VMI Cadet. March 11, 1929

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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
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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-
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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.
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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-
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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-
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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