FUN AND GAMES
Here’s a tradition everyone loves: Academy Life Day. At the start of each
school year, classes are suspended for an entire day to give boarding
students a chance to spend time with their dorm mates and dorm faculty,
and day students connect with one another and their advisers. Teachers and
students head off campus for hikes, beaches, apple-picking ... or they stay
on campus to play capture the flag and silk-screen dorm-loyalty tees.
*the kilt-wearing,
face-painted, Exeterflag-waving rabble-rousers
who stir up school spirit BIG RED SPIRIT
by any means necessary. Everyone participates in athletics here, whether they are practicing
(Well, they get
really loud. . . )
yoga, joining the technical crew for main stage productions, or
competing in intramural, junior varsity or varsity-level sports. On big
game days, players who aren’t on the field (or the ice, on the track or
court, in the pool . . .you get the idea) are in the stands, united in their
school pride and led in cheering by the Red Bandits.*
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