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THE CADET V . i VMt / l ^ ' T H E CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY VOL. xxyi LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA MONDAY, SEPT. 19, 1932 No. 1 First Class Elects,nstitute A n d Grounds Undergo Improvements During Summer Vice-President; H.C. Members WYTHE HOLT PROMOTED TO VICE-PRESIDENT POSITION .Stonewall Jackson Statue Re-moved From Mound. New Faculty Mem-bers Greet Corps Upon Return Class Gives Commandant Vote of Confidence. Quite a few improvements were made in the grounds of the Insti-tute during the past summer while the Corps was away. Probably the most noticeable of these is the Members of the First Class change that has been made in the convened on Wednesday night, position of the Jackson statue. September 7, for the purpose of When the Parade Ground was electing a new Vice-President and graded to its present level, this two members of the Honor Court, statue was left on a mound com- The loss of Louis Siegel, the Vice- posed of part of the original Par- President of the past three years, ade Ground. However this was en- Several Given Leave Graduate Study. For General Lejeune Greets!Colonel Magruder Assumes Old Cadets At In- Command Of Corps Of Cadets stitute Hour I NEW COMMANDANT WAS FIRST JACKSON HOPE 465 Old Cadets Form Larg-est Old Cadet Corps. MEDALIST IN CLASS OF '09 All four departments of instruc-tions have made changes in their faculty this year. Some of the new members are familiar to the Corps and some are not. All of ! t o o k t h i s opportunity to greet of-the men have been connected with On the morning of Saturday, | September 3rd, during the fifth C. P., the first Institute Hour of the year was held in the Jackson Memorial Hall. General Lejeune the Institute as Cadets and some of them have been instructors be-fore this year. Major J. A. Mitchell, who until last year was an instructor in through academic difficulties nec- tirely out of keeping with the de- Spanish, has returned from grad-essitated the election of a new j sign of the statue and the setting uate work to take the position of vice-president. The meeting was proposed by the sculptor. During. Assistant Professor of English, the second held this year, the first last summer this mistake was rec- Major Mitchell has also resumed being held the latter part of the tified by moving the monument j his duties as Executive Officer. preceeding week for the purpose about twenty-five feet forward Captain P. E. Caldwell graduat- i inasmuch as the fact that" they of presenting the necessity of the and removing the mound, a job ed with the Class of '26 and be-. had successfully completed the election to the members of the which was far from easy, since c a m e a sub-professor for two f i r s t three years proved they class and so as to allow them time the latter was almost solid rock. y e a r s . He was distinguished in should naturally have ability to to consider the men most quail- An interesting sidelight is the fact athletics while at the Institute g e t through the last, the First ficially all old cadets on their re-turn from the summer furlough. General Lejeune extended his wishes for a very successful year, especially emphasizing his desire that all First Classmen do their utmost, both academically and for the betterment of V. M. I. He stat-ed that all men able to reach the senior year were most certainly capable of attaining the diploma fied to fill the positions. that while blasting away the trou- and was Rat coach following grad- Little time was lost at the be- j blesome mound, a sealed copper uation. He studied at W. and L. ginning of the session in remov- box was disclosed when a concrete while teaching at the Institute ing Wythe Holt from the office of block was blown in pieces. This and received his master's degree. Historian so that he might be al-; proved to be the corner stone box The past few years he has been TO THE PARENTS The first issue of THE CA-DET has been mailed to each of you in the hope that you will see in the publication something which will-cause you to give the Business Manager permission to include you on the mailing list for the complete volume of thirty issues. THE CADET hopes that the parents of the Cadets will be interested1 enough in the acti-vities and actions of The Corps to want every issue of the Ca-det sent to them personally. THE CADET staff feels that it will produce a weekly which will contain news of interest and it takes this means of ask-ing for your support. A sub-scription blank is enclosed for your convenience. Send in your subscription at once. dency and shortly after this ac- which was originally tion he was selected and his se- where the Jackson statue stood. Here On Class year. So, he stated, their j graduation one hundred percent depended solely on the persever-ance of the individual, j General Lejeune stated that Monument teaching at a prep school in Ken- this vear was significant in the n , ~ ~T—7" f situated tu;ky, and last year he studied at history of the Institute in that it 1 ° p U l a r of t ti Virginia on his Doctor's degree. marked the largest enrollment of1 lection made unanimous. In recog- Another improvement of the Captain H. E. Fisher, Captain old cadets ever experienced. There j Every year the long discussion mtion of his v a l u a ^ e service to p a s t s u m m € r is t h e n e w fencing j, D- Neikirk and Captain G. S. are incidentally, four hundred and comes up as to whether the hops the class of 33 and because ot the r o o m i n t h e s o u t h - e a s t corner of Turner are the contributions of1 sixty-three old cadets who have are worth the time and money deep admiration which his brother t h e third floor of Ninety-Four the Class of '32 to the Academic returned, which number increases spent on them—but just ask a rats hold for him, Louis Siegel was H a l l - T h i s r o o m w a s equipped with s t a f f > Fisher was Captain of by two the record-holding figure member of the first class, who has made honorary vice-president. a n e w hard wood - - - Following the selection of the a n ( j o t h e r fittings. The Served As Military Attache At Pekin. Colonel John Magruder assumed the command of the Corps of Ca-dets on August 1, after his trans-fer from Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He relieves Colonel R. S. Dodson who completed his period of five years duty at V. M. I. on August 1. Colonel Magruder was born at Woodstock, Va., June 3, 1887. His father, Major William Magruder, was a cadet at the Institute for four months before he joined the Confederate Army. While at the Institute, Colonel Magruder was one of the leaders of his class. He matriculated on Sept. 1, 1905, and was assigned to Co. A. At Finals he took first stand in a class of 92. While a 3rd classman he was third ranking corporal, and again took first stand in his class. During his se-cond class year he was second ranking first sergeant, then in D. lit 1117 i i * Weede-Mf yer Tl o nril ay 17 Co. For the third time he ranked, Yor scholastic^, at the head of his A • . T| class. Colonel Magruder graduat- Upening llOpS ed June 23, 1909, with a degree of B. S. in Civil Engineering. He was second captain, in command of D Co., and first Jackson Hope med-alist. During his cadetship he was also Associate Editor of the Cadet, Associate Editor of the Bomb, member of the Press Club, Vice President of the Cotillion Club, . new ™od floor, lockers, Company A last year, and7s now , oi last year. General "Lejeune seen many of them, i f ' t h e y are 1 a n ^ ° i n t m 1 a Q n l n ° f H ° ™ r "" fencers j teaching in the Mathematics De- showed that this was indicative of not just about the best dances T°" 1<nn ' vice-president, Joe Lea was elected n o w have one of the brightest as p a r tme n t . Neikirk wwaass Captain ; a higher standard of scholastics | that one can find from the Cocoa- (Continued on «»«) iwe^-Ss the best arranged of thp ^ Company F nn.\ is inst-uct.ino- f*v 1» } yAr, ££ •/reater detwmin-l o w :«r *w»»8 the Uym. n the Spanish Department. He atioi' of the itP*j:-dual, of greater A six-foot walk of granolithic was Editor of the '32 BOMB. Tur- concentration, .-m a more serious composition has been built along ner, who is instructing in English, and purposeful" outlook on life. He New Rat Class Draws Members From 33 States the east side of the Parade Ground was Lieutenant of Company A and a similar walk eight i'eet in last year. width along the west side of Bar- Major Read, Track Coach, and racks as far as the Library. The1 Instructor in English, has been went further to illumniate on the question of academic attainment, explaining that good marks and few demerits went hand in hand. Jan. 10, 1910, Colonel Magruder was commissioned Second Lieu-nut Grove in \Los Angeles t c T t h e ' t e n a n t of Infantry, and in 1911 Central Park'casino in N. Y. C„ I w a s transferred to the Field Ar-then this correspondent misses a t l l l e r y w l t h t h e s a m e rank" In big guess | he was promoted to the rank When'the summer is over and I o f F i r s t Lieutenant, and, a year the average cadet is thinking of l a t e r> t 0 t h a t o f Captain. He was the many good dances that he was m a d e a temporary Major in 1918, not able to get t o - t h e n the chance a n d l a t e r t h e s a n i e y«a r ' a L i e u" S m a l l e s t Class of Y e a r s H a s bricks which formed the old walks, granted a year's leave and is tak- The cadet who is more decorous to make up for them is rarely tenant-Colonel. He was honorably have been used to advantage in ing graduate work at the Univer- in his behavior in barracks, he missed—and if it is missed, it is; discharged on June 30, 1920, and completing the circle of walk (Continued on page four) i (Continued on page seven) | (Continued on page eight) on J u l y \> ] 9 2 0 > reenlisted and was Only 180 Members. On September 5th, 180 high around the Parade Ground and n school and prep-school graduates spur walk leading to the officers' signed their names on the dotted, homes on Maiden Larie. These line and entered the immortal por- new walks are heartily welcomed tals of V. M. I. From the "sunny by all who have had to hop from shores of California to the rock bound coast of Maine" these men came, on this eventful day of their A ri > i • , • \t lives, to enter their names on the U. 11. S ASSOCiatlOn WaiHC roster of a school known the wide (Continued on page seven) world over, and to begin four of President the most important years of their lives. Several foreign countries Charlie Greiner To Lead and United States possessions Sophisticated Privates, were also represented in the ranks _____ of these men, showing that the far Amid the uncontrolled shouting reaching reputation of V. M. I. is and wild demonstration of his pre-still stretching its arms far across viously bribed constituents Charles the seas into foreign "lands and (Goose) Greiner was unanimously bringing new men to us. This was swept into the presidency of the the new Rat Class; the Class of O. G.'s organization at a meeting "36." which the optimistic Epps at- Summer Camps Prove Merely Pleasure Resorts For First Classmen Memories Of Horses, Drills Already Hazy V. M. I. F. A. R. O. T. C. INFANTRY I CAVALRY appointed Major which rank he holds at the present time. During the World war, Colonel Magruder saw service in France, first as adjutant of the 20th Field Artillery and then as Major and adjutant, 5th Field Artillery Bri-gade, 5th Division. He served at the front in this capacity until Oct. 25, when he was assign- On June 17, 1932, the siege of As the Sahara Desert is not in. In keeping with the formality e d t o d u t y i n t h e office of Chief Fort Hoyle began. In other the Third Corps Area, Count essential to a large nation in its words, the V. M. I. F. A. R. O. T. Macke's Infantrymen were sent to social intercourse, the Govern- C. boys took over control of Edge- Fort Meade. Meade had the slight ment of the United States extend-wood, Md., and vicinity, including edge over the Sahara in that the ed the following invitation to the Baltimore, Aberdeen, Belair, and sand was much deeper and that members of the present First Harve de Grace. Of course, Gen. walking was consequently much Class Cavalry last May: Gowen, commanding officer of harder. "Pursuant to authority contain-the deah old fort, had a few words 0n t h e night of June 17 we ar- Sd P*r?Sr aPh 4 7 a - , N a t i o"aI • t u , «iB«t ui uunc ±i wc fense Act, as amended, the fol-to say as to just how extensive ,.i v e d i n M e a d e an(1 w e r e button- lowing named students of the Re-our control was to be. holed for a pep talk by our Dear serve Officers' Training Corps at All through that eventful day, Old Lieutenant before we could the Virginia Military Institute, In this new rat class 33 states tempted to call to order last Mon-j the residents of Edgewood Arsen- even pull off our cits. This ended, ^ " f r o m ' t 7 Fort''Myet" Virginia!' A ' S' C' E ' ^ and the District of Columbia are day night. Following his hilarious; al and Fort Hoyle witnessed a everyone having gradually dozed so as to arrive thereat on June 17, represented; Virginia first with nomination and farcial election ' steady stream of so-called auto-. off to sleep, we tried to creep to 1932, reporting upon arrival to the 92; Pennsylvania second with 18; the initimable Greiner delivered an mobiles that would bring sunshine lour tent in vain hopes of eluding Commanding Officer, Reserve Of- "N ew- York third with i1J4-; —and' ,Tp™ex - accept' ance speech' . He iunifioo rr imne«da 1 i>n»ttou tuhe» heart of any antique deal- t•h"•e«= much-heralded Cv o^ fnf.i.n. i.n. . h. .i.s» f'cers^' Traiyn inogn Ccoam p" lefotiro n teomf ptohri-s as fourth with 10. The foreign his loyal supporters that the O. G. er. At 6 P. M. the former occu- endless search for details. He spied i duty' the said°student^ wiR "eturn nations represented are China, organization would play a more pants of those cars were seen Us, however, and enlisted us for to their institution." Porto Rico, and the Canal Zone important role than ever before in lined up in the F. A. R. O. T. C. K. P., which is just an old army The foregoing bit of literature with one each. Although this is the history of the Institute. He battery street. Roll was called abbreviation for floor scrubbing, expressed in less technical terms the smallest rat class in years it also said a great deal more includ- and camp was ready to commence, eoal scuttling, onion peeling, bean would read, "You are cordially in-is comparatively large considering ing the Scandanavian. It commenced with a bang at shelling, table waiting, dish wip-1 vited to become Government house treasurer. Following the election the hard times and depression in The m e m b e r s Vt the meeting 5:4 5 the next morning. After be-j ing, and the like. Lights out at guests for six weeks of country | _ o r 1 t s P e e ^ e s were made by the the midst of which our country is stampeded after 'the president's ing fo " ' of Artillery, A. E. F., where he (Continued on page eight) Local A. S. C. E. Selects '32-'33 Leaders R. F. Vaughan Named Presi-dent; Caperton Chairman Committee. This year's first meeting of the held Saturday, Sept. 10, with 100 per cent atten-dance of members on post. The first business of the chapter was to elect officers to serve for this term. R. F. Vaughan was elected as president, L. M. Caperton as chairman of the Floor Committee, McCallum as vice-president, Arm-strong as secretary, and Straub as today. IS P O P U L AR MONG INSTITUTE VISITORS inauguration and went on an "el-ection Bender" in which every con- were formed into a battery with' nine sent us willingly to back- club life at Fort Myer, during n e w l y electe<l officers and the of- Kimbrough in command, we breaking hays, but not without which time you will have the | f l c e r s o f t h e c i v i l Engineering stowed into new Amy trucks and taken to the post hos-pital where we were rigorously inspected from our toenails to the top tuft of our head of hair. From there, we journeyed to the Q. M. D. where we were handed a bag of uniforms. Need I describe the When the Corps returned from , fits more than to say that our the summer furlough, they were- P1 G. Custodian of the Tomato respective measurements were all surprised at seeing Stonewall Jui t !« Betts. guessed at by the men who filled Jackson removed from his custom- O. G. Press Agent—.Speedball those bags and that, if you (Continued 011 page four) (Continued on page »U) (Continued on page seven) Summer Visitors Increase At-tendance To 3100 ceivable office was created and filled. The following men placed in the offices named: O. G. Crooners—Steeve Meem and 'Oscar Trossbaeh. O. G. Bouncers—Ed Kostainsek and Infant Rochelle. Department. Colonel Anderson told some interesting facts about the origin and purpose of the A. S. C. E., and its convention which is to be held in October at Atlantic City. Representatives of student having fruitlessly wrestled with pleasure of riding horses, groom-our mosquito bar and then having ing them, washing and soaping endured with gritted teeth "I equipment, going on guard and K. Learned About Women From P., arising at five-thirty in the Her," as rendered by the four morning, drilling on our dusty dumb Dutchmen next door. drill field to the tune of funeral The next morning we were rude- marches from Arlington, and all c h aPters are invited to attend this ly awakened at 5:30 A. M. by some in all have a carefree time of it j c o nvention. Next, at Colonel An-individual with inexhaustible lung with a week on the rifle range at ! d e r s o n ' s request, Bill Smith told powers blowing strongly on a Pohick thrown in for no additional s o m e t h i n g of the prospects of this whistle. After several personal charge." j y e a r ' s football team. The meeting invitations from the regular army During the hours between day | w a s t h e n adj°l»'ned by the Presi- (Continued on page six) (Continued on page seven) I dent. 3 lioi V. M. X. * V '
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THE CADET V . i
VMt
/ l ^ ' T H E CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
VOL. xxyi LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA MONDAY, SEPT. 19, 1932 No. 1
First Class Elects,nstitute A n d Grounds
Undergo Improvements
During Summer
Vice-President;
H.C. Members
WYTHE HOLT PROMOTED
TO VICE-PRESIDENT
POSITION
.Stonewall Jackson Statue Re-moved
From Mound.
New Faculty Mem-bers
Greet Corps
Upon Return
Class Gives Commandant
Vote of Confidence.
Quite a few improvements were
made in the grounds of the Insti-tute
during the past summer while
the Corps was away. Probably the
most noticeable of these is the
Members of the First Class change that has been made in the
convened on Wednesday night, position of the Jackson statue.
September 7, for the purpose of When the Parade Ground was
electing a new Vice-President and graded to its present level, this
two members of the Honor Court, statue was left on a mound com-
The loss of Louis Siegel, the Vice- posed of part of the original Par-
President of the past three years, ade Ground. However this was en-
Several Given Leave
Graduate Study.
For
General Lejeune Greets!Colonel Magruder Assumes
Old Cadets At In- Command Of Corps Of Cadets
stitute Hour I
NEW COMMANDANT WAS FIRST JACKSON HOPE
465 Old Cadets Form Larg-est
Old Cadet Corps.
MEDALIST IN CLASS OF '09
All four departments of instruc-tions
have made changes in their
faculty this year. Some of the
new members are familiar to the
Corps and some are not. All of !
t o o k t h i s opportunity to greet of-the
men have been connected with
On the morning of Saturday, |
September 3rd, during the fifth
C. P., the first Institute Hour of
the year was held in the Jackson
Memorial Hall. General Lejeune
the Institute as Cadets and some
of them have been instructors be-fore
this year.
Major J. A. Mitchell, who until
last year was an instructor in
through academic difficulties nec- tirely out of keeping with the de- Spanish, has returned from grad-essitated
the election of a new j sign of the statue and the setting uate work to take the position of
vice-president. The meeting was proposed by the sculptor. During. Assistant Professor of English,
the second held this year, the first last summer this mistake was rec- Major Mitchell has also resumed
being held the latter part of the tified by moving the monument j his duties as Executive Officer.
preceeding week for the purpose about twenty-five feet forward Captain P. E. Caldwell graduat- i inasmuch as the fact that" they
of presenting the necessity of the and removing the mound, a job ed with the Class of '26 and be-. had successfully completed the
election to the members of the which was far from easy, since c a m e a sub-professor for two f i r s t three years proved they
class and so as to allow them time the latter was almost solid rock. y e a r s . He was distinguished in should naturally have ability to
to consider the men most quail- An interesting sidelight is the fact athletics while at the Institute g e t through the last, the First
ficially all old cadets on their re-turn
from the summer furlough.
General Lejeune extended his
wishes for a very successful year,
especially emphasizing his desire
that all First Classmen do their
utmost, both academically and for
the betterment of V. M. I. He stat-ed
that all men able to reach the
senior year were most certainly
capable of attaining the diploma
fied to fill the positions. that while blasting away the trou- and was Rat coach following grad-
Little time was lost at the be- j blesome mound, a sealed copper uation. He studied at W. and L.
ginning of the session in remov- box was disclosed when a concrete while teaching at the Institute
ing Wythe Holt from the office of block was blown in pieces. This and received his master's degree.
Historian so that he might be al-; proved to be the corner stone box The past few years he has been
TO THE PARENTS
The first issue of THE CA-DET
has been mailed to each
of you in the hope that you will
see in the publication something
which will-cause you to give the
Business Manager permission
to include you on the mailing
list for the complete volume of
thirty issues.
THE CADET hopes that the
parents of the Cadets will be
interested1 enough in the acti-vities
and actions of The Corps
to want every issue of the Ca-det
sent to them personally.
THE CADET staff feels that
it will produce a weekly which
will contain news of interest
and it takes this means of ask-ing
for your support. A sub-scription
blank is enclosed for
your convenience. Send in your
subscription at once.
dency and shortly after this ac- which was originally
tion he was selected and his se- where the Jackson statue stood.
Here On
Class year. So, he stated, their j
graduation one hundred percent
depended solely on the persever-ance
of the individual,
j General Lejeune stated that
Monument teaching at a prep school in Ken- this vear was significant in the n , ~ ~T—7"
f situated tu;ky, and last year he studied at history of the Institute in that it 1 ° p U l a r of t ti
Virginia on his Doctor's degree. marked the largest enrollment of1
lection made unanimous. In recog- Another improvement of the Captain H. E. Fisher, Captain old cadets ever experienced. There j Every year the long discussion
mtion of his v a l u a ^ e service to p a s t s u m m € r is t h e n e w fencing j, D- Neikirk and Captain G. S. are incidentally, four hundred and comes up as to whether the hops
the class of 33 and because ot the r o o m i n t h e s o u t h - e a s t corner of Turner are the contributions of1 sixty-three old cadets who have are worth the time and money
deep admiration which his brother t h e third floor of Ninety-Four the Class of '32 to the Academic returned, which number increases spent on them—but just ask a
rats hold for him, Louis Siegel was H a l l - T h i s r o o m w a s equipped with s t a f f > Fisher was Captain of by two the record-holding figure member of the first class, who has
made honorary vice-president. a n e w hard wood - - -
Following the selection of the a n ( j o t h e r fittings. The
Served As Military Attache
At Pekin.
Colonel John Magruder assumed
the command of the Corps of Ca-dets
on August 1, after his trans-fer
from Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He
relieves Colonel R. S. Dodson who
completed his period of five years
duty at V. M. I. on August 1.
Colonel Magruder was born at
Woodstock, Va., June 3, 1887. His
father, Major William Magruder,
was a cadet at the Institute for
four months before he joined the
Confederate Army.
While at the Institute, Colonel
Magruder was one of the leaders
of his class. He matriculated on
Sept. 1, 1905, and was assigned to
Co. A. At Finals he took first
stand in a class of 92. While a 3rd
classman he was third ranking
corporal, and again took first
stand in his class. During his se-cond
class year he was second
ranking first sergeant, then in D.
lit 1117 i i * Weede-Mf yer Tl o nril ay 17 Co. For the third time he ranked, Yor scholastic^, at the head of his
A • . T| class. Colonel Magruder graduat- Upening llOpS ed June 23, 1909, with a degree of
B. S. in Civil Engineering. He was
second captain, in command of D
Co., and first Jackson Hope med-alist.
During his cadetship he was
also Associate Editor of the Cadet,
Associate Editor of the Bomb,
member of the Press Club, Vice
President of the Cotillion Club,
. new ™od floor, lockers, Company A last year, and7s now , oi last year. General "Lejeune seen many of them, i f ' t h e y are 1
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t m
1
a
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n
l n ° f H ° ™ r
"" fencers j teaching in the Mathematics De- showed that this was indicative of not just about the best dances T°" 1 |