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Dear
Dear Modine:
I have a very serious problem. My problem is this, M o d i n e ; t h e o t h e r day, Friday, at the break, I received a ··oear John" letter from my girl. Needless to say, this upset me ter- ribly. All my grades are going down ond I am miserable. What should I do?
Joe
Dear Joe:
Your problem is indeed very seri-
ous. I would suggest that you have on immediate consultation with Rev. Bullet.
Dear Modine:
My problem is an unusual one. My
counselor is always telling me that I should not smoke because I don't have permission. I find it impossible to stop because I am such a fiend. He says, while smoking a cigarette and blowing the smoke in my face, that I don't really need to smoke and that it is all in my mind. What should I do?
Smokie
THE NEW BOY:
FROM HIGH SCHOOL
TO V. E. S.
There is a special kind of boy at V. E. S. This boy is the high school student who has decided to pursue the last two or three years of pre- college education at a prep school. Perhaps he feels that the educational opportunities available a t private schools are superior to those of high schools. P e r h a p s he f e e l s t h a t t h e social pressures or other factors of a high school obstruct the pursuit of education and the attainment of some scholastic ability. There may be other divers influences, but hope- fully, in the main, education is the most vital point.
There is, however, only one in- dividual who really knows whether the prep school is superior. This is the ''special kind of boy." He has ex- perienced both the high school and the private school life and can dis- cern the differences and compare the attributes .
The high school boy does, none- theless, have definite advantages and disadvan rages. He has learned
something about studying although it may be difficult to apply anything that he has learned, as he is under the constant pressures of so-called "extra-curricular" activities. Un- fortunately, the actual school week may become a dull drag of time be- tween boisterous and party-filled weekends. The constant social whirl and the pressures that accompany it at times overcome the determination of even the best student. These fac- tors are usually accompanied by a lack of determination, both in the school and in the home. And of course without the determination nothing can really be accomplished.
This is where the prep school steps forward. Guidance through Chris- tian living is idealistically the atmos- phere of the good prep school. This guidance comes not only from the school, but also from the individual himself. Each boy realizes that some- one is sacrificing so that he may at- tend a superior school. This realiza- tion leads to an inner desire for a better education and even more im- portant, better character. The boy in a public school does not usually have this motivation due to the fact that he does not have this type of per-
Modine
Dear Smokie:
Tell Gene that if he doesn't stop blowing smoke in rour face, FAG, the weed god, wil come and take all his cigarettes away.
Dear Modine:
I like to sleep a great deal. The
other day when I awoke I was amazed to see a lot of activity with concrete and stuff at the end of West dormi- tory. I am ashamed to ask anyone because no one else seems to find it unusual. W ould you please tell me what is going on?
Sleepy
Dear Sleepy:
See the last issue of the Meteor.
Be sure to send for Modine's new booklet, A Briefe and True Account of How to Snow "Wild" and Make Goode Grades in Historie V. Send fifty cents and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Modine Gunch, c/ o the Meteor, Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Virginia.
sonal sacrifice behind him. It would seem that this basic motivation is that which separates the public from the private school. In actuality it is a privilege to attend a prep school. The responsibilities of the student and his awareness of what the school as a community can Clo for him, help de- velop character that is broader and more full. The intensity of living in a boarding school community is the main single thing that develops the boy who emerges from it. There is a thorough program of study which is offset by generous athletic and cul- tura l programs. Organization, which at times may be completely absent from the high school, is a prime fac- tor in the prep school. This organiza- tion again leads to directed motives, and again, the building of better character.
The high school boy soon becomes acutely aware of these ideas. His success in the private school depends a great deal upon his ability to adapt from high school life. He will be presented freedom and discipline with the power to exercise both. From the use of this privilege of power, his character will develop to the fullest.
THE METEOR
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