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

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,.,,.,, .J ,DUVL ,,- -. . WY -A ,. . .., . .. . .......,,...-.,.-.. -... 12 CORKS AND CURLS VOLXXVT narratives of fierce conflict are blazoned on a background of violence and mutiny. The professors, imported from abroad, lived in their pavilions, as now, and the students in their rooms on lawn or range. They attended lectures for long hours, and came back later to rail at the doctors, doors in the discordant din of the Hcalathumpian serenadef, They played the ganiesof cards in, vogue before poker was invented, and drank rum the while. Daggers were often drawn and the duel became the solace of insulted honor. Excitement was the staple article of diet. The rout of an itinerant circus illustrates their hair-trigger turbulence. A caravan of performers was exhibiting in Charlottesville, at that time sep- arated from the University by a mile of forest growth, and the entire student body had absented itself in town to takein the attraction. An encounter between a student and a circus hand stirred up bad blood that rose toward night into a hot torrent. The angered youths returned in haste to their rooms fo- ammunition, and rushed back through the woods in an Apache phalanx, with the roar of a lion quaerens quem clevorei. The -circus crowd fled to the hills, leaving its impedimenta behind, and only a few straggling charioteers and muscle-dancers were overtaken lnsubordination ran rife for many years, but whole- sale expulsions drove the survi r 'qi an application to their studies. The growing reform ushered in a better era, but the i putation of the distant past contributed to the University's name for fast life. Certainly, if it exists at the present day, that reputation is undeserved, and will soon altogether disappear. Ever since the war, and for a long time before, chivalry has negxatived the toleranceof unruly conduct. Gallantry has kept pace with the progress of order. , r Southern ,sentiment,,a wealthrofi tradition and patriotism bound with the ties of romance, was lately the object of deprecation by a distinguished authoress south of the Mason and Dixon line in an interview given, or alleged to have been given, with a reporter for a New York newspaper. In the role of a critic, she was made to say that the people of the Old Dominion are too much occupied with the vagaries of the golden past to understand fully the actualities of the living present. This imputation of ancestrai lustre is brought home strongly to the University of Virginia, but as for the danger of retro- gression because of early glories, that risk has been well taken care of by alumni, the most prominent proportionately of any university in the country. An article in a recent issue-of the Columbia QS. CQ State showed that the radial area of ten miles around the University had been the home of more famous men than have lived in any other district of equal size in the United States. From the time of Presidents Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, who were closely allied with the daily life of the University, the History of the nation has been -contributed to by natives of Albemarle. T newspaper article would make valuable reading on an- interesting topic. Every phase of he books referred to in the the S'-1bjCCt is adequately handled, and it would be idle to go over ground that has been Eglifsflviiizvlfllholcg if vplriecselnt reader can fbe made to understand .some of the 'University's i HVC Spent a ew years among its buildin s and t t - phere, that is all that can be desired. g In I S a mos I-s. ,L Eval . t. , W . .- .V .A g .1 ' r I Q,--L' ig '- -L---s ,4:.1L..:,L. t 1 .- . - ' . - - ' .V . - v - n-.............a-.-f..sa,r-L,g,..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,g,qr , , , 1 , M -- - M-4-M .....,.L....--vggree,---f... ..1--.....,,.,.,,,-L lrgl v . X

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MONTICELLO, THE HOME OF JEFFERSON Photo by Holsinger

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1913, RKS AND CURLS Undoubtedly the esen tial lsarmony of the Uni 1 Arohnecture ac ademlc an H Topography V' age d e r 1 v e d from the contour of the grounds the symmetry and stateliness of the buildings and the offsetting beauty 01 nature unaororned The Ro tunda a modern Pantheon has been compared to a stone set like a gem among LAWN BY MOONUGHT the hills of the Blue Ridge It IS the central building and the most majestic in the entire scheme With its polished dome and base of grave c ntatlon it forms the northern end of the rectangular Lawn From either side raised and chanceled court forming the esplanades a line of pavilions broken by connectmg short rows of student rooms and fronted by a white pillared arcade makes a longitudinal side of the rectangle ID a southward course The Rouss Physical Laboratory on the east and the Mechanical Building cn the west prolong these sides to Cabell Hall the home of the academic de partment and the entrance to the large auditorium This arrangement of buildungs and cultivation of grounds IS the Unlversitys chief physical attraction The Lawn velvet gieensward in summer and a snow white close in winter Hanked by chiseled grandeur of classic facades and entablature may well be called a touch of nature beyond the reach of art The canopy of blue sky or star lit firmament is partially obscured by the luxurlant foliage of a double row of trees At night when shaded lights cast a faint glow with mellow tlnts there IS painted a pure pastel of a tone subdued and pleasurable as the halo of a garden on Olympus The Rotunda though the most majestic of the University buildings ylelds ln point of age to the only pavilion on the Lawn not oc upied as the home of a professor the Colonnade Club on the western side efferson Madison and Monroe were among the brilliant assemblage that attended the laymg of the cornerstone for this central structure in ISZ5 six years after the University was founded Nor has the Rotunda the cap stone of education in the state been lseld irviolate through the generations In 1895 it was wholly burned down 1n spite of the heroism of Hre fighters and in the present century a disgruntled Lb contractor who had not been paid by his prlnclp l tried to subject it to a mechanic s hen I-lere the sovereignty of the state prevented an act of lese majeste C O 13 , , S , rm 0 v e r s ' t y fs ' d . ,, . : - is . I 9 i I . . . I , 1 . ' f Q 1 l . . . . , . Y . , . as 97 - - V ' - . . X , A , . . . , . - , , I. nl - - . . . , . . . . 55 ,, . - . , a Q . F . . . , . , over delicately-limned columns and capitals, or the moon flushes a glimmering landscape I , , . . . . . . , . . . - - 'cc as ' .C ,-. - J 9 .U 9 ' , Q J - . . F , . V .A A T , I A S z 1 , . . . . d , . . . I . , . n ' Y A u