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VALEDICTORIAN TO 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)
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Title | VMI Cadet. February 13, 1933 |
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Full Text Search | VALEDICTORIAN TO 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) |