VMI Cadet. February 13, 1933

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BE SELECTED TONIGHT THE CADE PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
VOL. XXVI LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA MONDAY, FEB. 13, 1933 No. 17
Col. Barton Relates
VMI's World War
Record
TELLS OF INSTITUTE'S
SERVICE AT HOME
AND ABROAD
History Lecture Gives Infor-mation
As To War-Time
Corps.
Colonel G. L. Barton gave his
large audience much information
about one of the most illustrious
periods of VMI history in his talk
about VMI in the World War last
Tuesday night. His talk was the
third from the last of the present
series.
Colonel Barton used a few min
utes at the start of his talk to des-cribe
the Institute as it was dur-ing
the war period. "My section
room was the room in barracks just
over the Arch, which now bears the
number 300. Its equipment consist-ed
of a rickety chair and an
ly rickety table." He recalled that
in this room he taught one of the
most unique sections which has ever
confronted him. It was composed of
seventeen cadets. Of these nine were
new cadets, rats; eight were old
cadets, bull rats. Of the eight bull
rats, one was a private in the corps,
three were cadet sergeants, and one
was a cadet top sergeant. "That,"
he said, "is one small and very per-sonal
view of an overcrowded VMI
in the World War."
From this point Colonel Barton
digressed to describe the existence
of the cadets in 1914, the year which
the world at large accepts as the
last normal calendar year before
the war. Cadets at that time led a
normal existence, the same they j ginia.
had been leading for many years The new course
First Class Will Seek Per-mission
To Attend In-auguration
A vote of the First Class at
a meeting last Thursday night
instructed the president of the
First Class to try to secure per-mission
for the Class to attend
the inauguration of the new
President in Washington on
March 4. Members of the First
Class are at this time antici-pating
the privilege of leaving
Lexington after parade on the
third of March and returning
the night of the fifth.
It was hoped for some time
that the whole corps would be
invited to attend the inaugura-tion
as an escort to the Gover-nor
of Virginia, but the an-nouncement
of the President-elect
for a very economical in-auguration
makes it certain
that the V. M. I. corps will not
be invited.
equal- Course Iii School Hy •
giene To Be
Started
Bert Lown Plays
For Mid-winters
Fri. & Sat.
E N J O Y A B L E SOCIAL
WEEK-END IS FORE-CAST
First Formats of New Year
Hold Attraction For
Corps.
From nine till two on Friday and
from nine till twelve on Saturday
night the '33 Cotillion Club will
! present the Mid-winter hops. Bert
Lown with his complete orchestra
will be on hand to furnish the mu-sic
for the first formal dances of
the new year.
In securing Bert Lown the Cot-tillion
Club has secured one of the
foremost orchestras under the man-agement
of the Music Corporation
of America. Bert Lown has long
been popular over the radio and
has enjoyed great popularity among
the northern colleges. During the
past twelve months he has filled
engagements at Yale, Columbia, N.
Y. U., University of Md.; Barnard,
Dean Baker of Harvard
Will Address First
Class
Colonel William Hunley an-nounced
last week that Dean
Baker, Dean of the Harvard
Law School, would be at the
Institute about the Twenty-eighth
of this month. Dean
Baker will probably speak to
all of the First Class sections
and to any others who will be
interested in the information
he will be prepared to convey.
Dean Baker spoke to some of
the sections of last year's First
Class about the same time last
year.
According to Colonel Hunley,
Dr. Baker will be prepared to
give information regarding en-trance
to the Harvard Law
School. He will also be pre-pared
to give information re-garding
entrance into the
graduate schools of MIT.
Varsity Wrestlers Make Brilliant
Showing to Trounce N. C. State
Winter Sports T e a m s ^ N CE
Will Tackle Foreign
Opponents
AND BURGESS
FEATURE KEYDETS'
VICTORY
i VARSITY QUINT MAKES
MARYLAND IN-VASION
To
Col. Moseley Begins
Art Lectures
Wrestlers and Boxers
Meet West Pointers
Saturday.
After closing all scheduled home
appearances the V. M. I. winter
sports teams will depart this week
to encounter opposition both in the
State and out of the State. Early
! in the past week the Keydet bas-
! ketball team closed its home sched-ult
by giving the North Carolina
aggregation one of the hardest
fights they have had this season.
The game was fast and hard play-j
ed throughout and it proved that
the quint will be hard to eliminate
' from the approaching Southern
Team Furnishes Corps a
Treat At Its First Home
Appearance.
The Varsity wrestlers made their
first home appearance very im-pressive
by turning in a decisive
victory over the grapplers from
North Carolina State University
Saturday night. The meet was very
close for the first two bouts, but
after the 135 pound class fell to
State the V. M. I. matmen never
allowed the visitors another chance
to annex a victory. Two falls, one
by Currence of V. M. I. and the
other by Burgess in the heavy-weight
class, furnished the high-lights
of the meet. Only one match
went to an extra period, that match
being the first. The final score
was V. M. I., 22; N. C. State, 6.
Neidengard went on the mat for
Conference Tournament. The box- V' M' L i n t h e 115 p o u n d c l a s s a nd
Georgetown, M I. T„ Holy R e v i e w s Renaissance Archi-iers took their last home stand h e p u t u p a g o o d f i g h t b e f o r e be"
Dr.
j Cross, Conn. College, and has
i played for the Columbia Jun-
Carroll Will Teach Sub-jior Prom. He is probably best
tecture.
Colonel Moseley began
j aganst V. P. I. and they turned in
last a g r e a t performance by vanquish-ject
Required For
Teachers.
Dr. Carroll has announced that he
will begin a class in Physical In-spection
of School Children and
School Hygiene the middle of the
week. The course is being institut-ed
so as to enable VMI graduates
to obtain teacher's certificates and
thus enable them to qualify for a
teaching job in the State of Vir-called
the
preceding. They were doing much West Law course as it has been
the same things that other college, made necessary for teachers by the
students were doing, except, of j passage of a bill by the State Assem-course,
those things which were bly introduced by Representative
prohibited by the military system West. It is designed to give teach
ers an intelligent idea of the na
ture, causes, and prevention of dis-eases
prevailing among school
children; help in detecting symp-toms
of disease; aid in discovering
physical defects and suggesting
ways of remedying them; impress
of VMI. There is nothing on record,
either at headquarters or in the
publications of the school, to indi-cate
that the cadets were antici-pating,
or had the least suspicion
of, the approaching world conflict.
At that time there was not a sin-gle
building on the south side of
the parapet. There was no Scott-
Shipp Academic building, no '94
Hall, no Jackson Hall, no Engineer-ing
building. Fro mthe Mess Hall to
the limit gates there was an unin-terrupted
sweep of unkept hillside.
Below the road there was no ath-letic
field, and there were no stab-les.
The buildings of the Institute
consisted of the present group below
the chemistry building, the chem-istry
building, part of barracks as
it is today, the library, Francis H.
Smith Academic building, which
was at the same location as the pre-sent
north side of barracks, and a p i c t u r e A J s o j g pr e S e n t e d Be-hall
which was known as Jackson f o r e E l e c t r j c a l Group.
Hall. This Jackson Hall was north
of Jackson Arch. It was an audi- j T h e V. M. I. Branch of the Amer-torium
and the basement of it was i c a n Institute of Electrical Engi-a
gymnasium. The Post Exchange neers held its first regular meet-known
for his many broadcasts Thursday night his lectures on ar-from
the Hotel Biltmore in New chitecture, sculpture, and painting,
York City where he filled an en- which comprise a four-year course,
gagement for two and a half years. w e l 1 illustrated with many photo-
While there he was heard over the graphic slides, beginning as far
air six or eight times a week. Bert's b a c k the cave dwellings and go-orchestra
was the first to send mu
sic from the conservative Biltmore' L a s t ye a r Colonel Moseley discuss- j
(Continued on page eight) ed earl y and Renaissance archi-: I _ _ 1 IT;,I „ f f
| tecture, and this year he will take A M l l M ! H l g H W a y l i O n t er
ing the Gobblers 6 to 2. On Sat-urday
the Varsity wrestlers pre-i
sented a well balanced team, which
had lost only to Navy, and defeat-ed
N. C. State by the decisive score
of 22 to 6. The grapplers will be
. ing to the Empire State Building.j s e e n i n a c t i o n o n h o m e s o i l again:
(Continued on page five)
Aliimnns Has Featured up the modern trend"
. 11 d S r ^ r e u The .first lecture^ began with a
1R\Un Ii PC 1I1n1 ^' 'lUlpCcMrdg lnl 1F MarI comprehensive survey M last year, s c o u r s e The R e n a i s s a n c e in
L i v i n g " architecture, it was explained, be-ence
Is Abandoned
This Year
gan in Italy about 1420. it did not -Necessity For Meeting Has 1 Disappeared. Alan Campbell In New Cow- b r i n f w f " entirely new styles of
ard Play construction; from the thirteenth to The highway conference which
I the nineteenth century, there was has been held about February 1
The new play, "Design for Liv-1 no change in the fundamental for several years at V. M. I. will
ing," written and directed by Noel methods of construction. There; not be held this year, it has been
Coward, and starring such cele- was merely an addition of details announced by Colonel James A.
ing defeated by a time decision.
Marrah, the State wrestler, was
forced to go an extra period in or-der
to obtain the close time mar-gin
of 1:05. Throughout the first
ten minutes both men held the ad-vantage
on several occasions and
both men came close to obtaining
falls.
Keith Rugh turned in the first
victory for the Red, White, and
Yellow by winning a time decision
over Kerr of State in the 125 lb.
class. The first two minutes of
the match both men -stayed ou their
feet. Rugh lost little time in roll-ing
from the bottom during his
turn on the mat. As a matter of
fact the keydet allowed the State
man only three seconds supremacy
before he rose to his feet. When
it was the State man's turn on the
bottom, Rugh managed to hold his
advantage long enough to secure
almost four minutes time margin.
brities as Mr. Coward, Lynn Fon-j and embellishments of the older Anderson, head of the Department The upset of the meet, at least
taine, and Alfred Lunt, will have! forms, featuring especially the baro- of Civil Engineering. It was under a s fa r as V. M. I. was concerned,
a V. M. I. alumnus of the Class of, que style, which was begun by the direction of Colonel Anderson came when Stith clever keydet
the importance of health habits- and ' f ^ ^ Ca™pbe11' i n ° n e of 1 Michelangelo and which flourished that the conference was first or- j grappler, apparently met his match
the importance of health habits, and t h e i m p o r t a n t r o l e s . Mr. Camp-' particularly during the seventeenth ganized. in Bell of State Stith turned in
to show some method of accom- bel i i s a native of Richmond where| century. The baroque was char-' T h c „ , ' * ' v K ™
dishing these ideals . . , , . ! . ' , , The annual conferences were some good work by securing the
piibiiiiiB mese .l uedih. .„ , . h . „ wid. ely' know, n for his asso- acterized by. artificial adouriniinmrecnntisa,, mh e Wj f-o r t.h. e ed,u cat.i.o n of, many 'f i.r st, ad,v ant.a ge, b, ut, h. e soon l,o st, i.t. The course at VMI will be under Ciation with a number of theatricals such as bars, niches, columns, „ ^ . . . ^ 4U • ^ u-
„f Tt „,iii: ! ,, , i ,, , ' roadmen and constructors in im- and the State man rode him until
IvlnH n r » ™ H n ' h7r v , • _. , , j scrolls. and shell designs fitted, p r o v e d m e t h o d s o l c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d ; o n l y about two minutes remained
hourr s, a'nd *w ill breZ etntiirJevly aa Sclal sSs--! nC amTpb„e ll Ih3a™s a8 ppeRaUre*dm 0innd - severaJl1 °wfti.®thno ut affectinl gn t 0 tVhaec a nft unsPctaicoens -a'l maintenance of county roads. Since'in the regular time. The State l o c a l r o a d s h a v e n o w b e e n t a k en
room course. No outside work will Broadway successes and motion parts. The Renaissance in Italy
be required. Although it is being pictures. He has appeared in the brought about a greater multiplic-given
primarily for those Virginia supporting casts of such stars asj (Continued on page eight.)
(Continued on p»g« eight) Ethel Barrymore, Eva LeGallienne,1 —
• a n n . . .Mvi aair yy DBUo1lUaIn1Ud,, ]L_i aurette Taylor, and
Hoover Uam Discussed Helen Mencken
hi I F F Hf i* "Design for Living" opened in
Aibii Meeting Cleveland, showed in Washington,
and is now playing in New York.
and ROTC offices now have the
place of the gym.
It was during this year, 1913-14
ing of the new year in the auditor-ium
of the Engineering building
on Friday morning with Chairman
that the entrance requirements of p- c- Wooters presiding. Follow-the
Institute were raised to twelve i nS t h e reading of the minutes the
units, and it was decided to award
the B. A. and B. 6. degrees to all
graduates instead of having them
limited to the distinguished grad-uates
of each class.
There is one mention in The Ca-det
of 1914 that the cadets might
be called out to act as drill mas-ters
for the volunteers who "are
to be called out against Mexico."
Even at this short time before the
lighting of the world war fuse the
cadets were not thinking of a Euro-pean
conflict.
Three days after the declaration
of war by the United States, the
VMI had swung into action. The
orders providing for the training of
four hundred Washington and Lee
men by VMI officers and cadets
had been published. This is the first
(Continued on page eight)
branch heard a very interesting dis-cussion
of the Hoover Dam which
was presented by Cadet Farley of
the Second Class.
In his talk Farley described the
physical proportions of the dam,
the construction of which is sched-uled
to require seven years and
which is now under way. He said
that the dam itself had a volume
greater than the volume of dirt
which has been moved by the Bu-reau
of Reclamation. The height
of the dam is approximately one
and one-half times that of the
Washington Monument in our Na-tion's
Capital. The lake which will
be formed will be over one hun-dred
miles long and ten miles wide.
It will furnish a means of irrigat-ing
many square miles of arid land.
(Continued on page five)
It is regarded as one of the most
promising of the 1933 productions.
According to critical opinion, the
play promises to be one of the most
successful written by Mr. Coward
which is indeed a high promise. It
is now playing to brillaint audi-ences
on Broadway.
MARKER WILL DISTIN-GUISH
MAURY'S BIRTH-PLACE
A stone marker will soon be dedi-cated
at the Fredericksburg Nation-al
Battlefield Park, marking the
birthplace of Matthew Fontaine
Maury. While it will mark his
birthplace in Spotsylvania, it will
Program Presented Be
fore Civil Society
Pettigrew Discusses
Geodetic Survey.
over by the State Highway De-partment
the necessity for the con-ference
is thought to have disap-peared.
The conferences of past years
have attracted many roadmen and
engineers as well as many authori-ties.
They have been very instruc-
C o a s t ! t i v e a n d interesting. Among one of
| the features of past conferences
I were the varied displays of road
man
was content from there on with the
advantage he had amassed. Stith
worked furiously for the last two
minutes for a fall, but was unable
to obtain it.
Wrestling his second varsity
match Currence in the 145 pound
class showed his ability by pinning
Cooper in eight minutes. After
both men had remained on their
feet for the first two minutes Cur-rence
held his four minutes ad-™
\ l™l , C h a p U > ? 0 t t h e A and construction equipment. Last vantage and then worked from un-
C E. held its regular meeting Sat- y e a r t h e r o a d f r o m t h e e n g i n e e r i n g:
urday morning in the Nichols En- K.,iiHi„„ .u i™-. „ * wnen « came nis
gineerine Hall building to the limit gates was t u r n t o take the bottom. He pin-
* ' I lined with the latest in construc-1
n e d his man with a body lock.
Mr. W. Goodwin of the second; tion machinery. The conference The 155 pound class was truly
class opened the program with a | last year was the largest that has a b a t t l e of captains
talk on gold prospecting. Mr. Good- ever been held. tain L a n d i s of v
win outlined the methods of mod-i . . . 0 . . . .
er. n . pro, s/pf ecting in, G. ui.n ea. He .e. x.- I MAJOR TX Uu CV KN. ECIR IV RIVEt,- and vanft!a,g"e on 1th eV fi°rswt tw^o m^ inu•t es
mmee thhoSd oOff p„rrons, pleci tinga and7 shu owe!d! RE IVE S V. A. S. AWA R D an. d the , keyde. t„ went do,w n f„i rs,t . to stay only thirty seconds. Taking
Neither Cap-
M. I. or Captain
also honor him as a citizen of Fred- program with a talk on the Coast
ericksburg where he resided from and Geodetic Survey. He outlined
the time that he was injured until the methods used in their Survey-he
took charge of the Naval Ob- ing with emphasis on the precision
servatory at Washington. with which the ymade their meas-
The dedication is being planned urements.
and directed by the new organiza- j Mr B a y l o r o f t h e f i r s t c l a s s g a ve
tion known as the Maury Birth- a n interesting talk on the use of
place Association. The dedication t h e Engi neering Library. He read
program is expected to be featured a l i s t o f t h e n e w b o o k s w h i c h h a ve
by the attendance of many promi- r e c e n t l y b e e n added to the Library
nent officials of the state and na- ^ u r g e d t h a t a U members of the
tional government, including the C i v i l Engineering department use
secretary Of the navy. (Continued on page eight)
how the tendency toward the use| Major N. Beverley Tucker of the , . . . ,
of such modern methods would faculty is one of seven Virginia • 1™ ^ , T P'
facilitate the operations from now1 scientists who have been granted .f/ ®f , c a d e t w as
' awards totalling $700.00 to a i d | ^ the Navy last week, held
them in making various scientific j h l ! lonf e™l g h ^ secure a
studies by the research committee j f j ^ ^ ^ f T h e k e y d e t
of the Virginia Academy of. S_ ci.e nce lea..d„e. r tr,i,e d „ hard to' secure a fall, "Stevie" Meem furnished the
Mr. H. Pettigrew followed on the
which met recently in Richmond.
Major Tucker's field is organic
chemistry.
These funds which are distribut-ed
by the Virginia Academy of|
Science to promote research work
among scientists in this state are
provided by the income from an
endowment fund established by
Dr. J. Shelton Horsley.
Major Tucker is a graduate of
the Institute in the Class of '29.
spectators with some real wrest-ling
in the 165 pound class in which
he was pitted against Bernhardt
of State. The State man held the
advantage for the first fifty sec-onds
but the "iron man" worked to
the top and when the advantage
changed again he had gained al-most
two minutes time margin.
Only on one other occasion was the
keydet in trouble and when the
(Continued on pa*, five)