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to sit on his precarious perch over thin air, com m only know n as the arch-room. T h e
custom ary odor of fresh v arn ish p erv ad ed the atm osphere, and w e noticed that en ­
largem en ts and the sh iftin g of lockers had taken p lace in the b a g g a g e room.

A n o th er ch an ge w ith w h ich w e w ere inten sely satisfied w as that a la rg e part of
our class w a s no lo n ger the object of upper-classm en’s w ith e rin g scorn w h en at
som e u n called-fo r disturbance our suave Senior M aster up b raided the student body,
p a rtic u la rly those at the le ft.”
T h is year the arriv al of a tow -headed yo u n g fello w , now the president of our
class, insured the presence of a Scott on the clear lists and honor rolls for three
years to com e. W e also w elco m ed in our m idst H oel B ow ditch, at present a
celebrity because of exploits on the track and in the "sh o p .” " M a n a g e r ” M a lle y , a
y o u n g b la d e "w ith o v erp o w erin g am b itio n ,” also graced our ranks. B ill L indho lm
an d L auren ce Sm ith w e re also g la d ly received. A few of the o ld lan d m arks of our
class w e re absent, and w e looked in v ain for the jovial " R e d ” W h ite and R ich ard
K night.

C h an ges had been m ad e in the faculty, and the year brought " T e d d y ” W h itfo rd ,
M r. N ew co m b , M r. M o yle, and "B o b ” Rice. W e m ade the classroom acquaintance
of " C o a ch ” W a u g h te l. H itherto, w e had h ad to be content to hear the stentorian
voice of the N esto r of the L atin departm ent through the door sep aratin g R oom 1
from Study H a ll. A lth o u g h in the course of finishing C aesar and stru g g lin g through
C icero ’s baffling orations w e m issed the offerings of "chocolate-nut ch ew s” w ith
w h ich M r. Patterson had tem pted us to better efforts, w e w ere content w ith the
g re ater d ign ity w e felt th ro ugh realizin g that such childish tactics w ere no longer
necessary.
T h e m ajo rity of the class took up B iology an d lived for at least forty m inutes
a d ay in an atm o sp h ere stro n gly tain ted w ith ch em ically preserved crayfish, frogs,
grasshoppers, and other victim s of our dissecting scissors. T h o se fortunates seated
near the w in d o w sill w h ile d aw ay m an y a p leasan t period d ab b lin g in M r. T o d d ’s
beloved aq u ariu m and stro kin g the backs of in trigu in g tadpoles and salam anders.

W e took French under the able direction of a n ew teacher, M r. W h itfo rd . T h e
class cam e to accept as in evitab le the h u rtlin g "five-m inute” ( ? ) quiz books near
the en d of the period. N or in freq u en tly our hearts bled for our m aster w h en ep i­
dem ics of h ard lu ck fo llo w ed him and he threw out his shoulder or ripped off a fin­
g ern ail w h ile v igo ro u sly raisin g a w in d o w .
E nglish rev ealed itself as a godsend to those of the class w ho w ere ta k in g five
subjects. M r. N ew com b, n ew that year, allo w ed the period som etim es to becom e a
very in fo rm al and d elig h tfu l discussion.
M r. M o yle, another n ew reacher, initiated us into the intricacies of quadratics.
H is d r a w lin g rendition of the w o rd "scram ” sud d en ly g av e this hackneyed expres­
sion n e w p o p u lar ap p eal.
In the latter p art of Ja n u a ry w e ran up ag ain st a p articu larly distasteful change
in the school p ro gram , m id-years. It lo n g ran k led deep in our hearts that they had
to be introduced for the first tim e d u rin g our first year of e lig ib ility; how ever, re­
signed to the inevitab le, w e stru g g led m an fu lly and w on a m o derate success.
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