A collection of the best scholarly writing by students of Falmouth Academy as judged by an editorial panel of students, faculty, and faculty emeriti. The papers reflect the intellectual diversity that the Falmouth Academy classroom inspires and demonstrate the marriage of both abstract and technical skills of students in grades 7 through 12. The scholastic competition was sponsored by the editorial staff of the student newspaper, The Chandlery. The twelve essays in this inaugural edition are from eleven of Falmouth Academy’s most acute thinkers and writers and subjects range from renewable energy to the advent of Christianity to the duplicity of Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby.