VMI Cadet. November 28, 1932

              CONGRATULATIONS
THIRTY-FOUR THECADET YOU HAD THE FIGHT,
SQtTADRON
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
VOL. XXVI LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA MONDAY, NOV. 28, 1932 No. 11
Picturesque Ring
Figure Features
Dances
JOE SANDER'S NIGHT-HAWKS
DELIVER EX-CELLENT
MUSIC
Large Crowds Make Set of
Dances Entirely Success-ful.
Joe Sanders came and Joe San-ders
left, carrying with him his rep-utation
for furnishing almost per-fect
music at a perfect set of
dances. The first formal dances of
the year were a big success and the
1933 Cotillion Club has a job on its
hands to make the others which are
to come better than those of the
past week-end.
The Class of '34 made its ring fig-ure
on Friday night quite different
from the ones of the past few years.
The usual forming of the figures
was omitted and in their stead the
sword arch was substituted. The
stalwart young gentlemen with the
charming calic by their sides gave
the figure a much more military ap-pearance
than has been noticed in
the immediate past and the men
drifting through the sword arch to
the waiting line and into the dreamy
waltb which followed the placing
of the coveted ring on the finger
under the two arches left the im-
(Continued on page eight.)
B u s t Of Commodore
Maury Unveiled In
Richmond
Colonel Marr Delivers
Second of History
Lecture Series
Great Popularity of Lectures
Expressed By Huge Crowd
Speaking to a large and enthus-iastic
audience last Tuesday night
Colonel R. A. Marr told of the part
that VMI played in the Civil War.
His talk was thoroughly interest-ing
throughout and he covered the
most interesting period of the Insti-tute's
history in such a way as to
give evidence of his extensive
knowledge of the period.
The whole Corps of the Civil War
period, it seems, was very anxious
to get into the war in any way that
was possible and one of the great-est
problems that confronted those
who were assigned the task of keep-ing
the Institute going was to keep
the Corps intact and to keep down
desertions. Cadets were always de-serting
so that they might enter the
service. There was little doubt in
anyone's mind who heard the talk
given by Colonel Marr as to the
excitement which reigned in bar-racks
while men were trying to de-vote
themselves to study during
the time that the Confederates and
Federals were waging war against
each other. Former Cadets would
return to barracks from the field
with wild stories and at times the
Colonel John Magruder Relates Im-pressions
of Institute Upon Return
COMMANDANT TELLS OF EXPERIENCES AND RE-LATES
IMURESSIONS IN RECENT
ALUMNI NEWS
The feeling of a man who returns' growth of conditions in Manchuria
for duty at his Alma Mater after which the belated Lytton Commis-an
absence of twenty-three years sion has just described for the
Replica of Work of Valentine
Placed In House of Dele-gates
Hall.
A bust of Matthew Fontaine
Maury, "Pathfinder of the Seas,"
was unveiled in the old hall of the
House of Delegates on the after-noon
of the 15th. At the unveiling
Maury was characterized by String-fellow
Barr, editor of the Virginia
Quarterly Review, as one of the
greatest of the long line of leaders
Virginia has given to the world.
In the exercises, which were pre-sided
over by Governor Pollard,
Mr. Barr touched only briefly on
the factual history of Maury. In-stead,
he presented a moving char-acter
sketch of the man who com-bined
a great capacity for work
with a great soul and a great yearn-ing
to be of assistance to others of
the '"sea of life."
The bust, which yesterday took
its place in "Virginia's Hall of
Fame," is an exact replica of one
made from life by the late Edward
V. Valentine.
It is recalled that Maury was a
(Continued on page eight.)
Mr. McMurray, Johns
Hopkins, Visits With
Col. Magruder
Head of International Rela-tions
School Interviewed
By Cadet Group.
Mr. McMurray of Johns Hopkins
University visited with Colonel and
Mrs. Magruder last week-end.
While he was on the post he had an
interview with a group of cadets
who are trying to obtain employ-ment
in Russia and told them in
detail just what the situation in that
country is. He has been prominent
in the foreign service and has spent
a number of years dealing with af-fairs
of the state.
Mr. McMurray is a graduate of
Princeton where he studied law.
While he was still quite young he
entered the foreign service. At va-rious
times he was secretary of the
legation in Petrograd, Siam, China
and Japan. He was then promoted
to the Far Eastern Section of the
State Department and later became
(Continued on page eight)
depends largely upon the exper-iences
he has had during those in-tervening
years. As for my own
experiences, army service had car-ried
me geographically far from
Virginia, and farther from those
Virginia traditions which dominate
V. M. I. Texas, The Philippines,
France, Army Schools in several
states, eight and a half years with
the Legation in China—these wan-derings
brought me into contact
with men of many races, creeds and
kinds.
I may have developed new preju-
League of Nations. While observ-ing
the continuous wars in China,
my duties had to do with reporting
the play of social and economic
forces, revolution in active and
sometimes violent forms, rather
than strictly military phenomena.
Without knowing it I was taking
a course in the most practical school
of political science and economics,
and incidentally sitting in on di-plomacy
as it was being practiced
in the Far East, This was an ex-perience
to make one sensitive to
the stirring of social forces, and
Ronoake Holds Gay Re-ception
For Two Vis-iting
Corps
Social Activities of Corps
Very Entertaining.
Roanoke prepared a gay reception
for the two Corps of Virginia's
military schools on Thanksgiving
Day and the loss of the annual grid-iron
encounter between the Flying
Squadron and the Gobblers to the
latter team was hardly enough of a
setback to prevent those of the V.
dices, but only by closing my eyes i to develop considerable impatience
and ears could I have clung to the with ideas which are wholly ma-old
ones. Speaking literally, I have terialistic.
seen men starve. At intervals be-tween
the most engrossing life in
Peking, I visited every province of
China but two; engaged in a relief
expedition to Mongolia; lodged in
Tibetan lamaseries—65 days inland
by the shortest route from Shang-hai—
hunted along the edges of
Gobi; and was mobbed by revolu-tionaries
in Wuhu.
Arriving in San Francisco in
1930, two things seemed so evident
to me that I wondered why every-body
did not feel about them as I
did. First, the break in values and
the growing unemployment, just
then well under way, were no
mere "depression," but were mani-festations
of revolution, active if
not violent, and caused by deeper
I saw the beginnings of the Na economic and social forces than
tional Revolution in Canton in were then, and now, generally rec
. 1920, and returned to see it break j ognized. Second, that America was
excitement would run so high that J violently in the Yangste Valley in as grossly materialistic as had been
it seemed apparent that the Corps 11926. In both instances I failed to charged by certain of my European
understand the true significance of friends. Where so much stress ex-what
was happening. I observed is ts in the. midst of plenty, there is
intimately, and reported, the i (Continued on page six)
would leave the Institute and get
a real taste of war life in the field.
And so it was on two or three oc-casions,
but the Corps did not de-sert.
It was taken into active ser-vice
by its commanders and finally
secured its real taste of close war-fare
in the battle of New Market.
Col. Marr related an interesting
episode which portrayed very well
the frenzy of excitement which pre-vailed
in barracks. Several cadets
had been badly mistreated in Lex-ington
by a group of Northern sym-pathizers
from the mountains. As
soon as those in barracks had heard
of the misdemeanor the First Cap-tain
beat a turnout and had the
whole corps form under arms with
loaded muskets. They started on
their way to avenge the beating giv-
(Continued on page eight.)
Chemists Organize Stu-dent
Branch Of
The V.A.S.
Move To Secure Student Or-ganization
For Chemists
Successful.
On Tuesday night of last week,
Major Beverly Tucker called a
meeting of the First Class Chem-ists
at the Chemistry Building. The
purpose of this meeting was to take
steps toward organizing a V. M. I.
M.I.T. Director of Dr. Cameron McCrae
Admissions Speaks„ Will Address
To Engineers Corps
JAMES L. TYRON TELLS LECTURES^TONIGHT ON
OF MASS. TECH'S COURS- I SHANGHAI BOMBARD-ES
OF INSTRUCTION MENT
Gives Information To Those Dr. William Draper Will Talk
Interested In Graduate On Wednesday.
Work.
I Dr. Cameron F. McRae will speak
Mr. James Libby Tryon, Director to the Corps in Jackson Memorial
of Admissions of the Massachusetts jjall tonight, Monday, at 7:30 p. m.
Institute of Technology, addressed, MI\ Cameron is a graduate of the
an assembly of all the engineering institute in the Class of 1893 and
students on last Tuesday in Nichols he received his M. A. degree from
Engineering Hall. Mr. Tryon was Georgetown University. He was in
here to interview those cadets who shanghai during the recent bom-are
interested in taking graduate bardment of that city by the Japan-work
and to explain the many e s e a n d he will speak to the Corps
courses of instruction given at the o n this bombardment. Dr. Camer-institution
which he represents. on has been a Missionary to China
During the course of his short for many years,
lecture Mr. Tryon explained the Learning that Dr. Cameron was
general preparation that M. I. T. i n this section from Giles B. Pal-gives
its engineering students a n d i m e r e .00 and that his talk on the
gave a brief survey of the different bombardment would be very inter-courses
of instruction which are esting the Institute invited him to
open to students, both graduate and ! address the Corps. The attendance
under-graduate, of the school. He j j s optional and all officers and their
placed special emphasis on the fact famj i j e s are invited,
that year by year M. I. T. is coming
Gobblers Prove Too
Powerful For
Keydets
GREAT TECH TEAM RUNS
ROUGHSHOD OVER
SQUADRON
Kostainsek Stars For Keydets
In His Last Game.
On one of the warmest Thanks-giving
clays in years some 12,000
M. IT. C~ orps wh. o were i. n t,,h e Magi.c •| spec, t,a tors saw on Roanoke's Maher City f, rom t. ak, .i ng f, ul„l ad. vant. age s o. f ii F. ield a r. ugged,' sm...a shing® V. ™P .. I. t.,h e excel.le. n. t opport. uni.t..i es o«ff ered f„o otba. ll team , .b a, ttle the FlJy in6g
,t,h em .t o ,h ave a good. .t.i me. ™Th e d, ay i Squadron on . fa. irly c,l ose terms for
was al1l1 *tUha t* Uha dJ Vb.e en antici•p at4e. dJ.; | t.h e ,,f l r s t pe.r i.o d, crus. h , the Key'd ets
TT,h e V. nM, . TI . con.t.i n„g en.t ,l e.f.t .b ar- i1.". th. e ne.x t , two. periods,, a. nd in the rack, s t. o ent.r ai.n at. Ea' s. t TL exingt. on fmal per,,i od rain .i.n. . .s.u bstitutes that at. 8o: 35 Tmhuu rsdJ ay morni•n g and, d_e - i the , , galla. ntly fighting SHq uadron
,t rai.n ed, at, the N„ . and. W. *S tat.i. on in - could not score upon. The final „R oanok. e around. 1, A0:O3A0 . Shortly i sc. o.r.e wa~s ,2 6, -,0 , each man in the after, t,,h e C„ orps was marching up'i sta.r ting. . Gobbler , b_a ckfield scoring6
JTe„ff erson A. venue t, o .b e d.«i sm.i ssedj !; touchdown and Gene Hite, V. P.
near Hotel Patrick Henry, where
the V. P. I. Corps had been dismiss-ed
a few minutes earlier. All along
Jeffeson Avenue the two Corps
were cheered by throngs of en-thusiastic
supporters of the two
schools.
branch chapter of the Virginia Aca-demy
of Science. After briefly out- j t o the system of requiring all en-lining
the purpose and advantages p e e r i n g students to take the same I ~ ™ of t h e v i r g i n i a s t a te
preparatory courses at the begin- H e a U h D e p a r t m e n t w i n address the
ning, and then allowing them to. C o r p s o n Wednesday. It will be re-branch
off into special fields of c a H e d t h a t Di. D r a p e r s p o k e t o us
(Continued on page elgBt) .Continued on page eight)
PRE-The
formation for the march to
the football game was held at 1:00
p. m. at the same place. The V. M.
I. Corps some four or five hundred
strong preceded the larger contin-gent
of one thousand five hundred
V. P. I. cadets to Maher field. Once
at the stadium the Keydets marched j
on the field in column of squads;
and passed in review in company'
front. The customary military ma-;
neuvers on the gridiron were omit- J
ed this year. Almost immediately | C o n t r i b u t i o ns
the V. P. I. Corps came on the field
to go through the same formations
and continued their drilling with
other maneuvers.
The numerous social functions
which followed the game included a
dance at the City Auditorium at
9:00 p. m. and a dance at the Hotel
Patrick Henry given by the Shi
l Continued on -Ight)
I.'s great guard, adding two extra
points with place kicks.
The Gobblers, with nine clever
backs and nineteen linemen in the
game, completely outclassed the
Keydets. The Gobblers rolled up
ten first downs to six for the Key-dets,
completed six passes for a
gain of 120 yards to 70 yards garn-ered
by the Squadron by the same
method, and picked up 145 yards
(Continued on page four)
A. I. E. E. Branch Holds
Regular Meeting
On Saturday
Body Addressed By Four
Members—Emerson, Helms,
Cockey and Trossbach.
The local branch of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers met
in the auditorium of the engineer-ing
building the first hour on Sat-urday,
November 26th.
The first of four talks was deliv-ered
by Emerson of the Second
Class. He chose as his topic the
Power Transmission System of
North Carolina. Developing his talk
from this subject Mr. Emerson told
Portraits of Cocke And
Lejeune To Be Added
To Gallery
To Fund For
Portraits Are Sought.
Under the direction of the V. M.
I. Alumni association plans for
completing the gallery of portraits
of the Virginia Military Institute's
superintendents are now going for-ward.
Colonel William Couper,
Business Executive of the Institute
and Secretary-Treasurer of the
Alumni organization, Alumni are
being given the opportunity to con-tribute
to the fund which was start-ed
last year and which will be used
for having the portraits painted.
The custom of hanging the por-traits
of V. M. I.'s superintendents
on the walls of the Institute was be-gun
in 1853, and since that time
portraits of three of the five men
who have been at its head have
been completed. The fund now be-ing
subscribed to will enable the
portraits of the last two leaders,
General William H. Cocke and
General John A. Lejeune, to be
added to the gallery.
of the remarkable thirty million
The Superintendent's Office an- d o H a r s y s t e m w h i c h h a s r e c e n t ly
of such an organization, Major
Tucker turned the meeting over to
Kimbrough, with instructions that
officers could be elected at that
time or later, as the members pre-ferred.
It was decided by straw vote
that officers should be elected at
once and that no time be lost in
organization.
W. J. (Buck) Meriwether was
elected president by a large ma-jority.
The other officers are Har-ry
Lee Archer, Vice-President and
Carl Peters, Secretary.
It is the aim of the Academy to
have bi-monthly meetings at which
some member will talk on a sub-ject
of scientific interest, treating it
where possible, from a chemical
point of view. There will be talks
on pure and applied chemistry, bio-nounced
also today that Doctor Wil- b e e n c o m p l e t e d i n that State. He
told of the general plan of the sys-
HOLLINS TO GIVE
CHRISTMAS PROM ON
DEC. 3rd
MR. S. C. CURTIS PRE-SENTS
SNAPPY COME-BACK
TO CHAL-Hollins
College will entertain LENGE
many of its ardent supporters with Last W E E R T J ! E ~ C A D E T publish-a
dance on December 3rd and many e d a n U e m i n t h e Exchange col-of
those ardent supporters who' u m n which stated, among other
make their residence in barracks things, that the engineers of Geor-are
planning to be on hand for all
the fun on that night. A similar
dance last year was attended by
several cadets but this year juding
from the invitations have been
gia Tech had slipped their slide
rules some forty thousand miles
since the founding of the Institu-tion.
We thought that rather uni-que,
but we felt sure that there were
f.lo. w. ing i.n .ke.y detxs wi•l„l ,b e very unusual facts around VMI which w o u l d as i n t e r e s t i n g . go
evident at the formal affair. Mj. g c C u r t i s w a s interviewed
The dance, of course, will be a and in response to our urges he
c h e m i s t r y , biology, mineralogy^and j g . r l b r e g k Qne ,T i g understood has presented THE CADET with
_„ J .„ , Henry w i l l furnish the1 the following:
According to an item in last
week's Cadet, someone else with
time on their hands figured that
Georgia Tech students have slipped
(Continued on page eight.)
geology. Men will be allowed to |
choose their own subjects under the I TyncoMUon"'TWi Orchestra hard-direction
of members of the teach- Jy ^ ^ a n y i n t r o d u c t i o n t o those
ing staff. j j n barracks who will be favored in
From time to time, the Academy, g a m i n g a d m i s s i o n t o the dance.
(Continued on page five) '
tem and how its installation had
improved the efficiency of power
transmission.
Mr. Helms of the Second Class
talked on A. C. Arc Welding and
he dealt with some of the many
problems which engineers have to
overcome in making welding out-fits
which use alternating currents
generally applicable to the industry.
Following Mr. Helms, E. A. Cockey
gave a very interesting survey of
the developing of the Wallenpau-pack
hydroelectric plant. His talk
gave varied descriptions of the plan
of the plant and of the various types
of machinery which have been used
in it.
The treat of the morning came
wit ha talk on the life of Lee De-
Forest by Mr. Trossback of the
First Class. In presenting a brief
survey of the extraordinary life of
the famous inventor Trossback kept
the entire audience in laughter with
his many witty (?) remarks.
Civil Men Hold Regular
A.S.C.E. Meeting
Interesting Talks Given By
Grant, A. B. Taylor, Weav-er
and Keithl.v.
The regular meeting of the local
chapter of the A. S. C. E. was held
at nine o'clock Saturday morning.
W. C. Weaver of the First Class
opened the program with a talk on
Diesel Engines. He outlined the de-velopment
of the internal combus-tion
engine since 1680. By means
of diagrams Mr. Weaver showed
just how the Diesel engines work
and how the oil is fed into the cyl-inders.
W. S. Grant of the First Class
next gave a talk on the Dneiper
Dam of Russia. He discussed the
Russian labor situation in this con-nection
and the possibilities of
young American engineers obtain-ing
employment. Then he told some-thing
of the problems which con-fronted
Hugh L. Cooper in the
building of this great dam. He show-ed
by a diagram how the coffer
dam was constructed and described
the operation of the dam after its
(Continued on page eight.)