VMI Cadet. October 9, 1933

              The Official Organ of the
Virginia Military Institute
Athletic Association The Cadet Published Weekly By
The Corps of Cadets Virginia Military Institute
Varsity P l a y s Davidson
Oct. 14; Rats Encounter
U. of Va., Oct. 27
VOL. XXVII LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA MONDAY, OCT. 9, 1933 No. 3
Life At College
Offers Choice
Of Two Paths
Boston Post Correspondent
Points Out Hard Way Is
Really Easier In Long Run
Says Ignorance Amazing
Claims 7 Out Of 10 Unable To
Utilize Higher Educations
BY BILL CUNNINGHAM
Boston Sunday Post Correspondent
When the original Adam matricu-lated
into the University of Eden,
the baboon, or whoever was presi-dent
of the institution, must have
given him the standard freshman
fight talk about improving each
shining hour. They always do. The
gawky first year class is always
herded into some hall where the
acoustics are good and some
learned-looking gent wearing
black night shirt and goat's whis-kers
exhorts them in the correct
Oxfordian A to apply themselves
diligently to their various require-ments,
in order that they may
emerge at the end of the year, with
the satisfying realization that they
have taken full advantage of their
opportunities.
Instead of gently wreathing their
heads with this politely phrased
hooey, he'd do more for 'em if he
tied the tail of his gown, around
his middle in a washer-woman's
knot, waded down out that pulpit
with a stout wart-elm club and
bradded it into their noggins with
free hand swings where necessary.
It's not only a privilege to go to
college; it's a stern responsibility,
and it's never been quite the stern
responsibility that it is in these
times. From somewhere and in
some miraculous fashion this weary
and wobbling world has got to
find itself some brains. Getting
it back upon its axis is going to
require some thinking and keeping
it there is going to take some more.
If the colleges and universities
can't develop some leaders, they'll
prove themselves to be what they've
sometimes been called—merely glo-rified
country clubs.
An the young laides and gentle-men
in them will have proved
themselves false not only to their
unusual opportunities, but to the
sacrifices that made those opportun-ities
possible.
Leadership Lacking
A wise commentator has charged
that the post-war generation has
dismally failed to produce the strong
leadership vital to world progress.
Another has charged flaming post-war
youth with the present depres-sion.
His points are a trifle far
brought. Still they do make some
sense. He traces how youth on the
crest of the boom, shouldered sane
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Arthur Henderson To Speak
At University of Richmond
A member of the British Parlia-ment,
Mr. Arthur Henderson, Jr.,
will open a series of lectures to be
held Oct. 11, 12, and 13 at the Uni-versity
of Richmond.
Mr. Henderson is the son of Rt.
Hon. Arthur Henderson, British
secretary of state for foreign af-fairs,
and has taken a great inter-est
in the policies and activities of
the Labor party. At present he is
a lecturer in industrial law at the
Ruskin College of Oxford. He has
been secretary to the Labor party
legal advisory committee, secre-tary
of the University Labor Fed-eration,
and standing counsel to the
Labor party.
The series of lecturers which Mr.
Henderson's address will inaugur-ate
is part of the celebration of
University Week at the University
of Richmond.
A Finance Committee
Announcement
The Second Class Finance Committee feels it neces-sary
to call the attention of the Corps to the unsatis-factory
distribution of papers in Barracks this year.
As in the past all papers have been placed in the en-trance
to the mail room, where subscribers may get
them. It is frequently the case that three or four men
in one day do not get the papers for which they have
paid. This is no fault of the Finance Committee, for
more papers than there are subscribers are brought
into Barracks daily. The committee does not believe
that any papers have been intentionally taken without
payment, but it does ask that in the future cadets be
more careful in getting their papers. If, by mistake,
any man finds he has taken the wrong paper, or an ex-tra
one, he should return it immediately. The success
of the present system of distribution depends entirely
on the members of the Corps, and only with their full
cooperation can it be achieved.
Roll Of Honor
Is Announced
September Academic Distinc-tions
Published In Recent
Order From Headquarters
Second Classmen Lead
V. P. I. Sophs Talk
Over "Rat System
Discuss Treatment of New
Men With Commandant
W. & M. Requests
B u i l d i n g Loan
Va. College Asks $650,000
From Public Works Board
Last Friday evening at V. P. I.
the sophomore class held its first
meeting in order to discuss phases
of the "rat system". Colonel May-nard,
the Commandant, made some
valuable suggestions during the dis-cussion,
most of which were adopt-ed.
It was finally decided to fol-low
the Colonel's suggestion and
march the rats to the quadrangle
in an orderly manner where they erected under the terms of the loan
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to you) and be given some prelim-inary
instructions. It was also de-cided
to to devote the next week
or so to instructing the rats in the
proper deportment of a new cadet.
All "horse play" was to follow at
a later date.
Discusses Injury To Corps
Colonel Maynard in his talk re- t h a t sPa c e h a s b e e n a l l o t t ed
The College of William and Mary
yesterday filed preliminary plans
with the Federal Public Works
Board for Virginia for the construc-tion
of three buildings and a stad-ium.
The aggregate cost of the de-velopment
will be approximately
$650,000. A formal application for
the loans and grants will be made
in a few days.
The buildingo vvrnen will be
Buford,
Crawford, J. H
( Darrall, S. H.
dormatory to be known as Talia- j Dillard, H. N
ferro Hall; a structure to contain
class rooms; and a student activi-ties
building, which will contain a
gymnasium and a swimming pool.
The proposed stadium is to seat
10,700 persons, and is to be built
encircling an athletic field 420 feet
long and 220 feet wide. A feature
20 First Classmen Named For
High Standing In Studies
On October the 3rd the Superin-tendent
issued the names com-prising
the Honor List for the month
of September. There was a total
of sixty-nine Cadets who were
eligible for this distinction, the
majority of whom were from the
First and Second classes. There
were no Fourth classmen cited this
month due to the fact that they
have been in school only a short
time. The present Honor list is
bearing out the general trend of
last year showing a continual in-crease
in the number of students
excelling in their scholastic work.
HEADQUARTERS
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
Lexington, Virginia
October 3, 1933.
Memorandum
No. 14.
I. The following cadets of the
First, Second and Third Classes
comprise the HONOR LIST for the
Month of September, 1933, having
received an average of 9.00 or more
on all topics of instruction and no
grade below 8.50 on any topic of
instruction.
FIRST CLASS
BiakeiAore, JN.D. Virginia i
- - - s^, III ...... Virginia
500 Watch Gridgraph
In JM Hall Saturday
A crowd of about five hun-dred
persons, including cadets,
officers and civilian visitors
witnessed the V. M. I.-Army
football classic, as portrayed on
the gridgraph in the Jackson
Memorial Hall on Saturday.
Announcer Dick Edmonds broad-cast
the game, play by play,
from his point of vantage be-hind
the gridgraph. The ac-count
was telegraphed from
Michie Field, West Point, New
York.
As the illuminated ball moved
back and forth across the board,
cheers and groans alternately
pierced the stillness of the hall,
as the Big Red Team crashed
through for a gain or was
thrown for a loss. The hottest
contest on Alumni Field never
brought forth more excitement,
more nerve-racking suspense.
The gridgraph feature was
furnished to the corps, officers,
and visitors free of charge by
the V. M. I. Post Exchange.
College Press
Frames Plans
For Meeting
Lubersky and Freeman To Be
Principal Speakers At VIP
Conference At Richmond
Dean of The Citadel
Dies In Charleston
Col. Oliver J. Bond, Former
President, Passes On Oct. 1
Jr. Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Jr. Virginia
Douglass, W. P. Missouri
Gilliam, R. S„ Jr. Virginia
Goodwin, J. M. Virginia
Kaufman, L. M Virginia
Lanford, O. E. Virginia
Lipscomb, A. McL Virginia
Long, H. B. G. Virginia
McMann, I. H. S Virginia
Palmer, T. L Virginia
Pitkethly, D. A New York
Royce, G. A. Alabama
Shorter, D. E. Virginia
of the proposed stadium is the fact I Smith, S. A. Virginia
Tucker, E. W., Jr New Jersey
for Ward, J. J. Jr. Virginia
marked about how the freshmen
press boxes and offices. The entire
project will provide work for 312
were driven from the school by the m e n o v e r a period of nine months,
"rat system", and how the corps Anderson Discusses Loan
as a whole was receiving a black Colonel James A. Anderson, head
eye from the actions of the old;o f t h e Department of Civil Engi-neering
at V. M. I. for the past few
cadets. The Colonel said that it y e a r g a n d at p r e s e n t o n e Qf ^
was up to the undergraduate body h e a d s Qf t h e v i r g i n i a p u b U c W o r ks
to redeem itself an. d ,b ring , back the Board,, .le. f. t f. or „B al..t.i more .l ast. wee,k good reputation of the school.
SECOND CLASS
Bagwell, W. P. Virginia
Bodenheim, E. H Texas
Clark, J. M. , Ohio
Cowardin, E. M. Virginia
Cranford, J. R. Dist. of Columbia
Dalton, H. M Virginia
Derby, R. A. New York
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Lack of time to stage a rat
parade before the Roanoke-V. P. I.
football game necessitated the post-ponement
of the parade until the
following Saturday. Colonel May-nard
expressed the hope that the
parade would be an improvement
over the previous one and that it
would be more comical.
to discuss applications for loans
and grants totaling over $11,500,-
000 throughout the state of Vir-ginia.
The Federal Board are consider-ing
various projects under the head
of unemployment relief measures,
and at the present time Colonel
Anderson is one of the foremost
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Second Classmen Elect Holt, Meem
To Head Next Year's Bomb Staff
Another wise selection was that
of Jim Meens for Business Mana-ger.
Meen is also a sergeant, a
member of the Cadet staff, and a
member of the Finance Committee.
He is a civil engineer, and his home
is New York city. He will un-doubtedly
make the '35 Bomb a
financial success.
The staff this year is to be chosen
in a different manner than it has
been formerly. Some time in the
near future a meeting of all Second
Classmen interested in Bomb work
is to be called. From this group
the editor and business manager
will pick their assistants. In this
way it is hoped that only those
men genuinely interested in such
work will be associated with the
Bomb. Work on pictures and the
larger contracts will be started im-mediately.
At a meeting of the Second Class
last Tuesday, W. C. Holt and T. C.
Meen were elected to head the
Staff of the "35 Bomb. They will
hold the positions of Editor-in-
Chief and Business Manager re-spectively.
In view of the great
amount of work to done in con-nection
with producing the Bomb,
the Second Class followed the pre-cedent
of '34 in holding early elec-tions
to these offices.
Clary Holt is from Greensboro,
N. C. He is a Liberal Arts and has
worn stars since his rat year. He
is a member of the Cadet staff and
of the Second Class Finance Com-mittee.
The new editor is also a
high ranking sergeant in E Com-pany.
The Second Class is confi-dent
that Holt is wholly compe-tent
to fulfill his important office.
Sophomores At Tulane
'Crack Down' On Frosh
New Orleans, La., Sept. 29—In-augurated
by a group of alumni,
plans for a return to the old system
of freshman discipline are being
carried through at Tulane Uni-versity.
Deploring the laxity and
indifference which have sprung up
during the past few years, the
sophomore class has instituted a
drive for the enforcement of fresh-man
customs. The movement has
met with enthusiasm throughout
the school and all upperclassmen
are lending support to the sopho-mores.
t
The traditional green caps are
much in evidence, freshmen are
beginning to realize the wisdom of
avoiding certain forbidden paths
on the campus, and the sacred mid-dle
steps of Gibson Hall are re-spected
as "off limits". The new
era has spread to all phases of
activity at the University. The
alumni have banded together to
put a stop to the laxity of fresh-man
organization at the football
games. Groups of alumni augment-ed
by sophomore undergraduates
police the stands and see that the
freshmen remain in their appoint-ed
sections, the idea being to build
up a more enthusiastic school
spirit.
The Hullabaloo, weekly news-paper
of Tulane, urges sophomores
to realize the seriousness of the
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Charleston, S. C.—Colonel Oliver
J. Bond, dean of The Citadel, South
Carolina military college, and form-er
president of the institution, died
at his residence on the campus on
October 1. He jvas sixty-eight
years old.
Colonel Bond was stricken with
a heart attack at his office on Fri-day
afternoon and grew steadily
worse. His death occurred early
Saturday morning.
On October 2, the day following
Colonel Bond's death, he was to
have celebrated his fifty-first an-niversary
at The Citadel. Enter-ing
the college as a beneficiary
cadet on October 2, 1882, he had
been connected with the institu-tion
as student, professor, presi-dent
and dean.
President 1908-1931
Colonel Bond served as president
of The Citadel from 1908 until his
retirement from that office in 1931.
In that year he was succeeded by
General Charles P. Summerall,
former army chief of staff. Gen-eral
Summerall was proposed by
Colonel Bond to succeed him as
president of the South Carolina
military institution.
The widow of the deceased, the
former Miss Mary Fishburne Roach
of Bamberg, and a son, Major Oli-ver
J. Bond, Jr., U. S. Army, of
Columbus, Ohio, survive. Major
Bond flew from Columbus to at-tend
his father.
Funeral services were held at 3
P. M. on October 3, at Saint Paul's
Protestant Episcopal Church. At
the family's request, military rites
were ommitted. However, a com-pany
of Citadel cadets were among
the honorary pallbearers.
V. M. I. To Send Group
Local Publicaitons Staffs Ar-range
To Be Represented
German Press Stripped
Of Freedom By Nazis
The German Reinch has disre-garded
completely what we know
in America as the "freedom of the
press," has imposed the death pen-alty
for circulating treasonable ar-ticles
and has placed German
newspaper workers directly be-neath
the mailed fist of the gov-ernment.
The cabinet has passed a num-ber
of drastic laws making the
publishing of treasonable articles
abroad or the introducing of them
into Germany punishable by death.
Journalism has been made a lic-
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Plans for the Virginia Intercol-legiate
Press Convention, to be held
at the University of Richmond on
October 27, 28, are now well under
way, and final arrangements for
the meeting are being made. Near-ly
forty colleges in Virginia and
the District of Columbia will send
delegates.
Both the BOMB and the CADET
staffs are making plans for send-ing
representatives, N. D. Blake-more
and F. C. Brady, editor and
business manager of the CADET,
plan to represent that publication
in Richmond. The BOMB delega-tion
has not yet been definitely de-cided
upon; However, it is felt
certain that R. S. Gilliam, business
manager, will attend. The remain-der
of the delegation will- be an-nounced
shortly.
Registrations Pour In
Virginia Intercollegiate Press au-thorities
in Richmond announce
that registrations are beginning to
pour in, and that from all indica-tions,
this year's meeting promises
to be one of the most outstanding
ever held by the organization.
A. S. Lubersky, of Chicago, who
has attended several other V. I.
P. conventions, will be in Richmond
to take charge of the editors of
college annuals. Mr. Lubersky has
worked with college annuals for
the past twenty years, and is con-sidered
an authority in that line.
Several men prominently indenti-fied
with newspapers in the state
will be on the program at Rich-mond.
Douglas S. Freeman, edi-tor
of the Richmond "News-Leader"
will speak on the night of the 28,
when the only formal meeting of
the convention will take place. Wil-liam
S. Lacy, Jr., city editor of the
Charlottesville "Daily Progress"
will also be present at the cenven-tion.
Miss Dulaney To Attend
Miss Evelyn Dulaney of Roanoke
one of the co-founders of the as-sociation
in 1928, and now honor-ary
president of the body, will pre-side
at the opening meeting which
is set for 2 P. M., Friday, October
28.
Following the initial meetings,
devoted to organization and busi-ness,
two hours will be given over
to discussion groups, four in num-ber,
in which editors of annuals,
magazines, and newspapers will
discuss their individual troubles.
The discussion will also be open
to the business managers who at-tend
the conference.
A social program is planned to
follow the formal meeting on Fri-day
evening. Nine silver loving
cups will be presented at this time
to the winners in each of the classes.
Saturday morning will be devoted
to a short business session and to
the discussion of the problems out-lined
in the Friday afternoon ses-sions.
Guests At Football Game
After the final business session
at noon on Saturday when officers
for 1933-34 will be named and the
meeting place for the 1934 conven-tion
selected, the members will be
the guests of the University of
Richmond and Randolph-Macon
college at the football classic at
the Richmond stadium.
A great deal of the work of ad-vertising
the convention and con-
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