On Sunday, May 7th, independent centrist Emmanuel Macron handily defeated far-right Marine Le-Pen in the French presidential election. Two days later, in another decisive victory, Jae-In Moon, a former human rights lawyer, won the South Korean presidential election by a wide margin and was chosen as...

I think any Holderness student jaded with meetings blocks and school nights and sit-down lunches would tell you that the fourth “C” in our time at Holderness is “Consent.” In the immediate aftermath of the Owen Labrie incident (here’s an interesting article written by a St.Paul’s alum evaluating what that school did/didn’t do), the school made a...

The Picador is proud to present the staff for the 2017-18 academic year!   Senior Editors Erica Ashby '18 Sarah Berube '18   Creative Editor Jullia Tran '18   Foreign Correspondent Lolo Zabaleta '18   Associate Editors Om Acharya '19 Ali Ferri '19 Bridgit Potter '19 Emily Pel...

13 Reasons Why is taking Netflix by storm. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, it’s a series of 13 episodes that tell the story of the life and death of 17 year old girl Hannah Baker. Based off the 2007 publication of Jay Asher’s ‘Young Adult’ novel, this show has stirred up a world of cont...

I will never forget my freshman year at my old boarding school when I had my first roommate disaster. After taking a weekend and returning on Sunday I was horrified to find my room infested with fruit flies. My roommate had spilled apple juice on her desk and didn’t clean it up. The tiny flies fle...

Maybe it’s because I am in the midst of APs and just took the SATs IIs but I have a bone to pick with the College Board. I detest most everything about that company and not just because the SATs are the worst thing in the world. For one, yes the SATs are one of the worst things about high school not ju...

When walking, running, or skiing the Holderness School trails students may see an old ski hut, an A-frame shack, and a random dug out hole. Once a half mile into the woods there's an eerie, mysterious feeling. Deep in the forest, though, lies an underground system of forts constructed by Holderness stude...

Renowned physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking recently theorized that the earth will face certain disaster within the next 1,000-10,000 years. In order to survive, he determined that humans have 100 years to colonize space. He believes that the potential population of the moon, Mars, and other pl...

A few weeks ago, all of the seniors participated in a workshop run by the One Love Foundation called Escalation. We watched a movie about relationship violence, how it develops, and some of the warning signs. It also showed how love and violence can exist in the same space while at the same time being co...

Student accounts are very useful. High schools and colleges throughout the country use student accounts as an easy way for students to make payments for clothes, supplies, food, and other charges. At Holderness, the student account can be used in place of cash in many situations. Whether buying Tabor...