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Fresh after sleeping off last night’s excitement, the students began today with the first 10 chapters of Genesis, from Creation to Noah. Prefects report that the students seem to be getting into the rhythm of the program and making progress with the Discussion Method. After class came lunch, during which all celebrated the birthdays of two “programmers,” Zach H. and Paulina R!

Tuesday began with breakfast and the morning class. Building on Monday’s discussion of piety in Plato’s Euthyphro, students considered issues of duty, law, fate, family, and the state in Sophocles’ Antigone. Then, before lunch, a photographer came by to get a photo of each class section — and one of the entire group — on the steps by the Guadalupe Fountain:

At Monday afternoon’s classes, students discussed Plato’s Euthyphro, from which they worked to construct a definition of piety and identify its general qualities. Next came the afternoon recreation period, which included all kinds of sports — volleyball, soccer, ultimate Frisbee, and basketball — despite the thick humidity, a rarity in Southern California. A few women wisely escaped the heat, however, at an art session that prefect Zoe Appleby led in the ladies’ residence hall: