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

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The Virginians. Behold the spot ! the sunlight falls Through tunneltd limbs and creeps and crawls From brick to brick on curving walls, The while the wilful echo calls Reiteration to our words ; y t While, from the vined chapel tower, i f The rusty bell rings out the hour, i i And seems to thrill, with mystic power, f Us and the birds. ii i : Or, when the mountain-clear moonlight And many men must come and go 31 Pours oier the distant ridge at night, And pass along the columnid row, I . ' Our Spirits breathe a pure delight Under the Doric portico- i To note the rows of columns white And much the joy and much the wee Within its lucid beam ; Before the end shall be ; z . When at our feet for all to see Each man himself his fate must sway, J . 'Ehere lies our University, ' And live his life from day to day, As calm, and with the purity, And in his own bestthinking way 0f any angel dream. Love his divinity. Then drink the men in youth who come To dwell around that gilded dome, That grows in greatness as the home Of shades of those who ire gone ; Here is to them all, whateier belief Or creed they keep, or tthough in grief Or joy they live-award a wreath, For they have walked, the sky beneath, Along the pillarid lawn. --P. F. Du Pont. 7 77s.---s , ,7 .VL-Iln-H; ,7 :3mjg.w$v

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g l 4' c 3, y y Academica Narratio. $J HIS is the thirteenth effort to portray academic life at the University' of Virginia, and in accordance with the familiar superstition attached to the number, one might expect a history at variance with- those , . that havehitherto appeared. But a slight consideration will show i b that the materials existing thirteen years ago for such a sketch, Q were essentially the same as those we have now. 'The professors possessing the most marked eccentricities are the same that witnessed g, the birth of CORKS AND CURLs, and to again record their peculiarities would 3 be to serve up hash grown insipid through repetition. Henry Martin has been i the mainstay of the University ii since the mind of man runneth not to the ; contrary? The college stories in which ii Snowball ii has figured would make a fair-sized volume and ii Napoleon? the third of our prominent scions of Ham, has been accorded suflicient publicity. With the exception of not bringing the time-worn favorites upon the stage, we will be restricted to the use of the same old scenery and settings. In numbers the Academic Class comprises almost two-thirds of the students in the. University, not organized into a harmonious whole: but loosely bound together by the common desire to acquire knowledge. This learned body meets in session only on the most rare occasions, otherwise the combined products of their master minds would generate a wave of intelligence that would sweep from continent to continent and eradicate ignorance the whole world through. The one and only occasion this year chanced to be to mete out justice for a supposed affront to their traditional honor, but on investigation it was found that their escutcheon was still spotless. It was alleged that ii hazing ii had been indulged in, and their delicate sense of honor was unable to bear that such I. a heinous offense go unpunished. i 25 ta2.4.1- A s-r .n a i. 2.; Arew,+b-E;e-ty