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V olume XLIV
DECEMBER,
ADAMS, JAY
ADAMS, JOHN ASHTON BERRY
BABER BONFOEY BOOTH
CARROLL CASSADY CRADDOCK DARDEN deROSSETT FORSYTH DILLON
will be equally as good.
Evening Pr Cha~ dents who nooga has recently conducted a p at h?me i
to find out whether the stude to smg th would rather possess a McCa sponses wit Athletic Varsity "M", or members standing. T in Cum Laude, the national ho great prid scholastic society. Almost eighty
cent chose membership in C dents parti Laude. They felt that membership ices.
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WHY CAN'T WE HAVE RECORD PLAYERS?
1959
Issued by the students of the Virginio Episcopo! School, Lynchburg,
Virginio, monthly during the school term.
Entered os second-doss motler September 28, 1928, ot the Postoffice
ot Lynchburg. Virginio, under the Act of Morch 3, 1879. Subscription for one school session-Two dollors ond fifty cents.
EDITORIAL BOARD
EXCHANGE..NOTES
Lee Booth and Rob Bryan
Texans don't live so badly after THE LA (if they ever did). St. Stephen's & MEMORI
copal School in Austin is coed! W
isn't VES like that? They also mana In 1916 to have good first run movies ginia Epi~ The Inn of The Sixth Happiness, Copened it on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Long r no hous.e of Summer. We would like to know m dents could about this school. Their newspap! the father the Spartan, is very interesting. dents prop
The Baldridge Reading Course,: be built. ing given here at VES, is also offer and gener to the students at St. Stephen's. T Langhorne is the second year that the cou horne Me has been offered at St. Stepher possible, a so, to determine the results of building ha year's program, the students were religious ne sued a series of tests. These te I h showed an average improverrn .n. t e
of eighteen per cent in compreh dally thro sion of difficult material, and si During the per cent in speed of reading diffic held befor material. We hope the results ht ~re held _H
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Why can't we have record play- ers? This question is brought up at least once every• day by someone in school. The answer is simple and direct. That answer is, "Noise." When several people on the same dormitory each play a d ifferen t re- cording at maximum volume the sound produced is literally deafening as well as quite unappealing.
Invariably the student asks, "Why cou ldn't you just stick the person playing a record too loud a few de- merits, or confiscate the record player?" This was tried, but we ap- parently failed to overcome the noise problem. Mr. W alke com- mented that he had six record play- ers in his office after sticking de- merits failed to correct the problem two years ago. At the present time it is a penalty of five demerits and confiscation even to possess a record player.
When a careless driver crosses the solid center line while passing and gets caught, he is fined. If he gets caught again, he loses his license for a year. But at the end of that year he g e t s his license back. It seems that we, the students of VES, should
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plying for jobs. We learned · c ope IS through The Tornado, McCallie's existence
det paper.
Chatham Hall has a new teacr orqonist,
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HARDY TARPLEE HORTENSTINE VANDERGRIFT MYERS WILLIS
get our privilege back, if we prove ourselves capable of not abusing it. We have paid the penalty for the irresponsibility of those boys who caused themselves and us to lose the privilege of having record players here at school. I do not want to im- ply that we should necessarily be any more responsible than the students of two years ago, but seeing what cM happen, the most nescient of us should be intelligent enough to play his record player quietly, and at the proper times, if we were permitted to have them.
W e are allowed to have
and there haven't been any com- plaints about playing them too loud. The only· difference between radios and record players is in who is play- ing the records.
From this point on it is up to the students and masters of VES as to whether or not we regain the right to have record players in our rooms. If we believe that we are capable of properly handling the responsibility, then let us request the return of this right. If this privilege is given back to us, we should take the utmost care not to abuse it.
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McCallie
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Russian. She comes from a long
of Russian nobility. Her family
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