forever talking a b o u t endings, endings, endings. That's all I ever hear in class. Why couldn't the Romans talk like human beings instead of using words with endings. Maybe I can get some help on that later. Let's see what history looks like. Huh, a quiz in that to- morrow and I forgot it. How can I review all those pages tonight. Oh, look, old Doodleheimer has ius+ stuck Hooks for passing a note. Maybe I'd better try Algebra again. My pen- cil needs sharpening. Wonder if I could ever qet study-out privilege. Just once .. ."
What I have ius+ written, boys, sounds like sarcasm and satire. It isn't; it's the simple truth in the case of too many of our boys. It was ius+ as true in my own days in study hall. I remember them well and I have even drawn on my memories for the nicknames I have used above. I am prompted to write thus because I have iust returned from a short tour of duty in study hall and as I stood there, looking over the group , I could almost literally see the thoughts which I have here put on the lips of one boy.
I'm not writing thus because I ob- iect to a boy's having a few idle mo- ments. What I do object to is the utter lack of plan which so many of you show in your approach to your work. This lack of plan is nearly al- ways manifest when a boy comes to my office to tell me that his work is too hard for him and that he has too much to do. Too few of you have any plan for your study and too few
of you know how to apportion your t i m e a m o n g y o u r s~veral s t u d i e s . (Continued on poge I0. col. 3)
Volume XXXVII
The Meteor
NOVEMBER, 1952
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