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Volume XXXVIII
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Did you know that even bookworm are susceptible to nightmares? Nc long ago, when I was evicted. fror.: my favorite corner of the VES ltbra· (which corner is now a very han?soll\l section dedicated to the housmg c the fourtee n current magazines rf cently added for the use of all gw. VES-ites), this worm meditated Upo' the homelessness of bookworms am fell, during a mood of black pess. mism, into a profound slumber. T~ dreams which followed were Kafb
like in their pathos; they were cor eluded when the forces of Evil o~ !iterated the British Museum (Heave in any bookworm's cosmology.) An this worm awoke, feverish, meditatio upon the ultimate disposition o bookworms, good and bad.
If the February issue of the At !antic can act as prophecy, the ou· look must be considered to be non too good. The cove r's remarkabl candid shot of Dylan Thomas shou· arrest the eye of everyone who ha followed the career of this late im petuous and talented Welsh poet. should remind us that one m or· source of good reading has passea Shelley-like, into oblivior when h was just approaching the pinnacle o his career. However, the Atlantic contained more than Edith Sitwell eulogistic commentary on Thoma! among other things, it offered ar
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private schools; Mr. Barzun delightec himself and us with tne pleasure hab- its of his adopted American home land. Both approached, from varyins angles, the problem; one landed a blow and the other made a score b indirection .
"Prithee," you may ask; "what ha· America at play to do with private schools, and these with bookwormist metaphysics?" Nothing, unless yO'. fall prey to the false conjecture tha· the word "private" before the wore
"school" confers upon it the modit c;ation "educational country club.
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The Headmaster's Study
The recent visit of Bishop Phillips to the School was an occasion of much happiness, yet it was a happiness tinged with sadness since we realized that it was his last official visit to us. At an evening service in our Chapel on January 21st, he preached "an al- most sermon" to us, reminding us that we ore so often almost but not quite faithful to our religion, and then he confirmed a class of six, presented by our Chaplain. After the service, at an informal gathering in the Head- master's apartment, the masters and
their families had an opportunity to talk to the Bishop and to listen to his reminiscences of his student days at Sewanee. The next mo rning Bishop Phillips presided over a meeting of the Executive Com mittee of t he Board of Trustees of the School. Near the close of this meeting he was elec- ted Episcopal Visitor of the School and an honorary member of the
Board of Trustees. The Committee then had lunch in the School dining room and adjourned in a snowstorm which must have made driving diffi- cult, especially for those who, like the Bishop, had to cover the fifty-odd miles between Lynchburg and Roan- oke.
For more than fifteen years Bishop Phillips, as our Diocesan, has been President of Virginia Episcopal School. I suspect few are in IX'tter oosition than the Heaomasrer to know and to appreciate how much
time and thought the Bishop has given to the School's welfare. He has not been a frequent visitor to the School; the manifold duties of Bis- hop of the Diocese have sometimes prevented his coming when he _would have liked very much to be wtth us.
But nothing has ever interfered with or lessened his constant interest in the (Continued on page 14, col. I)
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