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

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a , THE STAFF OF THE FIRST CORKS AND CURLSe-ISSS I. Dyer, J. B. Dunn, Jr., C. L. Minor, W. DeColes, A. Latady, R. R. Rogers R. S. Cockrell, Bus. Mgr.; Robt. Massie, A. H. Byrd, J. H. C. Bagby, Editor; H. Barry, A. L. Bondurant Geo. G. Battle, J. H. Hobson The Genesis of Corkstand Curls By DR. JOHN HAMPDEN CHAMBERLAYNE BAGBY Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Hampden-Sidney College; First Editor-inaChief of CORKS AND CURLS ORKS AND CURLS was started in the beginning of a period of change that, acting with gathering speed in several directions, has resulted in an institution , hardly to be recognized by its alumni of the early '80,s. Young men who had served in the Confederate Army, boys born before or during the War Between the States and reared in the strongly conservative decade that followed, had come and gone; to be succeeded by students who, born after the war and growing to manhood in the first years of slow but sure recovery, were not so bound by tradition and were ready, if not eager, to inaugurate new things and' new ways of doing old things. As the bitter feelings, en- gendered by the war grew weaker, and as intercourse, flnancial and social, became more frequent, the college men of the South came to know the students of the colleges of the North and to learn of the unfamiliar habits and customs of these bigger, if not better, ina stitutions. Young people, possibly because they are closer to that remote ancestor tso Darwin might afhrmL hprobably arboreal, are markedly initiative; and so the students of the smaller colleges felt that they must adopt, to a greater or less degree, the habits, manners and customs of those in the larger, or adrnit, with burning cheeks, that they live thin the bushes of the college world. I51