VMI Cadet. March 16, 1931

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Vol. XXIV LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931 No. 21
Rise and Development
of Christian Forms
COL. MOSELEY CONTINUES
INTERESTING SERIES
OF LECTURES
Rifle Team Victorious
in Matchjit V.P.I.
WINNER DESPITE ONE OF
YEAR'S LOWEST SCORES
Having reached the point at which
the Christian churches began to ex-ert
a strong influence on the history
of architecture, Colonel Moseley dis-cussed
the rise and development of
the Christian forms in the academic
building last Tuesday night. Next
Tuesday he will continue the series
with a lecture on Byzantine archi-tecture,
and the great church of
Santa Sophia will be his first exam-ple.
After he has completed the ar-chitecture
group of his lectures, Col-onel
Moseley will take up painting,
sculpture, and the minor arts.
The great outburst of Christian
building came in about 313; before
this time the Christians had been
forced to confine their religious ac-tivities
to the catacombs and other
secluded places. Their early church-es
were basilican; they were not
only places of worship, but places of
meeting, trading, and general busi-ness.
They were modeled after the
general form of the Roman house,
having a central nave croresponding
to the atriums, the apses correspond-ing
to the Roman family altars, side
aisles, and vestibules.
In the early Christian church the
Roman triumphal arch motif was
used extensively for separating the
apse or chancel from the nave. Mos-aic
work often appeared on the floor,
and the roof of the nave was always
higher than that of the side aisles.
Colonel Moseley discussed the
Christian churches in three general
divisions: West, Central, and East.
Among the basilicas of the West, of
which the best are in Rome, Santa
Maria, Santa Agnese and several oth-ers
were discussed and illustrated. In
some of these churches which con-tained
many columns, no two of the
columns are similar. They were col-lected
from many places—some of
those in the church of Santa Sabina
are thought to have been taken from
the Roman Forum. San Paolo is the
most perfect of the West basilicas.
It was burned in 1823 and rebuilt in
1870. Although comparatively mod-ern,
it retains the best features of
the original church.
The church of Santo Stefano in
Rome is one of the best of the Cen-tral
basilicas. It was built in circu-lar
form around a vertical axle.
These circular churches became un-popular
because it was impossible
for the whole congregation to see the
service. The Tomb of Theodoric,
Ravenna, which was used as a
church, has a circular roof of one
great slab of stone, and it is often
wondered how this slab was hoisted
into place.
Tourmanin, of the sixth century, is
the most interesting of the East ba-silicas.
Its central unit is octagonal,
and four main apses radiate from
this octagon. Each apse is a com-plete
piece of work in itself. Chaqqa
and Kalb Louzen are also prominent
members of the East group.
The V. M. I. Rifle team returned
Saturday night from Blacksburg, Va.,
where they added another victorious
match to their credit by defeating
the Rifle team of the V. P. I. The
opposing team was handicapped by
the fact that two of her best men
failed to show up for the match; but,
at that, they were defeated by one of
the lowest scores fired by the V. M.
I. team this year. The results of the
shoulder to shoulder match are given
below; only the first five men in the
V. M. I. lists were considered in de-termining
the winner:
V. M. I. Scores.
P. K. S. T.
McGee 99 89 79 267
Moody 96 93 78 267
Patterson 98 89 77 264
Fitzgerald 96 92 76 264
Johns 98 93 73 264
Wallace 97 91 75 263
Dingman 97 88 77 262
Carter 92 82 82 256
Richmond V.M.L Club
Announces Officers
BOARD AND SPECIAL COM-MITTEES
APPOINTED
Fencers Lose Season's
First Match
Totals 487 456 383 1326
V. P. I. Scores.
P. K. S. T.
Clark 99 86 82 267
Maddox 93 93 74 260
Davis, J. E 97 87 73 259
Davis, J. L 94 92 68 254
Davis, T. B 94 89 60 243
Totals 477 477 359 1283
Brooke, '00, Is New President.
George D. Brooke, '00, new presi-,
dent of the V. M. I. club of Rich-mond,
has announced the personnel j
of the board of governors and spe-cial
committees of that club for
1931. The board of governors will
consist of the president; James C.
Anthony, '25, vice-president; Ken-neth
M. Adelstein, '20, secretary-treasurer,
and the following commit-tees:
Finance—Thomas G. Tate, '77, j
chairman; R. B. Allport, '04, Benja-j
min F. Morgan, '21.
Athletics— Tazewell Ellett, '06,;
chairman; W. Leigh Carneal, '03; T.
W. Wilmer, '14; Edward B. Byder,
'24, and J. Shepherd Mondy, '28.
Entertainment—Randolph G. Nor-man,
'22, chairman; R. Turner Ar-rington,
'21; Valentine W. Southall,
'23; Barbour N. Thornton, '23; Wil-liam
R. Noble, '26, and H. Bright
Keck, piannst.
Membership and attendance—Ber-nard
W. Marchant, '19, chairman; S.
J. Hurt, '97; Frank L. Montague, '20;
ERN CONFERENCE
MEET
Byrd Presents History
of Polar Flight
TEAM INVITED TO SOUTH- TALK MADE MORE INTER-ESTING
BY PICTURES
Col. Dixon Speaks to
Fortnightly Club
R E V I E W S INTERESTING
TALK TENDENCIES OF
MODERN NOVEL
Last week the Fortnightly Club of
Lexington held another of its inter-esting
meetings, and at this meeting
Colonel Dixon of the V. M. I. Facul-ty
spoke on the subject "Some Ten-dencies
in Modern Literature," in
which he went into detail concerning
the different styles of modern au-thors.
Colonel Dixon heads the Eng-lish
Department at V. M. I. and was
thoroughly capable of rendering an
interesting as well as an educational
talk.
This Club is composed of members
of the Faculties of V. M. I. and Wash-ington
and Lee along with some citi-zens
of Lexington, there are twenty-five
members and the meetings are
so arranged that each member pre-sents
a topic in turn and the mem-bership
is covered once every two
years.
In his talk Colonel Dixon devoted
most of his attention to the theater
and the novel discussing modern-day
tendencies in each of these.
The V. M. I. Fencing club has
been invited to participate in the
First Southern Fencing Tourna-ment
at Chapel Hill on March 27
and 28. This tournament is un-der
the auspices of the Univer-sity
of North Carolina and it will
probably decide whether or not
Fencing will become a recog-nized
sport in the Southern Con-ference
next year. The V. M. I.
team holds decisions over two of
the teams entered and if sent to
the tournament will have an ex-cellent
chance to win the First
Southern Intercollegiate Fenc-ing
Championship.
North Carolina took the Keydet
Fencers into camp to the tune of 5-4
in the closest and best match of the
season. Unusual skill was exhibited on
both sides and the outcome was
doubtful until the last touch. Hinkey
Hendlin, winner of the Clements
Medal for Fencing and captain of the
Carolina team lead the Tarheels with
three victories in as many bouts.
W. H. Lockey, '21; Rutherford Fleet, However, his last bout with Allen,
'30.
Publicity—J. Stuart White, '29,
chairman; William F. Reynolds, '21;
John R. Barksdale, '24.
The special committees for the year
are as follows:
Speakers—Henry G. Shirley, '96,
About thirty members of the First
and Second Classes took advantage
of the permit to hear Admiral Rich-ard
Evelyn Byrd speak in Lynchburg
on Saturday night. The Admiral
made a few brief introductory re-marks
concerning the Byrd Antarctic
Expedition and then with the aid of
motion pictures proceeded to tell the
complete history of his flight over
the South Polar regions.
The course which the party follow-ed
to attain their base, "Little Amer-ica,"
was illustrated by animated
maps and at the same time Byrd
took the opportunity to tell of some
of the preliminary preparations for
the journey. He described briefly
his two ships and told of the condi-tions
which these ships would have
to withstand in the Antarctic.
His contrast of the North and
South Polar regions, augmented by
the pictures proved interesting in
that the Southernmost point of the
earth is much colder than the north-ern
and is in the center of a vast
frozen continent while the North Pole
is in the midst of an Arctic Ocean.
The leader of the expedition spoke
at some length concerning the men
who accompanied him and the praises
which was the deciding bout, proved
to be a classic. Undoubtedly some
of the most skillful fencing ever seen
i.n .S.o. ut,h ern. C, o. ll,eges was displayed. , , . . . . . in this bout which THT end„l.i n won af*t er Io f the m.e mbers o. f ,t he party" fr. om its commander created quite an impres-sion
upon his hearers.
When the ships of the expedition
the score see-sawed up to 4-3.
Moody dropped his first bout to
chairman; W. J. Harahan, Jere Bax- Dig Wardlan in an uneventful fight.I. . ^
it.e r, 04; „M aj.o r „G . W. C- . tWtt^h-ixt-i ng, tHt end-»l•i n puliil edi severali *tr i•c ki s ourt of t.o, uch„e d the ice ,p, ack .w h•ic h, surrounds ,'0n6a ; A. . F. R' yl, and,, ',9„7 ; C„ o,l onel. J_o -1 h, i. s b, ag, *a nd, t,,h at, , wi.t.h. except,i. onal„l y 't, he , R»o ss sea all mater.ia,,l s ,w ere u,n. -
seph Button, Beverley C. LT ewi.s,, . 0„2;! , fast. movement., gave h, i.m a qui.c kf 'loaded as soon as possible to enable
T. Croxton Gordon, '04; B. B. Mor- 5-0 decision over Stirni and enabled
gan, '93. him to beat Moody 5-2. Stirni drop-
New Cadets—James C. Anthony, ped his second bout to Fred Wardan
'25, chairman; J. DeWitt Hankins, 5-1. Manning, substituting for
'23; John G. Folkes, '26; S. H. Frank-1 Stirni in his last bout, defeated D.
lin, '28; J. H. B. Peay, '29; J. S. Mon- Wardlan 5-2. Manning showed up
dy, '28; T. P. Mathewson, '27; W. C.! exceedingly well in this bout. Allen
defeated D. Wardlan 5-4 in a close
bout and then eased up in winning
Cowardin, '29; E. L. Fox, '30; T. P.
Thomas, '29; W. W. Smith, '26; M. T.
Talman, '29.
Dance—John G. Folkes, '26, chair-man;
Cornelius C. Chapin, '16; Wil-liam
E. Chapin, '17; Clarence W.
Huff, '22; James G. Reid, '23; W.
Brandford Ryland, '24; J. H. B. Peay,
'29.
Football program—Benjamin F.
Morgan, '21, chairman; J. Stuart
White, '29; Thomas W. Wilmer, '14;
Frederick P. Wilmer, '21; Horace H.
Munson, '20; Warner Moore, Jr., '14;
Llewellyn Neal, '17; Charles M.
Terry, '21.
Chaplains—Rev. Giles B. Palmer,
'00; Dr. Churchill J. Gibson, Rev.
William W. Brander, '87.
the ships to escape the winter freez-jing.
A base was established on the
| ice and the men prepared for the long
night before a dash to the pole could
be attempted.
At this stage the most impression-able
phase of the entire expedition
was brought to light, the thorough-ness
with which the thousand-and-from
Fred Wardlan 5-2. Moody eas- j o n e d e t a i l s of t h e undertaking had
ily won his last bout 5-1. |b e e n t a k e n c a r e of- Nothing was
I spared in the effort to give the men
every possible comfort consistent
Allen and Manning showed im-provement
in this match and Moody,
although off form in his first bout,
showed his old skill at the last. With
this added experience the team is
likely to prove more than a match
for most college teams.
War Department Pic-tures
Shown at V.M.I.
PRESENTED-AS PART OF
DISTRICT MEETING R. O.
ASSOCIATION
Tonight under the auspices of the
Reserve Officers' Association of this
district of Virginia the films "De-ployment
of a Division for Attack"
and "Life of O'Riley" were shown in
the Jackson Memorial Hall at V. M.
I. through the courtesy of the War
Department. Members of the Asso-ciation
throughout this section were
invited; and many of these along
with members of the V. M. I. Faculty
were present. This is the second
time this year that instructional pic-tures
of this type have been present-ed
for the benefit of the cadets.
Clerk: Can I help you, sir?
Shoplifter: No, thanks, I'm getting
along quite well.
V.M.I.Be Represented
At Wrestling Meet
TALMAN, DEWEY, WILL TO
GO TO NATIONALS AT
PROVIDENCE
LEARY ELECTED CAPTAIN
OF RAT WRESTLING
TEAM
"Can you use a typewriter?"
"Yes, sir, I use the Biblical sys-tem."
"I never heard of it."
"Seek and ye shall find."
Jack Leary, of Richmond, Virginia,
was unanimously elected captain of
the "Rat" Wrestling team. Leary
had a very successful season, win-ning
every one of his six matches
during the season. He wrestled in
the 165 pound class. At the U. of
N. C. he wrestled their star and cap-tain,
winning easily without having
a second of time against him.
The team had a most impressive
record this season, winning five out
of the six meets. Besides having in-dividual
stars the team was excellent-ly
balanced.
E. R. Venable had a perfect season
throwing every man he met in the
135 pound class. He is following the
footsteps of his brothers who were
here several years ago.
The following men were awarded
numerals in wrestling: Neidengard,
Heine, Venable, McCallum, Tillett,
Leary, Dorrier,. Clopton and Straub.
Foltz was chosen manager for next
year to succeed Rufus Fort.
CORPS ESCORT FOR
HOOVER?
From an Associated Press dis-patch
printed in Sunday papers,
we learn that City Manager
Truxton of Norfolk has suggested
that the Corps be invited to act as
an escort for President Hoover
when he leads the annual pilgrim-age
to Cape Henry on April 26.
Manager Truxton and many other
V. M. I. Alumni of Norfolk are
greatly in favor of this and are
now making plans to secure the
invitation of the Corps. They be-lieve
such a thing to be very ap-propriate
in view of previous dem-onstrations
by the school at presi-dential
inaugural ceremonies and
the like. The extent of Truxton's
plans and the probability of their
adoption are not yet known. We
should hear more developments
within a few weeks.
V. M. I. will be represented by
three men at the National Wrestling
Tournament this year to be held at
Brown University, Providence, Rhode
Island. This is a tournament not
for teams, but for individual cham-pionships
only. The Tournament is
to be held March 28 and 29. Tal-man,
Will, and Dewey, accompanied
with the capacity of the expedition
to provide for. On the other hand
nothing was taken that was not ab-solutely
essential. Safety was the
first consideration and to obtain this
end every source of knowledge and
supplies in the world was combed.
The result was the most elaborate
and yet the most efficient organiza-tion
of its kind ever formed.
During the long dark winter
months the men were kept busy pre-paring
for the work that was before
them. The safeguarding of the three
airplanes was one of the principal
tasks, the caring for the eighty Eski-mo
dogs was another, the making of
sleds and skiis occupied some, and
the routine camp duties kept the
whole outfit busy.
When the Spring came a party was
sent overland with supplies to estab-lish
a base nearer the pole. Later,
Byrd, with three companions, made
the eighteen hour flight to the pole
and returned safely after picking up
the supplies.
While the Antarctic Expedition
by Coach Pete Hesmer, will attend.
Talman and Will were Southern Con-ference
champions of last year and
Dewey is undefeated this year.
Only the men invited may attend ; w a s i n t h e first sense an adventure
j the tournament and only the out- j t h e m a s s of scientific data which the
; standing men of each section are in- Pal'ty obtained is invaluable. Most
Ivited. Twelve men from the South-; important of this is the geological
I ern Conference have been invited and a n d topographical knowledge. Byrd
! winners and runners-up in the fol- j outlined the Antarctic Continent, dis-
; lowing conferences, Big Ten, Big Six, covered two new mountain ranges,
Missouri Valley Conference, Rocky a n d claimed for the United States, a
Mountain Conference, Pacific Coast | frozen area of nearly ten thousand,
Conference, and Eastern Intercolleg-. s (Ju a r e m i l e s -
iate Conference. — —
Hard training and excellent coach- j FIRST CLASS H O P ,
; ing has given this year's team an ex- j The last First Class Hop of the
cellent record. The three men going year will be held on the night of
to Providence should bring credit to March 28. Athletic events in the
j themselves and to V. M. I.
i Coach Hesmer will also attend the
; second annual meeting of the .N*
' tional Wrestling Coaches'
afternoon will bring a larger num-ber
to the Dance. As in the rest of
the dances this year, the music will
A*™™ be fur n i s ,»ed by an outstanding or-
.. . , . . . . .. . *™a - ! c h e s t r a . This time it will be Jelly
tion to be held coincident with the | L eftwich and his Duke University
tournament. ] boys, who played here for Openings,