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

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i t 1908 CORKS AND CURLS Ul of Virginians than Senator Daniel. He is an honor and an ornament to his State as a laWyer, a legislator, an orator and a statesman, and the University of Virginia has no son on its list of illustrious alumni whose. career is pointed to with more pride than that of the Senior Senator from Virginia'-and if the Presidency, in the order of events, could be bestowed upon a Southerner, the chances are that the mantle would fall upon his shoulders. MICAJAH WOODS. C lzarlottuesw'tlla, V a. March 20th, 1908.

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flit. .uinw-vwreci-vanvwgr .M-............ ....1 Mg'... - 4 1-14 I r i , . 8 t 1 , , x , . f, e ,, , - . y8vb-qurnWw-awuw MthW-MM . . P: N xtMau 11: Away 2! 5! L 9 3 X K h WI 1 qt. 1 i 4 i Y 4 . CORKS AND CURLS a VOLXXI and a member of the State Senate. from 1875 to 1881, was Democratic Elector at Large in 1876, and has been one of the Delegates at Large fr0m Virginia to the National Democratic Conventions of 1880, 1888, I892, 1896, 1900, and 1904. In 1881, he was the Democratic nominee for Governor, and was defeated by W'm. E. Cameron, Readjuster. CI; He was elected a member of the House of Representatives ot: the 49th Congress in 1884,, and was elevated to the Senate of the United States to succeed William Mahone in 1887, and by successive elections he has adorned a seat in that august body ever since. His present term of service will not expire until the third of March, 1911. i CI; He is an LL. D. of Washington and Lee University and of Michigan University. . 0; Senator Daniel is recognized as one of the great orators of America. His first speech, which attracted attention in the Commonwealth, was made by him in June, 1866, as final orator of the Jefferson Society of the University of Vir- ginia. One of the most cultivated audiences that ever assembled in Virginia greeted him on that occasion in the great hall in the annex to the. Rotunda, which has been since destroyed, when his auditors were. entranced both by the manner and matter of his address, and the prediction was then made that he would speedily rise to eminence. q Gifted as he is by a splendid presence, by a rich voice, and by rare culture, he has beensummoned, by the people of the country as the orator upon, many noted occasions. The addresses that he has delivered upon the life and character of Robert E, Lee, of Stonewall Jackson, and of President Davis are classics in our literature. I 0; He was honored by the Congress of the United States by being selected unanimously, along with Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, to deliver before that body an oration upon the subject of iiWashingtonf, and although the theme a was threadbare, in the way'of treatment, he lent a new charm to the story of the Revolutionary Era. 0; The older citizens, who sat under the spell of Clay and Webster in the Senate of the United States, and Who listened to the great speeches that Senator Daniel has made on national questions, claim that his arguments and his speeches in point of elegant diction and powerful argument measured up fully to the highest standard set by his great predecessors. Q No gentleman is more beloved or has a stronger hold upon the affections

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x 1 6 . CORKS AND CURLSl VOLXXI T is. probable that CORKJ' AND CURLJ would not have made this, its twenty- frrst bow, to the semi-appreciate, semi- censorious public if ttBory Robinson, the sedulous preserver of the antiquities of Vir- ginia, had not insisted that CORKJ AND CURLJ had now itself become an antiquity. He also convinced the editorial us that we were in no worse plight than the poor editor who had the ill-fortune to follow im- mediately the famous CORKJ AND f CURLJ of 235. We are also more for- ' A tunate than the editor of the CORKJ AND CURLf of too, in that, while he had no assistance from Laughlin, we as have received much sought-for advice and several literary con- - , - tributions from the editor of the 1:: now ttfamous edition of 1902? Indeed, for four years, Mr. L. D. Crenshaw has been the main- stay of CORKJ AND CURLJ. a The most marked deviation in this Annual from those of the two years just past is the absence of such metamorphoses as that of the ttOrancl Old Oirll, of the Law Class into a royal personage. It was felt that the editors of following years should be given a chance to indulge in such legerdemaln. For the literary contributions we cordially thank Captain Micajah Woods and Messrs. L. D. Crenshaw, O. L. Shewmake, L. R. Whipple, W. O. Ryburn, A. S. , Bolling, M. P. Robinson, C. O. Middleton. J. A. Ooerdeler, and J. S. Wilson. Three of the poems included were not written expressly for CORKJ AND CURLJ, but to j the carping critics we would say thatthey were published in the University of ' Virginia Literary Magazine before 1860, and we hereby make our due acknowl- edgments in that regard. r . For the art work we are deeply indebted to Messrs. Munson, Walker, Christy, Conrad, Wrenn, Bell and Rowell. We are also under perpetual obligations to . Misses Eastman, Johnson, Foster and Bowles for the art contributions from the fair sex to CORKf AND CURLf. Mr. Munson particularly deserves our thanks, for he even remembered us when he was in great sorrow. .L'Lv-f asp aw;-