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THE SCHOOL
No. 5
ABRIEF PREPARATION FOR RATS
The average first year man at v.E.S. comes to this school with cer- rain misgivings about the discipline
here. It is not easy, but can be made easier if the future student is put on the right path at first. In attempting to put this gentleman on the right path, I will run briefly through an average day at Virginia Episcopal School. H o w e v e r , d o n o t b e d i s - heartened by this testimonial. As soon as one falls into line, the master's
whip seems less hard.
At nine o'clock the day begins when one's valet arouses the sleeping 1tudent. Fortunately, this is merely a preliminary to rising, but one must beoutofbedinahalfanhour. In the meantime, during this half hour period, the valet draws the student's bath, lays out his clothes, and per- forms whatever duties the student might request. Breakfast is then served and the two roommates en- "oy a breakfast that sometimes com- pliments the head chef. However •ough this may seem, the rat can be cheered in the knowledge that as a second year man he will be able to ~ave h i s b r e a k f a s t s e r v e d i n b e d . Within a scant fifty minutes after oreakfast, e v e r y o n e m u s t b e in his room for announcements and chapel
which are delivered over an intercom system for ten minutes.
During the morning, a student must call in two masters to his room for tutoring, although second year men need only call in one master a morn- ;ng except on Thursday. If masters are not punctual, there is nothing one can do about it except refuse to offer ·he master coffee, which is often "neffective. Although after these two classes the morning is free, one is forced to remain within the bounds of the county and to be bock at school to eat between twelve and
two-thirty o'clock under the penalty of severe reprimand.
It is required that one call in a master during the afternoon between
BLAZE HITS V. E. S.
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, APRIL I, 1955
Magnificent Decorations
THE V-CLUB DANCE
On February 26, all the cooler cats eeled down to the little gym to par- take of an evening of the top bop. Most of the dancers were either stag or drag.
Music was furnished by a name band a Ia record player. Jackie Glea- son starred by playing romantic mu- sic all night.
Sponsored by the V Club, the dance was a great success. Mr. and Mrs. Bartol chaperoned from eight to eleven-thirty, at which time the stu- dents and their dates left for the girls' homes and goodnight hand- shakes.
We all had a great time and hope that there will be another dance in the very near future.
two-thirty and four. This, unfortun-
ately, applies to all, and it is further necessary to detain the master at least ten minutes. After this time he may be dismissed. After the school day is over at four o'clock, the head- master has tea to which all students
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The old month was going out like a lion, true to the traditions associ- ated with it, and all looked forward to spring in the month of showers which lay just ahead. As night fell. a wind mode restless by its own cold swept around the large buildings at the top of the gentle slope and the smaller buildings surrounding it. The large gymnasium was dark, except for the light streaming through the windows of the V Club Room. Everyone was indoors, avoiding March's inhospitality. Down in the Rec Room, a group of boys engaged in their two favorite pastimes-smok- ing and giving a detailed list of all the ills of the school, as seen by them. Both pastimes seemed harmless. But
as they sat talking, no one knew that one boy held the crystalization of seven hundred thousand dollars worth of property between his fin- gers. Lightly he drew on his cigar- ette; lightly he flipped it away. It careened off a steel girder and skit-
tered toward the passageway to the stairs up to the main floor of West Dorm. The outside bell called to them in a monotonous and insistent tone, and cursing the innocent offen- der, they filed away toward their respective "homes."
The discarded cigarette, kicked by an oblivious foot, came to rest under a candy bar wrapper dropped in the passageway beside the door to the locked classroom. As the last dawd- ler made his way up the steps and the voices of the boys returning to
their rooms to seek respite from their labors died away, the Rec Room and passageway were left in a solitary stillness.
The unlit end of the cigarette butt had come to rest on the paper, which was touching the wood of the door. Slowly, the cigarette diminished m size as the red eye approached its nouri shment.
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