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

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captured on the new field, and then how we had it in for old St. Albans, and could not get it out, and that fieldls name is, therefore, l1 Mud ' all this season. And we would tell how spring, having come, would not stop, but went, and winter came back, and with it Easter, with the girls and the Easter magazine, and how then the Faculty were moved to tears, for they and their lectures were cut to the heart. And how again many died, and many were carried away by the ravages of kalykosis, and of the many, one even as far as Norfolkabut that is a joke on College. ' r ' w a j y Oh! how many things should have been told! This has been a great year, this of 1901-2, and it would need the combined efforts of many pen-pushers to begin to describe it. Herr von Carlisle has sung early and often the glories of ll Rawlins, but a mightier task awaits him here. Dan Dorraine has written tales of more than Balzacian Vigor, with climaxes so startling that they had to be whispered in the hero's ears, yet he would be sorely put to it in this case. Arniado, too, has sandied ' much in his time, has Gadzooka l sewed up in a sack, Bobo ll backed off the board, and a vocabulary of slang ll right off the reel, for he only invented Boriology, and best ememplifles it; but the great Boriographos himself could not invent new words enough to tell what this year has seen. No. it is beyond them. There have been contests in the Wash. and the Jeff. and the cemetery that Topics itself could not find room for; there have been invasions by fair women too numerous for the Senator from Clarke to celebrate in rounded periods. The historians of the Classes have recorded, each in his kind, and Leota. the Egyptian Queen, has peered into the Future, but it is no use. The record of 1902 simply can not be written.

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Greeting. two indispensable commodities, ingredients absolutely necessary to sweeten its welcomeeflowing time and a list of all the good things provided for the fastidious taste of the readers for whom the book is intended. Our greeting, we hope, is none the less sincere, although you will have to look for ll A Last Word L' at the end of the book for the noble verse, and instead of a literary bill of fare, we shall merely mention briefly some of the things you 'will not find chronicled in our pages. This kind of salutation is unceremonious, but it has its advantages, among them an opportunity for us to make some of the apol- ogies which editorially we can not make, for all these things we shall leave untold. There are so many patent omissions in what we have concocted, so many epoch-making events, which we should have chronicled and could not, that it would be impossible to recount them all. Beginning with the first days of the ses- sion, we should like to tell how the College Fathers were distressed at the utter absence of the old-time spirit in the Meds and Laws and Academs of 1902, until the bright October days had gone, and the game was played in Lynchburg, and also a ll show ii was played in the great play-house of Charlottesville, hard-by the Imperial; and how the ll whisper yell l' was given, and the charge of the Cop Brigade was made, to be followed immediately by the nery red hand-bills tone of which we have preserved for posterityy, and the fiery mass-meetingv-but time is wanting. Also time would fail us to tell how we all went up to Wash- ington, and how ll Virginia found the Georgeburg knights soft as a woolen string? And then, would we could tell how the long dark winter blew and snowed; but, nevertheless, the Fathers of the Faculty found no cause to weep for the absence of the old-time spirit, for it had begun to circulate as usual, and there was no stopping it, even though at times some good man would stumble and fall and die. We can not pause to tell you how it was; but some died upon East Range, and sometupon the Lawn tand most of these fell about tea-time at Easter, and tottered back to their caves to diey, and some, even while seeking sanctuary, died, all pure and white, upon the Chapel steps. And no one mourned for them, as they should have been mourned. Yet again, when one thinks of the pleasant springtime, it seems nothing less than a plain neglect of duty not to chronicle how the gallant blade of grass was IT HAS been customary for CORKS AND CURLS to greet its readers with 6

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N no b3 17. 18. HDJ CALENDAR. 1901. SEPTEMBER. Beginning of 78th Session. Reception to New Students by Y. M. C. A. OCTOBER. Fall Initiation tb. A. CD. tLaw Fraternity. Fall Initiation of T. I. L. K. A. NOVEMBERL Fall Initiation of A. H. tAcademiC Fraternity; Fall Initiation of H. M. tMedical Fraternity; Virginia defeats Sewanee in Richmond. DECEMBER. Fall Initiation of Eli Banana. Christmas Examinations in the Academic Department. Beginning of Christmas Holidays. 1902. JANUARY. End of Christmas Holidays. Academic Examinations. FEBRUARY. Spring Initiation of T. I. L. K. A. MARCH. Easter Examinations in Academic Department. Death of Eugene Frost Davis. Spring Initiation tb. A. Q tLaw Fraternity; Spring Initiation of Eli Banana. APRIL. Spring Initiation of A. II. tAcademic Fraternityy Spring Initiation of 11. M. tMedical Fraternity; Unveiling of h The School Of Athens?7 MAY. Election of Officers of General Athletic Association. Field Day. JUNE. Final Examinations in Academic Department, Baccalaureate Sermon. Annual Meeting of the Board of Visitors. Address before the Literary Societies. Final Celebration of the Literary Societies. Address before the Alumni. Annual Meeting Of the Alumni. Address before the Faculty. Closing Exercises 0f the Session. 1,1,!th