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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.)
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Title | VMI Cadet. November 28, 1932 |
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Full Text Search | 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.) |