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

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QEurks anti QLurIs Virginia N ights I am unsteady from the sight Of Ivide Virginia skies at night: It seems as though young cavaliers Come swinging from the ancient years And challenge me to join their throng--e To take the way of love and song. Ah, Cod, rm mad enough to go, For beauty waits! . . These do, I know: The sound of music in a street, Where lover, sitting at the feet Of lover, burns his heart outright; The misty pools of orange light From windoIDS higher than the eye, Where laughter floms and joy burns high! Oh! later, I will love some one, Who is as beautiful as sun Upon the petals of a rose When summer day comes to a close. Then I will wonder at such things As the soft tune a Woman sings; At blooms within old garden walls; The happy little evening calls Of bird to bird beside the way--- The magic of a common day. But Old Dominion cavaliers Their glasses clinic in eager ears And night, with an impelling voice, Bids me now join them and rejoice! -LAWRENCE LEE, JR. 1923

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I923 Qlurks anti Qtutls 7 teen members of the staff were elected. In this way the new venture was assured of be- tween two and three hundred subscribers. After organizing, the staff attacked the important and delicate question of a, name for the child; the title, liThe Old Dominion? was proposed, in addition to that of CORKS AND CURLS, and was lost by a narrow margin, the controlling argument being that of CORKS AND CURLS; local colloquialisms of the day meaning, broadly, Wailing, and ilsuc- ceeding smacked of the soil and could be used only at the University, while the other might be selected equally aptly by any college in the State. The question of the number of copies to be pirnted brought at once the inevitable cleavage between the optimistic and the pessimistic members of the staff; the former deg mandecl that at least a thousand copies be issued, while the doubting Thomases pleaded- almost with tearsafor a maximum edition of five hundred. A compromise was reached on seven hundred; over two hundred of these remained unsold when the accounts were closed. this being due in some measure to the departure of many students before the books were ready for distribution. The price to be charged per copy caused a long and anxious debate; it was finally agreed to risk a charge of fifty cents apiece, although more than one of the editors seemed to despair of being able to extort such a sum from each of his clubmates. Of course advertisements were solicited here, there, and everywhere, so far as in- experience and lack of time would permit, with a most unexpected result in one case. When the chairman of the Faculty was asked to aid the feeble enterprise by inserting an adver- tisement of the University, he declined, taking the position that the University needed no advertisement and desired none! When the last possible cent had been painfully scraped into the treasury, it was seen that the Treasurer, Spratt Cochrell, had been gifted with prophetic vision; he had provided himself with an account book of only vest-pocket size. As 1888 was in the Dark Ages before the New Morality had been invented, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad did not pay for its advertisement in money, but sent a pass made out in the name of the Editor-in- Chief; being the only student possessing such a desirable article he was much elated and unduly puffed upa-for a short time. It soon developed that not only every member of the staff, but most of those whom he knew by sight, as well, had convinced themselves that they had a right to borrow this pass and to ride up and down the road to their hearts content. When at last the books were delivered, ten days before the Finals, the editors, facing the accomplished fact, though realizing how poor and inadequate the result was, still felt a legitimate pride that they had at least iistarted something? Like the cuchoo, they had laid the egg and left to others the task of raising the Hedgeling. They had gained experience of more or less value, they had clone a good deal of hard but interesting work, they had had a fair amount of fun, and they had earned a deficit of sixty-live dollars and fifty cents.

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xm 1s ; 935.9.jn. 2r , '0 THE RECTOR OF THE. UNIVERSITY CYRUS HARDING WALKER To February 29, I924 WILLIAM RICHARD DUKE ................................................ Charlottesville FREDERIC WILLIAM SCOTT .................................................. Richmond EDGAR LEE GREEVER ........................................................ Tazewell WALTER TANSILL OLIVER ......................................... Fairfax Court House To February 28, 1926 EMELIE WATTS MCVEA .................................................... Sweet Briar HUGHES DALTON DILLARD ............................................... Rocky Mount CYRUS HARDING WALKER ................................. , ................ Heathsville PAUL COODLOE MCINTIRE .................................................. University LEWIS C. WILLIAMS .................................................. ....... Richmond THE. STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, ex oficiog. ....... Richmond THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY, ex o$cio ............................. University THE SECRETARY OF THE VISITORS ELMER IRVING CARRUTHERS THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MESSRS. WILLIAMS, HART, SCOTT, MISS MCVEA, AND THE RECTOR THE FINANCE COMMITTEE MESSRS. SCOTT, MCINTIRE, AND CREEVER THE. GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS COMMITTEE MESSRS. DILLARD, OLIVER, DUKE, AND MCINTIRE I91