VMI Cadet. March 13, 1920

              THE CADET
ISSUED BT
THE CORPS OF VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
VOL. XIII LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MARCH 13, 1920 No. 20
V. M. I. WINS SOUTH ATLANTIC TITLE
WORK BEGUN ON
IMPROVEMENTS
AT INSTITUTE
Plans Being Drawn Up. for Con-struction
of New Buildings—
Work To Be Started in Near
Future ^ ^
Col. W. H. Couper, of the class of
1904, is no'wln Lexington working on
plans f o r a gigantic expansion of the
Institute's facilities. He is a con-struction
engineer, one of his biggest
undertakings being the constructon of
Camp Jackson, S. C. One of the first
of the contemplated improvements
will be the construction of an athletic
fieldj, another, the erection of an
alumni building. The present plan
o f -enlargement has proved inadequate
f o r the widened scope. of the Insti-tute,
and it is now necessary to draw
up a plan on a larger scale. Col.
Couper is selecting sites which will
be suitable for proposed new build-ings.
The idea is to draw up a plan
which will provide for all possible
needs within the next 75 or 100 years.
These improvements will consist of
a riding hall, New Administration
BuififingT Rew Library, Alumni
Building, Engineering Building, etc.
However, fll£"oifity"~possible way that
sufficient plans can be made is by
means of suggestions on the part of
cadets, professors, and alumni, as to
what they consider necessary addi-tions.
Such suggestions will be
greatly appreciated, f o r it is desired
to have the plans as complete as pos-sible.
Cadets Down Tech in Mighty Struggle CLASS OF 1920 ELECTS
in Last Game at Lynchburg
Season Closed With Victory in Closest Contest
of Year—Result in Doubt Until Last Few
Seconds—Bacharach, Summers and
Parrish Prove Stars of Game
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TheCadets returned from Lynch-burg
after one of the hardest fought
games in the basketball history of
this section with the scalp of V. P. I.
and the Championship of the South
Atlantic states hanging to their belts.
The game was a worthy and thrill-ing
climax to the most successful
seasons the Cadets have had in many
a year. The big team fought f o r the
victory during every minute of play
and Tech went down with colors fly-ing
and the knowledge that they had
put up a battle deserving the highest
praise. At no stage of the contest
were they out of the running, and
they threatened to leave the floor in
the triumph of victory during every
second of the game.
At every point the excitement ran
high, and the score never varied by
more than two or three points. Both
quints put up the fastest exhibition
of basketball seen in Lynchburg and
the tide of victory turned f r om one
to the other every f e w seconds. The
encounter was fast and furious f r om
the first toss up until the referee
blew his whistle at the end. There
was no let-up in the killing pace set
VALEDICTORIAN
W. A. Winston Chosen To De-liver
Farewell Address of
First Class j
during the first f ew minutes of play
and the outcome was in doubt until
the last second. Though the game
was marked with a large number of
fouls on both sides, these were caus-
| ed without excpetion by the speed of
j the play and not by any roughness on
j the part of either side. It was by
t f a r the cleanest exhibition to be
found anywhere, and throughout the
struggle the highest traditions of the
sport were maintained ?
I It is exceptionally hard to say who
starred in a game where five men on
each side played the most excellent
game of their careers. In this case
the details of the score can give no
idea of the real game. Every man
I was in there with all the skill and
I fight he possessed. Summers and
Bacharach did the best work f o r V.
M. I., while Parrish put up the best
game of the Tech representatives.
Bunting was handicapped by the
Tech defense which seemed directed
almost entirely upon him, but he
played an excellent game and man-aged
to slip in one field goal. Camp-bell
showed up to good advantage,
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GOVERNOR MAKES
NOMINATIONS
FOR BOARD
Massie and Rinehart Selected to
F i l l Vacancies — Retiring
Members Have Given Long
Service to V. M. I.
SUMMERS, Center
Outjumped and outplayed all op-ponents
at center.
Governor Davis has sent his nomi-nations
for the Board of Visitors of
the Virginia Military Institute to the
Senate f o r confirmation. These nomi-nations
are for the purpose of filling
the vacancies caused by the expira-tion
of the terms of two of the mem-bers
of the Board.
Robert W. Massie of Lynchburg
was nominated to succeed Rorer A.
James of Danville. One of the most
enthusiastic members of the Alumni
and one of the most prominent men
in the state, R. W. Massie will be
hailed as a worthy member of the
board. There are f ew men who have
IMPORTANT APPRO-PRIATIONS
S0CURED
FOR INSTITUTE
One of the greatest honors that a
class can bestow upon one of its mem-bers
is that of Valedictorian. The
Valedictory address, being a fare-well
to the class and the Institute is
perhaps the feature of the Com-mencement
Exercises, and in making
a choice for the one to deliver this
oration a class should be very con-servative
in their choosing. At a
recent meeting of the class of '20
W. A. Winston was elected to fill this
office/ It goes without saying that
thfe First Class is very fortunate in
having among their number a per-son
with such oratorical ability as
Winston. We are proud to say that
there others in the class who could
dc crcdit to the class and to them-selves
in this office, but our choice
has fallen upon the one whom we
thought was best fitted for the
office. . ;» n i < * j | 4l
Among other things taken up in
this class meeting were matters per-taining
to the Final German and the
Bomb. Nothing definite has been de-cided
upon as to the dike that will
be worn in the German but you can
be assured that matters pertaining
to this function are not at a stand-still
in the hands of such men as
Jefferies and Parrott.
I Work on the "Bomb" is near com-pletion
now and Hoge promised that
this year's issue will bring many
1 novelties and attractive features.
The 1920 Bomb will be distinctive in
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Gen. Nichols Returns From
Washington—Much Business
Accomplished—State Associ-ation
Holds Annual Meeting
General E. W. Nichols has return-ed
to the Institute from a trip to
Washington and Richmond. In the
former city he attended a gathering
of the heads of the various colleges,
who wei-e convened for the purpose
of getting in touch with the view-point
of the War Depai-tment in re-gard
to the R. O. T. C. camps and
other matters. In Richmond he at-tended
the meeting of the Associa-tion
of Virginia Colleges which held
a two days conference at the Jeffer-son
Hotel.
Gen. Nichols announced the appro-priation
of a sum of money to in-crease
the size of the parade ground
BUNTING, Left Forward
Played a star game all season, ac-knowledged
as one of best in game.