Senior Slideshow
A Feast of Revelations
“One fact I learned that is very gross is that colonial people only took showers or bathed themselves 10 times a year! I take a shower every single night, and to think that [back then] people took a shower not even once a month? Eww!” Sixth-grader Katie S. no doubt speaks for all modern fans [...]
Experience Learning
Sophia M. ’15 came away from Intern Day having learned the most valuable lesson she could have: what she absolutely did not want to do with her life. Discovering that a profession you’ve romanticized doesn’t move you could well prove invaluable in lighting the path toward one that does. But Sophia seemed to sense that [...]
Spring Arts Festival 2013: Creativity Beyond What Hangs on the Wall
Not only does Susan Gottlieb think it’s high time some well-kept secrets got well-outed, but the Upper School visual art teacher plans to make a whole big production about it. The 2013 Spring Arts Festival might appear to the casual observer as simply another exhibition of the high creative standard Country Day students have set, [...]
The Building Blocks of Transcendental Beauty
From the day Archimedes began teaching the math he invented, all Middle School-age students in the Western World have, at one time or another, asked when they would ever need to know this stuff in the real world. While scholars know that Archimedes effectively discovered pi, it remains unclear whether he ever devised a satisfactory [...]
Cables from our Far East Emissaries
By the Third Grade with a postscript by Lori Hunter Third graders wrote on assignment for Cougar News about their field trip May 2 to the Shofuso Japanese House & Garden in Philadelphia. My grade is studying art from three Asian countries, China, Japan and India. When we went on a field trip to the [...]
Rethinking Lawnmower Maintenance
Of Dale Mylin’s many talents, his skill at understatement might be the most impressive. “I’m a pretty physical guy,” said the man who hours earlier hefted a 100-pound sheep from the back of a pickup truck and sheared its wool while casually giving the students an animal husbandry primer. “I’ve been doing this for 25 [...]
What Will Our Parents Just Never Understand?
With Ethan S. ’16 1) We will in all likelihood not thank you one day for making us take up the bassoon 2) We’re always here for a heart-to-heart, because middle age is full of changes and can be a confusing time 3) There is a time and a place for khakis and polo shirts, [...]
Spring Sports Slideshow
It Takes the Village
Fourth Street met fifth grade as budding beatniks climbed the dais, and, lit by a single spotlight, recited their poetry for an audience of students and parents too cool to clap. If the crowd dug what they heard, they snapped their thumbs and hit the poets with a wave of approval that sounded like rain [...]
