When thinking of the structural integrity of a toothpick, the first thing that comes to mind is their tendency to break easily. Hence the phrase “snap like a toothpick” means to effortlessly break something, such as when a frustrated slugger breaks a baseball bat over his knee. It seems unlikely, therefore, that a bridge built solely of toothpicks could...
Jesuit Dallas offers over 1,100 students a premier education through grades 9-12. The students come from over 100 different zip codes and 125 middle schools. Knowing where the school's funding comes from is vital to understand how this excellent education is possible. Without our generous donors, the ability to attain the excellent education Jesuit offers would be nonexistent.
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Cusco, Peru
Snow-capped peaks of the sacred valley pierce a strikingly blue sky. Jolting along in two weathered, foreign pickups, thirteen American passengers restlessly fidget, smothered in colorful plastic bags of donations for the young children of the village of Sullomayo. Their slight physical discomfort, nearly sacrilegious in the presence of such shockingly beautiful mountain terrain, shrinks as the rising...
The average Jesuit student writes three to four research papers in his career, with each paper taking around a week of solid work. Junior Payton Maher’s series on Jesuit integration in the 1950’s, written exclusively for The Roundup, entailed a much deeper and more comprehensive research process than a garden-variety research paper.
So comprehensive is his work, in fact, that...
"On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country, to obey the scout law, to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight ...those are great words to live by...Doesn't that describe you as a Jesuit student?"
This oath and question initiated my conversation...
The debate teams of Senior Andrew Miller and Sophomore Tanner Davis along with Juniors James Mantil and Kevin Kim earned fifth place in Varsity at the Coppell Invitational debate tournament on January 7-8, 2011. In the Novice division, freshmen Jackson Pyke and Jeff Melsheimer took third place while sophomores Justin Kang and Ryan Tan took fifth place.
In the varsity division, both teams...
The pipe organ.
The name alone conjures up memories of sacred music bellowing through pipes in the back of a glorious church. For those of you that don’t know, the pipe organ is actually a large combination of keys (like a piano), hand stops and combination pistons, which push air through large pipes to create sound.
The pipe organ was originally...
In a crowded classroom, a teacher trudges in, dark bags under his eyes, and stands in front of his students. He asks them for the homework from last night, and everyone turns it in except one. That one individual looks at the teacher defeated, exhausted from a delayed baseball game the previous night, but the educator merely scolds the...
