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No. 3 Issued by the students of the Virgini11 Episcop11l School, lynchburg, Virgini11, monthly during
the school term.
Entered I!S second-class matter September 28, 1928. 111 the Postoffice at lynchburg, Virgini11,
under the Act of M11rch 3, 1879.
Subscription for one school session-Two dolll!fs 11nd fifty cents.
MEMBER, SOUTHERN INTER-SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOC. EDITORIAL BOARD
FRANK BYNUM ~~nd DICK SHANKLIN
Editors-in-Chief
STEVE COWPER ................ ........................••....•......M11n11ging Editor MARSHALL LONG ..... •............................•..... •..............Sports Editor STEWART ELLIOTI .................•....................................Alumni Editor JAMES WOOLERY ........ . .. . ............ . .... . ..... . ................ Associ11te Editor MR. ERWIN HESTER ..... . .. . ................... . .. . ................ F11culty Advisor
paper basket instead of throwing trash on the floor. It sure brings smile to my old face to see someo~ like that. But it isn't often that Is this any more. It seems everyone in too big a hurry.
Up to now, I've been talking ab01 the way I act on the campus. But can be carried into the home or H office just as well. I have yet to st a person who took pride in his schoc who didn't take pride in his home business. So maybe if everyone wou just take a little more time for me, would make the world a better plac to live in.
As you can see, my old age h. made a windbag out of me, so I better be leaving. See you at tr game next Saturday.
THERE IS NO SHAME
V olume
XXXIX DECEMBER, 1954
A RTISTS FRED DAUGHTRY STEVE COWPER
J. WOOLERY R. STONE
F. DUNN
PH O TOGR AP H ERS CHARLES HAMEL PAT McNULTY JIM BAILEY
REPO RTERS
C. JONES
J. McKEE
P. WARD
F. DAUGHTRY
BUSINESS BOARD
TYPI STS PETER WARD DAVID CANNON
S. ELLIOTT J. REEBALS J. BRADY
A long trip with a football tea~ which has just lost a game can be 0111 of the deadliest things known to mar particularly if the team has played bad game. But such was not th case on the ride back from E.H.S Saturday night.
For five days the team had prac ticed. They were in top shape. The went on the field determined to wi and then something happened. T111 team was the same, but there wa something other than eleven player against them. This was an elusiv thing called the "breaks."
Breaks are a combination of luc and skill. How much of each go intr the whole has never been determineo It probably never will be. But th team with the breaks usually wins.
The game is over. You have lost Yet you carry with you the knowledge that the loss is not as bad as the score would lead some to believe. You wi realize later, if not now, that your best is all that can be asked of you When that is given, there is no more
You lost a game two weeks ago. Or the bus on the trip back, every man was quiet. He was bitter and silen• because he knew that he had helpeo the other team win by helping them t o h a v e t h e b r e a k s . By h i s s i l e n c e he showed his feelings.
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FRANK DUNN . . ........... . .......... . ........................... Circulation M11n11ger JOHN WARD ............. . .•................ . .................... Business Manager
EDITORIAL
For the past several years, the standard procedure for getting off a demerit has been walking around a track four times. We think that the system would be better if the boys were put to work improving the gen- eral appearance of the school.
The paper around the school build- ings could be picked up. A certain length of time doing this sort of work seems to us a good idea. It would relieve the grounds staff for more im- portant work. Also, leaves could be raked up by students and the gutters could be cleaned out.
No boy serves a useful purpose walking around a track, nor can he accomplish anything by writing a word forty times. He will only learn how to spell a word of which he does not know the meaning. He would be of much more help to everyone if he were doing some work.
Let us try to get behind a change in this aspect of the demerit system. W e are sure that everyone will bene- fit from such a change- the school as well as the boy.
SCHOOL SPIRIT
By Marshall Long
I don't really have a name, but in
my time, I have been called many things. Some people call me "X" or "spirit" or just "that something". The best thing about me is that I can be in many different places at once. In particular, you will find me in many different places on Saturday after- noons in the fall. I've been in pretty nearly every football arena in the country, from Maine to Florida and from New York to California. I take a seat and watch some of the best high school and college games in the United States.
But when Sunday morning comes, I start taking a beat ing . No one wants to cheer until next Saturday, so I have six bad days a week. Now don't get me wrong-1 like my job. After all, what would a big game be with no cheering? But it seems to me I ought to be allowed to stay around all week. People just don't realize that you don't leave school spirit in the football stadium. I should be every- where. A person has a little bit of me when he walks ten feet to a waste-
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Yet on this trip, there is singing. good hard fight-a fight which you
are proud of having participated in. You have lost, b u t even in losing, this time at least, there is no shame.
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