CARDIGAN CHRONICLE VOL. 11 NO. 10
CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL, CANAAN, N. H.
MARCH, 1963
Green Grass?
Classics o,r comics?
Wheel of Knowledge This year, the library is under the supervision of Mrs. Burbank and Robert Rosselli and it has been a very successful year. The various- students, who have charge of the different class study halls, teach the other boys how to use the library and the reference books available. There have been new additions this year including a magazine rack, a new card catalogue and a very popular paper back book rack. A new Life Nature Series is also available, to show us many different regions. The most popular of all are the "paper backs". Every student is interested in this particular item, and, ·thanks to Mrs. Burbank, a new shipment arrives every week : Gradually, as one might suspe-et, the "hard backs'' are getting dusty on the shelves. This has been a good year in the _library with its many new additions and improvements. Yet there are always some boys who never remember to bring back their books. Robert Rosselli '63
Campused The scholastic standards committee has been the deciding group on scholastic matters at C'lVIS for several years . It has, in the past, had the power to put boys on Scholastic Warning or Scholastic Probation, both of which are outlined in the Student Handbook, or even remove them from Cardigan; for scholastic reasons. This year, a new weapon has been given to the committee, in the form of Academic Campus. This is, as the name implies, confinement to campus, for reasons inv,o lving studies. Boys, whose numerical effort marks, are in the •o pinion of the committee, far below their potential, are subject to it. Boys are removed from Academk Campus only when their marks and above ,all, their eff·orts, are satisfactory. At first, many boys on the list, griped and complained instead of doing something about their dubious position. However, as time went on, many came to understand and (Continued on page 2.)
The Cardigan Mountain Summer School Program has two purposes. The first is to help a boy along i'n his academic standing in Math and English. The other is to give him the feel of the great outdoors. The program is open to any boy who has completed the fifth grade but not yet entered the tenth grade. The morning class program consists of classes and a study hall. Each class ,c onsists ·Of only five or six boys. A "How to Study" course ·is given in the Study Hall, at the start fo the summer, to help the boys get the most from their work. After lunch every day they have study hall, after which each boy has three activity periods; one of which is swimming. The other two activities are of his own choice. He may choose tennis,- sailing campcraft, riflery, archery, canoeing and row boating. The recreational equipment includes, a woodshop, a rifle range, ,a thletic fields, a large swimming area, sail boats and ,c anoes. The evening schedule includes four nights of reading, two nights of •o ut door activities and on Saturday night we have movies. Summer school is only eight weeks long but has been very helpful to many boys and the activities are lots of fun! This year Summer School opens on June 30th and ends August 24th. Robert Koch '64
Cold Brick Yesterday, knowing that few of the students have been inside the new Chapel, I took the opportunity to walk through it with Mrs. Burbank. Passing under the steeple and· into the interior we walked on a cushion of sawdust through an anteroom with several doors leading off on each side into the main part of the upper floor. Filling the gloom of this room was a large scaffo!Gling that resembled a giant jungle jim. The walls were being plastered by (Continued on page 2.)