University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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A MID-CENTURY GLANCE BACK In the spring of 1888, when the first Conxs AND CURLS appeared at the University, handlebar mustaches and long side- burns were common sights about the grounds. The familiar chant of 'tWahoo-wahm was a thing unknown; instead, the athletic teams were cheered on to victory with dignified cries of, Rah, rah, rah; VAR-SI-TY; rah, rah, rah, Hi; The average student was living on flva hundred and fifty dollars a year, and the school colors were cardinal red and silver grey. There was an enrollment of approximately three hundred and fifty students, half of whom smoked, half of whom wore beards . . . and eighty-two percent of whom were Democrats. The Board of Visitors had gradually evolved from the form of a strict disciplinary body to that of a constructive com- mittee composed of prominent and capable citizens who were interested primarily in the progress and development of the University. No longer did they expell students for offenses such as throwing bricks at professors, attacking fellow students with pistols, and being out of uniform. Through the years, sixty-one more editions of the CORKS AND CURLS have appeared. They have shown the changes in the University as they have occurred-They have shown the gradual broadening and strengthening of JeEersonian ideals of education.

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DEDICATION I nyht 'szhlhlhe 91' h as hv z A lh w x w h l r PETERS HUSHTOII 1915-1949 B.A., Princeton; M.A., Harvard; Ph.D., Princeton; Assistant Pro- fessor of English; Assistant Dean of Students; Dean of First Year Men; Founder and Chairman of the McGregor Room Seminars; Co-author hvith Dan S. Nortoni of 9A Glossary of Literary Terms, Classical Myths in English Literature. On the morning of December 27 when he was 34 years old, Peters Rushton died. He had been ill less than two months. The achievements of his short life promised more brilliant achievements in years to come, and for both students and faculty of the University the shock of his sudden death was succeeded by a deep sense of loss. Peters Rushton had unusual energy which he used wisely and happily. This energy sustained his wit and gaiety, his acute sense of intellectual and moral values, his happy faith in reason in spite of his daily acquaintance with the unreasonableness of man. He was a Christian who practiced the Christian virtues with a complete lack of ostentation. He hated sleepy thinking and false sentiment. When he shocked people by questioning what they believed in, it was usually good for them. And one of his reasons for doing so was to remind himself to examine carefully his own reasons for thinking what he did, to avoid slipping into the vagueness that threatens all of us. W. B. Yeats said, 'QSome burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bate chimney is gone black out Because the work has finished in that Hare? DAN S. NORTON

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