VMI Cadet. May 11, 1931

              THE CADET
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
Vol. XXIV LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1931 No. 29
Cadet Raseballers Take Big Four Championship
Professor Rodman Speaks Summer School Begins On
To Members of First July 16th
& Second Classes
DISCUSSES SCIENTIFIC LIFE
OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
SESSION TO C O N T I N UE
THROUGH AUG. 27
The twenty-fourth session of the
V. M. I. Summer School will begin
Speaker Is Regional President Thursday, July 16th and end Thurs-
Of A . I. E. E. day, August 27, 1931.
The purpose of the School is two-
Last Thursday at 2 P. M. the First f0id;
and Second Class engineering sec- i. To prepare cadets for examina-tions
were addressed by Professor W. tions on topics on which they stand
S. Rodman of the University of Vir- deficient.
ginia on the subject, "Some Aspects 2. To prepare prospective cadets
of the Scientific Work of Thomas who have not the requisite entrance
Jefferson." In a wealth of detail units for entrance examinations on
Professor Rodman told of the many subjects not covered by acceptable
and varied accomplishments of this certificates of credit,
great Virginian. There are no military features con-
To give a brief resume of the talk, nected with the Summer School.
Mr. Jefferson was first of all an art- The Summer School, which is un-ist.
Monticello stands out today as der the direct management of the
an example of architecture designed
by him, and the original group of
buildings of the University of Vir-ginia
is his work almost entirely in
the design as well as in the actual
supervision of the construction. He
was something of a musician, and
was a talented performer on the
harpischord. He had a wide knowl-edge
of classical music, but preferred
to listen to folk songs and ballads
and the like.
As an engineer he had a theoretical
as well as practical knowledge. He
designed a theodilite which he used
himself in surveying his estate. He
was considered an authority in pure
mathematics and physics, having pub-lished
papers on those subjects which
Institute authorities, utilizes the bar-racks,
mess hall, academic and oth-er
buildings, equipment and facilities
of the Institute. There are ample
facilities for recreation. The instruc-tors
are members of the faculty of
the Institute and their number is suf-ficient
to give each student individual
instruction.
Instruction will be furnished in I
topics of the third and fourth classes,
namely: Mathematics, English, His-tory,
French, Spanish, German, Latin,
Physics, Surveying, and Chemistry.
Instruction in topics of the second
and first classes will be provided if
the number of students in these sub-jects
justifies it. Cadets may, how-ever,
provide, by special arrangement
Cavaliers and Tech Fall Before Cadets For Second Time This
Season.
Col. Moseley Delivers First
of Sculpture Series
DISCUSSES GREAT SPHINIX
AT GIZA
The first of Colonel Moseley's lec-tures
on sculpture, delivered in the
academic building last Tuesday night, by the score of three to two.
covered the early work of the Egyp-tians,
the Assyrians, and the Greeks.
The course will continue tomorrow
night with the Greek sculpture of
later periods, embracing many fa-mous
specimens which are familiar
to almost every layman.
The great Sphinx at Giza exerted
WILLIAM & MARY TAKES
SECOND VICTORY
William sand Mapp Hurl Mas-terful
Ball In Title Tilt.
In the last home game of the sea-son,
the Virginia Military Institute
nine clinched the Big Four Title by
defeating V. P. I. in a second r*ame
The
visitors showed a distinct reversal of
form over their playing of the same
afternoon earlier when W. & L. de-feated
them handily, and the game
on Alumni Field was closc and ex-citing
throughout, anybody's game
until the fly that ended the game.
The feature of the game was the
a strong influence on all Egyptian i a s t duel of Lefty Williams, cadet
architecture, and, besides discussing s t a r , and Reggie Mapp, Tech ace.
the Sphinx itself, Colonel Moseley T h e s e two, rivals of old, have faced
also took up a number of similar e a c h other on the mound a total of
monuments. In the smaller early ' eight times, two varsity games each
Egyptian statues, wood was often j y e a r and two rat games in twenty-j
the material used; rock crystal eyes eight. Out of these eight, Williams
were inserted for brilliancy. Gran- has won four and Mapp four. In
ite was not infrequently utilized, and Friday's game, Lefty held the upper
relief work was popular among h a n d . He struck out ten Techmen to
PERRY DRING
were read and accepted all over the with individual members of the Sum-world.
He was a prominent member
of all the scientific societies in Amer-ica
and most of those in Europe. He
founded the American Philosophical
Society.
He had a working knowledge of
mer School staff, for instruction in
advanced topics if there are no
classes in these subjects.
Final First Class Hop
To Be Held Sat.
PERRY DRING'S ORCHES-TRA
OF ATLANTIC CITY
TO PLAY
Egyptian artists, since it was one of
the nearest approaches to actual pic-turization
which they had.
Assyrians Lacked Stone.
As the Assyrians lacked stone, they
used a sort of brick work in their
relief. They were especially fond of
winged bulls and other imaginary
figures which bore the heads of their
rulers. Their statues were highly
conventional, and they took many of
Mapp's five, walked only two while
his rival donated four bases. Wil-liams
allowed three hits, while Reg-gie
was touched for four.
Like every V. M. I. and Tech ball
game of the last few years, the con-test
was close and the score small.
Last year a sixteen innings game
closed with Tech winning one to
nothing. They won the second game
two to one. This year the Institute
their characteristics from, the Egyp- d e f e a t e ( ] T e c h f . y e t o t h r e e a n d t h r e fi
tian.
The last First Class Hop of the
Greeks Were Versatile.
The early Greek sculpture, belong-
.„ , , , , „ , , • v. • ing to what is called the Archaic Pe-
A cadet will not be allowed to take year wrfl be held Saturday mght a, was b r o k e n into t h r ee
more than three subjects. Thus, a the Gym with Perry Dnng and his
prospective matriculate may earn one orchestra providing the music. As
many scientific subjects such as as- {and one-half entrance units, but no the custom was at the last dance, the
tronomy, hydrauliics, thermo-dy- more, during the six weeks of inten- whole Corps will be permitted to at-namics,
surveying, medicine and med- sive work. tend this dance. The dance will last
ical surgery, the slightly known The tuition fee of $40 for one sub- a s usual from 9 till midnight.
science of electricity, mining, chemis- ject, $75 for two subjects, and $100 This will be the first time that
try, etc. for three subjects covers the expense Dring's orchestra has played at a
Along cultural lines he was just as of six hours' instruction per week on dance at V. M. I., but he and his 11
apt. He could converse fluently on each subject. Board will be furnish-the
subjects of theology, philosophy, | ed by the V. M. I. Commissary De-ethics,
sociology, archeology, paleori- partment and the charge for board
tology, ethnology, biology, zoology, a n d quarters is $60 for the session
geography, psychology, and many j s' x weeks,
other branches of learning not even
known to many in name.
He made a special study of paleon-tology,
having a great collection of
fossil bones and remains. While he
was quick to accept the then modern
theories of evolution, he had the
somewhat queer hallucination that no
species of life on the globe could ever
become extinct. Hence he instructed a n d Mr- William F. Chalmers have
Lewis and Clark on their famous ex- d i e d w i t h i n the past few weeks. Dr.
pedition while he was President to Glazebrook, 87, United States
be on the watch for any of the mon- c o n s u l i n Palestine, died aboard the
ster animals whose bones he had in Belgenland en route to the United
artists come highly recommended,
Those who were fortunate to hear
his music at the dance at Washing-ton
and Lee Saturday night, know
that the musical end of the dance
will be on a par with that of the oth-er
dances of the year.
The past engagements of this or-chestra
include engagements at the
Elks Club in Brooklyn, the Atlantic
City Auditorium from where he has
. recently been broadcasting over WPG,
V. M. I. has recently lost two promi- a n d a l g 0 a t C o n v e n t 5 o n Hal l in the
nent alumni: Dr. O. A. Glazebrook
Two Prominent V. M .1
Richmonders Die
DR. O. A. GLAZEBROOK AND
W. F. CHALMERS PASS
arate and very distinct schools, the
Ionic, the Doric, and the Attic. The
Ionic artists specialized in seated
women; the Doric artists specialized
in nude men; the Attic, which be-longed
to a later period, was a hap-to
two.
In this last game, four of the five
tallies were results of wild pitches.
The fifth was earned by Nicholas'
single which turned to a triple driv-ing
in Palmer when Noble fell in the
wet field and passed the ball by.
For six innings the teams were
deadlocked. Each team secured one
hit in the first five frames and in
py blending of the other two. Among the sixth, both teams scored one run
the great names in the Archaic Pe- ^n wild pitches. Then in the seventh,
riod are Myron, creator of the Discus V. M. I. got the lead with two runs,
Thrower, Polyclitus, and Phidias, when Map weakened, walking Block-who
did most of the sculptural work er, and hitting Outten, and made a
on the Parthenon at Athens
Gen. Lejeune Speaks To
m« i f . 111 iNicnoias nuKe tnpie scored one ran
iVI e m b e r s OI r i r s t LI a s s and left a runner on third with their
wild pitch on which both men on
bases came in to score the winning
runs. In the eighth Tech threw a
scare into the Institute cohorts when
Nicholas' fluke triple scored one ran
DISCUSSES PHYSICAL, MEN-TAL
AND CHARACTER
SIDE OF MAN
his collection.
His ethnological
among the most complete of that
day, especially those of the Ameri-can
Indian. He had the idea that
entertainers of Charles Dornberger's
w, a l orchestra. He has some unique ideas
for comedy and entertaining num-bers,
all of which have helped to
States. According to The Richmond m a k e t h i g p a r t i c u U r o r c h e s t r a very
Gen. Lejeune had the members of
same city. Dring was formerly the t h e F h . s t c l a s g a s s e m b l e i n t h e a u d i_
banjo player and one of J h e feature | t o r i u m o f t h e n e w Engineering Build-studies
were N e w s Leader of April 27:
ing Saturday at 5th Class Parade
and spoke to them at some length.
He based his talk around the
three-sided make-up of a man, dis- the season and" was worthy°of being
side only one run behind. Williams
then struck out the next batter, clos-ing
the inning, and allowed no more
men to even reach first.
Captain Laughorn got two of the
four hits of the team, Noble and
Waite accounting for the others. For
Tech, Palmer starred with two sin-gles
and Nicholas got the only other
hit of his side.
It was one of the best games of
'The Rev. Otis A. Glazebroow,
word of whose death at sea was re-ceived
here today, was a member of
the derivation and descent of the dif- a n o l d Richmond family. He was a
different from the others.
Everyone is urged to get in touch
.vith those of the fairer sex and have
them up for the dance.
cussing spearately the three sides of t h e f i n i s h i n g h o m e contest,
the human triangle: the physical
side, the mental side and the charac-ter
side.
The box score and summary:
V. P. I.
AB. R. H. PO. A.
ferent tribes could best be determined
through a study of their languages,
and to this end he devoted
time. He had gathered together a
group of translations and discussions
of the various tongues to be ship-ped
from the White House to Char
FINAL ISSUE
Finals Issue of THE CADET will
native of this city, and, as a minis-ter
of the Episcopal denomination,
much had some years ago served as chap- be out the morning of June 11
lain at the University of Virginia.
He was twice married. His first
wife was a daughter of the late
General F. H. Smith, superintendent
lottesville. On the passage a gang °f the Virginia Military Institute, it
of ruffians who thought they must w a s s t a t e d today by relatives here."
be some valuable treasure because In speaking of the death of Mr.
they were so well guarded, opened Chalmers, The Richmond Times Dis-the
crates. On discovering what they Pa t c h says:
were they were so disappointed and "Williams Chalmers attended V. M.
angered that they threw the whole l - w h e r e h e graduated a n d later was
bunch into the water, and thus some a student at the University of Vir-probably
valuable treatises were lost *inia. In his young manhood he was
to Science connected with various business in-
He managed his large farm on an terests in this city, and for several
efficiency basis that would astound y e a r s b e f o r e h i s retirement on ac-a
present-day efficiency expert. For c o u n t ° f »» healt*> he had been in the
years he kept a complete record of
crops, weather conditions, labor,
farm output, and other things which
go to make up a complete agricultur-al
record. He invented a plow that Commonwealth Club and the Country
(Continued on p«c. Ei«ht.) ! Club of Virginia."
employ of the U. S. internal revenue
department, both in Richmond and
at Jacksonville, Fla.
He was a former member of the
ROOMS FOR FINALS
Realizing the confusion which
the Washington and Lee and V.
M. I. Finals will cause this year
by virtue of being on parallel
dates, Miss Mayree Hotinger, sec-retary
of the local Chamber of
Commerce, has compiled a list of
available lodgings in Lexington
and vicinity. The Chamber of
Commerce is anxious to provide
all parents and friends of Key-dets
and Minks who will be here
for Finals with as much comfort
as possible and has taken this
means to be of service. Anyone
desiring information should call
at the Chamber of Commerce at
the Robert E. Lee hotel, Lexing-ton.
He advised the members of the
class to keep in good physical condi-tion
after leaving the Institute, and
not to let down in the regularity of
the life that they have lived here.
He stated that all the class were in
as good physical condition as they
would ever be and admonished them
to keep that way.
In discussing the mental side, Gen-
Lejeune told the class that they were
just beginning to study when they
went out into the world on their onw,
as their work here and in prepara-tory
school had just been a means of
teaching them how to study. In
treating the character side of a man's
life, he said that V. M. I. had always
turned out men with strong charac-ters
and that wherever he went, he
always found graduates who were
leaders in their community life.
In closing, the General extended
Bibb, 2b 2 0 0 2 1
Palmer, rf 4 2 2 0
Nicholas, ss ... 4 0 1 3 0
Barnard, If 4 0 0 2 0
Fisher, lb 3 0 0 7 0
Fleiss, c 1 0 0 1 0
Hagerty, c 3 0 0 4 1
A'baugh, 3b 3 0 0 2 0
Mapp, p 3 0 0 0 7
Anderson, cf ... 4 0 0 1 e
Totals 31 2 3 24 9
V. M. I.
AB. R. H. PO. A.
Outten, cf 3 1 0 0 0
Laughorn, ss .... 4 0 2 2 1
Waite, If 3 0 1 1 0
Williams, p 2 0 0 1 2
Edmunds, 2b 4 0 0 1 2
Britton, 3b . 3 0 0 0 4
Cutchin, lb 3 0 0 9 0
Blocker, c 2 1 0 10 0
A. Noble, rf 3 1 l 3 0
Totals 27 3 4 27 9
Score by innings: R.
V. P. I.
V. M. I.
Summary:
000 001 010—2
000 001 20x—3
Errors—Bibb, Hagerty,
his best wishes for the members in Laughorn, Britton, Cutchin. Three-their
work and asked the men upon base hit — Nicholas. Sacrifices—
returning to the Institute to always Williams Struck out—By
Williams, 10; by Mapp, 5. Bases on
— come to see him and write to him. (Continued on Pa g e Eight . )