VMI Cadet. November 22, 1915

              THE CADET ISSUED BY
THE CORPS OF VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
VOL. IX LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1915 NO. 10
OFFICERS FIETEO FOR ENSUING YEAR—GENERAL
i. M. I. MEN TO ENTER THE
UNITED STATES ARMY
and Endowment Association Meets Prior
to Alumni Smoker—Committee to Be
Appornted to Carry Out Work
SPEAK BEFORE RICHMOND CHAPTER
SHANNON 10 JUDGE STORIES
GENERAL NICHOLS SPEAKS
IN EAST AND NORTH
Secretary of War Commends His Suggestions
Committee on Military Affairs—Visits
New York and Washington
Professors at Washington and Lee Univarsity-and
Tynos Are Added to Cadet and
Supplement Staff Respectively
More than 100 alumni of the In-stitute
v/ere present at the smoker of
the Richmond chapter which was
held on the roof garden of the West-moreland
club Founder's day, Nov.
11th.
Among those speaking before the
association were Major General Leon-ard
Wood, commander of the depart-ment
of the East, U. S. A., General
E. W. Nichols, superintendent of V.
M. I., and Hon. A. A. Blow, class of
'77, a distinguished mining engineer
of New York.
In his address General Wood urged
that graduates of the V. M. I. be pre-pared
to enter the service of the Fed-eral
government when needed. He
discussed principally the proposals
now being considered by the war de-partment
to increase the number of
officers in the regular army and em-phasized
the fact that the additional
commissions will go to the graduates
of recognized military schools, Virgin-ia
Military Institute ranking next to
the United States Military Academy
at West Point.
General Wood was introduced by
Governor Stuart, who paid high trib-ute
to General Wood as the ranking
officer in the United States army to
whom the nation looks in the event of
war. Virginia Military Institute was
commended by the governor as the
pride of all Virginia.
Among the points stressed by Gen-eral
Wood was the availability of
the Austrian or Swiss systems of mil-itary
training in the United States.
These systems provide for the instruc-tion
of boys, a term of service with
the colors, and intensive training for
a brief period each year between the
ages of eighteen and thirty-one. He
outlined plans for military courses in
such institutions as Yale, Harvard,
and other big universities, to arouse
the interest of the students in the
summer camps of instruction, where!
they may get practical training.
"There are many .-plendid officers
in the army from the Virginia Milita-1
ry Institute," said General Wood, I
•"and we wish we had more. The j
plans proposing an increase in the
officers of the army will give an op-portunity
for gaduates of this school
to enter the service, and advise
That an excellent decision upon
the poems and stories in our contest
will be rendered is guaranteed by
the fapt that, competent judges have
been secured. These judges are two
professors of the English department
of Washington and Lee university,
Drs. Greever and Shanon. It is not
necessary to say that these men are
scholars and competent critics. By
acting as our judges they are render-ing
us a great honor, for which we
are grateful.
The supplement will be seventy
page magazine, cover printed in two
colors, and will be sent to all high
schools and colleges in Virginia.
Fisher Tynes has been appointed
as assistant business manager of the
supplement. "Fish" is working
some, too. He types at least ten let-ters
a day, laying off on Sunday.
The time limit for manuscripts to
be handed in has been extended to
Nov. 28th. This will give men a
longer period to work on their stories
and poems. A large number of stories
and poems are now in and many are
still being written.
Guatav Karow of Savannah,
Ga., has b.een added to The,
Cadet staff, he being ([appointed
as an associate editor. Karow has
had previous experience in newspaper
work and hi3 services have already
been a great help to The Cadet this
year. Gus is also leader of the
Mandolin club, an organization of
which cadets relie strongly upon for '
entertainment, come summer and j
thoights of finals.
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General Nichols left Lexington
Monday night to attend a meeting in
New York of the Association of Col-lege
Presidents named by the war
depatment in connection with the
summer camps. While in New York,
he conferred with General Leonard
Wood and met a number of leading
members of the several bodies now i
working on phases of the general pre-paredness
idea.
General Nichls has received a let-terfrom
the Hon. Lindlay M. Garri-son,
secretary of war, commending his
suggestion to Representative Hay and j
his memoranda relative to the proper !
use of the military schools of the !
country in the work of providing a i
reserve corps of officers for the army. |
Senator George E. Chamberlin of
Oregon, has also written General
Nichols about the same subject. Sen-ator
Chamberlin is an ardent advocate |
of military training in the schools
of the country, and he took occasion
in his letter to say that General
Nichols' suggestions, contained in his
letter to Representative Hay and in
the memoranda submitted to the war
department through the executive
committee of the Association of Mili-tary
Schools and Colleges, were of
very great value and would receive
careful consideration in Washington.
General Nichols will return to the
Institute on Thursday. He has accept-ed
an invitation to speak at the third j
annual meeting of the Association of
Military Colleges and Schools of the
United States, to be held at the New
Ebbitt House, Washington, on Dec.
3rd. His subject will be, "Peace—
the Best Way to Secure I t . " On this
same occasion General Leonard Wood
will speak on the subject,, "The
M ilitary Schools as a National Asset.''
Week's Calendar
TUESDAY, NOV. 23, 1915.
Meeting of Bomb staff in Room 108
at 9 :35 p. m.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24, 1915.
Meeting of Mandolin club in Room
9-B at 9 :30 p. m.
THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1915.
Thanksgiving day.
Corps leaves • for Roanoke at 8:00
a. m.
Football game with V. P. I. at
3:00 p. m. at ball park in Roanoke.
FRIDAY, NOV. 26, 1915.
First Thanksgiving hop in gymna-sium
at 9:00 p. m.
SATURDAY, NOV. 27, 1915.
The Dansant in gymnasium at
3:00 p. m.
Class football game on Athletic
field at 3:00 p. m'.
Monaogram ck,b show in J. M. hall
at 7 :30 p. m.
Second Thanksgiving hop in gym-nasium
at 8:30 p. m.
SUNDAY, NOV. 28, 1915.
Meeting of Y. M. C. A. in Y. M.
C. A. hall at 7:00 p. m.
MONDAY, NOV. 29, 1915.
Meeting of Mandolin club in Room
9-B at 6:30 p. m.
TWO SPEAKERS ALREADY
SECURED FOR FINALS
Governor Stuart Wili Present the Cincinnati Medal
and General Mills, U.S. A„ Will Deliver
the Jackson-Hope Medals
EXPENSES FOR ROANOKE TRIP
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Attention is again called to the ex-pense
to cadets of the Roanoke trip.
The manager will be around early
this week with railroad tickets and
tickets for the game. One of each
will be placed in envelopes and deliv-ered
to all cadets wanting them—the
corps, in other words. The cost of
the tickets totals $3.25, as follows:
R. R. Fare - - - $2.00
Game and Grandstand - 1.25
$3.25
Have the exact amount ready and
save the managers the bother and
worry of hunting change.
Chief among the speakers who will
be here finals appear the names of
Governor H. C.. Stuart and General
A. L. Mills, U, :S.|.A.
Governor Stuart:needs no introduc-tion
at V. M. I. It might be men-tioned,
though, that he won a warm
place in the heart of each cadet when
he addressed the graduation class of
'14 by giving just the kind of speech
desired above all others by cadets on
these occasions; a short one. The
corps was present at his inauguration
and acted as his personal escort in
the parade at the Confederate reunion
last spring. Governor Stuart will
deliver the Cincinnati medal in June.
General Mills, Who will deliver the
Jackson-Hope medals, was born in
New York city in 1854. He was
graduated from West Point and later
held successively the rank of second
lieutenant, first lieutenant and adju-tant,
and finally captain in the first
cavalry. General Mills has seen ac-tive
service against the Indians and
against the Spaniards in Cuba. In
Cuba he was wounded and since then
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