VMI Cadet. December 1, 1908

              THE CADET
VIR( INIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1908 NO. 10
MARSHALL-LEWIS
Wedding of Miss Lewis and
Captain Marshall Solem-nized
on Wednesday
A very pretty wedding took
place in the R. E. Lee Memorial
church on Wednesday, Nov. 25,
when Miss Marie Stuart Lewis
became the bride of Captain St.
Julian Ravenel Marshall. The
bride is the daughter of Mrs.
John Rodman Coxe Lewis of
Lexington,, and is related to
many prominent Virginia fami-lies.
Captain Marshall is the ad-jutant
at V. M. L His family
is well known m this state.
The church was decorated with
palms and lighted by numerous
candles. At 6 o'clock the notes
of the Lohengrin march, render-ed
by iv^iss Janie Miller, pealed
forth, and the bridal party enter-ed
the church, the bride leaning
on the arm of her brother, Mr.
Laurence F. Lewis of Richmond.
She was met at the altar by Cap-tain
Marshall, who was attended
by his father, Captain Richard
C. Marshall of Portsmouth. The
ceremony was impressively per-formed
by Rev. W. Cosby Bell.
The bride wore a princess
gown of chiffon voile, trimmed
with Irish point lace. She wore
the same jewels that had adorn-ed
her mother as a bride. The
maid of honor was Miss Mabel
Eleanor Boyer of Baltimore, who
was attired in an empire gown of
pink point d'esprit over silk. She
carried pink carnations.
The groomsmen. Captain Rich-ard
C. Marshall, Jr., U. S. C. A.
C., Colonel Thomas A. Jones,
Captain Richard B. Burroughs,
and Captain Murray F. Edwardf-.
of the V. M. L, with the groom,
wore full uniform and side arms.
The other attenclants were
Messrs. Cary R. Wilson and
Duvall W. Gwathmey of Norfolk,
Mr. Rosser Coke of Dallas, Tex.,
and Mr. Robinson Wycross of
Wycross, Ga.
The body of the church was filled
with friends of bride and groom
among whom was the corps
of cadets. After the ceremony
a reception was tendered the
members of the bridal [)arty by i
the bride's mother. Later Mr. |
and Mi's, Marshall loft for an j
extended trip in the North.
Among the visitors present at |
thi? Marshall-Lewis wedding
were: Mrs. Rankins of Kansas
City; Miss Margaret Roller of
Fort Defiance, Va., Miss Maggie
Belle Roller of Harrisonburg,
THANKSGIVING HOPS
A Large Number of Girls Ex-pected
ESPRIT DU CORPS
(Continued from last week.)
Vanderhart drove his car
down the road behind the corps
which was marching cheerfully, r^^^ Thanksgiving Hops will
as one man, towards the mess- be held on December 4th and 5th.
hall. His eyes lighted with j A large number of "calics" are
pride as the companies, in col-1 expected from Lynchburg, Roa-umn
ooft sscqiuuaaddss,, sswwuunngg around Richmond and the neigh-the
corner, mounted the steps
and vanished into the wide door-way.
When the last man had
disappeared, he ran his machine
out of the road into the jri'ass
and after killing the engines,
sauntered around the corner to
the rear of the building where! hops,
his friends were awaiting him. i —^
They loafed through supper
and the time flew very swiftly as
tliey dove deep into the memo-ries
of their cadet days. Finally
McCurdy voiced the opinion of
the other subs.
"The corps is degenerating
year by year," he said, "The
cadets are younger and more
pampered than when we were
here, and they do not seem to ^
have the same spirit." .
' 'Now Mac,'' Van remonstrat-1
ed, "do you not think that you j
lack the perspective that gives a i
clear view
"No!" the Irishman eried i McCurdy had his quarters.
boring female colleges. Every-thing
points to unusually good
dancers. We wish to thank
W. & L. for their invitation to
»heir Thanksgiving dances. The
Frist Class will attend the one on
Tuesday night. We also extend
to the Washington & Lee stu-dents
a cordial invitation to our
the others followed suit. "You
will stay with me, won't you?"
"Sure!" cried Van, "My suit
case is in the tonneau and I'll
throw it out at your quarters. By
the way, I wonder where I can
stow away my machine ?"
They were out of doors now
and McCurdy stumbled in the
dark and swore explosively be-fore
he answered. ' 'The cannon
shed will do, won't it ?"
"Yes, fine. Jump in." He
cranked the engines and taking
the driver's seat drove up to the
Administration Building in which
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doggedly, " i t ' s true as I say, thej
cadets seem to have lost the|
pride which we had to such aj
marked degree. They are molly-coddles,
everyone of them."
"You are wrong. Fellows
may change but the pride of the
corps is like House Mountain,
it's part of the scenery. Say
what you will, it will stay with
this old Institute as long as
House Mountain stays over there
in the West to shield the eyes of
i the corps at Battalion Parade."
"Who was i t , " asked Payne,
"told us when we were rats
that "Old Billy" had had House
Mountain placed there for the
shade it threw on the parade
grounds ?"
"Lord knows," grinned Van,
"but it sounds like one of Joe
Pennington's yarns."
They all laughed and Mc-
Curdy looked at his watch.
"By Jove!" he exclaimed,
"it's eight o'clock and the mill is
pulled off at 8:30. We've got to
hustle."
"There's no hurry. I can put
you at the Opera House in five
I minutes."
! "That's all right for you Van,
• but we have to put on 'cits'
clothes." McCurdy arose and
As Payne was leaving, Vander-hart
called, "Meet us at the
front sally port [in twenty
minutes."
Payne stopped and swore. "I
am sorry. Van, but I am on duty
and can't leave barracks."
" 0 the devil!" Van grunted
dismally, "can't you cut the duty
for tonight ?"
"No. We're not cadets now
and duty doesn't consist merely
in not being caught."
" I 'm sorry Fuzzy, but can't
you possibly "
"Not tonight Van. So long."
And so it happened when at 8:30,
the Mercedes drew up in front of
Opera House; only two men leap-ed
out and getting their tickets,
were soon seated before the stage
where they joined the impatient
crowd in a vigorous demonstra-tion
of whistling and stamping
to shop that they were ready for
the show.
Now the opera house in this
Presbyterian cemetery is a wick-ed
and soul-destroying agency,
condenmed by all good citizens
and patronized only by reprobates
and back-sliders. Therefore
there is no reason why it should
not be tawdy and close, with the
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FORMER CADETS OF
V. M. 1. TALK OF
OLD DAYS
The organization of the Alum-ni
of the Virginia Military Insti-tute
took place last night at a
smoker held at the Lorraine hotel
at which were present matricu-lates
from 1849 until 1907, and
the speakers of the old school
grew reminiscent and told of the
days when the V. M. 1. had no
chef as it boasts of today, but
were hapyy in the thought that
old Jam, the cook, stood always
ready with the substantial dishes
of pre-construction days, with al
the new-fangled embellishments
left off.
The occasion was in compli-ment
to General E. W. Nichols,
superintendent of the V. M. L,
who is in Norfolk on a brief visit.
The smoker was tendered by the
graduates and former cadets of
the school.
The following officers were
elected: Colonel George W. Tay-lor,
president; Capt. P. E. Yeat-man,
vice-president; John Jen-kins,
treasurer, and I- Branch
Johnson, secretary. Mr. John-son
was not able to be present,
having been called out of the
city. Upon his return a meeting
will be called of the officers when
plans will be laid for regular
meetings of the alumni.
Colonel George W. Taylor was
toastmaster. In introducing Gen-eral
Nichols he paid him a glow-ing
tribute for his work since his
term of office began: and re-sponding,
General Nichols de-clared
that there was nothing too
hard, nor no task too great for
him to undertake for old V. M. I.
He told of the many improve-ments
which had been made at
the school in the past few years
and some of the things he hoped
to accnmplish in the future. -
Dr. Robert Gatewood, the old-est
Norfolk alumnus of the col-lege,
was called on and spoke of
conditions in his time and now.
He compared the life of a cadet in
1898 to to the period of 1849,
when he was graduated from the
Institute, and said in those days
the cadets made their own fires,
cleaned and maintained their own
lamp, to say nothing of pumping
the water from the old wells and
carrying it up four fights of
stairs preliminary to the morning
bath.
One of the survivors of the
famous battle of New Market,
where many cadets of the Insti-
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