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THE CADET 96 D A Y S T I L L F I N A LS PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE VOL. XXII. L E X I N G T O N , V I R G I N I A , MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1929 No. 20 TWO BANQUETS FEATURE IN WEEK-END'S FESTIVITY D. T.'s and White Hussars En-tertain Calic. Another one of the D. T. banquets •were held Saturday night. The F i r s t and Second classes being hosts to numerous beautiful caliics. The banquet was held at the R. E. Lee Hotel. Each place card was marked with an appropriate sobriquet. Toast-master Jake Summerlin started things off with an introduction to all the f a i r e r sex, and after having be-come acquainted, everyone plunged into the meal with zealous vim. Dur-i n g the course of the dinner, Cap-t a in Bo of the. F i r s t Class welcomed all the new D. T.'s and pleged them to carry on the good work of the club. Captain Louie thanked the F i r s t Class in behalf of the new members and also stated* that he thought the Second Class would be able to function in the future unless a catastrope similar to that of the F i r s t Class befell them. Several f o r - mer members of the D. T.'s attend-ed the banquet. After dinner, ev-eryone went upstairs where a very A. S. C. E. HOLDS TWO INTERESTING MEETINGS Swedish Gymnast Likes VM. I. Post Captain Granfelt, Soldier of Scandinavian King and Friend of Royalty. Founder of one of Sweden's lead- „ ing athletic associations, holder of M r . A s p e g r e n T e l l s C a d e t s of t h e 0 1 i m p i c p r i z e f o r g y m n a s t i c s, A d v a n t a g e s I n C h e m i c a l E n - j linquist, author of a well known book g i n e e r i n g ; E a r l e , F o x , P a y n e , on swimming and life saving, Capt. R . L . , a n d R u s t S p e a k A t A . | N i l s Granfelt, Swedish gymnast and S C E M e e t former member of the Royal Red * | g u a r d , now serves as first year as The f i f t h of a series of lectures' physical director at the Virginia arranged by Col. Anderson for t h e | M i l i t a r y Institute here. . . . . , , ! Captain Granfelt, pleasant, atten-f i r s t and second class engineering d e - j t i y e > c o n s i d e r a t e ( f i n d s h a p p i n e s s in partments was held at ten-thirty ; V i r g i n i a after a life of strenuous ac- Friday, March 8. The speaker w a s ; tivity in his mother country. Sit- Mr. Aspegren, president of the ' uated in what he considers an ideal Portsmouth Cotton Oil Refining Co.j location, he looks toward to the time He spoke in general on the advant- w h e n h e w i l 1 t e a c h t h e c a d e t s o f t he iages f o r a young college graduate i n j m i l i t a r y institute those elements of ! chemical engineering. He stressed e x e r « s e and health which once made especially the recent advancement in him a favorite of royalty and an idol (Continued On Page Eight) Former V. M. I. Mentor To Coach Virginia Abel To Succeed Neal As Cavalier Pilot. the utilization of cottonseed which u P l o f S w e n d e n ' s manhood. to a f e w years ago had been r a d i - cally wasted. Mr. Aspegren is a Swede by birth, but has been in the United States for eighteen years. D u r i n g this time he has made quite Tells of A r m y Experiences. In faultless English, made more pleasant by slight accent, Captain G r a n f e l t recalled the years before he came to this country. Modestly, he a name f o r himself as a manufacture j broke of associations of youth and of chemical products. This field f u r - 1 b i s connection with the Royal Red nishes a wonderful opportunity for Guards. engineering students who will soon j " E v e r y male citizen of Sweden Charlottesville, Va., March 9.—Dr. John H. N e f f , chairman of the coach-i n g committee of the athletic coun-cil at the U n i v e r s i t y of Virginia, an-nounced today that Earl C. Abel, head coach of football at Colgate University, has accepted an o f f e r of a three-year contract to coach foot-ball and baseball at the U n i v e r s i t y of V i r g i n i a , succeeding Earl Neale, who resigned to accept a position with the St. Louis Cardinals. The new Cavalier coach is well known throughout Dixie, f o r he has been at the head of the gridiron teams of the Virginia Military In-stitute and Sewanee University be-f o r e his year at Virginia. Later he was head coach at Mississippi A g r i - cultural and Mechanical College. W h e n Abel was captain of the Col-gate eleven in 1915 he won a place as a tackle on Walter Camp's first a l l - A m e r i c a n eleven. He was also a star in basketball and baseball, and while still in high school received a professional offer from a major league team. He was graduated f r om Colgate in June, 1916. The following fall Abel came South to accept a position as assist-ant coach at V i r g i n i a Military Insti- (Continued' On Page Eight) Radio Club Active Hopes To Communicate With Byrd. be out in actual business. Regular A. S. C. E. Meeting Held. ular meeting of the A. S. C. E. was held. It so happened that Saturday morning came after the hop Friday night and the speakers were con-fronted with the difficult task of arousing the interest of a somewhat semi-conscious group of men. Due credit must be given to them for they performed their task nobly. R. C. E a r l e started the p r o g r am with a talk on landslides and the means of preventing them. Proper drainage was emphasized as a vital element in such work. P. D. F o x next on the p r o g r am discussed new types of city lighting. Detroit was taken as an example. Payne, R. L., taked on the subject of submarine blasting. J. A. Rust ended the hour by tracing the development of aeroplanes during the last f e w years. The p r o g r am was very interesting and the speakers are to be congratulated. must serve at least 200 days in the r e g u l a r army," he began. "I enter- A l t h o u g h practically extinct for more than a year, the Radio Club has renewed its activities and is making much headway. The room in J. M. Hall has been cleaned out and license has been taken out again. The trans-mitter has been rearranged and is g i v i n g excellent results on a new hook-up. Both the short and long wave receivers are in good shape and the reception of programs broad-casted f r om distant stations has been unusually good. Last week, the first Saturday morning, M a r c h 9,-a r e g - ed the service in, 1907, w a s - m a d e sec-ond lieutenant of the Red Guards in 1909, and captain in 1924. The Swedish captain, as you probably know, has much more to do than his American counterpart. He has charge of at least 225 men, and is responsible for everything concern-ing them: education, military train-ing, and physical exercise. " T h e king has two bodies of choice troops, the Red Guards and the Y e l l ow Guards. These soldiers, stationed in Stockholm, go out each f a l l to training camps to instruct young men just beginning their armv l i f e ." Despite the honor of having been a royal guard, Captain Granfelt points with greater pride to his rec-ord as a gymnast. After being grad-uated from the Royal Gymnastic Central Institute, Stockholm, he founded and for ten years headed the well known "Gymnos" Athletic Association of the Swedish capital. As such he received the first honor certificate of the society. A devotee of virtually all kinds of athletics, the captain holds royal medals presented by the king and crown prince of Sweden and the late Czar Nicholas of Russia. In 1912 he won first prize f o r gymnastics at the Olympic games, Stockholm, and cer-tificates and letters of recogniation galore recall memories of achieve-ment. Admires Football. A great admirer of football, he says: " I t is a great game, giving the player determination to stand up against a wall and fight for his side." Captain Granfelt is 42, looks 30, stands six feet in his socks, weighs Telephone Representative To Visit Institute First Class Electrical Engineers and Liberal Artists Will Be Interviewed. W i l l i am Owens, representing the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, will be at V. M. I. on Tues-day and Wednesday, March 19 and 20 f o r the purpose of interviewing raera-ers of the First Class who may de-s i r e positions with that company. The telephone company employs technical and non-technical stu- ! dents and members of the First j Class who are pursuing courses in i Electrical Engineering and Liberal l A r t s should not hestitate to talk with Mr. Owens if they are considering the type of work that the telephone company offers. Chicago White Sox are to leave j F r i d a y to start training at Dallas, Texas. Manager Blackburne is full 'of hope and new ideas f o r the suc-cess of the team. MID-WINTER HOPS CLIMAX SEASON'S SOCIAL CALENDAR COL. MOSELEY LECTURES ON ERENCH RENAISSANCE Describes Architecture and De-velopment of the Walled Cities of France. Supreme Callic and Bob Iula's Music Score Huge Success. Last' Thursday night, Colonel Moseley lectured on the architectural transition in France f r om Flamboy-ant Gothic to the Renaissance. Col. Moseley first compared the so-cial conditions of medieval France and Italy, and explained the reasons f o r the development of the walled city in France. Carcassonne, the best example of this type of city, is wholly medieval or Gothic. Coucy, an excellent example of the fortified chateaux, is similar to Caracassonne in design. Col. Moseley also showed examples of the architecture by the bourgeoisie in their buildings. The Maison Jacques Coeur was given as an example. A t Blois, built by Louis XII, we f i n d the peculiarities of the Maison Jacques Coeur. The windows, corn-ices, and balustrades become more Italianate. The Renaissance really begins later with Francis I. A t Chenonceaux, the towers which featured so prominently in previous chateaux are now used, solely f o r or-nament. A z z a y - l e - R i d e a u is lavishly decor-ated with fluted pilasters, horizontal lines, scroll work, and richly carved panels. Chambord, one of the largest of the chateaux, is unique in its double spiral stair case. The towers here have grown to great individual chateaux in themselves. To this same period belongs Fontainebleau, characterized by high gables, high pitched roofs, high chimneys, and rambling lines. In the Louvre, built by Lescot, we f i n d Italian Baroque influence. There is a free treatment of classical de-signs and a lavish use of sculptural f i g u r e s f o r decorative purposes. The church of Sarbonne is another exam-ple of seventeenth century baroque. The Gaston D'Orleans wing at Blois, built by Mansard, is perhaps the f i r s t example of the French Re-naissance. Here the architect has successfully blended engaged col-umns with engaged pilasters. (Continued On Page Four) The 1928-1929 catalogue has been published and is now avail-able at the Superintendent's of-fice. Several changes have been made in its contents. Plan Conference of College Men Faculty - Student Meeting At j Lynchburg Sponsored By State " Y ." Forrest D. Brown, student secre-1 t a r y under the state executive com-mittee of the Y. M. C. A., will go to Lynchburg to attend a faculty-stu-dent conference to be held at Lynch-burg College tomorrow, Saturday and Funday, at which about 150 men, representing the teaching and student forces of many Virginia institutions of higher learning will be present. The conference is sponsored by the State " Y , " the state student council and the Virginia clericus. The topic to be discussed from various angles will be, " R e l i g i o n in the Col-leges." Among the leaders will be Presi- (Continued On Page Eight) Ending the winter social season at V. M. I., Mid-winter hops were given in the new gym, Friday and Satur-day. The hops were a scene of much gaiety and were attended by many cadets and alumni. N i n e t y - f o u r Hall was decorated with black and white streamers, ar-tistically draped from the center. The lights were hung near the floor and were covered with silhouettes of various designs. In harmonw with other recorations, a black and white checker-board design was used as a background for the orchestra stand. The contrasting colors formed one of the most attractive decoration schemes ever used in the gym. The music f o r both nights and for the Saturday afternoon dansant was furnished by Bog Iula's orchestra of Baltimore. Using two pianos, the orchestra played excellent music and introduced all the latest hits. Many f a v o r a b l e comments were overheard r e g a r d i n g their work. John Marshall Cadets 4ttend Inauguration Young Cadets Wear V. M. I. Overcoats. The applause of the crowds and not the keeness of their state pride convinced Virginians in Washington on Monday that the Old Dominion made a better showing than any oth-er state in the inaugural parade. F r om one end of the avenue to the other, the V i r g i n i a contingents were received loudly and admiringly. They marched splendidly, they were smart-ly uniformed, and they were alto-gether defiant of the rain. W h i l e every one of the commands was cheered by the crowd, the cadets of John Marshall High school un-deniably made the strongest appeal. Through the kindness of the V. M. I., the Richmond lads were supplied with overcoats for the day, so that they were protected against the weather, even if the f i t of each coat might not have pleased a Richmond clothier. The capes of these over-coats, it will be remembered, are lined with red, and when they are turned back f o r marching, they give picturesque coloring to the g r a y of coat and cap. The boys marched, of course, superlatively well. They al-ways do that, but on Monday they were sharply conscious that the eyes of their commander-in-chief were up- (Continued On Paise Eight) New W. and L. Coach To Report May I Eugene G. Oberst, former lineman, at Notre Dame, will succeed J. P. Herron, Pittsburgh graduate, as head football coach at Washington and Lee University, the athletic council announced Saturday. The new coach will have until May 18, starting time of final examina-tions, to work with the 1929 eligible veterans and those coming up f r om the successful 1928 yearling eleven. Track Star Also. Oberst is from Owensboro, Ky., and is 27 years old. While a student
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Full Text Search | THE CADET 96 D A Y S T I L L F I N A LS PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE VOL. XXII. L E X I N G T O N , V I R G I N I A , MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1929 No. 20 TWO BANQUETS FEATURE IN WEEK-END'S FESTIVITY D. T.'s and White Hussars En-tertain Calic. Another one of the D. T. banquets •were held Saturday night. The F i r s t and Second classes being hosts to numerous beautiful caliics. The banquet was held at the R. E. Lee Hotel. Each place card was marked with an appropriate sobriquet. Toast-master Jake Summerlin started things off with an introduction to all the f a i r e r sex, and after having be-come acquainted, everyone plunged into the meal with zealous vim. Dur-i n g the course of the dinner, Cap-t a in Bo of the. F i r s t Class welcomed all the new D. T.'s and pleged them to carry on the good work of the club. Captain Louie thanked the F i r s t Class in behalf of the new members and also stated* that he thought the Second Class would be able to function in the future unless a catastrope similar to that of the F i r s t Class befell them. Several f o r - mer members of the D. T.'s attend-ed the banquet. After dinner, ev-eryone went upstairs where a very A. S. C. E. HOLDS TWO INTERESTING MEETINGS Swedish Gymnast Likes VM. I. Post Captain Granfelt, Soldier of Scandinavian King and Friend of Royalty. Founder of one of Sweden's lead- „ ing athletic associations, holder of M r . A s p e g r e n T e l l s C a d e t s of t h e 0 1 i m p i c p r i z e f o r g y m n a s t i c s, A d v a n t a g e s I n C h e m i c a l E n - j linquist, author of a well known book g i n e e r i n g ; E a r l e , F o x , P a y n e , on swimming and life saving, Capt. R . L . , a n d R u s t S p e a k A t A . | N i l s Granfelt, Swedish gymnast and S C E M e e t former member of the Royal Red * | g u a r d , now serves as first year as The f i f t h of a series of lectures' physical director at the Virginia arranged by Col. Anderson for t h e | M i l i t a r y Institute here. . . . . , , ! Captain Granfelt, pleasant, atten-f i r s t and second class engineering d e - j t i y e > c o n s i d e r a t e ( f i n d s h a p p i n e s s in partments was held at ten-thirty ; V i r g i n i a after a life of strenuous ac- Friday, March 8. The speaker w a s ; tivity in his mother country. Sit- Mr. Aspegren, president of the ' uated in what he considers an ideal Portsmouth Cotton Oil Refining Co.j location, he looks toward to the time He spoke in general on the advant- w h e n h e w i l 1 t e a c h t h e c a d e t s o f t he iages f o r a young college graduate i n j m i l i t a r y institute those elements of ! chemical engineering. He stressed e x e r « s e and health which once made especially the recent advancement in him a favorite of royalty and an idol (Continued On Page Eight) Former V. M. I. Mentor To Coach Virginia Abel To Succeed Neal As Cavalier Pilot. the utilization of cottonseed which u P l o f S w e n d e n ' s manhood. to a f e w years ago had been r a d i - cally wasted. Mr. Aspegren is a Swede by birth, but has been in the United States for eighteen years. D u r i n g this time he has made quite Tells of A r m y Experiences. In faultless English, made more pleasant by slight accent, Captain G r a n f e l t recalled the years before he came to this country. Modestly, he a name f o r himself as a manufacture j broke of associations of youth and of chemical products. This field f u r - 1 b i s connection with the Royal Red nishes a wonderful opportunity for Guards. engineering students who will soon j " E v e r y male citizen of Sweden Charlottesville, Va., March 9.—Dr. John H. N e f f , chairman of the coach-i n g committee of the athletic coun-cil at the U n i v e r s i t y of Virginia, an-nounced today that Earl C. Abel, head coach of football at Colgate University, has accepted an o f f e r of a three-year contract to coach foot-ball and baseball at the U n i v e r s i t y of V i r g i n i a , succeeding Earl Neale, who resigned to accept a position with the St. Louis Cardinals. The new Cavalier coach is well known throughout Dixie, f o r he has been at the head of the gridiron teams of the Virginia Military In-stitute and Sewanee University be-f o r e his year at Virginia. Later he was head coach at Mississippi A g r i - cultural and Mechanical College. W h e n Abel was captain of the Col-gate eleven in 1915 he won a place as a tackle on Walter Camp's first a l l - A m e r i c a n eleven. He was also a star in basketball and baseball, and while still in high school received a professional offer from a major league team. He was graduated f r om Colgate in June, 1916. The following fall Abel came South to accept a position as assist-ant coach at V i r g i n i a Military Insti- (Continued' On Page Eight) Radio Club Active Hopes To Communicate With Byrd. be out in actual business. Regular A. S. C. E. Meeting Held. ular meeting of the A. S. C. E. was held. It so happened that Saturday morning came after the hop Friday night and the speakers were con-fronted with the difficult task of arousing the interest of a somewhat semi-conscious group of men. Due credit must be given to them for they performed their task nobly. R. C. E a r l e started the p r o g r am with a talk on landslides and the means of preventing them. Proper drainage was emphasized as a vital element in such work. P. D. F o x next on the p r o g r am discussed new types of city lighting. Detroit was taken as an example. Payne, R. L., taked on the subject of submarine blasting. J. A. Rust ended the hour by tracing the development of aeroplanes during the last f e w years. The p r o g r am was very interesting and the speakers are to be congratulated. must serve at least 200 days in the r e g u l a r army," he began. "I enter- A l t h o u g h practically extinct for more than a year, the Radio Club has renewed its activities and is making much headway. The room in J. M. Hall has been cleaned out and license has been taken out again. The trans-mitter has been rearranged and is g i v i n g excellent results on a new hook-up. Both the short and long wave receivers are in good shape and the reception of programs broad-casted f r om distant stations has been unusually good. Last week, the first Saturday morning, M a r c h 9,-a r e g - ed the service in, 1907, w a s - m a d e sec-ond lieutenant of the Red Guards in 1909, and captain in 1924. The Swedish captain, as you probably know, has much more to do than his American counterpart. He has charge of at least 225 men, and is responsible for everything concern-ing them: education, military train-ing, and physical exercise. " T h e king has two bodies of choice troops, the Red Guards and the Y e l l ow Guards. These soldiers, stationed in Stockholm, go out each f a l l to training camps to instruct young men just beginning their armv l i f e ." Despite the honor of having been a royal guard, Captain Granfelt points with greater pride to his rec-ord as a gymnast. After being grad-uated from the Royal Gymnastic Central Institute, Stockholm, he founded and for ten years headed the well known "Gymnos" Athletic Association of the Swedish capital. As such he received the first honor certificate of the society. A devotee of virtually all kinds of athletics, the captain holds royal medals presented by the king and crown prince of Sweden and the late Czar Nicholas of Russia. In 1912 he won first prize f o r gymnastics at the Olympic games, Stockholm, and cer-tificates and letters of recogniation galore recall memories of achieve-ment. Admires Football. A great admirer of football, he says: " I t is a great game, giving the player determination to stand up against a wall and fight for his side." Captain Granfelt is 42, looks 30, stands six feet in his socks, weighs Telephone Representative To Visit Institute First Class Electrical Engineers and Liberal Artists Will Be Interviewed. W i l l i am Owens, representing the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, will be at V. M. I. on Tues-day and Wednesday, March 19 and 20 f o r the purpose of interviewing raera-ers of the First Class who may de-s i r e positions with that company. The telephone company employs technical and non-technical stu- ! dents and members of the First j Class who are pursuing courses in i Electrical Engineering and Liberal l A r t s should not hestitate to talk with Mr. Owens if they are considering the type of work that the telephone company offers. Chicago White Sox are to leave j F r i d a y to start training at Dallas, Texas. Manager Blackburne is full 'of hope and new ideas f o r the suc-cess of the team. MID-WINTER HOPS CLIMAX SEASON'S SOCIAL CALENDAR COL. MOSELEY LECTURES ON ERENCH RENAISSANCE Describes Architecture and De-velopment of the Walled Cities of France. Supreme Callic and Bob Iula's Music Score Huge Success. Last' Thursday night, Colonel Moseley lectured on the architectural transition in France f r om Flamboy-ant Gothic to the Renaissance. Col. Moseley first compared the so-cial conditions of medieval France and Italy, and explained the reasons f o r the development of the walled city in France. Carcassonne, the best example of this type of city, is wholly medieval or Gothic. Coucy, an excellent example of the fortified chateaux, is similar to Caracassonne in design. Col. Moseley also showed examples of the architecture by the bourgeoisie in their buildings. The Maison Jacques Coeur was given as an example. A t Blois, built by Louis XII, we f i n d the peculiarities of the Maison Jacques Coeur. The windows, corn-ices, and balustrades become more Italianate. The Renaissance really begins later with Francis I. A t Chenonceaux, the towers which featured so prominently in previous chateaux are now used, solely f o r or-nament. A z z a y - l e - R i d e a u is lavishly decor-ated with fluted pilasters, horizontal lines, scroll work, and richly carved panels. Chambord, one of the largest of the chateaux, is unique in its double spiral stair case. The towers here have grown to great individual chateaux in themselves. To this same period belongs Fontainebleau, characterized by high gables, high pitched roofs, high chimneys, and rambling lines. In the Louvre, built by Lescot, we f i n d Italian Baroque influence. There is a free treatment of classical de-signs and a lavish use of sculptural f i g u r e s f o r decorative purposes. The church of Sarbonne is another exam-ple of seventeenth century baroque. The Gaston D'Orleans wing at Blois, built by Mansard, is perhaps the f i r s t example of the French Re-naissance. Here the architect has successfully blended engaged col-umns with engaged pilasters. (Continued On Page Four) The 1928-1929 catalogue has been published and is now avail-able at the Superintendent's of-fice. Several changes have been made in its contents. Plan Conference of College Men Faculty - Student Meeting At j Lynchburg Sponsored By State " Y ." Forrest D. Brown, student secre-1 t a r y under the state executive com-mittee of the Y. M. C. A., will go to Lynchburg to attend a faculty-stu-dent conference to be held at Lynch-burg College tomorrow, Saturday and Funday, at which about 150 men, representing the teaching and student forces of many Virginia institutions of higher learning will be present. The conference is sponsored by the State " Y , " the state student council and the Virginia clericus. The topic to be discussed from various angles will be, " R e l i g i o n in the Col-leges." Among the leaders will be Presi- (Continued On Page Eight) Ending the winter social season at V. M. I., Mid-winter hops were given in the new gym, Friday and Satur-day. The hops were a scene of much gaiety and were attended by many cadets and alumni. N i n e t y - f o u r Hall was decorated with black and white streamers, ar-tistically draped from the center. The lights were hung near the floor and were covered with silhouettes of various designs. In harmonw with other recorations, a black and white checker-board design was used as a background for the orchestra stand. The contrasting colors formed one of the most attractive decoration schemes ever used in the gym. The music f o r both nights and for the Saturday afternoon dansant was furnished by Bog Iula's orchestra of Baltimore. Using two pianos, the orchestra played excellent music and introduced all the latest hits. Many f a v o r a b l e comments were overheard r e g a r d i n g their work. John Marshall Cadets 4ttend Inauguration Young Cadets Wear V. M. I. Overcoats. The applause of the crowds and not the keeness of their state pride convinced Virginians in Washington on Monday that the Old Dominion made a better showing than any oth-er state in the inaugural parade. F r om one end of the avenue to the other, the V i r g i n i a contingents were received loudly and admiringly. They marched splendidly, they were smart-ly uniformed, and they were alto-gether defiant of the rain. W h i l e every one of the commands was cheered by the crowd, the cadets of John Marshall High school un-deniably made the strongest appeal. Through the kindness of the V. M. I., the Richmond lads were supplied with overcoats for the day, so that they were protected against the weather, even if the f i t of each coat might not have pleased a Richmond clothier. The capes of these over-coats, it will be remembered, are lined with red, and when they are turned back f o r marching, they give picturesque coloring to the g r a y of coat and cap. The boys marched, of course, superlatively well. They al-ways do that, but on Monday they were sharply conscious that the eyes of their commander-in-chief were up- (Continued On Paise Eight) New W. and L. Coach To Report May I Eugene G. Oberst, former lineman, at Notre Dame, will succeed J. P. Herron, Pittsburgh graduate, as head football coach at Washington and Lee University, the athletic council announced Saturday. The new coach will have until May 18, starting time of final examina-tions, to work with the 1929 eligible veterans and those coming up f r om the successful 1928 yearling eleven. Track Star Also. Oberst is from Owensboro, Ky., and is 27 years old. While a student |