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

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f i ' 1915 cloths anti Qturls 27 ff THE ROADSIDE SHRINE At the .Moorish gate, Whence the road Winds down the hill AndearrOW-straight-traverses the blazing plain, Beneath a lonely tree, austere and still, Christ crucified looks out oter His faithful Spain. To kiss his feet, Whose flesh is rent in twain, A White-robed nun kneels on the broken tile; The Wind breathes, and the dust swirls like the rain, n...,..-..- Greying her lips, too burdened With love to smile. She bends her head; like blood her SIOW tears run; The words of her prayer ring like the iron beat Of swords on shields; her beads mark one by one The fancied sins that trammel her stainless feet. Her gaze steals over the lowlands, tawny With heat, To rest Where the azure snows of far mountains gleam: And I hear Romets words on her lips grow gentle and sweet- I see in her eyes the pain of her God-vexed dream. -JAMES BARDIN.

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COOQ- w mi-om 1 1915 Qlurks anti QEIIHS 29 The Student Body of the University of Virginia T is estimated that twenty thousand students have attended the Univer- sity of Virginia from the opening of its doors in l825 to the present time. These twenty thousand men are the real builders of the Unia versity. They are also its most effective and its most interesting asset. When I think of the University, when I attempt to visualize its past and its future, it is not the colonnaded beauty of the buildings that looms largest in my thought, though I have never seen a rarer blend of architectural dignity and distinction; it is not that historic hrst year, when one might. have seen Jefferson and Poe greeting each other on the steps of the Rotunda; it is not the Faculty, able and devoted as they have always been. It is this young, eager, unending student- democracy that grips my imagination. The academic world knows the Uni- versity of Virginia, as it knows every university, chiefly through its President and Faculty; but the man on the street, the world at large, knows it through the students that pass yearly from its halls to embody or to impeach the prin- ciples of their alma mater. Every community of co-workers develops sooner or later a community Spirit, a collective individuality. The French call it esprit de corps, but 1n the case of the University of Virginia I prefer the phrase of Ulrich von Hutten. He called it the iiGemeingeist unter freien Geistern, that equal temper of liberal minds which freedom and responsibility alone can quicken into life and which, when formed, is the most potent influence that a university can release. The Gemeingeistii is very strong at the University of Virginia, so strong that however little a student may learn from the established courses of study, he will learn much or at least absorb much from: the Constant teaching of the Gemeingeistf, alt is hard to analyze this communal spirit but when the Uni- versity of Virginia man looks back on his cdllege years he will agree with me, I think, that four elements stand out preEminent. ' a The first is 'courteSyga' Courtesy born of freedom, self-respect tnot selfa esteeml; and an unbroken de'mOcratiC traditiOn.' Wherever you find a Uni- versity of Virginia man you are pretty apt to hnola man who either broiJght a hne-flavored courtesy with him to the University or imbibed it unconSCiously from the iiGemeingeist. It is a courtesy not merely of form but of spirit, and