 Jerry at the ropes of the sea very good Marvin now the next then the bloody sun at noon right up above the mask did stand no bigger than the moon that's right all right cadet Phillips the next time to please oh yes day after day day after day we we stuck nor breath nor motion as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean yes that construction does seem a little peculiar to us now I know but after all Samuel Taylor Colridge did write the rhyme of the ancient man in 1798 and the English language has undergone some quite drastic changes since then the next stanza please cadet Dugan yes ma'am oh water water everywhere and all the boards did shrink water water everywhere and not a drop to drink well that's uh yes Bruce I beg your pardon again Mrs Gardner but that's not quite correct you're right Bruce it isn't exactly as the poem reads what is the correct reading do you know yes I do the last two lines should be water water everywhere nor any drop to drink and that's correct thank you Bruce it's always been amazing to me that well-known passages from classic poems could be twisted and turned and changed around until they become recognizable to us only in a very different form from the original but perhaps we can play some of the responsibility at the doorsteps of radio comedians they boys now we uh the period's almost over well we'll go on with the rhyme of the ancient mariner tomorrow continuing with part the second and going on from there with the third part and boys we'll conclude our study of this poem in about three days and when we do you can expect a written test on the entire poem the day after that's right a written test um cadet Dugan what class do you have now uh just study hall mrs Gardner I see I wonder if you'd mind staying here a few moments after class and I'll write an excuse to professor Custis in the study hall yes ma'am all right boys study up tonight on the next part of the ancient mariner because all right cadets dismissed come right up here Jerry yes ma'am sit down Jerry thank you Jerry do you mind if I ask you a question uh no ma'am of course not well I noticed that when Bruce Dow Campbell corrected Lee later when he corrected you on the reading of your stance of the ancient mariner you seem quite annoyed annoyed ma'am yes very much so do you mind being corrected when you're wrong Jerry oh no ma'am I don't mind well then why is it that when Bruce offers a correction of your recitations you seem to dislike it so well have you and Bruce had some sort of a disagreement Jerry well uh kind of do you mind telling me what it is you know grown folks often have misunderstandings to Jerry and when they do it's always considered the most gentlemanly and broad-minded thing to do to get it cleared up as soon as possible yes you see differences of opinion are all right differences between great men and women have made for the progress of civilization but the greatest men and women have been willing to admit defeat or admit the other fellow's been right when they've finally come to recognize the fact that they've been thinking along the wrong track now Jerry it's certainly true that you were wrong in your recitation today and it just so happened that Bruce knew the stanzan you didn't yes ma'am well it may so happen that next week or a couple of weeks from now sometime you may know some recitation better than Bruce Dow Campbell don't you see yes ma'am well then do you think it would be right for Bruce to become angry because you were able to recite more accurately or better than he know ma'am then what is it Jerry it isn't just that Bruce knew the stanzas better than you did today is it no ma'am well then what is it well golly I mean come right up with it Jerry that's the only way we can get this thing cleared up and I think we all want to clear it up don't we yes all right then well I don't care if Bruce or anybody else knows something in class better than I do yeah every time Lee or Harold Inwell or any of the other fellows know something better than I do well I just feel kind of glad that it was somebody I know pretty well and that maybe next time I'll be the one that can make a good recitation but with Bruce Dow Campbell well yes well team is Gardner I don't know exactly how to say it but well it's just the way he does it oh I see yeah he always seems to kind of get a kick out of being better than Lee or me he kind of looks at us and grins like we were a couple of dummies dummies I mean well like we don't know anything at all and like he knows everything there is to know I understand well tell me Jerry have you tried to know Bruce better you realize of course that Bruce has had an entirely different sort of training than any of the other boys here at Fair Oaks he's been trained on a very strict discipline in India and in England and he's accustomed to doing everything very properly he's been trained to treat everyone not only his teachers and his officers but everyone he meets with the greatest courtesy our idea of courtesy probably somewhat different than that to which Bruce is accustomed it may be quite possible that you misunderstood him you haven't tried to get together with him and know him better no ma'am that isn't true oh no ma'am just yesterday over in max place Bruce came in and I tried to be nice to him and treat him just like I treat all the other guys I mean all the other cadets and well Bruce flared up and got sore about something I said oh and what did you say Jerry well I just said that oh I don't exactly remember what I said but it was just something like if if you want to fight about somebody being friendly well then you are a sap yes and then what happened well I don't know exactly how it happened but I said something else and then Bruce hit me Jerry yeah and then well Matt came into the store from his back room just in time to stop us from fighting some more and then you're pretty well convinced that Bruce Dow Campbell has taken a definite dislike to you and Lee is that it yes ma'am well that's too bad I'm sorry all right Jerry I'll give you a tidy slip for Professor Custis and study home yes ma'am Jerry yes ma'am also give this note to Professor Custis for me will you please yes Mrs Gardner I'll be glad to all right that's all and thank you for staying Jerry yes ma'am thank you I'll see you in class tomorrow and be sure to study the ancient mariner yes ma'am I will uh professor Custis yes my boy oh Dugan yes what is it I uh Mrs Gardner kept me after English lip class for a few minutes and she gave me this tardy slip to give to you tardy slip oh yes of course I didn't know you weren't in the study hall my boy all right and uh Mrs Gardner asked me to give you this note too sir note oh very well Dugan thank you you may go to your table and resume study yes sir hi stupid I'll cut it out what's the matter why did Mrs Gardner keep you after class nothing's a matter keep quiet we're supposed to be studying mm-hmm something's up what's it all about cherry nothing but I love a Mike Lee let's study okay okay oh come on tell me what Mrs Gardner said all right if you want to know she asked me all about our trouble with Bruce Dow Campbell our trouble all right then my trouble what did you tell her well I told her the truth what do you think I sure certainly in a swell humor today well it gets my goat that out of all the cadets at Faroaks there should be two heels like Bruce Dow Campbell and Red Morrison that's all and that you should have to get mixed up with them huh yeah mm-hmm yes it is too bad but as long as you're here I guess you'll just have to make the best of it yeah I guess so what was it you gave to professor Custis just now oh just a tardy slip yeah I saw that but there were two things you had oh the other was a note Mrs Gardner wanted to send the professor Custis oh I see oh golly now we've done it old stormy weather is going to call me up for talking about that Dugan yes sir come here a moment please and cadets out Campbell yes sir you come here a moment too please yes sir oh well you suppose that means I don't know can't be about talking in study hall because dear little Bruce wouldn't do a thing like that well go on up to the desk and find out okay yes sir Dugan and Dow Campbell you're both in my ancient history class tomorrow afternoon are you not yes sir well I have a special problem recitation I'd like to have you two work out to present to the rest of the class tomorrow would you like to do that well I'd be glad to work it out alone if you don't mind sir yeah yes sir so would I well no no I think not I want to have two boys work on this because I'd like to have two different viewpoints of course I'll find two others cadets who will work it out that is if you two lads don't want to take the time oh no sir I'll be glad to work with anybody yes sir I'll work on it yes well in our studies of Pythagoras and his effect on the Roman Empire there are two of his students whom we touched on but lightly I'd like to have a special report made tomorrow afternoon on Damon and Phineas Damon and Phineas yes Damon and Phineas Phineas is more correctly Grecian than Pythias Dugan oh yes sir I see now you two lads can work that report out tonight during your evening study period can't you yes sir yes sir very well I think you'll find a rather comprehensive study of that incident in my book Greek philosophy and its effect on modern ethics that's in section C shelf four yes sir very well that's all boys I'll expect a good report tomorrow thank you uh Mr. Dugan yeah I'll meet you at the table near section C right after dinner if that's satisfactory yeah it's satisfactory okay and I might say that I'll do my very best to forget any personal feelings during our study on this report if you'll do the same yeah okay that's all that's all right with me very well see you this evening