Phillips Academy Pot Pourri 1919 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Pot Pourri, 1944 Being a part of the student body of Phillips Academy is a great privilege at any time but it is especially so when a living school spirit, unexpected and inexplicable, pervades the atmosphere and binds the 700 students together by some mysterious tie. This year, in spite of the imminence for most of us of entry into one of the services, in spite of the monumental forces which have struggled noisily around us for the past few years, there has appeared within the school this strange bond, which, petty differences notwithstanding, has made the Class of '44 an outstanding one. One felt the force of this school spirit on the trip to Exeter last fall, with the band leading a mile-long line of raucous enthusiasts up into the enemv's citadel, and also on the dreary trip home, when despite our defeat there was little Sign of bitterness or despondency. Again on the evening of our victory in the War Bond Contest, the intangible, yet very real bond among us was felt. The chapel bell announcing our victory woke the whole campus, until the Royal Blue was echoing all the way from the Senior Quadrangle to Williams Hall. On many occasions throughout the year our spirit has manifested itself, although, caught in the mad whirlwind of events spiraling toward graduation and the consequent uncertainties, few of us have stopped to realize how much we take it for granted. For that is the essence of school spirit, confident dependence on your fellows with out fear of being let down. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.