VMI Cadet. September 25, 1920

              THE CADET
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THE CORPS OF VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
Vol. XIV. LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920 No. 2
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PUBLICITY COMMIT-TEE
UNDER NEW
NEW MANAGEMENT
Cadet Staff Handles All
Outside News
SPEAKERS TO
VISIT INSTITUTE
Hon. Poultney Bigelow to Ad-dress
Corps Oct. 12
Until a year ago the need of a
cadet publicity committee was felt
keenly in barracks as well as by out-side
friends of the Institute. Aside
f r om the "Cadet" and occasional ac-counts
of athletic games in the daily
papers little news concerning cadet
activities ever reached the public. Last
year, however, the Athletic Council
appointed a number of cadets to serve
on a publicity committee, the sole pur-pose
of which was to write and send
articles to the papers which would
keep the outside world alive to the
progress made at the Institute in ath-letics
and in every other line of activ-i
t y.
Last finals the Athletic Council vot-ed
to abolish this separate organiza-tion
and combine the publicity com-mittee
with the Cadet staff. A set of
rules were drawn up, making the edi-tor-
in-chief directly responsible to the
Council f o r all publicity, and appoint-ing
a sub-committee of the Adminis-trative
Committee on Athletics to pass
on all articles for publication. Sub-ject
to the approval of the superin-tendent
a member of the edtorial staff
of the Cadet, appointed by the editor,
accompanies the athletic teams on
trips, and is responsible for all pub-licity
connected with the trip. This
representative submits his write-up to
the sub-committee immediately after
the game, and sees that it is tele-graphed
to the leading pepers as
quickly as possible.
A l l other publicity is left to the
editor-in-chief, and he has thus placed
in his hands an instrument of the
greatest potential good to the Insti-tute.
This combination of the two boards
puts the publicity in the hands of
men who are familiar with the kind
of work required, and it is hoped that
bur friends will no longer have cause
to comment on the lack of news to
be found in the papers concerning
V. M. I.
WORK ON 1921 BOMB
NOW IN PROGRESS
White's Photographer at the In-stitute
and Many Attrac-tive
Features Promised
DEATH OF PROMINENT
INSTITUTE FRIEND
V. M. I. Loses An Ardent Sup-porter
When Aged Mas-cot
Succumbs
I t is indeed a sad blow to the Cadets
and Alumni to learn that Old Warren
passed away quietly at his home here
last Monday evening as a result of
an attack of poisoning.
Warren has been the mascot of
V. M. I. team for the past decade and
his loss will be severely felt by all
who knew him.
There are many interesting anec-dotes
connected with the deceased's
Owing to its difficulty of access, V.
M. I. has long been deprived of one
of the greatest advantages a college
can possess—the good fortune to be
visited by prominent men. To Col-lege
students, there can be f ew things
more interesting or valuable than an
address by a man who is recognized
as a leader in any field, and our op-portunities
in this direction have been
decidedly few. However, Gen. Nichols
has devised a means of overcoming
this difficulty, and it is practically
an assured fact that this year the
Corps will be addressed by some of
the most famous men in the country
on subjects of vital interest and im-portance.
The first of these addresses, the
date for which has been set f o r Oct.
12, will be delivered by Hon. Poultney
Bigelow, of New York. Mr. Bigelow
is an eminent journalist, an authority
on colonial administration, and a
speaker of renown. He has had a ca-reer
filled with adventure the details
of which almost l i k e "fiction. His early*
education was conducted in Germany,
where he was a boy-hood companion
of the well-known Kaiser Wilhelm;
and his book, "Prussian Memoirs,"
published after the outbreak of the
war, reveals many hitherto unknown
aspects of his one-time Imperial Ma-jesty's
life and character. Later Mr.
Bigelow graduated from Yale and
practiced law in New York for sev-eral
years. He then devoted himself
to literary work and has four times
circumnavigated the globe in search
of political and sociological data. The
first of these voyages was on an Am-erican
clipper which was wrecked off
a rocky portion of the Japanese coast.
He took extended canoe trips on the
rivers of the Far East and Europe,
visiting the colonial possessions of
every nation. Incidentally he was the
first man to take a canoe thru the
dangerous Iron Gates of the Danube.
During the Spanish American war he
was correspondent for the London
"Times", and his adventures in the
war zone were full of interest.
A f t e r this strenuous career Mr. Bige-low
become a lecturer on history and
colonial administration, and is a life
member of the more important his-torical
and geographical societies. He
is a frequent contributor to modern
periodicals and has written numerous
volumes among them the "Prussian
Memoirs" mentioned above, "The Ger-man
Emperor and His Eastern Neigh-bors,"
Paddles and Politics Down the
Danube," and "White Mans Africa."
The message such a man may bring
to the Institute must surely be of in-terest
and importance, and we are
extremely fortunate to have procured
him for our opening lecture. May
those to come be as valuable as this
one is sure to be.
Work on this year's annual, the
1921 BOMB, has been definitely be-
ATHLETIC COUNCIL
HOLDS FIRST MEET-ING
OF SESSION
Several Matters of Interest
Discussed
At the first meeting of the Ath-letic
Council, which was held in the
gun and the "big job" will soon be l i b r a r y > s e v e r a l m a t t e r g o f i n t e r e st
well under way. At a meeting of e d i s c u s s e d . I t w a s decided that
the editorial staff last week a great | a c o m m i t t e e should be appointed to
many ideas and plans previously fur- ' l o o k i n t o t h e m a t t e r o f t h e A t h l e t ic
mulated were announced, combined, | A s s o c i a t i o n paying a percentage of
and compared, and various sections t h e c o s t o f s w e a t e r s a w a r d e d to mono-or
departments with work outlined,
assigned t oindividual members for
gram men. This committee was or-dered
to make a report on the sub-development.
It is intended in this j e c t a t t h e n e x t m e e t i n g.
way that, under the very capable ^ M a j o r B o y k i n s w a s f o r c e d to ten-supervision
of Berry, the editor-m- d e r his resignation as Graduate Mana-chief,
material way be more systema-tically
got together.
There will be many novel and ori-ger
of Athletics because his work as
assistant commandant interferred
with his duties to the Athletic As-ginal
features and some attractive s o c i a t i o n . The resignation was regret-surprises
in the BOMB this year, and f u l l y a c c e p t e d and Major B. B. Clark-son
was chosen as his successor.
The Editor of the Cadet was desig-nated
to formulate a vote of thanks
i to Major Boykin f o r the faithful serv-ed
in such a way as to render the i c e d u r i n g the past years. The reso-book
thoroughly attractive and artis- ( i u t i 0 n was adopted:
tic Bcenicaliy, vvhilt: the. iiteaary ar- j Whereas Major H. P. Boykin has
tides and write-ups will be composed s e r V e d as Graduate Manager of Ath-it
will be more elaborate in every de-tail.
Numerous color plates, photo-graphic
scenes, headings, designs,
sketches, and cartoons will be arrang-
Dan DeBardeleben, x-21 is a high
ranking corporal at West Point.
with a view to making interesting
reading and presenting a vivid, inti-mate,
and memorable story of our
many-sided year in barracks, rather
than merely filling up space or giving
bare information.
Berry and McKellar were particu-larly
furtunate in securing Mr. Ben-nett,
the representative from White's
Studio who has been at the Institute
the past ten days making the indi-vidual
photographs and some inter-esting
scenic compositions. Hereto-foi-
e he has done photographic work
exclusively for the Naval Academy,
and it was only by getting him at the
first of the term that it was possible
to have his work. He has been mak-ing
the individual pictures both of the
faculty and of the first class, those
of the commissioned officers, and sep-arate
photographs of others who wish
them for Christmas. In November a
second representative will be down
f r om New York to make the company,
group, club, and remaining organiza-tion
pictures.
The Benson Printing Company of
Nashville, Tennessee, has been select-ed
to print the BOMB, while the Bu-reau
of Engraving, of Minneapolis, is
to make all engravings. Anyone ac-quainted
with annuals will realize the
excellence of the work of both these
firms. With such an early start in
photographic and artistic lines it will
be possible to have much of this
branch of the material in the hands
of the engravers by November, and
the completed work will go to press
by February, thus insuring the de-livery
of the BOMB before the close
of school, probably the first of May.
Now, it is the aim of the staff to
direct every energy to the fullest ex-tent
of their ability to make this
book an annual of which not only ca-letics
at V. M. I. for the past years
without recompense,
And whereas Major Boykin has
filled the said position in such a man-ner
as to most excellently further the
ends of the Athletic Association; and,,
at the same time to reflect honor upon
himself.
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'22 HOLDS ELECTION
Gatting and Drewry to be in
Charge of Bomb
A f t e r their meeting this past week,
it was announced that the Class of '22
had made their selection of men to fill
the important positions on the 1922
Bomb Staff and in the Final Ball. The
greatest responsibility rests on the
Bomb Staff for not only are they
charged with publishing an annual
next year that is worthy of V. M. I.,
but " they also have the duty of con-the
V. M. I. handbook. To undertake
this Gatling was chosen Editor-in-chief
and Drewry, business manager.
These men will choose their staff af-ter
a few days of consideration and
work on the Bullet will begin imme-diately.
Though less responsibility is at-tached
to the leaders of the Final Ball,
the men chosen should feel highly
honored with the trust placed in them
by their classmates. Bunting was
chosen as leader and Campbell as as-sistant
leader, and the class can rest
assured that these men will make a
success of the Ball that means so much
to them.
Miller P. was chosen class historian
for the coming year. The entire class
is to be congratulated on the wisdom
of their choice of the above men.