The Pike School is a wonderful private school located in a beautiful, rural neighborhood. It provides a quality education for the versatile student, to enrich their school experience and contribute to the community. Overall, Pike provides many services for their students, starting with a warm greeting in the morning, and the shake of a hand. To the middle of the school day, where a hot, generously offered, healthy meal is offered to the students who greatly enjoy it. And ending the day with helping the community and conversing with peers and teachers alike. It provides many clubs that will help students openly express their inner individual, artistic, unique self. Also, Pike offers a variety of sports, that focuses on hand-eye coordination and being prepared mentally and physically; that include all athletic ability. (Even if your child is socially challenged.) And the teachers, Pike prides itself on hiring well-educated, genuinely passionate teachers who love to help lead students on to the path of success; and to achieve to be well-rounded individuals. All students at Pike are very accepting of other nationalities and all build strong friendships on trust.
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Stranger walking by: "Oh My Word! You must be from the Pike school, young gentleman!"
Pike Alumni/Young Gentleman: "Why, how could you perceive that, Sir?"
Stranger walking by: "Well, you emanated the very essence of a Renaissance man!"
Pike Alumni/Young Gentleman: "Thank you good Sir. Would you like to go converse about Dante's Divine Comedy?"
Stranger walking by: "It would be my honor."
Stranger walking by: "Oh My Word! You must be from the Pike school, young gentleman!"
Pike Alumni/Young Gentleman: "Why, how could you perceive that, Sir?"
Stranger walking by: "Well, you emanated the very essence of a Renaissance man!"
Pike Alumni/Young Gentleman: "Thank you good Sir. Would you like to go converse about Dante's Divine Comedy?"
Stranger walking by: "It would be my honor."
by aWheatie November 21, 2011
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Pike County, Missouri, is located on the Mississippi River north of St. Louis and just south of Mark Twain's Hannibal. It is still a quiet rural county, noted for the Stark Brothers Nursery and not much else.
But its name is known nationwide, thanks to Pikers, who followed the gold rushes to California and Colorado in the mid-nineteenth century. By the late 1850s they were so prominent in these adventures that Piker became the nickname for anyone from Missouri, not just from Pike County.
We find them in a Marysville, California, newspaper of 1860:
"Pillbox said they were there for the benefit of the 'Pikers,' that they might learn to read."
The Pikers were not noted for quickness of wit or spectacular success at finding gold, but they did gain a reputation for frugality. A Piker would not gamble, drink, or spend his money to excess. Thus he was viewed by the free-spending majority as a timid cheapskate.
And so piker, having lost its association with a particular place and thereby its capital letter, came to mean someone of no boldness or ambition, someone who ventures little and always plays it safe.
The term applied first to small-stakes gamblers, then to small-stakes investors in the stock market, then to slackers in any enterprise.
Pike County, Missouri, is located on the Mississippi River north of St. Louis and just south of Mark Twain's Hannibal. It is still a quiet rural county, noted for the Stark Brothers Nursery and not much else.
But its name is known nationwide, thanks to Pikers, who followed the gold rushes to California and Colorado in the mid-nineteenth century. By the late 1850s they were so prominent in these adventures that Piker became the nickname for anyone from Missouri, not just from Pike County.
We find them in a Marysville, California, newspaper of 1860:
"Pillbox said they were there for the benefit of the 'Pikers,' that they might learn to read."
The Pikers were not noted for quickness of wit or spectacular success at finding gold, but they did gain a reputation for frugality. A Piker would not gamble, drink, or spend his money to excess. Thus he was viewed by the free-spending majority as a timid cheapskate.
And so piker, having lost its association with a particular place and thereby its capital letter, came to mean someone of no boldness or ambition, someone who ventures little and always plays it safe.
The term applied first to small-stakes gamblers, then to small-stakes investors in the stock market, then to slackers in any enterprise.
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