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Work Becomes A Habit

Academics and Extracurricular Spark Enthusiasm

A s the school year time.”
drew to a close,
In addition to spending
students and facul­
ty alike reached the conclu­ extra minutes in the class­
room, most students opted
sion that they had, indeed, to participate in a variety of
been working overtime. extracurricular activities
In comparison with the which demanded countless
previous year, class per­ devoted hours outside of
iods were each five min­ school time.
utes longer, adding a total Senior Sarah Flack com­
of twenty minutes to the mented, "Extracurricular
school day. Students felt, activities take up a big
however, that not only was chunk of my time. I played
the day longer, it was more in the orchestra pit for the
intense. musical, and rehearsals
"When I come out of a could become very taxing.
double-period calculus Although I devoted many
class,” commented junior hours of my spare time, the
Adam Gervin, "I feel as final production of Show-
though I have been taught boat made me appreciate
as much as I can possibly every minute."
stomach in one block of Certainly, with academics
and extra-curriculars com­
In the musical Showboat Captain
AndyClohn Eisenbach) becomes bined, the hallmark of the
upset over his wife's refusal to school year was working
stay and gawk at the “brazen overtime.
hussies” at the World's Fair.

With the skill of a seasoned Coalescing his mathematical
marcher, Charlie Prescott enter- knowledge, pre-calculus student
tains the halftime crowd with his Paul Grand does some mental
fancy footwork. work to compute fifty-one factor­
ial.
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