Episcopal High School - Whispers Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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61.6.6215 The 270 minute of pure bliss which follows chapel every weekday morning is known as classes. The part of classes which most students like best is the 15 minute recess at 11:15. The most impressive thing about this timely inter- lude is the mob rush to the mailboxes, said by some old timers to be an even greater spectacle than the wild horse stampedes of the old west. Of the classes, English is the most popular, even though it is, for most people, the hardest. Undoubtedly, English requires more time than any other subject, what with term papers, paral- lel reading, comps, and endless etc. By the end of four years the student has read every short story and poem ever written. The greatest part of math class is con- sumed copying down the next day's assignment and checking that day's-a very frustrating ex- perience, as it only makes the backwork pile that much bigger. The men most hated by math scholars are a morbid pair named Smith and Fagan, who have edited a book which contains the hardest problems ever devised by humanity. The only place that the beleaguered student can find more difficult problems than these is on the math tests-torture sessions which occur once a week with frightening regularity. The language masters this year have made a great stride! They have succeeded in extend- ing their reign of terror even into the dining room in the form of language tables where no English may be spoken. This has produced great results-the dining room has never been so quiet. In the classroom, the boys thrill to the exploits of Caesar and his gang in Latin so that they can start a moden language and leam a lot of grammar all over again. Everybody in school takes a history at one time or another, thus, we can see its wide-spread popularity. It is barely possible that the fact that American is needed for graduation may have something to do with this. Ancient History is also immensely popular due to the widespread interest in what the Babylonians, Assyrians, etc. were doing three million years ago. Modem History is a little more modern-. The science courses are delightful. In Chem- istry all the boy-chemists get together and make stink bombs, break flasks, and things like that. Sometimes they analyze things too. You can al- ways tell a Chemistry student from the rabble because he always talks about things like NLQCONQMR. Physics is nice, especially on playday and your day when the boys play with tops, stitched up eyeballs, etc. More boys than ever are taking Biology this year, as it is not reputed to be the impossible course that it has been in the past. The high point of the course came when the boys graduated from worms to cats. Into each of these seemingly bottomless pits has the student been thrown. If out of each he has valiantly climbed, he well deserves his diploma. Page I en

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