Washington and Lee University - Calyx Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

Text from Pages 1 - 288 of the 1906 volume:

WS m mm S Class No Book No.vkJ .l C LIBRARY ...OF... WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA Accession No. m i SMM- ,r: J ] ' : i:U. If ' fm : ' HEN a man has passed along life ' s lii ;h vay to the mile- stone which records the farthest point, it is difficult for those who come after him to look back over the road which he travelled and estimate the worth of iiis achieve- ments, even if his journey has embraced the allotted maxi- mum of three score and ten years and has been marked by ceaseless strug ;le and high endeavor. A man ' s life-work cf)nsists not only of those things which are visible to the eye, which can be handled by the hands, and which may even be approximately measured by the intellect. The results are both tangible and intangible. In the case of our large industrial corporations it is their intangible possessions or assets which are the most remunerative and which yield the largest return. So it is with a man ' s life. The intangible features of his work, which are exceedingly hard to estimate, are probably the most |)rofitable and the most valuable of his benefactions to the generations which follow him. If the demand were made for a critical estimate of Gen- eral Robert E. Lee ' s work as President of Washington and Lee University, surely a conclusion would not be reached by ascertaining how the enroll- ment of students or the money endowment of the University increased dur- ing (lencral Lee ' s administration or as a result of his efforts. Likewise, if a jmlgment was to be formcfl of President Wilson ' s administration, it would not be sufficient to inquire how many new buildings were erected, what additions were made to the equipment of the chemical and physical labora- tories, and what were the accessories to the library during President Wil- son ' s term of office. The truth-seeking investigator would not merely col- laborate these tangible expressions of a man ' s life, and declare Such was the man ' s work, such was the man, such was his value to the University. He would review these tangible evidences, but he would go further. He y )| w _ T would seek to ascertain the moral worth of the man, his educational and intellectual stan lards, and the stimulating and uplifting influence of his character upon his conteni})oraries and the subsequent University life. In the case of Presidents Lee and Wilson, he would find these intangiljle re- sults or influences to l)e worth more to the University than its entire material endowment. From the standpoint of the real wealth of Washing- ton and Lee, he could no more compare them to the concrete advance in the University ' s equipment made by these men than he could compare the value of Esau ' s birthright with the mess of pottage for which he sold it. The tangible results of Presidents Lee and Wilson ' s lives to Washington and Lee could be estimated fairly well. The intangible endowment which flowed from their association with it, would be found to he valuable beyond comparsion, but, at the same time, more or less indefinable and incalculable. If such is the case in estimating the work of men who have passed out of ' sight, how much more difficult it is to appreciate the work of those who still go about among us ? Even the tangible result of their labor may be incomplete, the intangible influence of their lives oftentimes disputed. The nearness of the individual may destroy the range of our vision and his work may be better than we estimate, or, on the other hand, personal feeling may so color our judgment as to lead to over-estimation and undeserved praise. Fortunately, however, the task is not so hard as regards the sub- ject of this appreciation. Many of us have known Mr. Willis for a number of years and others have sat in his lecture room and have come under his personal influence. Under his direction, we have seen the Economic dept. gradually assume, form and grow to its present proportions. Moreover, we have known, or at least, have thought that we knew the forces which weiv constraining Mr. W illis and the ends toward which he was .striving. A brief discu.ssion of the.se aims and forces, together with a review of Mr. Wil- lis ' training and personality, will bring clearly to mind the significance of his work at Washington and I ee. First, as to the training and personality of the man. Henry Parker Willis was born Aug. U, 1874, at Weymouth, Massachusetts. After re- ceivin g his early education in the .schools of Racine, Wisconsin, he entered W ' estcrn Reserve I ' niversitv. From that institution he went to the Uni- versity of Chicago where he received his under-graduate degree in 1894. He was immediately appointed a Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at Chicago and after two years spent in resident study, he received k a special appoiiitiiieiit to tlic Ariiiour-Craiio travelliii;j; fellowsliip and con- tinued his studies al)road, |)i-in(ipally at Lei|)zii; ' , Vienna and Paris. During the year ISitT he returned to tliis country and the I ' liiversity of Chicago conferred upon him the degree of I ' ll. 1). In the foUowing academic year lS!)7-18!)iS, Mr. Wilhs was assistant to the Monetiiry Commission of the Inihanapohs Convention antl assisted Prof. Laugidin in preparing the Hejiort of the Monetary Commission. Siiortly afterwards he was selected hy former President Wilson to found the new Department of Economics and Politics at Washington and Lee University. No better summary of Mr. Willis ' character and previous training at the time he took up his work in Lexington can he found than in a letter of Prof. J.Laurence Laughlin.Head of the Dept. of I ' olitical Economy, at the University of Chicago, to President Wilson, a portion of which is to he found in President AVilson s report to the Hoard of Trustees of Washington and Lee for the year 18()7-18!) S. I have known him (Mr. Willis), wrote Prof. Laughlin, for several years, f[uite intinuitely, finding in him one of the ablest young men in our subject of my ac(|uaintance. He uses German, French, and Italian readily; and was early trained thoroughly in the classics. Hut as an enthu- siastic student and [ihenomenal worker I do not know his e(|ual. He has obtained his doctorate nuujiHt ciun lauilc afte! three years graduate study here and abroad, and has produced already more than most men at thirty. He is sensitive, high minded and conscientious to a fault. His tendency is to overwork ; but he is certain to make a strong reputation for him.self . He is the most intellectually honest and sincere man I know. This letter is also interesting in that succecfling years have verified its predictions and for the additional reason that the jjersonal qualities of Mr. Willis, which caught Prof. Laughlin s attention during his as.sociation with him, were those which have been most manifest in Mr. AVillis ' work here. Hut, in addition, to the possession of this unusual personality and to the etiuipment of exceptional preliminary training, another factor mu.st be taken into account before the full significance of Mr. Willis ' work may be grasped. This factor, local in a sense, consisted of the personal influence of former President W ' ilson. The views of President Wilson on educational prol)lems are well known. His ideas relative to the functions of a Ihiiversity in a Democracy are treasured and constantly put forward l)y those public-minded citizens who fl 3 r ' C L- are endeavoring to work out the problems of the American Republic. Presi- dent Wilson realized that this Republic of ours would only be permanent and safe when proper educational facilities had been thoroughly organized and utilized by its citizens. He knew that Democracy ' s battles were only half- fought out. His own experience in public life had taught him, that, if they were to be successfully won. the youth of the country, its future rulers, should be rightly trained in the principles of politics and political econ- omy and in high ideals of public service. Consequently, he believed that the arena upon which Democracy ' s battles in the future should be waged, should be the lecture room of the University, and the battle cry should be, to use the words of the late President Harper. Come let us reason together. Impelled by the force of these ideas and especially by the peculiar needs of the South, Mr. Wilson retired from public life and accepted the Presidency of Washington and Lee. For the same reason he urged in his inaugural a ldress the necessity of providing facilities for the study of political and economic (|uestions at W ashington and Lee, and bent all his energies in this direction until he had successfully established the present department. Only the thoughtless and ignorant, President Wilson declared, de- lude themselves with the idea that paper constitutions are the eflFectual safe- guards of our liberties, and universal suffrage the capable administrator of the institutions through which we are to enjoy and possess them forever. Men who are familiar with the origin of our historic liberty, who know the rareness in all history of stable popular goverimient, and who are sobered by the thickening difficulties tliat confront us, will agree with Sir Henry Maine, that democratic government will tax to the utmost the sagacity and states- manship of the world to keep it from misfortune. As population and wealth increase: as science and invention sweep onward; as civilization grows more complex; as new States join our Union and cities multiply, and a new creation of artificial personages is called into being, to carry on the great commercial and industrial enterprises for which natural persons, even in association, are unequal, problems of government, both of policy and administration, become more difficult, and statesmen, whether as law-makers or as administrators, must not only be learned in the science of government, enlightened by the lessons of human experience, but must be often dependent upon experts whose services they must be able to command and know how to use. We fail in duty to our young men, to our section, to our whole country, if we do not provide that education in the fl science of f oveniinent whicli he rif;htly deemed, the most important know- ledfjc in a repuhhe. We must preserve and make more fruitful the old leaniiiif, ' . We nuist broaden, as rapidly as possible, our facilities for scien- tific instruction and research, having in view not only general culture, but the bread-winning necessities of our people, and to all those we must add sound preparation for citizenship in a self-governing republic. It is no longer enough to disseminate classical education, to explore the fields of physical science, to turn out clergymen, lawyers, physicians, intelligent farmers, successful business men, builders and managers of railroads, min- ing, electrical and civil engineers. If the South is to produce for her own service, if she is to contribute, as in days past, to the whole country, statesmen, legislators and judges, able to maintain her influence and proper dignity as a great section of the Ameri- can Union, her sons must continue to give, as Mr. Blaine says their fathers gave, deed study to the science of government; and if. amid the harder condi- tions that confront them, after leaving college, they are no longer able to give that study in the leisure and seclusion of their own libraries, the proper foundations for it must be laid in the schools of learning. The supreme necessity for such studies, if we are to perpetuate government by the people and bear our freedom unscathed through all the perils that beset its progress, needs not to be dwelt upon. Such were the ideals of President Wilson in founding the Department of Economics and Politics at Washington. Such was the training and char- acter of Mr. Willis when he came to take charge of that Department. The work of Mr. Willis has been the resultant of these forces — the working out of Mr. Wilsons ideals through tlie medium of Mr. Willis efforts. Those who knew President Wilson, however casually, have felt that there was something finer in the man. than anything which he .said. Even the students of the University during his brief presidency have testified since his death that the impress of his character, received during their college days has been one of the strongest and most uplifting influences of their lives. As has been truly said, he was a college president without double dealing or equivocatit)n. single interview or transaction with him inspired an absolute confidence which re(|uired and could receive no increment, so perfect was its completeness. A week of his acquaintance carried with it an absolute approval of his ideals, aims, and methods. A year with him furnished an inspiration which would last as long as life itself. ■Ul U: ' urn } r To the mind of the writer this hitter faet — tlic inspiration of a year ' s association with Pres. Wilson in fouiuhni; the econoniie department — has been the most significant factor in Mr. Wilhs ' work at Washington and Lee. Since the lamented death of President Wilson, the spirit which constrained him in establishing the work in economics and politics, has been the spirit which has animated Mr. Willis in carrying forward the work. In other words, one of the chief features of Mr. Willis ' work has been preserving and putting into practice the ideals enunciated and cherished by President Wil- son. The mantle of the patriotic beloved college president fell upon the shoulders of Mr. Willis, and he has shown himself to l)e a faithful follower and e.xecutorof his leader ' s wishes. Among the young men of the South and the country at large who have come under his influence, he has sought to generate and develop the desire and power of independent, original re- search, to foster the habits and ability of independent judgment, to ac- quaint them with the origin and historic growth of our institutions, with the fundamental principles of government, and so to enrich them with the re- sults of human experience fliat they can decide on thin or that policy as it may .strengthen or weahen our freedom , upon tli is or that econom ic doctrine, us it may advance or impair the genercd welfare; above all, to make them intelliyent and strony leaders, not servile and ill-informed followers of popular opinion or self beneficiaries of popular delusions. But, as has been said before, Mr. Willis ' work has not consisted alone in being the conservator and executor of President Wilson ' s ideals. He has brought to this important task a distinct personality of his own which has formed a fitting supplement to the influence of President Wilson. His in- tellectual honesty, his high conceptions of civic duty, his unceasing energy, and, as it were, unlimited capacity for work, have been not only a stimula- tion, but an ins])iration to his students. The men under his directions have felt the necessity of seeking after truth, and of aciiuiring right principles of thought and action. They have also felt a broader sympathy with men and affairs. The real teacher, like the poet, is born not made. His functions are not comprehended in the setting of tasks, the hearing of rec- itations, and in the delivery of brilliant and interesting lectures. On the contrary they consist in the impress of character, the implanting of high conceptions, and the stimulation to independent and correct habits of thought. Such a teacher will make a distinct impression upon his students during their college days, but it is in looking backward after leaving the circuins( riliod coiloi e world for the wider activities of life, tliat tlie stii lcnt will now fully a])|)reeiate liis true worth and iiis lastinj; ' influence unoii their lives. In this class of tea -hers, Mr. Willis helonj rs. When the student leaves the shelterinir walls of Washington and Lee, and takes up the duties ami burdens of life, his estimate of Mr. Willis ' worth as a teacher and ruide grows in retrospect as the college gate recedes farther and farther from view and the possible problems of livelihood and citizenship demand solution. Mention might be made of Mr. Willis ' work as a |)ul)licist and journal- ist, for the same aims ami characteristics are apparent there as in his service as a teacher. Hut here we are concerned only with his work and influence for the students of Wasliington and Lee and for the broailcr interests of the South. Tims far his efforts have been all that could be desired. They will have a lasting value. With the further facilities made ])ossibleby the Wilson Memorial Fund, and the ])ropose l plans for extending the work and for providing a permanent home for the department of economics and politics, we may expect to see under tiie direction of Mr. Willis the scope of its influence expanded, the ideals of its founder given wider circulation, and an ever increasing numl)er of young men given a sound preparation for citizenship in a self-governing republic. W. Jf.TT Ij. UCK. W SHINGTON AND Lep: UnIVKRSITY. ) [NOTE.— lit reply t. plans for iti future. IL ' To The Editoks of the Calyx: ' I CCEPT my appreciative tlianks for your action in dedicating to me A I your annual volume — the permanent record of student life and I thought at Washington and Lee University. This recognition of the work which has fallen to my hand and of its significance for the future pleases me as evidence that a true conception of the need of econ- omic teaching has become diffused among your undergraduate body. It is now nearly eight years since I first joined the faculty of Washing- ton and Lee University, entrusted with the duty of organizing as a separate department the instruction in economics which, from a true appreciation of its importance, had already been instituted by Dr. James A. Quarles. There are none of you, I believe, who will recall the early work of the De- partment. Three main difficulties were presented — that of enlisting stu- dent interest in a subject for the first time separately organized at Washington and Lee, that of adjusting the new courses of instruction to the needs of the students, and that of securing the inaterial resources which would ensure the maintenance of an independent department. The first two of these obstacles have been gradually overcome. That they have been surmounted at all was very largely the result of the unselfish interest and personal sacri- fices of President William L. Wilson. His permanent and never-failing desire to impress upon those with whom he came in contact the real need for economic knowledge gave vitality to the department, directed attention to its courses and furnished the inspiration and support needed in perfecting ' J. i 3 its methods of itistnictioii. Tliat the work plaiiiied hy President Wilson has jiroduced fruit is, I tliiiil , attested l)y tiie ;ro vth of the (h ' partiiieiit, l)y tlie qiiaHty of its j;iaduates, and liy the recoffiiition accorded to tlieiii in dIIum- institutions. The acciuirenient of tiie necessary material foundation for tlie depart- ment has also been the ultimate product of President Wilson ' s personal interest and sacrifice. In suhscrihiiifj a fund of $100,(10(1 for the support and furtherance of its activities, iiis friends and admirers have i)aid the high- est tribute to iiis ideals by affordinfi; the means through who.se u.se they may l)e realized. The department of economies with its endowment is l)oth a menu rial and a trust — a memorial to the life of its founder — a trust for the larger development and practical application of his teachings. The needs of the University and of its stu leuts iiulicate a deman l for wider instruction in practical economic problems and for better library opportunities for broad reading and study. When new f|uarters shall have been provided, through the erection of a building in which the department and its books may be housed, and which shall furnish a place of public meet- ing and debate, thi.s broader instruction will exert its full influence in assist- ing the growtii of a l)ody of sound economic thought. To the students and their succcs.sors we mu.st look for the earnest and appreciative work that will make future progress possible. H. Paukeu Willis. I g V - -.m; ' George HuTCHEsoN Dexny, Ph., D., Alexander Lockhart Nelson, M.A., LL. D , President. Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Academic College. ii David Carlisle Humphreys, C. E. Martix Parks Burks, LL. D., Professor of Civil Engineeringand Dean Professor of Lair and Dean of the of tfw School of Engineering. School of Law. 16 A X 1 ■CA V l M uNfVK.vsrry James Addisox Quarles, D. D., Hexky Donald Cami ' isell, M. A., I ' h. L L. D., Professor of Pliilosophi . D- Professor of Geologi and Bi(}l()(ji . 11 Addisox Hogue, Professor of Greek. James Lewis Howe, Ph. D., M.D. Professor of Chemistry. ' : t vy . Jr? . James William Kkhn, 1 1i. I). Associate Professor of Latin. Abram Pf;N ' N Staplks, LL.B. Professor of Law. William Jkit Laic k, A. 15., Adjunct Professor of Economics and Politics. R_) sD s. Cfje Brarrr ilaurrl ?w CARE not if tlic curtli when I am fjone Shall hdkl no echo of me: for I know That thro ' all yearlcss worlds whereto we go Thou wilt remember always. Like a dawn Thou earnest, with such soul that everything Grew lovelier, and my soul at thy dear word Leaped toward thy fairer level, as a bird Lifts toward a perfect morning in the spring. Yea, ever thou dost lead me on, above INIy loftiest summit beckoning, ever I Yearn upward from mine earthly self whereof Thou art the tender moon and starry sky. I care not for loud Fame ' s sure-withering bays, Crowned with the dearer laurel of thy praise. W. IL F. -y p. % % yi 9llumni, ( reat anti (J tijcrtoisc WAUTER EDWARD HARRIS, gj, l iihifigton Correspondent of The Richmonif TiniCi- ' Viipatch. ' P lIE father of liistorv got him a nice, smooth, and reasonably soft fl 1 potsherd, and with the point of his knife or spear set to work to perpetuate his prejudices. And every one of his imitators in tlie centuries since, has followed his example, whether using quill or pencil or typewriter. Old Plutarch may have been moved by some slight desire to assure himself that his prejudices would be handed down to posterity, but I incline to the belief that the delightful old gossip simply could not resist the temptation to prattle of the big guns of antiquity. I wish I might be the Plutarch of the AVasl ' .ington and I.ee alumni. I could not write my prejudices. I haven ' t any. I would gossip indefinitely. Possibly Plutarch, as he wrote so familiarly of the men who made Greece and Rome great, hoped that by such intimate description of the big guns of the ancients certain rays of glory from their name might be shed upon his. His wish was granted. I rarely think of Alexander or The.seus, or Coriola- nus, or Pericles,or Xuma Pompilius, that I do not think also of the old Boeot- ian .scribbler, who has left us the most reliable information we have con- cerning those great men. It is my regret that I have not lived in such close comnuuiication with Alma Mater as to be able to present in this article a complete list of the alumni who have risen to high station in the public life of this country. So I must assume that the average member of the alumni body and all the un- dergraduate body, are familiar with the long list. S Ik _ L_JxSC?= v__Jr) Olio licars imicli now-a-days of our ifrcat railroad Captains and Magnates, whose fj;reatest activity a])])ears to l)e in Wall Street niaiiiijula- tion and lefjislative lohhyinj;;. Out in llie ;reat world of practical railroad- ing, among the men that do the work, you will hear that one of the great- est Railroad Captains in the world is Julius Krutt.icluiitt, General Manager of the Harriman System — the Napoleon of railroad construction, as a recent writer has termed him. Mr. Kruttschni ' t took his C. E. with the Cias.s of ' 7. ' 5 and never loses an opportunity to prove his loyalty to the Alma Mater. The name of Tucker is inseparably connected with Wasiiiniijtoii and Lee University as it is with the most glorious traditions of the American har. Ilarri St. Genn e Tucker, M. A., B. L., ' 70. naturally succeeded his illus- trious father in the Confi;ressional halls and later in the Chair of Law at Washington and Lee. In 190 2 he went to Washington to found the School of Law and Diplomacy of the new George Washington University, and latterly lias been much in the public eye as President of the great James- town Exposition. The present portrait shows Mr. Tucker in his robes as President of the . mcncan Har Association. Ill runiiiiatin ; aiiioiif; tlio paf cs of the last alumni cataldf uc, I dis- covered recently that t ' ourteen of the alumni of Washiui ton and Lee had been Senators of the Tnited States. And the States which sent Washinirton and Lee men to sit in the (greatest deliberative body in the world, were not those sage brush niemliers of the l nion that lie west of the Mississippi, where election to the Senate generally means the triumph of one man ' s or one interest ' s millions in a battle with the millions of another man or an- other interest, but they all come u|) fi ' om the old Commonwealths of the east, from Southern States, where even yet it is scarcely possible to buy a seat in the Senate. And hearken, O ye men of Washington and Lee, it was only a short time ago that I learned that John J. Crittenden, ' 06 of Kentucky, one of the greatest men who ever sat in the United States Senate, was a graduate of Washington College. A year ago I asked an old official who has held a place in the government right here at Washington for nearly fifty years and has been thrown into intimate contact with every great public man who has been on the stage in that time, whom he regarded as the ablest of them all. He hesitated. ' ■Jefferson Davis, lie remarked, was a man of wonderful intelle t. Charles Sumner could make some other great men I have known look like pygmies. William IL Seward was a remarkably versatile man, and able in many directions. But I believe, and the old fellow spoke with great deliberation, I believe John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, was. taken all in all, the greatest man I have ever known. Henry S. Foote ' 20, of Mississippi, the Stormy Petrel of American politics. Governor, Senator, member of both Federal and Confederate Con- gresses, is another of the list of Washington and Lee Senators. Brilliant, if somewhat erratic, true to his convictions and his people, it will be long ere the name of Foote, though a Virginian, ceases to be cherished by the people of Mississippi. M-.f r 1 N Mississippi has sent three AVashington and Lee men to the Senate; so has Kentucky; Louisiana and Virginia, two each and Alabama, Florida and the Carolinas one each. Thirty nine members of the House of Representatives, if no more, have graduated at AVashington and Lee. Hay 77 and Flood ' 83 of Virginia, and Slavden, ' 72, of Texas are members of the present house. Representa- tives have come to Congress from twelve states of the LTnion. John Goode ' 51, of Virginia, is one of the seven men living who were members of the Confederate Congress. He has also served in the federal house of Rep- resentatives and was president of the Virginia constitutional convention of 1901-2. Mr. Goode scarcely has his superior as an orator, and is hardly equal- led as an extempore speaker. I heard him, some years ago, make a speech before a committee of Congress, that was concluded with such a flight of eloquence, that the committee, on motion of Sherman of New York, in whose eyes the tears were standing, unanimously extended the old Roman a vote of thanks for his address. And he was seeking an appropriation ! Twenty seven Washington and Lee alunmi have representetl Virginia in the house of representatives. Nine States have chosen Washington and Lee men as Governors. I believe it is admitted that James McDowell, ' 16, and John Letcher, ' 33, are among the very ablest of the lung list of men who have filled the office of Governor of Virginia, though Mr. Jefferson himself be in the list. Two Kentuckians who graduated at Wasliington and Lee afterwards became associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, a rather striking fact. I find among the names of graduates nineteen who have been elevated either to the supreme bench of their respective States or liave become associate justices of the highest tribunal in the world. One of the ablest members of the present supreme court of appeals of Virginia is Stafford G. Whittle, ' G9. I - OiiefJJustice r.ainar of the Supreme Court of (ieorj ia is a typical rep- resentative of tliat brilliant njroup of men who liave f one forth from the Washinf];ton and Lee Law School to adorn the hij hest seats on the American bench,— a group which includes Tyson of Alabama, Shepard of the Dis- trict of Columliia, Hobson of Kentucky, Foster of Louisiana, Mcstrezat of Pennsylvania, Neil of Tennessee, Garrett of Texas, and Whittle of N ' irginia. Judge Lamar graduated with the class of 78. Wade Hampton Ellis, Attorney General of Ohio, is a very younj; man, having graduated in the Law Class of ' !)(). But this is a day of strong young men, and in the Ohio, the state of political giants, young Ellis has already made himself a force to be recognized. Indeed, it is wliispered that hereis the strong hand which may lie expected to bring order out of the political chaos which just now holds sway in the Land of the Buck-eye, and those of us who came into contact with Mr. Ellis ' forceful personality during his recent visit to Lexington would have no hesitation in endorsing the recommenda- tion. Xiiu ' tv -fi)iir ijraduates were killed in battle on the Confeclerate .side, or died of wounils, or of ilisease contracted in the service. This nuniher, added to the much larger number of former students who did not graduate, many of them leaving the I ecture-room to don the gray of the Confederacy, and to achieve soldiers ' graves on soutiicni battlefields, makes a splendid roll of honor to be c ' herished with sacred care by all Washington and Lee alumni. Nor should we neglect to honor those who fought four years for the cause of southern independence, and came home after Appomattox, and with a courage une(|ualled in all history, set to work to restore the waste places of war, an end achieved in splendid fashion. I look forward to the time when the university will publish a history of The Liberty Hall Volun- teers, the company made up of Washington College students, which con- tributed such a liberal share of the glory that surrounds the history of the Stonewall Brigade. Washington and Lee has been well represented in the diplomatic and consular service of the country; though, as her graduates are mainly from southern States, her alumni have not appeared frec|uently in these or any other branches of the civil service of the general government since the close of the war between the States. The list of distinguished educators who have gone forth from Wash- ington and Lee; the remarkably large number of divines, many of them of great distinction; the lawyers of note, who ornament the bars of many States of the Union; authors like Thomas Nelson Page; journalists; doctors, men distinguished in various walks of life — a bare mention of a small num- ber of those entitled to a place in the roll of honor would consume far more space than The Calyx can afford to spare, even for so laudable a purpose. It is a noble list, and all who compose it, those at the head as well as those of us who are pulling bull may rejoice to be in such goodly company. A tree is known by its fruits. A man is judged by his works. The standard of an institution of learning, so far as the outside world is con- cerned, is set by the men who leave its halls, and enter the contest for exist- i C0:si: S ' -rC encc, for preferment, for lionors. Scliolarship is one of the f reatcst things in tlie world. No greater misfortune can befall the student than to become convinced that it is the greatest. The temptation comes sometimes. The immature man, terribly in earnest in his pursuit of the hallmark of learning, occasionally makes this mistake, and life is never long enough for the time of regretting to cease. All Washington and Lee men have not become great. Few, indeed, are they who have disgraced the name of the mother that fostered them. Looking back over the years that have gone since my college days, I realize how differently I saw things then. I see so much now to which I was blind then, though it was before my eyes. It is a great thing to be enrolled as a student in an institution that bears the name of the greatest man the English-speaking race has produced, linked with that of the greatest soldier of Anglo-Saxon blood that the world has known. The history of Washing- ton after he had saved his country, and of Lee, after he had seen his people conquered and humiliated, are indissolubly liound up with the history of Washington and Lee, names that thrill the heart of the American boy, and beget lofty ideals in the young man ' s bosom. I know now that something of this I saw then, but not all. The honor system at Washington and Lee, so seldom al)used in the history of the institution, gives to a man a moral stamina and a sense of moral responsibility, with an appreciation of all the term involves, that lasts through life. It is hard to conceive a system better suited to the utter destruction of a young fellow ' s sense of honor, than the method of es pionage practiced in the examination rooms of some of the great universities I have visited. I speak as a man who knows men. and not as a theorist, nor yet as a teacher. A thief never reformed while under surveillance. The splendid democracy of letters at Washington and Lee, may be, after all, the strongest formative force the university brings to bear on the young man. In my day, at least, the sole aristocracy was the aristocracy of learning. Fast spenders soon ran their course. Elegance of dress never Williani Reynolds Vance, Ph. D., ' 96, Dean of the School of Law of the George Washington rniversity, and aiithorily on the Law of Insur- ance. Mr. Vance was Editor-in-Chief of the first Calyx and by his subsequent career established the precedent that those Eilitors who are most outspoken in vituperation of the Faculty are doomed to themse lves sit in the Council of Xewcomb — whence the studied moderation of the present volume. In justice, however, it should be said that The Squire later escaped to Washington and now occupies toward the University the more respectable relation of loyal alumnus. This is a day of investigations; — everything is investigated from the Insurance Companies and the U. S. Senate to — Pat Krebs. But of them all, there is none perhaps of more importance or more far-reaching con- sequences than tliat called forth by the so-called Tillman-Gillespie Res- olutions, and it is gratifying tliat the President should have entrusted this great public enterprise to one of the — comparatively speaking — younger grad- uates of Washington and Lee. The choice, however, was a logical one, for William A. Glasgow is already ranked among corporation lawj-ers with Root and Knox, and from current newspaper accounts it would seem (hat Mr. Rocsevelt was more than justified in his choice of a St. George to grapple with the Railroad Octopus. M Jk seemed of ini])(irt;iiicc after tlie first two or tliree luoiitlis of the fresliinati year. The popular men, tlie leading men of the student body, were in- variably those who were the leading men in their classes. Did I say de- mocracy of letters ? To the idler, the shirk, the roue ' it was an aristocracy, haughty, and scornfid. and he might not enter until he had reformed his ways. I have often stoj)ped to think concerning the very small amount of direct moral teaching there was at the university. And yet, it is a safe wager that nine out of ten Washington and Lee alumni would say that not even the boyhood years at home were fraught with .such impres.sive les,sons in morality. The air at Washington and I-ee always seemed to me to be one part hydrogen, two of oxygen, and three parts ethics. Having started out to write of the great men among the alumni and having reached the conclusion that we are all great, I am moved to think I should lay down my pen. I had a hard headed old grandfather who used to say that what was worth doing at all was worth doing well. And my task was so well worth the doing. I have omitted so much. So many good men are never seen as they move to and fro in the shadow of the great men in the centre of the stage. Great men. How the conceptions of a man change with his years. I recall my college days, when I used to love to linger over the alumni cata- logue, and read the naked record of the achievements of the sons of the institution who had reached high and honorable station. Ah! They were great, I thought. And I was eager to get into the world, and beome great, too. It seemed easy then, and greatness was possible to whomsoever desired. But that was thirteen years ago. Long years, years of hard labor, of the midnight oil, of the tired limbs anrl aching brain, of longings and hopes, and aml)itions, the most of them unsatisfied. And greatness is not the same thing to me now that it was then. I have viewed the majority of the so- called great men of America at pretty close range. Presidents, soldiers. ' e -y 5r OPW n II -v i : H 1 sailors, senators, congressmen, governors, supreme court justices, authors ' teachers, theologians. They are only men, many of the m accidents, creat- ures of opportunity, more often of political exigency, ofteiiest of pull, that most powerful of all means of elevation to place. Clean hearts and clean lives, simple living and high thinking, are too seldom found among the so-called great of this country. And these are not the words of a cynic, l)ut ii one who believes this a pretty good old world, one which gives what we put into it, generally re- turns to us the measure shaken down and pressed together. But they are appropriate words to be set down in this place, as excuse for that list of creat men which every true son of Washington and I ee has in mind, if not at his finger ' s ends. We who play the minor roles cannot expect mention with the stars of the cast. The private is fortunate, indeed, who has his name gazetted for gallantry along with the generals. Enoui:,!) for him to know he has done and will continue to do his duty. So here ' s to the Washington and Lee man wherever he may be, whether he be great or only good. Greatness is sometimes goodness and goodness is always greatness. May they all live long and prosper, and when the last of us old has beens crawls under the daisies to rest and sleep and per- chance to dream, may the old Alma Mater be still standing in her purity, her beauty and her glory as typical of the.g ' ory and beauty and purity and power of that knowledge, the coming of which bringeth wisdom. Washington, D. C. U 2?=Cy - CJ r 1 To liavc hecii ek ' cted (ioviTiior (if ( )r( ' i, ' ()n as a Dcinocrat is a iinii|iie distinction. To have hoen r( ' -ole(tc ' (l in the ' avv of tlic Roosevelt Tiiial Wave is nothing; short of phenomenal. Out on tlie Western slope of the Rockies an infjuirv into this reni-irkahle state of affairs will he met hy the simple answer, Because lie is (leori;e Chamberlain; ami, indeed, there is no discoverable cause other than the sheer forcefulness of the man s person- ality. It seems to be a law that tlie enthusiasm and loyalty or our Alumni shall increase proportionally with the fulness of their honors, and so in the course of Nature we find Gov. Chamberlain writing. ' Nothing touches my interest so much a.s anything that pertains to dear old Washington and Lee. J. H. (ioricU, M. A. !(0, Professor of modern laiifruai os iti Wake For- est College. Prof. (lorrell is one of the devoted l)an(l who have f one forth from Lexiriffton to take part in the ffreat work of nphuildiiifi; the educational sy.stem of the Southland; and well may Washington and Lee he proud of the .share of her sons in this, one of the great revolutions of the century, even the ' many who once came to Her from afar now sit at home and are fed. It is said that none ever left the old campus with a more hrilliant record of scholarship than J. H. (jorrell, and it is small wonder that since then his rep- utation as a scholar has spread far and wide over the land. w Mount Vernon hy M.IRION FOKSIKR GILMORE I on F,i.tt Bctwem Mnunl l ' -raoil atiJ Wjihinglo. OMH of the Dead! One i laiice of liii;;eniif;- love We cast l)ehiiiil us, wliere our vessel ' s wake Winds, foaminir. backward to ' irf;iuia ' s liills. Home of tiie Dead! I{etreatin ' from tiiy shores We hreathe a final si jh, a last farewell. The |)illared mansion f leams amid the f reen; Tlie somljre tomh, deserted, stands alone, While over all a thousand i)eacons hurti; The West displays a canopy of sky. Woven by anfjjels, flung across the hills Where sleeps the silent dust of Washington. Bleak is the wind that leaps like blade unsheathed From out the silver scabbard of the East! At hide and seek amid the ruffled waves, The eerie .shadows play in elfish glee. A thief. Night, steals the golden glories of The Day. But still a flush of silken rose Colors the W ' est, stains the Ijroad river ' s breast And casts a garland ' cross the Eastern sky. Behold! On either shore reflected green, Dim in the dying lustre of the Sun, While tips of rose like diadems adorn And wreathe the gracious brows of drowsy hills. Behold and marvel! See and comprehend! Amid this glory lies the earthly dust Of one who was a hero and a man. Beyond this glory God long since received His spirit, past the veil which hangs between. ® II! ye who tread these classic lialls. Baptized once more in patriot blood, Think what exalted memories flood These doubly consecrated walls! The hoary lore of Oxford ' s towers, Made sacred by her Alfred ' s name, Can never boast a prouder fame Than shrines these simple aisles of ours ' Ye will not walk ignoble ways; Ye dare not seek unworthy aims; Ye cannot do a deed that shames These heroes of our holiest day- ! Your oath a Roman oath mu-;t be. Sworn with a faith that will not yield — Sworn on the doubly sacred shield Of Washington and Lee! Margaret J. Preston. Cfje ilfscnti of tfje Castle iles Beujc fj eros auti tj)e S acreti g pear. mow the yooth, which had journeyed from the far-away land where lyeth the little Valley of Home-and-Motherlove, came by fortune to the Castle that is called Les Deux Heros, or by some, The Castle of The Sacred Spear; and herein he was minded to serve his period of four years which must be endured by each before he shall be accounted worthy to be numbered among the knighthood. For of all the Castles throughout the land the Castle Les Deux Heros is held in greatest repute for the training of courtly and valiant knights, since herein is the custody of the Sacred Spear whereon the young men of the Castle swear the oath of knighthood. And unto the worthy, when they take the oath, there is given the strength of the Sacred Spear, which is the Spirit of the Two Supreme Heros, for these had been the mightiest gentlemen in all the world and the knightliest and courtliest and most perilous in battle which ever yet buckled on armor or held in rest a spear. And when the youth had come within the walls of the Castle he right soon took heed that or ever he come into knighthood he must perforce endure many thirgs of other ilk than merry fasting and brave jousting and the troubadouring of Fair Ladyes. For the lessons of Labour and of Service are first and greatest in the learning of knightlincss. So ever he spends his days in cleansing the arms e approeitl)efl) fljeCastle of the good Knights in the Court yard and in laboring with the scullion boys in the kitchen as did Sir Gareth, the brother of Gawaine, whose trials an d adventures are writ in the book of Sir Thomas Malory. And of such as were set over him with authority there were those which were of no other avail than to see to it that he shirked nothing of the daily tasks allotted him. These were of the laity rather than of the Brotherhood of the Sacred Spear, for never they had ventured to leave the Castle and its fair domain and to ride forth in quest of hardship and adventure. So were they held in small esteem by the young men of the Castle. But others there were, noble Knights of valour well approved, the which instructed him in all the arts of war and in the knightly usage of arms. Toward these did the heart of the youth yearn, and from taking heed of their grave discourse and their goodly bearing in matters grave and light he did take unto himself more of advantage than from all his daily exercise. And anon. It came to pass, that of an evening he jousted right bravely with his fellows in the Castle courtyard. Here was many a right hearty blow both given and taken with right good will and the youth began to glory in his strength and skill and to long for the accepted day when he might ride forth to do battle for God and theLadyes; and anon the day comethin very truth when he hath kept the Vigil-at-Arms and hath sworn by the Sacred Spear, to strike for the right and succor the helpless and be faithful unto the Ladye whose love he beareth, even unto death. Now when he swore it was permitted him to read the inscription which is written upon the Sacred Spear in jewels and gold like unto letters of flame: Whoso kcepeth the trust of the Castle shall wield me lightly and none shall stand before him. Then essayed he to lift the Spear and could not, and he was sorely discomforted for he wist that by his unworthiness he was hindered. Combat. Yet the good Knights bade him take cheer, seeing that it might not be given unto the untried to wield the Spear. But let him only keep the trust of the Castle, they said, and in his hour of need it should be given into his hands. So was he made Knight, and he armed him and gat fiim to horse and rode forth from the Castle Les Deux Hcros. Now there befell the young Knight many adventures and he bore himself right gallantly and accomplished many mighty deeds of arms. Yet anon he cometh to a doleful place set between tiills wfiich is called the Vale of Disillusion, and herein he wandered many days, fot there is no path, and what with pit-falls and robbers and wild beasts he fared him so grievously that it seemed as though his last hour had come. Yet when he had won safely through to the further side, even here did he encounter the perilousest adventure in all his life. For one there was who kept the pass, by name Sir Souiller, who was in all the world the knight of most might, tho some say that never yet had he tilted save with one weary unto Death. For all such as of their hardihood came safely through the Vale of Disillusion he fot- ' ght with and overcame. So that the most of all the knights in the world owed him fealty and did his bidding. Now when Sir Souiller saw the young Knight approaching he rode him forward to meet him, and his armor was of the blackness of night and on his shield was written ' Visas Ad Humum. And he addressed him right courteously to the youth saying Sir, you are young and T would not fight with you. Only yield you and swear me fealty and I will give you land and riches. Nay verily if you serve me you shall have brave adventure in plenty and honor and glory. Then answered the youth, By my vow I serve all m.en but to you or none other will I yield me. Knight. •  • •«• • • Then Sir Souiller and the youth ran together mightily and the spear of the youth brake in his hand, so that he cried aloud in agony for want of a weapon. Therefore there came onto his ears a voice saying, Thou hast kept the trust and over his shoulder an unseen hand stretched forth a great spear. And the heart of the youth was glad for the spear was the Sacred Spear of the Castle and the strength thereof was the strength of all the Heros of the Castle, and he took it and smote Sir Souiller to the ground. Now it came to pass that thereafter our Knight did many valorous deeds for it was not appointed that he should have any rest from his labors, and his fame went abroad and he was full of honors. But of all his honors this he held to be greatest: that he should be numbzrcd among the Knights of the Sacred Spear and that the strength of his heart should be added unto the Virtue thereof for the overthrowing of evil forever more, so long as there might be found any to wield it. Now God grant that such a one shall never fail. So endeth this tale of the young Knight, how he held to the trust of the Sacred Spear which is the Spirit of Washington and Lee. Honor. • • • (?. . . AMERICUS FREDERICK WHITE M. A., B. S., B. A., KI. Science divides the history of the work! into periods and epoclis, but is un- able to affirm anytliing definite as to the lenirth of such temporary divisions. Hence the conscientious historian must confine himself to the statement that A. F. first became connected with this school at some pre-historic date, probably during the Palaeolithic period. It is impossible for the human mind, dependent upon ex- perience, to conceive of the one without the other, and it seems most probable that things will cave in when he is finally withdrawn in June. It is rumored that there is a move- ment on foot to endow A. F. and keep him as a permanent part of the institution, this being in line with his frequently expressed aspiration for that supreme college honor, the Chief Janitorship. However this may be, it is certainly true that there is nothing too good for him, who has with so much dignity and discretion presided over the most important organization in college, the Student Body. To attempt to enumerate the various scholarships, offices, and athletic honors which have been bestowed on him by a devoted student body, would tire a census statistician. He will have the final honor of Ph. D. conferred upon hira in June, thereby exhausting the alphabet, and it is said (please keep this c|uiet), also a D. D. because of his work at the Xa.sh- ville Convention of Student Volunteers. The love and best wishes of every man in Washington ar.d Lee will go with him when he departs from our midst. RGHDEIIIIG SEniDR H ' DAVID WASHIXGTOX I ' ll ' KS, JR. A.J A fjjenius iit condeii.sation Tuiirht pos- silily he able to write up the avera ;e iiieni- her of the clas.s of 1!)()() in the space of 1.5(1 words; hut Hacon himself couhl not he expected to properly appreciate in less than a volume the virtues which this younfr man, twice the heloved ])resiflent of his ela.ss, has exhibited while at W. I.. He has taken an active and enthusiastic leadership in all colle(i;e affairs, — athletics, society, and collcfre administration, — in short, evervthini that tends to advance llie interests of the Alma ater. As he tikes his place at the bat in tlie (iameof Life, the grandstand is applauding, the bleachers are calling for a home-run; — and when the ball comes over the plate wc know that Happy will make good. . N JOHN AVEST ADDISON. PA ' ' ' ACCOMAC, i ' A. Beauty is no index to brains. Addi- .son is the seiiolarsiiip star of the Univer- sity. His mouth makes very Httle fuss, and all that is known of his early life, is, that he was horn some time in the autumn of ' 81 and later attended Fishhurne Mili- tary Sehool. He entered W. . L. in ]!)()], and proceeded to haul in everything that looked like a scholarship. White, Bradford, Maple.son is his record for the last three years. A. B. with him is a mat- ter of history ( ' 05); A. M. a moral cer- tainty ( ' 06). Whether a.s A.s.sociate Edi- tor of the Collec ian, President of the Gra- ham-Lee; Secretary of the Student Body; nicniher of tlie Y. M. C. . ., or at banquets where colored drinks are served, he has always accjuitted himself with credit. ROBERT WALLER BLAIN. This luminary has appeared on the academic horizon periodically for the last ten years. At first it was possilile to com- pute the times of his appearance with some degree of accuracy, but later he be- came so erratic that the ))roblem was drop- ped. Having left his native place, Christ- iansburg, Va.,he attended Cave Academy. In 180( he entered W. . L. and during one of his periodic stays, he got an A. B. sheepskin — while no one was looking. He is now searching diligently for an M. A. Dip. If he can find one, he intends to go out into the wide world and teach a few young ideas the correct method of shootins;. Li .lAMKS UAXDOLPII CASKIK. JTJ ' Mimiiiic first siiiil.d for the ladies twi ' iity one yrars aj o in tlir siiiiliiii; nioiitli of Ajji ' il. Tlii ' v named tiio place Lovinj;- stoii. At that time everyone said he was a nice little hoy, and he has never out- i rown the a[)pellation. Jiminie has had no trouhle in assiinilatinir the academic cnrriculum in three years He expects to live and love and finally practice law partic- nlarly Domestic Relations, in Lynchlnirf . From later advices we are under the painful nec€ ssity of revising ' the last state- ment. Jimmie, havinj); failed to (|ualify licfore the Snpi ' cme Court in Domestic Helations, will confine himself to other iiranchcs of tiie law. AVALT,ER RAYMOND COOPER. Cooper used to have a senior brother at W. . L., and heinir persuaded that Le. inp;ton is the only place where wisdom is dispensed, he gathered himself hither and in due course of time became an al- umnus of the Lexitigton High School. Then in W02 he stepped across the road into the W. . L. campus, where there was more room to .spread himself. He is a younir man of exemplary conduct, al- ways at breakfast in time to hear the bless- ing, reads three chapters of the Scriptures «7- diem, and never walks the campus after 8 P. M. A. B. will be stamped on his epidermis tliis year. Next year he will enter Harvard and learn to read Shakespeare in the Yankee dialect. Joi l £ FRANCIS RANDOLPH CRAWFORD One hot niglit in Aiii;iist, KSSt. the benevolent tork dropijcil a small package in Kernstown, Va. (which can lie found on the map hv the use of a microscope. Having taken a running start at Shenan- doah Valley Academy, he managed to enter W. . I-. and join the ranks of ' 06. He early became interested in an endeav- or to christianize W. . L. through the medium of the Y. M. C. A. Every one expects him to be a missionary to the hea- then Chinee, but he is in reality going to be an M. D. after he gets the privilege of writing A. B. along with his other initials. IJTIUS JUNIUS DESHA. 0KI CYNTHIANA. KY. Statistics indicate that Desha was born in 83, but fail to reveal whether he ever attended school or not. His recoril since entering W. L. in (W has been as follows: Chemistry scholarship, ' 04; Economics ditto, 0.5 ; a case of small pox and two weeks in a tent on athletic field, 0.5; an active member of the Harry Lee Boat Club for three years; a comnuuiicant of the Graham-Lee Society and of the Y. M. K. A. for the past year; bus iness man- ager of the Ring Tuni Phi for two years. .Vs vet he shows no etl ' ects from it, but it is feared that his constitution will eventually succumb. His degree will lie A. B. and next year he will be back to do some more stunts for Dr. Howe. vn lo yK_ ' X JOHN WILLIAM KCiCLKSroX. Kl He is ;i jii-iiccful yoiinu ' man liiiilt |)rctty much like a IViur-raih Irails from Cliailotto Court House. Va., and claims to have first heard tlie s(|uu vk of dayii i;ht on .lunc 18. 1S,S( . lie prepared himself for W, ' L. at Ilampden-Sidney College and made his appearance in Lexinnton in the fall of 1!)()4. Somehow or other he has conceived the idea that he is a tennis shark, and his name appeals on the club ' s hook for 05- ' OH. His early traininjr was fairly jrood; his brain is clear, and he makes his A. 15. in the space of two years, with the expectation of shinini, as a legal linht sometime in the hereafter. MOSES MILTON HERMAN. DANl ' ILLE, yA. Came to us in 0;3 as a graduate of Danville Military In.stitute. having been a lenizen of his native town since ' H7. Happily he seemed to have forgotten all iiis warlike instructions, and has shown no inclination to inflict injury on his fel- low-men since his stay in Lexington. Sometimes, it is true, he does write verses, but this is probably due to the influence (if his name, and not to free-will malice. His class standing is good and in June he will lay aside the weeds of labor, wrap himself in an A. B. diploma, and lie flown in peace in the shade of his father ' s fence. His work in Modern Languages and de- sire to argue on Palaeogra])hy deserve special notice. ( ) m CHARLES XOURSE HOBSON. The destined hirth-place of Charles Xourse Hobson is meat for speculation. The cautious Historian can only relate tiiat he was dropped at Frankfort, Kv., hy the iiidiiriiant stork to whom he had coiifidod that he would have preferred ridinj;- a pony. C. X. has been vi(e-|)resident of the . . S. li. C, and president of the (irahani-Lee Literary Society, but his proudest distinction is tiiat he presides over the bi-weekly con- claves of the Kentucky Colonels, for tiiereby all the world knows that he has a , ' ood head, and only his Profs, and class- mates had guessed it before. He goes forth to become a public-spirited citizen as he has ever been in the college world. LEE PRETLOW HOLIANI). ATA Without reference to the Family Chronological Table, one woidd be of the opinion that Pret. is just about to be a full-i)lo vn man; albeit, we won ' t vouch for that. He entered college in li)0;5 with bashfulness and timidity written all over him. The things of a child. however, he has gradually laid aside, and now his tongue handles with |)erfect grace and facility any of the names that are a household worrud to all Amer- icans. He is one of the Calyx staff this year, and his ready command of new and ciiiphatic words stood him in good .stead when, at the Senior Banquet, in a post jirandial speech that was not on the pro- uiani, he affirmed his readiness to give ills life in the interest of that publication. He will take an . . 15. this year and Law and other thinjis later on. %«V THOMAS 1?1{A. ()N IIIIUSAHI). hi ' III MoiitjioiiuTV, Ala., l - . !), 1SS7, tliis al)k ' and uiiiiahU ' youni; man first eiitt ' ivil into competition for the liglit- vei i;lit hawlin j; cliampionsliip of the world. Si!ice then he has i;ro vn reatly in stature and in favor with all men. Since coniiim; to W. 6i: L. in lOO. ' i, from Starke ' s I ' niversity School, he has shown the remarkalile (|nalities of an able st l- dent.a healthy athlete, and a trenuine (]food fellow. He has held the Taylor Scholar- ship in Math, and is now an assistant in that department. He intends to f et his A. B. and then settle down and write M. I), as a supplement to hi name. WILLIAM lU ' TLEDCK HUDSON. In the mid lie of June, 1884, the world was first entranced with the sound of his hass ()icc, and surprised l)v his wonderful agility. Cominij to W. L. in IDd J, he showed himself a proficient student, especially in Sr. Latin, and a ijood athlete. He has been a member of the track team and jfym. team, and show- ed his proficiency in tennis by winnini; in doubles in ' 04. He has l)een es[)ecially useful in the Glee Club, the Wash. Literary Society, and the Y. M. ( ' . A. He intends to be a bacteriologist, and we expect for him great .success in catching the bugs. t -y Ci{ ' rm £ V A V (I BASIL MAXWELL MANLY LEXINGTON. VA. Basil came to Washinirton and Lee after a year at the L ' niversity of Missouri. He resembles the ground hog in general habits as well as in general appearance. l ' r two years he staid in his hole emerg - ing only to pounce upon a stray scholar- ship or two. The completion of his pe- riod of hibernation, however, was the sig- nal for a complete change of weather. The Saturday Night ( lub is the most iibstrusive outward and visible evidence nf his activity, but to trace the ramifica- ns tlu rcof would puzzle the ' ' ()Kl Sleuth Kc is a memi)er of ifiPJ. Historian and aledictorian of his class and co-Editoi- in-Chief of this book. His future con- nection with W. L. depends upon the reaction between the Calyx and the Fac- ultv. P CHARLES PORTERFIELD LIGHT. On Sept. 8, 1884, Martinsburg, W. ' ;i., was startled by the ajipearanc e of this new light. Having played with books and juggled a gun for a wiiile at the Berk- eley Military Academy, he came to W. - L. in ' O.S. He joined the Reds and was a member of the winning crew in li)04-1905. During his .senior year, he has presi(le l over the Washington So- ciety, and been its Chief Marshal at the annual celebration. Evidently this is not, and will not be the ' Light that failed, and we jjredict that he will be a luminous expounder of the law, since he intends to pursue that profession after his A. B. is iriveu him in .June. U) ( is. L WIIJ-IAM WALLER .McIUn ' DK. He was liorn May 14, 1884. Tlicre was evidently some mistake, l)Ut it was decided to put trousers on him, — the ex- periment of patitalettes proving a faihire, and send liim to Y. L. hy way of tlie Ann Smitli Academy. After a year of Jr. Enfijlisii, Waller no lonfjer bluslies, tho ' otherwise he retains his lady-like manners. He always knows his lessons, and will graduate with no trouble. S JOHN PILKINGTON, JR. KI FRANKFORT, KV. I fe WILLI AAI ADDISON RAY. BELTOX, TEXAS. An habitually frightened-looking young man whose countenance and voice helie each other. He came into being on a cow-ranch in the fall season of 1884. and ])assed his childhood peaceably with his father ' s steers. Having made his mark (nothing affirmed of its shape) at Belton Academy, he climbed a freight train and took in the country, disembarking at Lex- ington in September. 1902. Since that time, he has been a member of the Trans- Mississippi Club and the Senior Latin Class ( ' 05). The strain thus entailed has wrought seriously on his physique, and he will go home and rest when he gets his A. B. LEE SMITH. BRUNSWICK. TENX. This quaintest and most original of characters slipped unobstrusively into the ranks of ' 06 in our Sophomore year. That he possesses a vocabulary and a sense of humor all his own, these records will abundantly testify. These charac- teristics together with the affectionate re- gard in which he is held by those of his class-mates who know him, justify the appellation of the Mark Twain of the class. He has won the Latin Scholar- ship and the Birely and unless he com- pletes the score with three in three vears, will put his knowledge on the mar- ket next year and dispense it to the highest bidder. iP- HICMAHl) lU CKXEH SriXDLK, JR. K2 This aniialjle youth gravitated into Lexington in ' 0-2, hung his hat on the hat raek of one of the ranches, and lias lieen here ever since. We wish that he might he with us longer, for we will lose a steady student anil a genuine good fellow, when lUicU goes away from us. Probably ■ ' Muck ' s most brilliant achievement was the Senior l{an(|uct toast. Heing one of the first, there were several ])eo])le wiio could still hear him anil all ' of them said it was good. Anyone could see from his expression that he was a philosopher — he proved it last spring by winning the Young Scholarship. Beauty being his strong point, a sheepskin can hardly add anything to his appearand — he is merely taking a detrree as a conventional form. ALBERT STEVES, JR, hA Who would care to speak for one who wears such a speaking countenance ? Five years ago he came to town a Kid, ha.s been a Kid consistently tliroughout his college career, and whatever may be in a name, will V)e Kid all his life. In every college activity lie has taken a ])art; he has enthusiastically supported athletics; has been a member of every possible social organization, ami has always been on hand whenever college spirit needed a boost. His presence will be greatly missed when he leaves us in June, and we are confi lent that he will raise quite a little dust on the path-way of life. r :r ■ MARTIN RKVEUSOX TURMULI-. LEXINGTON. VA. .Iiuljre makes an fxtraonliiiaiN ileal of fuss with his jaw, hut no one takes niueh ee l thereto exeept when he sinjis. Then lid we spreatl us foith on the Mountains and seek fresh wind. He loves his j)rofs., his fellow-man, the Sabhath Sehool, and the wetness of potations when they are red. He will get an A. B. in June, and leave I ' nr Senegambia bv the next train in the interest of the Y. M. C A., making con- nections at South Glasgow. ISAAC SAMUEL WAMPLER. LEXINGTON, VA. Isaac Sanuiel was born on the 1.5th day of October, l(i89, the day that Abra- iiani Lincoln and Richard Coeur de Leon began the construction of Moinnouth ( ' hurch, some three miles north of Lex- ington. He graduated from the Univer- sitv of Nashville about the time that Mass- achusetts ratified the Constitution, and entered W. L. in Se])tember, 190 ' -2, having devoted the interval to the in- struction of the youth of the land. While here he has been occupied with correcting Physics exercises, and slaying the dogs of the village to ameliorate the hunger of those who take their feed at the Blue Hotel. His senior dress indicates a knowledge of the Arts, and his rotund :inatomy cuts ((uite a Socratic slash there- in. Isaac wears no hair on the top of his head, deeming it foppish and contrary to the laws of sound hygiene. —SO SCIP AI,FRE1) MILES AVirilKKS. J J ABINGDON, VA. Little Withers is tlie l)al)y iiieiiil)er (if the Senior Class. Fiost ha.l fallen in the autumn of S7 when he made his de- liut as a faetor in the nieelianisni of the universe and swelled the music of the sj)heres with his own |)eeuliar s(|uall. At an early ai;e, he ate up the currieula of the prep, schools in his neiirhhorhood, and lici, ' an a more strenuous diet at W. S: L. in Septemher. ]!)(), ' {. That he has di- j ested it well, his Modern Lanijuafre Scholarship and excellent (iym. records show conclusively. He will iret his A. H. with ease, hut is unsettled as to what economic utility it may hest lie converted into. He may he recoirnized hv hi.s mathematical ahilities, his tennis trou.sers and iiidelilile smile. If found at large, ship him to Altin don in a frei dit car. HOHKIMEUHAXK WIl T. KI The shrill clarion if Chanticleer amiounced the arrival on March 2N. 1884, iif the Apollo to-he of the class of ]!)()(). Havinii; sprouted several feet during his sojourn at the Lexington High School, he entered W. Sj L. with a scholarship there- from. Because of his honesty and for- liciirance he was made treasurer of W. L. S,, which uneviahle position he has held for two years. A. I?, is his present goal, to he followed Iiv a strivinir after ensrin- eermj; lionors. PHILIP HENRY WISMAX. WOODSTOCK. VA. Four years ajfo, Wisnian joined tlie Wash. Society, and a s])ccial platform was erected for him to speak from, that he might be seen of his feUows. They have seen him, every Saturday night. For three years he has been an efficient factor in the creation of the fuss that the Glee Club makes, and at present sits on the best chair when the Shenandoah Club meets in council. He takes Senior Latin with Judas, but hopes to carry away an A. 15. scroll in June. This he will embalm and present to the Harvard authorities next fall as evidence of the prowess of his brain. His stay with tiie Wise Men of the East will consume the space of two years, at the end of which time he hopes to have enough Ram ' s hides to feed and clothe him the remainder of his life. HARRY LEE KIDD. LOVINGSTON. A. Finished everything of any importance by the end of the first term, took his Christmas drink at home, and cast himself in the whirl and hum of busi- ness life on New Year ' s day. Kidd lived at the Blue for three years, at- tending Sunday School, bathing fall and spring, and swiping coal oil. One day, however, he incurred the wrath of Isaac Samuel by sticking his fork into a piece of steak, and had to move to the Dorm. He worked in the Chemical Lab. every Sunday last fall, but kept up appearances by using freely and copiously on week days the words he had learned on Sundays in former years. He gets his A. B.,and goes forth into the world with a good scholar- ship recommendation back of it, and bearing the assurance of his class- mates ' esteem. WILLIAM ALEXANDER REVELV. LEXIXGTOX, VA. Has been a faitliful meml)er of the prep, (ireek Class and the Wash. Literary Society for several years, in i)oth of which bodies he has several times shown his ability to speak between seventeen and eighteen words per hour on a stretch, when occasion demanded. He will get an A. H. this year, punc- ture the thing and wear it as a porous plaster to hold himself down when- ever he gets too much worked up in the course of a sermon, his tendency seem- ing to he in the direction of Ecdesiasticism. REV. SAMUEL RECilSTER NEEL. GAINESTOWN. VA. Of exceeding uprightness of conduct, and more exceeding perversity of physiognomy. He flunked on Intermediate Greek, owing to the fact that Socrates says nothing about Courtship — Neel ' s brain comprehending but one thing at a time. He has not been in much evidence for the past year, conceiting himself that he is preaching. He gets his A. B. without fail this time, as he studies nothing but erotic psychology. JOHN ENGLEHARDT SCOTT. John really belongs several pages further on, among the Scientific Bachelors, but since he is one of those siii ( cneris, who were unable to find a photographic plate of a tensile strength sufficient to receive the impression of their faces (John exhausted the local supply in his efforts), it has been decided to give him the benefit of the more exclusive classification. By rights, he would have departed the city last year, but on investiga- tion it was discovered that he had passed Senior Physics without taking In- termediate, the which it is unlawful to do. He has proved himself a capable and conscientious assistant in Chemistry in the past three years, and the best wishes of all whom he has baptized with nitric acid go with him . ( ■ n FIJAXK THOMAS DOTSON. Dot. I,il)crty Hall, aiul Alex are tlie three notewortliy laiidiiiaiks of Wasli- iiintoii and I ee. Dot won an indelible mark of his grit in one of the greatest class fights that ever took place. Sinee that day he has exhibited his nerve and muscle on the Football field and has been rewarded with a monogram. Dur- ing the past year he and Scotty have lieen assisting Jeems Lewis in perpe- trating odoriferous atmosphere and insult- ing tlie passer-by therewith. Everyone knows Dot and all who know him wish jiini tlie best of luck. GKOlUiE HENRY CAPEIMOX. . KA The state of AVest Virginia and the lown of Fire Creek are honored as the l)irtli-place of this senior. Cape is a living example of the efl ' ect of environ- ment, — Fire Creek, without doubt, being responsible, for the hue of his locks. As a feminologist, he has long ago taken his degree through the medium of the Cotillion Clul , Nature having fitted him to be a shining light in society. He ex- pects to take his B. S. in June, and will go forth into the wide world as a chemist. F l WALTER II. DLXLAP. lAE Made his first reconnoissance Feb. 10th, 1883, and demonstrated that he pos- sessed the vocal ((uahfieations for a transit- man. The foHowinfi record is eloquent of the versatility of his interests since he passed from the Roanoke Hifrh School to sit at the feet of Old Davy: Engineer scjiolarship ' 03- ' 04; Field Instructor and Assistant ' 04- ' 0.5- ' 06 ; Vice-President Custis Lee Engineering Society ' 06; Vice- President Harry Lee Boat Chib ' 04- ' 05- 06 : Track team ' 03- ' 04; Gym. Team ' 04- 0o- ' 06; Cotillion Club; Student Ex- ecutive Committee ' 05- ' 06. Let it be added that he was one of the founders of the Sat. Night Club. It must be patent to liim who runs, that this young man has well earned the title of High Priest and Keeper of the Sacretl Fire of College Spirit. He will honor his profession as he has been honored bv his fellow-students. WIIJJAM LACY HOGE. JTJ Better known to the world as Piggy, ' first looked upon an unsympathizing world as exemplified in Louisville, Ky. He came to Washington Lee and im- mediately became involved in the mighty work of the Y. M. C. A. in their endeavor to effect the conversion of the University. As a supplement to this he l)egan a series of daily walks to the upj er end of Main Street, and it is estimated that he has worn out no less than one hundred pairs of shoes in this way. He is known as a conscientious student, and will, no doubt, make a mark about six feet high on the wall of Fame. i- LPf JOHN McCULLOCII. JH. ' -A-T. Sometime in 1884, he smote tlie earth with his presence, and iiianifested his pre- cocity by givinjr an inteUifjent ffrunt at tlie a e of four days (it is said). All the nei ;hl)ors and kins-people applauded, and John conceited himself that he hat! at- taine l tiie acme of the art of ex])ression, with the result that he has made no fur- tlier endeavors alonfj; that line, and still conveys his thouf hts in the orio;inal way. lie ;ets a B. S. this year, and it is to he supposed that he will engineer, although no one can swear. HARRISON REED MORSE. It was in the prim .shades of Somer- ville, Mass.. in the year 1884, that the sun first shone up(jn his face. Having hit the grit at the Merrimac High School for some years, he decided to try a balm- ier atmosphere, and so. having gathered up his Lares, Penates and other doll rags, he turned his way ' irginia-war(l, and en- tered W. . L. in 9(H. He has been es- pecially prominent in track team work, having made his place on the team in ' 03- 04, and been captain for the two succeed- ing years. He applies for a B. S. in Min- ing, but intends to make architectural draughting his ])rofession. ? £ JOHN ' EinVARD QUISENBERRY. The records state that Quizzy at tlie ai, ' e of 18 months dismayed his nurse by making; a twenty-yard run around the room with his iiottle tueked snuirly under iiis arm. He has experimented with ail the athletics to be found at V. L., and by dint of the study of physique thus ob- tained, has played a substitute half-l)ack (in the Varsity for the last three years. Ho expects to get a B. S. in June and will tlien hit the ties as a rail-road eni ' ineer. WILFORD FRAXKLIX RAILIXG. Railing; is an energetic young athlete, born October 24, 1885. He is an alum- nus of the Frederick fMd.) High School, and has a long nose. Entering W. . L. in September. 190, ' ?, he lay low until last fall, when he suddenly illumined and was ihosen President of the Maryland Club, Treasurer of the Senior Engineers, and ( aplain of the footliall Senilis. It was under his leadership that the Scrubs de- clared tliemselves independent of the (Dach s authority, anil went on their mem- orable strike. He gets a B. S. this year and will sliortly enter on his chosen pro- fession. 11 V ' M J IKA TIIORNTOX lUTENOUR. DILIIECK. VA. I);i(l(ly is a ii ' raduatc ' of Kastern ( ' ollcjif, and vorv fat to i;azc at; a liolv Icrror on Intof rals and Expaiisivt ' ( oc-fK- (•ifnt , liiit vorv little ac(|uainti(l witii fri ill Ills capers of (ierinan. Arrived in 1 e iiii;toii in O.S, his first care was to pre- pare himself aijainst the edjie of Aleck ' s wit, and it can not he donhted that he knows some math i)y tliis time. He holds down his seat in the Ciistis I-ee Enffineer- ing Society demurely, hut (irmly, and eats the pie of Lindsay without showinji; a trace of emotion. His hook is halted for a B. S., and no one douhts his ahility to huild hridges. ERNEST 15()Wr.I (; ROESER. Some twenty-three years a fo, this awed-off specimen of humanity was born into the world at C unhridf e, laryland. From that time until he entered W. . L. inSejjtemher, !!)();5,nothinir at all is known of his career; jierhaps he attended school, ])erhaps he did not. At any rate, he passed so many tickets with credit during his first two years that he now has some Sfl ]ioints to his credit and loafs all the time. This year he sits on the Calyx Hoard, and his feet will not touch the ground. In June he will cover his hody with a H. S. diploma, and go forth to seek whom he mav devour. (iEORGE WILLIAM PRESTON WHIP. Whip is a white-headed, thick-set fellow, possessed of a genial nature and a cap and gown whieh he drew at the Sen- ior Raffle. He is not certain of his age, hut from the hest authorities, it seems that he was born in September, 1884. His liome town is Frederick. Id., and here he graduated at the Higli School that has sent us so many other stars. He is taking a B. S. with some vague and hazy ideas of entering in a business life. HENRY AVILSON WITHERS.i7J Nineteen-six s premier athlete is the product of Abingdon and Abingdon Academy, and in large part a product, as well as an exponent of W ' . L. athletics. He has been the best gymnast in college for three or four years, for three years he has held down right tackle on the football team, and it will be a new sensation to the side lines not to feel that this side of the line is safe whate er betide. Then he has rowed on the Albert-Sidneys for two years, and viewed the straining backs of the Vir- ginia Boat Club some distance in the rear. If this is not 4 mutch ' we will add that Henry is as determined in the cla.ss room as on the field and river, is vice- president of the Custis Lee and a fellow to boot. BRENT ELMER (LARK, WINCHESTER, VA. Of tchishcrs and a man I sinj;, for tlie ((Mnnion verdict of all who have seen him is that, in Clark ' s make up, hirsutes have the relation of ' i to 1 to the rest of him. Rorn Eeb. 18th, 1883, within smellinff distance of the song-famed town of Winchester, throu ;hoiit his youth and early manhood, he sat on a wooden l)ench at Shenandoah Academy and chewed to- bacco. He disembarked at Maj. Hous- ton ' s in September, lOO, ' ?, and has made connection with the followinjj:. Track team ( ' 0,5); Rirely Scholarship ( 0,5 ) ; Cu.s- tis Lee Engineerinir Society ( ' O(i); Y. M. C. A. (!!!). He rises with the sun and carries a pick and shovel down to the cliffs that overhang North River, where he expects to dig up a shee]i-skin marked B. S. HARVEY LOCKHART HANDLEY, LEWISBVRG. W. VA. He was V)orn while Sissy ' ' was doing some research work in Paris, grad- uated from Greenbrier Academy in the early part of the present century, and entered W. L. shortly after- wards. His disputative abilities won him the Graham-Lee Debater ' s Medal in ' o;5, and he cut out scholastics ft)r a year. In ' 04, he returned to Lexington bringing Mrs. Handley with him. The chief seat of honor in the Custis Lee Engineering Society is his, and the Senior PyUgineers look upon his hand-writing with more favor than that of lesser men. The tas- sel on his cap is yellow. JH - ncnDEiniG uuniDn The Class of 1907 has occupied itself hitherto with doing things. This is the first time it has ever stopped long enough to talk about itself: and hence, we have never acquired that easy facility in self laudation so of the rising generation of under-graduates. However, glance at the roster of our College of Fame to determine our place among classes, and to justify even such class pride as ours. The names of Rankin and Charlie Bagley are a power in college athletics, and onlv this vear has the peerless Shack ' ' left us, and with so many others moved over into Engineering Hall to .sit at the feet of Old Davy. Name the college orators, the college journalists, the mu.sicians and song birds, and like Aliou Ben Adhem the names of 1907 lead all the rest. And then, have we not our poets ' ■: Our Shields and Idcn ? Who can match these ' i For the third time since our advent at Washington and Lee University, the foliage is casting aside its cloak of winter gray for one of a more brilliant hue, and the encircling mountains are losing their dim and dark visage, becoming resplendent with the paint of nature ' s brush, in evidence of an approaching summer. During three long years we have been prostrating ourselves, on bended knee and with bowed head before the shrines of xJSO= X___ J1 Wisdom, Science and Knowledge, — and yet we realize that we have counted but a few beads in our devotions. Has our time, then, been uselessly spent ? Surely not. As year has succeeded year, we have seen off in the distant horizon, growing more and more brilliant, a star of wisdom, penetrating the darkness of our surroundings, its clear pure rays have been to us a message invaluable, — that there is a vacancy in the world to be filled by each one of us. As this, our Junior year may unfortunately be the last for many of us, we can not but take this opportunity to express our most heartfelt appreciation to those people of Lexington who have shown so much sym- pathy and kindness to the homeless students. They little realize how great their kindness and sympathy have been. Many is the evening we have spent in their parlors, forgetting that we were not at home amid our : enough of this, or Naughty Seven will soon be shedding briny tears of the homesick malady. Naughty Six is saying Au revoir; Farewell, ' 06, Farewell! We know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at your table. Farewell! Sunior 9ralinntt Class Anderson, H. Bagley, C. F. Crockett, C. C. Englehardt, S. M. Glass, P. P. Iden, V. G. Jones, F. G. Larrick, A. R. East, J. T. McCutchan, F. Jr. Phillips, S. L. Jr. Rankin, E. Roy, S. McE. Jr. Shields, W. R. Staples, A. P. Jr. Stephenson, R. B. Toms, L. A. Johnson, N. F. Larrick, J. H. Glass, R. C. I Page, H. yi. -•Sft. -- ' -jr fiirEEninii J3 R i. No mail can say of us They t-aine tlience or ' Ilu ' v ;o tliitluT. We had no perceptihle origin; i ' so tile liistorian, wlio tries to i)e logical, finds himself in a predicament at the outset in not being able to refer the Junior Engineers to their proper source. Some one who was unkind said we were an example of those curious products that Dame Nature moulds when she has the indigestion, but the explanation did not a])peal to me. I did not contradict my companion flatly, for I felt sure he had recently taken some .stimulant for his imagination and I wished to be ' on good terms; later it developed that he was merely a fond disciple of Dr. Campbell. Treating our class collectively and i-onmienting first on the exterior man, the writer can note that in the matter of beauty we are fully up to the standard in the engineering school — i. e. taking the seniors as the .standard. There is even a tradition that Griffith in his iiirancy took a blue ribt)on at a baby show, but as the occurrence took place so long ago, the records have disappeared and we are somewhat skeptical. Regarding our intellectual strength I will merely put certain facts before the reader and let liim draw any inferences that are fit. Very re- cently our affable Dean surjirised us very much during one of his lectures r . ■ , ■ ■ i '  , ' . v,j,v . -...i, i ,j ' .-.J i . ' .,1 [ . - ' i :r by picking out one of our most promising men and propounding this direct question: Mr. Blank, do you know what Worh is? ' ' The in- ference is very plain. And the gentleman who carries the tuning fork some- time since looked over the top of his glasses on the Mechanics Class as if he would say The more you study this, the more you do not know any thing about it. The inference here is again very plain — all of the Faculty are afraid for us to know how highly we are esteemed. Similar testimony could be given from Old Alex. Ere long the gowns of the Seniors will envelop us and we have already the required dignity. There be many lions in the way but if the presiding deities, which being interpreted, the Faculty, are willing, we hope to pull through, and then perhaps, when our days here are over, there can be found a man more fit to tell our story than the Historian. -y Sfunior engineering: Class ©fficrre LI H. W. Mii.L?:u, . T. O. Bagley, J. S. loORE, I ' rc.siiloit Vice-President Secretary and Treasurer fflrmbrrs Haglev. T O. r ayne, a. H. Dexter, C. !■:. Sto.neburner, L. T. Jr. Dunn W U. J. Miller, H. W. Gkeex, R. M Zentmeyer, J. D. G KEEN, C. L. ]McCru.m, C. M. HUTION, 11 L. Lippitt, M. T. HOGE, E. .C. Griffith , A. F Moore J. ?. ]MoREHEAn, J. C Nottingham, J. L. JONE s. W E. 77 J V Aso !i nGnDEmiG ISDIHIHinE e Friends, Students, Scholars, lend me your ears ! And it came to pass in the ninth month of the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and four, there was hacked into this far-famed seat of learning, this ancient and historical city, this social and intellectual centre of the universe, by a slow-moving iron monster, a band of noble youths gathered from the four corners of the earth. Soon after our appear- ance in this strange land we encountered that hitherto unknown species of t he qenus homo — the Upper-Classman. These dignitaries informed us that it was our lot to engage many of their number, called Sophomores, in mortal comljat — the fight to be waged for the possession of a huge wooden bowl. Nothing loath, we organized, and headed by the dauntless Car- penter, paraded the streets of Lexington. It was on the memorable fourth day of October that our valiant phalanx charged upon the Sophomore gladiators, and — won the fierce Bowl-Fight! AVc had won fame for ourselves, we had asserted our superiority, we were the victorious nonpareil Class of 1!)()8! Then we went our way in peace, yet rejoicing, wishing good-will toward all men. We are not lauding our accomplishments, yet in justice to ourselves it must be said that we won for ourselves honors in the class-room and in the college-world. We were not however puffed up by our achievements, for merit vaunteth not itself. i After coniplctinf; our first glorious year, ahout five and sixty of our conquering lieroes wended their way back to these halls of fame, resolved to win new honors and fresh glory. The first sight which met our eyes was the vast multitude of heterogeneous Freshmen. This year the class- fight was to he over a large leathern hall. The memhers opposing us were great, hut marshalled hy the doughty Jackson we placed ourselves in hattle array, and swept down on the green conglomeration. .Vgain, al- though opposed 1)V overwhelming odds, we marched from the hard-fought- field con(|uerers. With an unsullied fame, and an unsurpassable record, we are pursu- ing our way along the devious paths of knowledge to a goal of high scholar- ships, whence we shall be ushered into the University of the World. Here ' s to the noi)le sons of 1!)()8! May the future see in them the fulfillment of the bright hopes and worthy ainbitif)ns the glorious past has promised. Laur?;xce Claihornk Wittkn. Ilintoriau, y i l ,. i — ' i ; Class of 1908 ©ffitrra O. C. Jackson, President, . P. W. Turner, Vice-President. S. Fleming, Secrcfari and Treasurer, Anderson, L. A., A., Bartenstein, F., E., Bell, D. R.,A., Bern-, R. F., A., . Bieier, J. M., B.. . Bledsoe, R. P., A., . Bryant, L. P., A., . Carpenter, J. C Jr., A., Clendening, H. N., E., Collins, P. E., A., . Copenhaver, M., A., Cover, E. R., A., . Deaver, M. C, A.. Deets, E. H., A., . DeVane. D. A., A., . Dodd, R. A., A., . ;Plfmbfrg . Virginia .Virginia . Alabama . Virginia .Virginia .Virginia Louisianna .Virginia West Virginia . Florida .Virginia .Virginia . Virginia . Maryland . Florida . Virginia Donunick, G. J. Jr.. A., Dulaney, F., E.. Dntrow, L. B., E., . Faulkner, J. O., A., Firebaugh, R. M., A. Fleming, S., A., Forney, A. K., E., . Gassman, H. W., A., Glass, R. C, A., Godwin, J. M., A., . Gordon, L. C, E., . Gott, E. F., A., Gravely, J. S., A., . Green, B. M., E., . Grimes, A.M.. A., , Harper, L. D., E., ' M Virginia Alabama Virg-iiiia . Alabama Tennessee . Virginia . Virginia .Virginia . Virginia South Carolina West Virginia .Virginia West Mrginia . Mi-ssouri West Virginia . Virginia West Virginia -Kentucky North Carolina II V— o W f) Havliii. T. X., F... . Higginbotluiiii, II M., K- . Missouri .Virginia I1 Hill, D. H., E., Hoge, E. A. ( ' ., E., Hooper, W. P., A., Hopkins, A. K., A Hynson, R. W., A., Jackson, (.1. C, A., Koontz, L. K., A., Larrick, A. H., A., Leo, A. P., E,. Lippitt, M. I., E.. Long, J. S., A., Lord, V. L., A., . Luhn, W. K., E. .West Virginia District of Columbia . Virginia .Virginia District of Columbia . Virginia .West Virginia . Virginia .District of Columbia .West Virginia . Florida .Kentucky . Maryland Lybrand, A. W., E., District of Cohmibia MacCluer, D. W. M., A., . Pennsylvania May, F. P. Jr., A., . McCrcery, H. M., E., McGiU, E. H., E., . McMurran, W. R., E.. Miles, G. H., A., Millsaps, F. F., E., Minetree, G. ! L, A., District of Columbia Newell, W. B. M. U., A., t outh Carolina Newton, C. Jr., A., . Louisianna Newton. J. G., E., . . . Texas . Florida West Virginia . Arkansas . Virginia .Virginia Louisianna Newton, T. C, A., . Norfleet, J. P., E., Peters, M. J., A., . Phillips, H. W., A., Porter, H. D., E., Pruit, D. E., A., Pruit, R. B., A., Ramsey, W. K., A.. Ratcliffp, E. H., A. Revely, R. J., A., Riser, w. F.,K.. . Robinson, A. T., A., Rodgers, J. J. D., A., Smith, B. T., E., Staples, A. P., A., Staples, S. H., E., Syron. C. L., A., Tatterson, T. A., E. Temple, H. G., A., Terry, L L, E., Triplett, J. L, A., Turner, P. W., A., . Walker, K., A., White, H. M., A., Will, J. P., A., Witton, L. C, E., Louisiann, North Carolina . Virginia .Virginia .Virginia New Me.xico New Mexico . Arkansas Mississippi .Virginia . Alabama . Maryland . . labama .Virginia . ' irginia .Virginia . Virginia .Virginia .Virginia . Viiginia . West Virginia . Alabama Tennessee .Virginia .Virginia .Virginia j Js « nnDEniG § raaHiiinn How Herculean is tlie task to choose out of the monstrous mass of material at hand a few facts that must be thrown together and called a History of the Class of ' 09; to jot down a few items from this immense pile and expect to do justice to this the larj est and most progressive band of Freshman that has ever entered Washington and Lee. The class of achievement, of action, of vitalized energy! Surely the fates are most 1 unkind. ' Tis hard, hard to be compelled to state in a few brief unsatis- ' factory sentences that which only volumes can fully ])resent. Hut so the fateful three have decreed, and so it must be done. The Class of ' Of) — what a SMionym of force, vigor and capacity. One hundred and twenty five loyal souls, gathered from all parts of these United States, from New England to New Mexico, from Florida to Montana and even from across the ocean, they have assembled in old Lexington to nobly uphold the unstained honor of Washington and Lee. A specific instance of the grit and determination of good old ' 09 was seen on the day of the fierce and bloody ball fight — the most terrific of its kind ever witnessed on our Athletic Field. A mighty band of big but trembling Soph ' s with every advantage of superior position, minute 82 orj;anization and f ' ore-knowledfie, stand opposinj them. But undaunted the sturdy and confident company of Freslinian await hut the crack of the pistol to phiiif c into the fray with a last lonj yell for ' ()!). IamI on by their fjallant I ' resident, John L. Campbell Jr., they hurl a compact front into the stronj;; line of their opponents and present an ini|)re ;nable wall to the counter attack of the no less determine l Soph ' s. Huried beneath a luifje mass of s(iuirminfij, kickiiif , shovin ; human bodies, lies ' OiCs brave but almost lifeless Hall-man, Charles (ilasgow, (;aspin r for breath, but still thinkinji; ever of the honor of his class, claspinj tenaciously the ball which ' OH strives all in vain to get. (), it was a glorious fight, — a bloody, flesh-tearing, hair-snatching, grinding fight, and right nobly and valorously to the bitter end fouglit ' 09. Details are unnecessary here. Suffice it to say that it was a magnificent victorv for those who in the end held the field. Hut who were the victors, some one asks?; that is of least concern. The all-important thing is that ' 09 put up a mighty scrap, and covered with glory and dust retired from the bloody field amifl the cheers of the excited multitudes without the loss of a man. Hut other things such as flesh, skin and tem|)er were lost; and as for clothes — well the ragman picked up the reuuiants the next day. Would that space permitted an account of the uninterrupted chain of victories won by the heavy weight ' 09 foot-ball team, or of her fast and snappy baseball nine, or even of the splendor of her Class Banquet. Would, that mention might be made of the masterly manner in which all the available objects in the campus were daubed with the Freshman colors. Hut the cruel sisters have decreed that the History of Class of the grey and crimson shall be written in the memory of man, rather than on the parchment of time. . u as of old, their decree must be obeyed. W. K. RAMSFA JR.. Hl.STOKIAN. -y -P -y j I ' ( 0,1: Svtsi) mn Class ©ffictre John Lyle Campbell, Jk., President Charles Spears Glasgow, Vice-President William Hogue Marquess, Secrctarii — Treasurer William King Ramsey, Jr., Historian Lexington, Va. Lexington, ' a. Louisville, Ky. Camden. Ark. jrrc tjman Academic Department ©ffitere Cleon Scon- OsBOURN, President . . Shenandoah Junction, W. V. Summers Davis, Vice-President ..... Louisville, Ky. T. Russell Cather, Secretary Treasurer . Chanihersville. Va. f Hembrrs Allen, Harvey, Anderson, David Lawrence, Anthony, Jno. Wm., Jr., Baker, Henry Manuel, Bateman, Richard .Mitchell, Batten, Grover Aaron, . Beitel, Albert, Jr., . Jr., Kansas City. Mo. Soochow, China. .Lynchburg. Va. .Wim ' hester, a. Spartanburg, .S. C . Lost Creek, W. Va. San Antonio, Tex IN A i. u Heitel, Jesse Juo., . Birkhead, Ora Earle, Bootay, Walter Neilson, Horcluudt, Bernard Fendig Boxley, Littleberrj ' James, Boyer, Donald Pahner, Brown, Robt. Alien, Campbell, Jno. Lyle, Jr., rather, Thos. Russell, Chatham, R. Hood, Clandy, Jno. William, . Cole, Jefferson Davis, Crockett, Carl Converse, Daingerfield, Foxhall Alex., Jr. Davis, Summers, . Dawkins, Crowell, Denman, Kcster Walker, DeVane. Dozier Adolphus, Dinges, Donnell Crutchfield Doniinick, Geo. Jackson, Jr. Donb, Walter Newcomer, Dwiggins, Charles Ivie, Dyer, Jno. Mason, Dale, John Richard, Effinger, Geo. Washington, Eggle.ston, Samuel Daniel, Firey, Carl Roswell. Frazer, Robert Walter, Gabriel, Grover Cleveland, Glii.selin, .Sam Brown Morrison Glasgow, Chas. Spears, . Gwathmey, Devall Langhorne Hagood, Rufus Hanson, Jr., Hobson, John Peyton, Jr., Holloway, Hampden Sidney, Holtz, Albert Staley, . Hood, Walter Manly, Houser, Aubrey Alphin, Hutche.son, Robert Steele, Irwin, Wilfred Prj ' or, Jr., Irwin, John Preston, .San Antonio, Tex. Webb City, Mo. New York City. Tampa, Fla Mareum, W. Va. Glen Wilton, Va. Wytheville, Va. . Lexington, Va. Chambersville, Va. Dallas, Tex. Baltimore, Md. Monroe, La. Wilmore, Ky. . New York City. . LouLsville, Ky. Tallahasse, Fla. Lufkin, Tex. Plant City, Fla. Alexandria, Tenn. Bimiingham, Ala. Beaver Creek, Md. Petersburg, Tenn. Morganfield, Ky. Texarkana, Ark. Harrisonburg, Va. Charlotte C. H., Va. Aberdeen, So. Dak. Tupelo, Miss. Cearfoss, Md. Shepherdtitown, W. Va. . Lexington, Va. Norfolk, Va. Binningham, Ala. Frankfort, Ky. Henderson, Ky, Thumiont, Md. Birmingham, Ala. Rocky Point, Va. Rockbridge Baths, Va. . Lexington, Va. . Lexington, Va Jemison, Sorsby, ......... Birmingham, Ala. Johnson, Wheatley Miller, . Manassas, Va. John.son, Joseph Hendley, . Manassas, Va. Keebler, Robert Samuel, . Bristol, Tenn. Kilmer, John Nevin. Martinsburg, W. Va. Kilmer, Denis 8murr. Martinsburg, W. Va. J..azariis, Morton Lewis, . Lynchburg, Va. Leach, Harold Houston, Alderson, W. Va. Lease, Wade, . Foote, W. Va. Maddox, Minor, Shelbyville, Ky. Markwood, Henry Lewin. New Castle, Va. Marquess, Wm. Hogue, Jr., Louisville, Ky. Melvin, Geo. Mt-Murtray. . Thrift, Miss. Milling, R. C, . Franklin, La. Moore, Jos. Marion, Mossy Creek, ' a. Munce, Jno. Gilliam, .Richmond, Va. Neel, Frank Fairbanks, . Organ Cave. W. Va. Nelson, Wm, Henry Sale, Capon Springs. W. Va- Osbourn, Cleon Scott, . Shenandoah Jet., W. Va. Paxton, Earl Kerr, Buena Vista, Va. Pope. Leon Clarke, Wilsonville, Ala. Powell, Ralph Edmund, . Bisbce, . rizona. Ram.sey, Wm. King Jr., . Camden, Ark. Ratchffe, Edward HoUoway, Jr., Natchez, Miss. Rowan, C ' has. Latimore, . Pittsburg, Pa. Saunders, Benjamin Sydney, . Suffolk, Va. Schwahe, Clarence, Charleston, W. Va. Shelton, Andrew Kemper, . Huntington, W. Va. Smithson, Noble Doak, . Lewisburg, Tenn. Staley, Jno. Hedges, . Frederick, Md. Sterrett, Robert, .Hull, Va- Stevenson, Frederick D., Williamson, W. Va. Strassel, Raymond Magnus, . Louisville, Ky. Stedman, Beirne, . Stuart. Va. Watkins, C ' has., Morristown, Tenn. Whiting, Neville Herbert, Jr., . Marshall, Va Wightman, Landon Leeper, . Edinburg, Va. S6 jTrestjman Cnsineering Bepartment ©ffitrra WiLi.Aiin Wadk Oi.ivkk, Prexident Ellioit Vawtek, Vice-Prexident Lawkknck Makci ' s Coi.i.iNs, Srrrctiiri A- Treasurer Jtttmbrra Alderson, Ikiwin LeRoy, . Bagley, ( has. Henediot. Buchanan, Engene Hutflieson, Champe, Lewis Coleston. Chandler. Algernon Huston, Collins. Lawrence Marc is, Cooper. Lerov. Crabill. Roy Mark. Curtis, Robt. Mason. Davis, Wm. Couch. Jr., Dutrow, Lester Boyd. East, Wm. Addison, Forrer. Jno. Jacob,. Harrison, Fred Nash, Hill, Thos. Daniel. Humphreys, Ewing Sloan, Hutson, Albert Rawlins, Kuck, John Frederick Read, Lawson, William Elisha, Lee, Alan Porter, Lybrand, Albert Wallace. McCoy, Wni. Arthui, McMurran, Wm. Royall. Moore, Robert Dickson, Offut, Wm. Ernest, Oliver. Willard Wade. . Ordeman, Herman Wm., Page, Philip Poweis. Paxton. Thomas Preston, Price, Oscar Randolph, Uhea, David Rankin, Russell, James Wright, Steves, Edward Martin, Sullivan, Jno. Madison Earl, Taylor, Edgar Rinehart, Trier, Thos. Joseph, Tutwiler. William Stanhope, Van Devantcr, Addison Clark, Jr., Vawter, Elliott, St. Ixmi.s, Mo- Anstead, W. V a- WviiiH , .Vrk- New Freedom. I ' a. Fayetteville, Tenn. Brownsburg. ' a. Lexington, Va. Harri.sonburg, Va. Wynne, Ark. Kirkwood, Mo. Toms Brook, Va. Warrenton, Va. West Point, Va. Harrisonburg. Va. Raphine, Va. Harrisonburg, Va. Danville, Va. Aul rev. Tex. Lexington. ' a. Rawlins, Md. , Savannah, Cia. . Hampton, Va. Washington, D. C. Washington. I). C. Riverton. ' a. Lexingtfui, a. Monroe, La. Sellman, Md. . St. Louis, Mo. Frederick, Md. Front Royal, Va. Buena Vista, Va. Salem, Va. . Pulaski. Tenn. . Bonliam, Tex. San Antonio, Tex. . Camden, Ark. Century, W. a. Winchester, Va. . Savannah, Ga. Paeonian Springs, Va. Aiibted, W. Va. - ! ) -7 The First Rush The Melee. C Vr KrN - ' x ' SCr= : 1 1 ' ' j Jc 1 W i _5. W k . Wt i istori) of t|)t Mentor Eato Class wi H HISTORY of this tlass reveals a storv of hard work, patient endurance, and mental and physical sufi ' erin r such as no class in any school has ever encountered. Subjected to severer tests, more work and harder examinations than any previous class in the history of the Law School of our be- loved institution, it nevertheless has turned out as many sons to win plaudit for themselves and tribute for Lex, nineteen six. What dire proph- esies followed the ignoble defeat of our brave warriors on the i Snd day of December, 1904! After a few weeks rest, however, givino; the wounded time to revive, the fif;ht was on again in earnest. Time after time our valiant men, with blood raised to boiling heat from reading of the infamous and daring crimes committed by Anderson, Read, Dcjarnette and other des])erate characters, and urged on as much by the masterful oratory of Old Howell as by the famous Dakota war-whoop of Rig Chief Spotted Tail, ' marched into and subjected Contingent Remainders, Executory Interests, and all other Wilde and barbarous portions of Real Property roelo ad oreiim. all teeming with savage armies, led by such Rretons as Shellei or Taltarum, and full of treacherous pitfalls and vanning abysses. Tiiey abolished the Feudal System, and threw up Grures for such famous men as Roy, Garnett. Carter and Tvler. This fierce struggle could not go on always, so through the intervention of the International Peace Conference at the Hague, peace was restored, and the final papers signed on April 1, 1905. After the war our men took up their Domestic Relations, bought Personal Property, on which they procured Insuranee, and settled down to work. Some of our most learned were sent to discuss grave Constitu- tional questions; some specialized on Bills and Azotes — making bills at the various poolrooms and stores about town and giving notes therefor. These elementary matters being disposed of, we were given a furlough until September. With what a grand feeling of being lords of all we surveyed did we stroll into Tucker Hall at the beginning of our Senior year! With a sense of supreme superiority we heard our flattest and most uninteresting jokes repeated by a modest and admiring Ijunch of Blackstone sharks. But what a maze of intricacies awaited us. We were soon in Pleading, where we learned that special demurrers have been abolished in Virginia, except as to pleas in abatement, and that the court absolutely despises and abhors a plea in abatement. We read over two thousand sections of Pollard ' s Code, (memorizing two hun- dred and eighty seven of them), all the cases decided in Virginia from tenth Gratton to thirteenth Burks, inclusive, several thousand in the United States Reports, the American, National and L. R. A. reporter .system as well as various articles in different case and reference books and in the encyclopedias. Then, too, we studied text books: Biirks, Grareg and Stephen on Pleading and Ahbott ' ft Civil Trial Brief. Having no full, adequate and complete remedy at law against this harsh treatment, we went into Equity. Trouble began with the purchase of the book. One man asked of another where the books for the term could be obtained. The reply was: If you want to get Eaton, go to the law-book agent. That ' s certainly the truth, he muttered, as he put the book under his arm and the la.st remains of a ten-dollar bill into his pocket. Any one who expected this subject to be ea.sy was sadly mistaken, for we found the maxim Equity follows the law to be very true as to the long hours of boning required to get up an assignment. The very latest thing is Roman Law, and it ' s about the limit. We concluded to let it go upon condition that the proposed course of Japanese Jurisprudence be postponed until next year. However, considering the fact that it is only an experiment, and that .students are only induced to take it by mere brutitm fulmen, we think it very likely that it will run out after this session. And now, all the Evidence having been taken, having received our discharge in Bankruptcy, according to the usual Federal Procedure, and degrees having been conferred on the meritorious, we are energetically seeking to find a town that wants a lawyer, a Justice of the Peace, a Notary Public; a law firm that wants a partner, a clerk, a stenographer, an office boy, or, in fact, an ihing at which we can keep from starving until the clients who are bound to come find out that our .services are on the market and are well worth the few thousand samoleons they will have to pay for for them. H. CLAUDE POBST, Historian. V yi iJL-J ' O grnior ilato Class William Haywood Iohklaxi Sydxok Bohaxnon, Bekxahi) RicHAiii) Walzkh. Bandy, Henry Matthew, H. A. Bohannon, Sydnor, Mathews, Campbell, Charles Newton, Cave, William Walter, Hamilton, James Clarence, Hardaway, Edward Victor. B. Herzog, Alva Lewis, B. A., Howell, James Harden, . Hunter, Edward Pendleton, Maxwell, Roliert Edwin, Mayer, Bernard James . Moreland, William Haywood, Penn, Clarence Braiden, . Pobst, Henry Claud, Rodgers, George Stafford. . Rutan. Alexander Wallace, Sapp, Joshua Mercer, Sheaf, Mark Went wort li. Shields, Bernard Benoist, B. Switzer, John Robert. Thomas. William Crocket. Tillman, Henry Cummings. B. A Walton, Judge Wertrees, Walzer, Bernard Ridiard, Watson, John Alexander, Weinberg, Leo, ©ffitcre iflcmbfre President Vice-President Srcrefari and Treasurer Salem, Virginia .Virginia Charlestdwn, West Virginia Madison, Virginia Fuyetteville, West Vii-ginia . Zcla. We.st Virginia Jacksonville, Florida Waynesville, North Carolina Bel Air, Maryland Ilinton, West Virginia . Clinton, Louisiana Norfolk, Virginia . bingdon, Virginia . Tazewell, Virginia Tuskogee, Alabama Carroliton, Ohio . Ponce-De-Leon, Florida Watertown, .South Dakota Jacksonville, Florida Harrisonburg, Virginia Wytheville, Virginia Trenton, South Carolina Palatka, Florida Jacksonville, Florida Starr, Virginia Frederick, Mary-land Sfunior ilatu Class; ?|tstorj) ■ HAT the present Junior Law Class is the banner class of Wash- I ington and Lee ITniversity is a certainty that convinces and J directs the understanding, and satisfies the reason and judg- ment of those who are hound to act conscientiously in consider- ing its merits; in numbers, one of the largest, if not the very largest in the history of the institution; in wisdom, an exemplary and ideal group of youthful sages and philosophers, future chief-justices and eminent jurists; such a class as received the unstinted and merited praise of Daddy Burks, who hailed it as the most judicious looking, in- tellectual appearing and all-round Best class he had ever had the pleasure and honor of instructing in the principles of Law, and to whom he, with earnest expressions of regret, proclaimed his grief and sorrow at having to forego the Spring Quarter and tearfully confided that his duty led him to confine his efforts to the more juvenile acting class of Seniors in Law, a most sorrowful situation indeed, not whimsical or based on groundless conjecture. The Junior Law Class represents twenty states of the L ' nion, from New Jersey to New Mexico, from Montana to Florida, and while the law of Virginia is cited oftener, there is daily reference to a long case of Montana Law. There are Crews of fello ss from New Mexico, a Peck of them f rom Virginia, the Meek(est) is from Georgia, while Arkansas makes her appear- ance S cr (-foremost, there is a real Diamond from Florida, the West Vir- ginians have a Ilardieay in Real Property with their Gufisman, and there comes a Howell from North Carolina liecause there is Nix from Alabama and Moore from Indian Territory than from any where else. So responsive are some of these Junior Law fellows to their work and impressions derived therefrom, that as result of Joe Long ' s course on Domentic Relations and Carriers, one student took unto himself a wife. Others of this elass, whose gray matter is more susceptible to im- pressive impulses, laboring under delusions resultant from excessive imbibition of the completed course of Torts, and in contemplation of Criminal Laws, endeavored as an armed expedition proceeding from tiie Campus, one Halloween night, to put out of Commission, certain arc lights, the property of the city of Lexington; and, as is reported, a certain police- man, remonstrated against such hilarious jollification, only to incur the humiliation of being tied to a telephone post, there to remain, till jocund day stood flat-footed on House Mountain. Now, if there has not been herein-before stated, or made open and obvious by necessary implication, sufficient facts to influence you to, and warrant you in the unanimous rendition of a verdict that the Junior Law Class is IT, set forth your reasons therefor or demur to the above declaration when the iiisufticiency of the evidence necessary to sustain the declarations will be supplied together with such extrinsic facts as necessary to be alleged by way of further in hicenH ' nt. H. CHIM PECK. H ' ( c f untor ilatD Class i oll ©ffitfrs H. M. Dow, . President C. R. PlI.KIXGTOX, Vice-President E. G. Moore, Secretarij and Treasurer H. C. Peck, iflemtfrs Historian Axehoth, H. R., . Philadelphia, Penn Bandy, H. M., Salem, Virginia Beatty, V. S.. . Beattysville, Kentuckj ' Benson, T. B., Grilton, Maryland Brown, R. R., Elgin. Illinois Burnetfe, H. P., . Willis, Virginia Caraballo.M.Jr., Tampa, Florida Crews, R. H., . Hillsboro. New Mexico Diamond, S. H., Tallahassee, Florida Dow, H. M., Bricc, New Mexico Durrance, F. M., . Arcadia, Florida Faulk, N. F., . . Athens, Texas Flannagan, J. W., Huon, Virginia Gassman, J. P., Hedgesville. West Mr inia Givens, M. M., Tampa, Florida Grosball, P. J., Petersburg, Illinois Hanna, C. M., Charleston. West Virginia Hvlton, J. ( ' ., Stuart, irginia Kagay, B. F, . Effingham. Illinois Kennedy, W. M., . Charleston. West Virginia Law, A. C, .Redwood. Virginia MacDonald, D. S., . Keyser. We-t ' irginia MfGuire, H. S., . Beattysville. K ntucky McMurran, L. A., Newport. Virginia Meek, M., . . . NichoUs, Georgia Mischler, E. W., .May ' s Landing, West Virginia Mills, J. L, . . Norfolk, Virginia Mitchell, J. W., . Winton. North Carolina Moomaw, H. M., . Roanoke. Virginia Moore, E. G., . Muskogee, Indian Territory Murray, J. W., Lewisburg. Tennessee Nabors, A. F., . New London. Arkansas Nix, E. C, . . . . New Decatur, Alabama Peck, H. C, . Phillips, West Virginia Pilkington, C R., Frankfort, Kentucky Rasin, M. G., Baltimore, Marj ' land Robinson, Ray, Winchester, Virginia Semplc, W. F., .Caddo, Indian Territory Stern, L. M., Camden, Arkansas Steves, Albert, San Antonio, Texas Wickham, J F., Negro, Virginia Wysor, J. [ Pulalki, Virginia 96 ■ 6- j J i s. O= fotnt MtUtt llB Wa hinQton llitcrarp orictp Boarmbcr 30, 1905 GRf:v MooKK, W. . J. M. Sapp, G. L. S. P. H. AViSMA.N. W. S. J. PiLKIXOTOX, G. T.. S. Q uc.si ion : Re.wl vcd . should he sjiven powers to fix railway rates. DctatrrB Affirmative. Washington Society ' . D. S. MacDonald. W. Va. W. F. Sempl?:, Ind. T. R. B. Stephenson, Va. President Vice-President Secret an Chief Marshal That the Inter-State Commerce Commission Xeyative. GuAHAM Lee Society. C. R. PiLKINGTON. Ky. J. W. Flanagan, Va. J. H. Larrick, Va. Won by the Negative. ■J Mi yi ©fficers Wm. F. Semple, N. D. Smith«o. , H. Mann Page, R. E. Witt. President Vice-President .Secretary T recti urer Jflrmbfra Baker, H. Bell, D. R. Berry, R. F. Borchardt, B. F. Cather, T. R. Cooper, W. R. Crews, R. H Deaver, M. C. Dominick, G. J. Doub, W N. Dow, n. M. Firebaugh, R. M. Gabriel, G. C. Gassman, H. W. Ghiselin. S. R. M. Glass. R. ( ' . Godwin, ,J. M. Gordon, L. ( ' . Green, C. L. Hardy, R. H. Holtz, A. S. Hooper, W. P. Holland, L. P. Hudson, W. R. Hynson, R. W. Idcn. V. G. Jackson, O. C. Koontz, L. K. Larrick, A. R. Lease, W. Liglit, C. P. Mayer, B. J. McCutchan, F. McDonald, D. McMurran, L. A. Miller, A. I. Miller, H. W. Moore, Grey. Murrey, J. V. Nix, E. r. Offutt.AV. E. Osburn, C S. Page, R. R. Peck, H. C. Reveley. W. A. Robinson, R. Shields. W. R. Steven.son, R. B. Sterrett, R. Syron, C I.. Taylor, E. R. Whiting, N. H. Will, J. P. Wisman, P. H. Wisers, A. M. Withers, A. M. Witten, L. E. Zentnieyer, J. T. a9 -y VK . ' c ;  v [ ( ) xSv:7=c v. :rp C. R. PiLKIXGTON, B. R. Walzer, J. H. Larrick, C. N. HOBSON ' , D. W. M. McClure. Lee Smith, J. W. Flannagan, L. J. Desha, . T. B. Benson, JPfficcr 1905-1906 Jirst Crrm ctonB Crrm CbtrH Ccrm President V ice-Prc.iident Secretary President f ice-President Secretary President V ice-President . Secretary nUSTIB L.EE 1 HOWE hdm CLARK OEXT[R POTJM OVNUIP DVNN GRIFFITH MFC HVirON WFll 5TMH5 JOND LIPPITT mim R0[5fR 5C0TT 3[0iM EnGinEEninGaGiETV Cusitis 3Lcf Cngtmfring ocittj? Was naiiiod after General G. W. Custis Lee, foriiier president of the ITniversity; it was established December .5, ] ' M): by the four professors, toiretlier with the junior and senior classes of the Eiii;ineerini; School. Its chief aims are : (1) To promote the welfare of the University; (2) Orifjinal investifjation of scientific studies; (;5) The cultivation of accurate and forcible expression in scientific lanfiuaffe by the preparation, rcadinj;, and discussion of papers; (4) To promote the common professional and social interests of past and present members; and (.5) To maintain a scientific library. Many former graduates of the Engineering School, now holding positions of great responsil)ilities, have already handetl in their names as non-resident meml)ers. ©ffittrs H. L. Haxdlky President W. H. DuxLAi- Vice-President H. W. MiLi.EK, Secretary J. 1). Zi:N ' TMKYr;R rreasurer A. E. Griffith Librarian iWrmbrrB C. R. Ad. .mk, M. I. LiPPITT, C. L. Green, I. T. RiTExorn. W. H. DUNLAP. W. F. Railing, J. McCuLLOCH, U. E. Clarkf,. Prof. D. C. Humphreys, H. W. Miller, C. Yj. Dexter, H. L. Handled, J. S. VfooRE, W. E. Jones, F. T. DoTsoN, E. C. HoGF, L. T. Stoneburner, J. D. Zentmeyer W. L. HoGE, Prof. H. D. Campbell, Prof. J. L. Howe, A. E. Griffith, J. E. Scott, R. L. Huttox, Prof.W. Ee C. Stevens W. R. Morse, H. W. Withers. 103 NTO the glowing West! And lo ! The vast and sunburnt plains unfold. An endless, rippling, tideless sea of gold. Our own dear Mother ' s breast ! The gaunt, the silent earth, The bare, brown land without a single tree. Or blossom as a home for bird or bee, It lies, endures the dearth. And smiles in spite of thirst. And pEirched and craving lips. TTiis is the best The better land, my own, my noble West. Into the West ! Green, verdant with the strength of endless light. Immortal sunlight radiant and bright ! Where man may work, may rest; This is my Paradise, A land of flowers and of singing seas. Of hoary mountain tops and giant trees. Beneath vast, arching skies, — Skies that are eloquent With sympathy, and soft and deep and true. Gray only when we are weary of the blue, Cloudless and all-content. Into the West ! That mother of great men who sing her praise. Who marvel o ' er her miracles and ways. As free and unsurpressed, As Oceans roll. Say, O ye creatures of the farther sea. What know ye of her grace and melody. The grandeur of her soul ? Marion Forsler Gilmore. m N i 1 %j ! . i .. id-a I k S J (Eal r loarii W. R. Bledsoe, B. M. Manly, W. E. JOXES, W. R. MCMURRAN, Editor-in-Chief . I sxiistant-Editor-in-Cli ief Business Manaijer Astiistant Business M jr. Academic School Lee Smith L. P. Holland aBfiotiatf editors Engineering School E. B. ROESER A. H. Payne Law School. J. R. Switzer J. A. Watson. ' oc o£ i ■c -- Ifl - Cbc outi)ern Collegian WlLI.TAM FiXI.F.V SkMI ' IJ-.. . John Wkst Addison, . David W.vshinijtox Pu-ks. Jh. Joshua Mi:u( t.h Sapi ' , V. G. Idkn W. R. Shields Ed if or- ill -Chief Anxisluiil Editor Atliletic Editor I Mir Editor tSrabam Lrr ;§ ' Ottrtp John Pii.kington, in. Carroll Axderson Exglk, Samuel Lee Phillips, Jr. . Business Manager Assistant Business Mgr. s i  Cftc Ixtitg Ciim pjt •l3D.irli of €aitor6 Powell Glass. 9ls0ociatc CBitors Edilo) ' -in-CIiief I.. J. Desha, Business Manager. W. F. Semple R. W. Htnson W. H. Morel. ' ND D. W. Pipes R. B. Stephenson J. W. Addison. vr y H.,: 4 4 Wirginia 3lmpres6ion: asfjtngton anti Hee M E thoiifjlit tliev slept, the sons who kept The names of nol)le sires. And shinihered wliile tlie darkness crept Aroimd the vi il fires; 15ut still the (ioldeti Horseshoe Kiiif hts Their old dominion keep, Whose foes have found enchanted i;round. But not a knight asleep! Francis O. Ticknor. Have we not all of us written on our tablets the name of some place whose spirit, or atmosphere or landscape calls to us r And would we not all of us pack our traps and set forth for that place at once if it were given us to do exactly as we like ? I firmly believe in the Spirit of Place — oh delectable phrase! — and if you have never fallen under its spell then I am sorry for you. For many years Lexington, Virginia, had been written on my note- book, but I had cro.ssed and recrossed Virginia without reaching it. And now, as I look back upon it, I am not at all sure that I was really there last August. Perhaps it is all a dream. Perhaps there is no such place as Ijexinn;ton, no such institution as Washin(;ton and Lee University, no Viri;inia Military Institute. But I hope I am not mistaken, for the reason, sufficient in itself, that I want to go hack, and walk again upon that campus, see those spires, and look upon the delectable mountains that mark the horizons. It is not quite fair to visit a college in midsummer, when the students are away and the buildings closed; but the Spirit of Place guided me, and it was no fault of mine, that I found halls and groves deserted. I was due at a point far out on Cape Cod on a certain day. I calculated carefully and found that by dipping into the South I could spend a day at Lexington and reach Boston on schedule. I had time at Staunton to see those two superb schools for girls that are the chief distinguishing mark of that charming and thriving town. It is pretty safe to say that no schools an ' where in the country have handsomer grounds than these, whicli I saw amid the glory of their midsummer foliage, alnn)st tropical in richness. Lexington, O my ignorant brother! is no sooty manufacturing town at the crossing of noisy railways, where you are met at the station l)y a delegation of the commercial club, intent on showing you factory sites. The fact is, that after a delightful ride in the valley of Virginia, you back into Lexington in leisurely fashion through a cut that is a fine testimony to the engineers who carved it out of rock. And it is proper that one should not fall into Mecca on all fours, but approach with some sort of dignity. A young minister, a native of the place, whom I met on the train, most courteously initiated me into the first mysteries from the rear platform as we approached the station. There is a fine, ample (luality about Lexington. The Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who settled this beautiful valley, wanted room — which is the reason they hurried away from tide water and sought the Virginia mountains. They wanted room for their energies, and room, not less, for the soul to grow in. Verily they found good pastures when they camped at Lexington. The country thereabouts is beautifully undulating; the eye follows orchard, meadow and cornfield back to the hills. There . tUt p are pastures dotted witli sheep; the red Vir(,Mnia soil adds its note of color to the landscape; the skies of the Old Dominion are blue indeed. But I was speakinrj of the openness and frtedom suggested by the landscape. I kaow of no place in New England — and I have made my salutations at all the Puritan shrines, where you are not somehow oppressed by a feeling that those old fellows did a lot for you, and that they are well aware of the fact an d expect you to pay handsomely to keep fresh laurels on their graves. But perhaps I am prejudiced against the Puritans, who :::r -y were sadly deficient in humor and red coqjuscle.s and incapable, I believe. f f generosity. The valley of Virijiiiia is a re ;ion where a man ' s spirit finds hrt)ad horizons. .No wonder Lexin ;;ton was chosen as the site for a coUecje, and no wonder that that collefje to this day puts a mark on its alumni which is as indelible as it is indefinable. They tell you that Washin ;ton College had its first beginnings in 1780; but you know well enough that this is an error. It was alwavs there — that ' s the truth — in real groves of academe. and no landscape gardener has spoiled it all by cutting it up into formal garden plots. The grass and trees of the campus are no stage properties, where a madman trots around with a lawnmower from dawn to dark smoothing it out. The day was cool and bright and the wind came down out of the mountains and talked to the trees. As I sprawled on the grass I could remember at least two lines of Virgil and half of an Iloratian ode — which is more Latin than had risen in my memory for many a day. I did not ask the names of the buildings — it was enough for me that they were old; and I was quite sure that they had not been built with tainted money. I went on up the long aisle of the campus to Virginia Military Institute — the West Point of the Confederacy, they used to call it, and a school of fine etiuipment it is to-day. You are on holy ground here, for at the very threshold, the cadets met a force of Federals and many fell. Jack.son was superintendent of the institute when the war broke out. and his name and fame are .second only to Lee ' s in I exington. They show you his quaint old stone house, a fortress in itself; and his statue in the cemetery, where he gazes up the lovely valley as though on watch for a foe is an elo(|ucnt and moving memorial. Let us retrace our steps over the campus and enter the college chapel, built while l{f)bert E. Lee was president. It looks older than it is, and the very benches have an ancient air. At the right hand as we face the platform is a handsome bronze tablet in memory of a member of (PF A , and the sight of it touched me. There, in a community where I had not a friend or acquaintance, that tablet formed my one tie with the place, as though my life were somewhat knit to his through the fellowship of our fraternity. It is difficult for me to speak now of what was to come. I had paused bv the Hall tablet, and it was some time before I felt rather than saw the beauty an l wonder of what lay beyond the reading desk — Valentine ' s superb recumbent statue of Robert E. Lee. I did not know of it, or believed it elsewhere, and certainly had not imagined anything so beautiful. It lies within an iron grill — a sort of rood screen — but is plainly within the vision of all who enter. Every student, as he sits in the chapel every morning of the college year, has this majestic effigy before him. Ah me! How beautifully the South remembers her dead! I am Northern born, and my father was a soldier in the Northern army; and yet I am free to say that there is nothing in the National Museum at Washington that is comparable for moving pathos to the relics of Lee, Jackson and Jeb Stuart in the Confederate Museum at Richmond. Nor have I found in any other statue the noble dignity and sublime peace with which Valen- tine has touched the outward form of Lee in the quiet chapel at Lexington. I do not envy the man his composure who can stand beside that beau- tiful testimony to Lee without emotion. Something has been caught and imprisoned in the white marble of the gentleness, the dignity, the quiet strength that endeared Lee to his own people and won for him the respect of his adversaries. You feel that, more than a soldier he was a gentleman of the noblest type, whose outlook on life was animated by Christian serenity and hope. The statue suggests the splendid repose of one who had earned his rest. For only five years he was president of Washington University, named for George Washington, its generous benefactor; and wholly natural it was that at Lee ' s death Lee ' s name should be united in the title with that of Washington. In the crypt beneath the statue lies the dust of Lee. His old office as president is only a step away on the ground floor of the chapel. There on a round table which has never been touched since his death lie his papers as they lay on the day he died — his last letters arranged with the care his mind ordered, bringing his life very close to those who are privileged to stand there. The spirit in which Lee, the vanquished soldier, entered upon the presidency of Washington College, is finely set forth in tiie letter which he addressed to the board of trustees in accepting the office : I think it the duty of every citizen, in the present condition of the country, to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peace and bar- mony, and in no way to oppose the poliey of the state or general govern- ment (Hrected to tliat object. It is particularly incumhent on those charged with the instruction of the young to set them an example of sub- mission to authority. It was fitting that Lee should carry a great heartache to the peace of the hills. There is compensation in all things, and it seems likely that Lee shall .shine brighter through the years as the golden link between our own harsh times and those of ' ' the invincible knights of old. It r- -y kZJC i ,H j may be that on the soil that bred him Idealism shall make her last stand. I recalled, as I stood in the still chapel, the requiem sung by George Edward Woodberry of Thomas Randolph Price, — which concludes thus : For thou hast borne the worst, and learned to bear All lesser sorrows in one great despair. O much enduring soul who enterest peace. Still shall our love for thee on eai-th increase; Now, poet, scholar, soldier on death ' s plain. Sleep with thy early friends in battle slain! Lee was succeeded by his son George Washington Custis Lee, who was president for seventeen years. Even this slight note on this fine old institution would fail of its object if it did not mention William L. Wilson, sometime representative in congress from West Virginia, and postmaster- general in Mr. Cleveland ' s second cabinet, who was president of Washington and Lee from 1897 to 1900. The South has given the nation no finer example of the scholar in politics than W ' illiam L. Wilson, and his early death robbed the country of a citizen whose high abilities and rare personal qualities were too little recognized. What I have written does not j)retend to be a description of Washington and lyce, but what I should like to communicate to the reader is the sense of the Spirit of Place that so seizes upon the visitor in Lexington. At Harvard and Yale you are in large cities; at New York, Columbia is only incidental in the life of the metropolis; the University of Chicago is as utterly lacking in distinction as a bunch of warehouses, and at other places that need not be named you are oppressed by a dreary weight of mere pedagogy and aware of little else. iT L We have at Lexington an institution tliat expresses more intimately than the University of Virginia, tlie history and hope of the South. The University of Virginia is larger and riclier in fine huiklings. hut it has ceased to he hxal and is now a great cosinopoiitan institution. IJut the heart of the South beats at liCxington, and there, from all testimony, the student l)oily is .served by a group of unusually devoted and skilled teachers. Washington and Lee stands for a |)articular thing for straightforward, honest college work. It is animated at all times by those qualities of .sturdy devotion to the business in hand that characterized of old the Vir- ginians of the valley, eased and sweetened and brightened by the noi)le qualities of mind and heart which we only cheapen l)v the liackrieved phrase of Southern chivalry. Merkuith Nicholson-. iy . ( N T e 5 N fl U 8 U m m--: i rnj.RU5 BELLI final •:23aU D.win Washington I ' ii i;s. Jr., ©Fctutitif Committer Albeut Stkvks, Jk., . . Clntirituin E. P. IIuNTKK W. F. Semplk C. A. Engle C. M. McCkum K. W. Trimble J. W. Flanagan A. F. White L. J. Desha H. R. Morse J. R. Caskie H. M. MOOMAW M. R. TURXBULL W. R. J. Di NX. Tnsttation Committee Cliairmuii M. W. SlIEAi ' E C. F. Baglev O. C. Jackson R. B. Stephenson F. R. Crawford. W. R. Bledsoe, W. H. Duxlap C. N. HoBsox F. P. May. Ju. C. F. Watts R. W. Hynson 3?eroration Committre T. O. Bagley, Jr.. Chairman R. L. P. GE B. J. Mayer H. G. Temple G. H. Miles G. H. Capertox. Jr. P. P. Glass Johx Pilkixgtov, Jr. C.N. Campbell, Jr. B. B. Shields H. Anderson arrnnpmrnt Committer Krcrption Committrr CItairman J. T. McCrum B. M. Manly Y. M. :Miles, A. W. Rutan D. E. Pruitt Chairman J. W. Addison W. H. Moreland r. B. Hubbard. •Si I ) Cotillion ClulJ I?. ]$. Shields, . W. R. J. Dunn, . President Secrelari a ml Trccisurer H. Allen W. R. Bledsoe K. W. Trimble G. H. Caperton, Jr. C. N. Campbell G. H. Miles V. M. Miles Albert Steves, Jr. T. O. Bagley E. Rankin D. E. Pruit D. L. Anderson ' S. Jemison H. C. Tillman W. H. Dunlap L. Cooper D. W. Pipes. Jr. J. I.. Campbell, Jr. C. F. Bagley S. Davis A. F. White F. G. .Tones J. C. H 1 MILTON. C|)tlJta!)06 fc O he left the hills and Swings and searches all day Thro ' ; and the liills that f Kindly day; to the Land Lean to liearken, and the valleys Of the Hereafter, like the that D ing of glad laughter. They darken, and the flowers still Chibiabos, the Sweet Singer, Await liim whom they knew. Passed away. And the tide among the Marshes beats and washes. And forever shall they call Him — winds and forest, liills And deep — till the world Sways and swings, ever Shall need his singing and he Rising, ever falling, with a Sad cry ever calling for the Older and the truer AVake again from sleep. For The greatest and the truest of The singers rise by night, when Vanished things. The time is dark and cheerless Still the patient sea uplifts its And hath need of strong and Mournful thunder night Fearless hearts to battle for And day; still the mornings The right, and of songs to cheer And the evenings, like a The hoping of tliose groping Ceaseless music blowing. For the light. Ever flowing, ever ebbing, with Their glimmer and their Glowing; fade away. So he left the hills and Meadows; so he left the Kindly day; to the land Still the sea wind, hillward Of the Hereafter like the Coming, bears the sound of Dying of glad laughter, Pheasants drumming, and Chibiabos, the Sweet Singer, Among the firs and birches Passed away. W. H. F. 126 -y -J ' ( W. R. Hudson R. B. Spixdlk, Ju. P. H. AVisMAX I. P. Gassmax H. Ordemax V. H. Marquess, Jr. H. W. Miller P. E. Collins Dr. Heii) White, R. W. Hynson, . Herbert Anderson, first f mors (ibr Clulj . Director Leader Pianiaf and Maiiai er Jirot -Baeofs C XHII R. W. Hynsox. §fconli Crnora M. W. Sheafe, Jr. J. R. Caskie A. I. Miller AV. P. Shelton Srconli Saeere W. W. Oliver L. C. Toms R. L. Page C. N. Campbell R. B. Stephenson .t-n: - 1 i JHantiolm aiiti Guitar Chit) M. W. Shkafk, Jr. . H. Anderson, . Director Manager iftanUoUne J. T. McCrum G. AV. Wmi ' J. P. Irwin M. W. Shkafk, Jr. P. E. Collins. Biolino C. W. Sen W AUK E. M. Stkvks J. W. Claude nitare II. D. PORTKH C. S. Glasgow W. P. Irwin CUrintt n. V. .Miller 18 W. (Sh L. U. Dramatic Club ESMERALDA February 23, 1906 mm. «. F: t f 1 m ¥ f i ' ■ ' ■■ - . i it xiiS H qJ Bramattc Cliil) F. A. Daingerfield, Jr. L. M. Stern L. P. Bryant, Jr. W. K. Ramsey, Jr. R. H. Hagood, Jr. G. H. Miles A. Steves, Jr. W. W. Oliver D. W. Pruit R. E. Powell H. C. Peck. Miss Rust Miss Allen Miss Haskins Miss Howe Miss Moore Miss Barclay Miss Elisabeth Barclay :Miss AViiite Miss Tucker C|)t C|)ron(clc6 of |)rpUl) JHici)ael Chapter I. 1. Now it fell out al)out the niiddle of the ninth month in the fourth year of the reign of the Sultan Theodore I. and while the moon was yet in the full, that the young men assembled Ijefore the pavilion of Sheykh Michael for to do obeisance unto him. 2. And Sheykh Michael came forth to greet tliem. clad in his best raiment; the tail of his coat was two-pronged, and his shoes were shined and his locks were anointed with camel ' s grease. 3. And he beckoned them to follow him into the place of Assemblies; and when they were sat he spake words of encouragement to them and commended their beauty. 4. Then he further advised them that they should straight way re- pair unto the tent of his Grand Vezeer, Jon El, and deposit there their moneys lest they lose them through the artifices of the people of the city. 5. For the city is called Lexington, which, being interpreted, meaneth A live place: and among the inhabitants thereof is one Eh (?ho, an upright man. who wearcth all liis hair in the form of a mustache. 6. And Eh Cho runneth a shop wherein are sold things good to eat, drink, smoke and chew : he enticcth many and tradeth to them merchandise for monevs. 7. A man named Willie, (or in tiie Arabic, Hi( ( iiix,) likewise keepeth a shop: and in this shop there are beautiful tables with balls of every hue placed upon them. 8. And Willie provideth all the yoiinjj men with sticks that they may punch the halls and amuse themselves as when they were hahes, and taketh from them moneys to buy fuel fur his pi[)e. i). A certain Squire of fair and bounteous fjirth likewise ruletli a joint: and he was wont to sell a drink called nu lt, which dilateth the countenance. 10. But the Chief Khalcefh said him nay, and taxed his wad sorely; for it is a stranjie and cruel custom of the place that no one may sell to a Sojourner aught to quench his thirst. 11. These and even others are there in Lexington: wherefore did Sheykh Michael request the young men to render him his due ere their eyes were gladdened by the sights of the streets. 12. And many of them took heed to his words and coughed up the cush and were armed with courses of study. 13. Being tlius prepared, they again approached the tent of Sheykh Michael; and an odor that alnK)st spake came forth from tlie door. 14. And the cause thereof was the cigar which tlie big Sheykh was smoking; and the smell was like unto the exhalations of Sheol. 1.5. And the young men were sore afraid, and were on the point of leaving with celerity: for they wist not that a cigar could behave that way. 16. But the Sheykh smiled sweetly, and they entered and beheld a five-pound lard bucket full of such cigars on liis writing desk. 17. Now he guarded the bucket jealously with his left eye, considering that his cigars were a tcnipation to the servants of (iod. 18. And he asked no one to sniuke with him (Blessed be the name of Allah !) ; or h is countenance ivas glad but h w Iteart wa.s contracted. 19. Now the Shevkh straightway recogtiized the face of each of them by reason of having seen his hand-writing or that of his father. 20. And he rubbed the bacivs of the dejected and cajoled tliem, saying that they would become enamored of the city and of his service so that they would not desire to depart when their season was up. s 2 . Albeit, they g it them not arounil with the requisite suddenness; so that on the next day the Sheykli sware by his beard that no one should be enrolled who did not gird up his trousers and make a dash for Xewcomb, 22. But the young men cared not to do violence unto their raiment, for they were new and glad to look upon; and they made haste with more leisure than became their status, 2S. Delighting themselves with good things ere the Sabbath should come. (On that day no building in the city is open save Science Hall; for the meat-sellers bar their doors and the medicine-stores are .sealed with molten lead.) V N 24. So the time of the Vlaster-Sheykh was engrossed with their waywardness. Therefore he enjoined on one of his henchmen called Judas to give instruction in the speech of Tully Gildersleeve to those who desire it. 25. And Judas gathered his red hat, sware thrice in the name of the prophet and got him over and sat in the stead of Sheykli Michael. 26. Now there h ad been peace betwixt Judas and the young men, but one of them neither kno •ing or fearing the customs of the good Sheykh, spat on the floor of the apartment. 27. Whereat Judas Ijccame wroth and tare his whiskers, s])rinkling ashes and epithets on the spittle of the young man. But in all other respects the dishing-out of wisdom was as on former years. 136 ' X -N ; ::SW i V_ Ji 7 r:x C Chapter II. 1. But the most elderly and worthy of the youiif; men are called Seniors. They appear wise in the sij ht of all for they have imbibed knowl- edge and other things and wear an heathen robe and head-dress. 2 And in their wisdom it seemed good to them to feed. So it eame to pass that they gathered themselves together at the Inn called Rockbridge on the .second and twentieth day of the second month, half-way between the going down of the sun and the rising thereof. 3. Here men-servants of Ethiopia ministered unto them with V)ottles of refrigerated sperrits-of-cats-a-fightin ' , as the poet hath termed it, or the Elixir of Jubilee. 4. Whereof the young men did drink and then smash the glasses into which it had been poured, being persuaded that they were of no further avail. .5. Thus it came about as the night wore on that the Good-bye Mouthpiece of the class arose and spake respecting Sheykh Michael, and essayed to provide an anath.ema for each day of the space between Now and seventy years hence, only that within the space of the turning of the hour-glass he had not passed beyond the day before yesterday. So they took him up and set him without the door to run down. (). Likewise others enudating his example stood upright, each for a very brief space, and uttered strange words on divers subjects — respond- ing to toasts, as it is called in the Koran. 7. Being sat once more, each of those present embraced his table- companion out of respect for tlic custom of the Romans. 8. Alius Alii d dixit, that is to say, some discoursed of Mohammed and others of the tribe of the Dijnn. !). Thus they continued to make merry, standing on their heads on the tables and lying on their backs on the floor bv turns: f 10. Until the lioiir when the fourth watch of the night begins, or the space of the morning when the sire goose is minded to rouse his first- born with a kick in the ril)s. 11. Tlien they got tliem forth into the street and told the inhabi- tants of the vicinity of Washington and Lee and a pet tiger, with his tail wrapped around the Syni})ol ' 06. I ' S. Which done, each faced about and described the nether branch of a leniniscate. seeking the place of his al)ode. Thus they did that their knowledge of Mathematics might be manifest to the hoot-owls. 13. Now all things other than these are of small import and are chronicled on the pages of the Ring Turn Phi. 14. Let him who readeth, read for instruction only and not with an eye single to the spelling of words and such like: for by so doing he will gather wisdom and his peace depart not from him. C ' haitku III. 1. Now it is the custom for those of the greatest vexation of spirit to band themselves together in Brotherhoods; and they tie knots in the tail ends of their names and are stiff-necked without knowing why. •i. As for the rest, they are comprehended under the general name of The Rabble. For they have neither wealth nor reputation nor intellect nor comeliness such as those of the Brotherhoods have. 3. But it was the will of Satan that there should be yet other Brother- hoods; so certain of those whose superscriptions were yet lacking took counsel together and spat tobacco-juice fraternally in the same pot. 4. Being of the Seed of Ibrahim, and Saint Patrick, and Fertlinand, and one as any other man, even of the common people. 13N :- rSii ' K. 5. And of their miiiil)or tliev cho; so two and send tlu-in forth upon the face of tlie earth to seek otliers hke unto themselves. (i. And the twain lietake themselves to the Northward and come to the most populous city of the land. For there it i.s possible to find all th ings. 7. Here they run transverse of those whom they seek and become of the Brotherhood. Then they disperse and one walketh along the street called Broadway. 8. And a gust ariseth and unseateth his derby and driveth it before him. Whereat he was exceeding glad and on his return spake thereof without ceasing; so that without boasting he did spread abroad the report of his journeying and awaken the envy of the vulgar. 9. Thus did it come to pass that the bunch were incorporated with due ceremony. Then they consult their wisdom-pans and demi- johns as to how they might persuade others. 10. And they come to one by night and sit on his bed and praise the shape of his trunk and the fragrance of his room. 11. And cast their arms about him and say — Wilt thou not be with us and of us. But he straightway liegan to make excu.se, saying — Nay but allow me to ponder the matter. 12. Then say they unto him — See that thou speak not of this to any man: for it is privy to us and thee. And he answereth — I hear and obey. But they pressed him, saying — Swear. And he sware (ex- ceedingli .) 13. But others they enticed: and they grow in numbers, in grace and in wisdom and multiply pictures without number. z jToot H3aU Reason of 1905. HE fall of 1 !)().) funiisiied to an iulmiriiig world at least two con- vincinii; exainples of the superiority of scienec and nerve over nierj niatorial force. Oneof these was the victory of Japan over Russia; the other the recoril of the Washington and Lee football team. This record was as much of a surprise to us as to anyone else. ( )ur ])ros]H ' cts were far from bright when the season opened, but by dint of hard work and enthu- siastic training, the team soon began to show its ability to ])lay fast football. In the earlier games of the fall its speed and precision developed so rapidly that before the middle of the season it had won the right to be ranked among the best teams of the south, in spite of the fact that it averaged only loi pounds. Until the team took its first trip, liowever, none of its best work had been done. Having warmed up with Richmond College, we gave a severe jolt to the general expectation by defeating R. M. C. Hi to o. It was at Blacksburg, however, that the pluckiest and most brilliant work of the season was done. V. P. I., as everyone knows, outweighed us some iS pounds to the man, and, having already shown her right to be classed with the best American teams, expected rather an easy mark. It took only a few minutes of play to wake her up, for our line broke the rushes of the heavy backs, while our own backs, working together like clock- work, advanced the ball time after time. Shack ' ' Hagley, playing like a whirl-wind on both offense and tlefence, made the longest gains of the game. The ball was fre iuently in P. I. ' s territory, and a score would probablv have resulted but for unforeseen pieces of hard luck. V. P. I. succeeded in making only two touch-downs, the other score being made by a goal from the forty-yard line in a high wind. The next week, at Raleigh, our much battered aggregation went up against a team that was equally as heavy as that of Blacksburg, and at that time probably much faster. Here, also, die team aroused the ad- miration of the on-lookers as exponents of the whirl-wind style of football The score was 21 to 0, for which Wilson of A. and M. was largely responsible. In the final game of the season, the Varsity ran up 17 points against George Washington, and then laid off the second half to give the substitutes a chance. Too much credit can not be given to Mr. Brown, who made the team what it was. With a little heavy material from the freshman class the prospects for next season are alluring. 143 Oliver. Anderson, Mooniaw, Barley, Dotson. Jemison. Osborne, Rus,sell, .Shelton, White, A. K. DeVane, Hoge, Withers, Dow, Miller, Hamilton, White. H. M., Alderson, Rasin Bankin-Capt, Brcwn-Coach. 5 X jFootMl 1905 E. Han ' kin, Captain 1 . K. Brown ' , ........ Coach Hill Alle.n, Alumni Coach A. F. AVhite, . Manager Lmr np. IiLLKR, Cenire H. AYnrTE, i , , , HOGK, (■ ' ' ■ ' Bow, nic,kt Guard R.AXKiN (captain) Le]t Tackh WiTiiKHs, Right Tackle Jemison, n- 7 7. , OsnonxE, ' ' 1 ' ' AlDERSOX, I rue- 1 DOTSON, j ' f ' - ' ' Kasin% . Quarter Bad: MooM. w, ] r II D I R0SSELL, j ' ' ' T. O. Bagley, Left Half ANDER.SON RigM Half S nbetitntrci. Hamilton Pipes Shelton C. Bagley DeVane Oliver. fk 35asf 3SaU Reason, 1905. fc IIE record of tlio Washin rtoii and Lee Team for the spring of 1 ]!)0.5 was brilliantly erratic. Never was there a college teamwhicli 1 varied so greatly in its playing: in all the games there was individual work of the very finest sort, but in some of the games, particularly those played away from home, there was a lack of team work, which sometimes resulted very disastrously. Two of the games, those with AVest Virginia and V. P. I., are worthy to be classed with the best ever p ' ayed on the liome grounds. The AVest Virginia game we fully expected to lose, but owing to the steady pitching of Johnson and good support by the team, we won by the close score of 4 to 3. The game was won in the last half of the ninth when the score was 3 to 2 against us by a phenomenal batting rally off the great Gron- inger. Soon after, we defeated the strong V. P. I. team in a game fought to a finish resulting in a score of 5 to 4. The work of the outfield was almost flawless throughout the season, while the work of Johnson in the box and Trimble and Bagley in the in- field is worthy of specitd notice. As we go to press the team of 1906 has just played its first practice- game. There are too many factors of uncertainty in College baseball to justify a prediction under any circumstances. But we feel almost safe in saying that unless something gangs agley very seriously the record of this eason should be even better than that of the famous cham- pionship team of 1904. The schedule is much more ambitious than here- tofore and includes an extended Northern trip. I ' ' - — ' J L C i il _j J 4 v — l: Sasctall Cram TiiiMiiLi:, K. W. Toms, L. A. Biiowx. K 1{. Captain Manacjer Coacli. Trimble, K. W. joiinsox, x. f. Porter, H. I). LuHX, AV. K. • Bagley, T. O. foahd, av. c. Amhony. J. W. Temple, H. Cr. . Pipes, D. W. Johnson X F. ) Porter, H. D.j Catcher . I ' Hchcrs Firtit Base Second Base Short Stop Third Base Rlijht Field Center Fichl Left Field S nbetitntr6 Dow, H. M. Maxwell, R. E. Hood. W. M. Chatham, R. H. TRflGKTGflH CracU Ccam I rOR a miiiiber of years past, it has been tlie custoiii duriiif the sprinti; to have a day of field contests, but until the present year, Washington and I.ee has taken part in none of the intercol- legiate meets; in fact, until the last year or two, there have been none in the South worthy of the name The development of this branch of athletics at Washington and Lee is important, for it supplies another chance for wholesome exercise of the sort that developes the staying powers which will be needed later on. Owing to the absence of an adequately prepared track, advance in this department will of course be slow, but from the enthusiasm of the present members, and the devoted work of Dr. Bitzer, great results may be expected. Track work furnishes one of the best opportunities which a small college has of success in ath- letics, and should receive the encouragement and support of authorities, students and alumni. In order that track athletics may continue to advance, the completion of the proposed enlargement and improvement of Wilson Field must come at an early date. The plans proposed will give us a first class running track in addition to other sorely needed improvements. In order that these plans may be carried out immediately, a special call for alumni aid has been sent out which should be heartily responded to by every loyal Washington and Lee man. This spring Washington and Lee will be represented at several im- portant meets and the prospects for a creditable showing are more than gratifying. A surprising number of good men have sliown up in the Freshman class, including some four or five who ha e good Preparatory School records, and at least one Southern record has l)een bettered in practice already. Cratk Ctam. II. R. Mouse (Ca ) .) Low and High Hurdles D. W. M. McCluijf. Half Mile W. E. Offut Two Mile C. F. Ba(;i.ey ) - ,,r-i J. M. E. Sullivan j • - • • Quarter Mile R. L. IIuTTOx Mile W.W.Oliver 100 yds, ' -2 ' -20yds. D. L. . . i)Eu.so. . . High and Hroad Jumps Pole vault Note. At tlie Charlottesville Meet, April ' il, Anderson established a new Southern record for the I ' ole Vault. Jl ) i (ij)mnasiium Ctam 1 ' NTEREST in gymnasium woric indicates more clearly than anything II else whether a man really cares for his physical development oris II drawn to athletics by the love of sport and desire for college honors. Even before Washington and Lee had attained the dignity of a salaried physical director, the work doni? in the gymnasium was of the first class. In recent years, the annual exhibitions have been among the most interesting of college contests, and in all the meets in which Wa- hington and Lee has taken part her representatives have so far come out ahead. Too much can not be said of Dr. Bitzer ' s faithful and etficicnt work, for it is largely upon this that the excellence of the result depends. Finally, let us say that the building of a really up to date and well equipped gym- nasium would incalculably increase the usefulness of Washington and Lee to her students. The efficiency of the university training depends upon the triple factors, mind, spirit and body; full development of no one of these can result unless proper conditions are supplied. N ( l( ( pmnasium Ceam. D. E. Pruit, Capt. A. M. Withers, Mgr. S. B. M. Ghiselin E. R. Taylor W. K. Ramsey Frank McCutchan, J)i. C. P. Ligiit R. P. Bledsoe J. H. Larrick W. R. Hudson H. W. Withers A. R. Larrick A. R. HuTsoN W. R. Cooper H. X. Clendenmng R. B. Pruit. U - | LB 9ilt)trt itincp BSoat Clut). Colors: Kopal -Blnr. Club ©ffictre. Withers, H. W. Prcsidrnf Milf:s. (i. H. Secretary HoBSON, C. N. J ' ice-Prrnklcnt Toms, L. A. Treasurer Crrta Committer. H. W. WiTHKHs, C. H. Miles, C. N. HoBSON, Crrta of 1905. Withers. H. W., Strokr, ..... . biiii;(l()n, Va. McCreery. II. M.. Xo. ;?., .... Hintoii, W. Va. HoGE.E. C.Vo. 2 wr ashirifrton, D. C. Riser, Wm. F., No. 1., Bi irmingham, Ala. 1 Mh.es, Geo. H., Corsica in, .... Marion, Va. Aldersox, E. L. Allex, H. Anderson, D. I . Anderson, H. Beitel, J. J. Brown, R. A. Burnett, H. P. Caperton, G. H. Jr. Collins, L. M. Cooper, W. R. Cl. ude, J. W. Crawford, F. R. De.wer, M. C. DoTsoN, F. T. Dow, H. M. Fleming, S. Forney, A. K. Godwin, J. M. Gravely ' , J. S. Griffith, A. E IIOBSON, C. X. HoBsoN, J. p. Jr. HOGE, E. C. fflrmbrrs. HoGE, W. L. HOLTZ, A. S. HousER, A. A. Humphreys, E. S. Hynson, R. W. Lippirr, M. I. Long, J. S. LUHN, W. R. L. zARus, M. L. Ly br. nd, a. W. Manly, B. M. M. RQUEss, . H. Jr. McCoy, Wm. A. McCreery, II. M. McCrum, C. M. Mc: Iurran, W. R. Miles, G. H. Miles, V. :M. Moomaw, H. M. Nelson, W. H. S. Xorfleet, J. P Nottingham, J. L. Ordeman, H. W. 159 P. GE, R. L. Pendleton, E. M. Peters, M. J. Phillips, S. L. Jr. Pruit, D. E. Railing, W F. Riser, W. F. Rowan, C. L. Scott, J. E. Semple, AV. F. Spindle, R. B. Jr. Stephenson, R. B. Steves, A. Jr. Steves, E. M. Stone, T. G. Terry I. H. Thomas, W. C. Toms. L. A. Tni.MHLE, K. W. Walker, K. AViTHERS, A. M. AVithers, H. AV. AA ' lTTEN, L. C. Ilarrv Lee Crew — Winners 1905. Qe L : , IT o J arr ilee BSoat Club ©ffitrra VVhitk, a. F., . President DuNi.Ai ' . Wai.tkh H. Vice-P resident Desha. L.. I. . Secretary Treasurer Light, C. 1 . Pell Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah ! Rah ! Rail Ree! Rec! Harry Lee!! t)onorarp iHrmbtra ffistorinn. 1 i 1 Whiti:, Miss Annii; JoK Sponsor IlrMi ' HRKVs, Pkok. 1). ( ' ., Crew of ' 78. Crow, I)h. C. L.. Nklsox, Latane, Dr. J. H EdU PRr,F. A. L. Adams, C. R. Gassman, H. W. Morse, H. R. Anthony, J. W. Glasgow, C. S MUNCE, J. G. Batten, (i. O. Glass, R. C Murrey, J. W. Bledsoe, R. P. Gordon, L. C. Newton, ,J. G. j BoHAVXON, 8. GoTT, E. F. Nottingham, .J. L. ! BoRCHAKDT, B. F. Green, C. L. Oliver, W V. Bryant, L. P. Gwathmey, D. L. OSBURN, C. 8. 1 Cami ' Hell, .1. L. Hardy, P. H. Page, H. M. Chandler, A. H. Higginhotham, B. M. Powell, R. E. Clendennlnc;, H. X. Hill, T. D. Price, 0. R. ( ' OLLIN.S, P. E. Hood, V. W. Ratplikfe, E. H. COPENHAVER, A. M. Larrick, a. R. Ray, 8. M. ; Davis, 8. Lawson, W. E. Ray, y. A. Dexman, K. V. McCluer, D. W. Robinson, H. DeVane. I). A. Mackwood, H. L. Smithson, M. U. Dodd, R. a. McC ' ULLOCH, J. Stedman, b. ; Dunn, W. K. J. MCGUTCHAN, F. Sullivan, DULANEY , F. McGiLL. E. H. T. YLOR, E. R. Durrance, F. M. Miller, A. I. Tutwilek, W, S Faulk, N. F. Minetree, C. M. Wightman, T. L FOURER, J. .1. Moore, G. Crete of 1905 Payne, L. C., Stroke. Light, C. P., No. 2. Miller, A. I., No. 3. 8.MITH, B. T., Coxswain. 161 Minetree, G. P., No. 1. V Ctnnis Clut). Campbell, C. N. . President Jones, W. E Vice-President Pipes, D.W.Jr ■ Sicrvtanj Treasurer iflrmbrrB. W. R. Hudson W. R. McMurran R. B. Spindle L. A. McMurran D. W. Pipes, Jr. A. W. Rutan C. N. Campbell H. W. Phillips W. E. Jones E. R. Cover J. W. Eggleston L. a. Toms E. P. Hunter H. A. Axleroth H. G. Temple LeRoy Cooper G. H. Miles W. U Cooper B. M. Manly M. R.TURNBULL j F. R. Crawford W. R. Bledsoe ' C. N. HOBSON F. Bartenstein J. S. Gravely C. S. Glasgow A. F. White AV. C. Thojias A. M. AViTHERS H. AA ' . Gassman 1905 Wimwt0. 2)oublrg. Hunter, E. P. Pipes, D. AV. Jr. :§ ing;lr6. Pipes, U. W. Jr 163 football T. O. Baglky, Jr. A. I. Miller F. T. DoTsox H. M. White J. C. Hamilton H. M. Dow V. M. Miles S. Jemison HoGE, E. A. C. E. L. Alderson H. M. MooMAW M. Rasin J. E. QUISENBF.RRV J. W. RuHSELL E. Raxkix I). L. Anderson Steves, A. Ja., Manager. White. A. F., Manager. Withers. H. W. ■Qagrball D. W. Pipes, Jr. H. G. Temple N. F. Johnson H. D. Porter K. W. Trimble R. E. [Maxwell J. L. WVSOK T. O. Bagley Crack STeam T. O. Bagley J. R. SWITZER H. R. Morse D. M. McCluer (Bprnnasinin Ceam H. W. Withers CrnntB W. R. HUD.S0N 1). W. Pipes, Jr. A. F. White oat Cretu H. W. Withers C. P. Light W. F. Riser G. M. MlXETREE E. A. C. Hoge A. I. Miller H. M. McCreery B. T. Smith G. H. Miles SECRET SOCIETIES ' ■trsinia Beta Cijapter of tbc |t5f)t Jta jpa 0i f ratcrnitp, founBcb 1852. Colore — JJinfe anU LatirnUfr. Active Chapters, 4 ' 2. Alumni Chapters, 29 Jratrtfi in 5Erbf. Anderson, Gen. W.m. A. Coe, Frank D. Irwin, W. P. Moore, John H. PoAGUE, Col. W. T. Jratrrg tn jFacultatr. QuARLES, Dr. James A. Hogue, Prof. Addison f ratrcB in Collfjin. W. R. Bledsoe Kelley W. Trimble F. R. Crawford Julian S. Gravely Montague L. Lippitt Frederick F. Iillsaps Harvey Allen J. Wright Russell Henry M. Baker Robert H. Crews H. M. Dow J. W. Addison 9ilpl)a Ct)apter appa 9ilpi)a, J ounbcb at atbinoton anb lice SInUicrfit?, in 1865. Col. E. W. Xuhols Col. F. B. Mallorv Col. N. B. Ticker Col. H. C. Ford Dr. J. H. Camphell W. Z. Johnstone iTratrra tn (iHrbf. Cai ' t. I. B. Johnson Capt. R. Ragland Capt. W. W. LaPrade Capt. M. B. Course G. D. Letcher A. T. Barclay, Jr. JFratrrB in f atultatr. Latane, Dr. J. II. Long, Prof. J. R. Albert Steves, Jr. D. W. Pipes, Jr. F. P. May, Jr. f ratrejs in (Unllcgio. Sltalirmu. J. L. CA. H ' BELL, Jr. J. J. Beitel F. A. Daingerfield, Jr. Caperton, G. H. Jr. (Enjinrrriiiff. GWATHMEY, D. L. Cooper, LeRoy Shields, B. B. late. WlCKHAM, J. H. MORELAND, W. H. i %tta chapter of tpta f)t. JFounbcb at €t9iami JSmlittjitp,  855. Colore -Blur an! ©lU i!3olD. f rater in f atnltatr. Denxy, Dr. George H 3Fn (Lirbf. South ALL, Dr T. B. JFratrcB tn Colltgto. lioMUND P. Hunter Henry G. Temple Louis P. Bryant, Jr. Walter N. Bootay 51)1 Olamma ielta Ztta aDeuteron €J)aptcr ounOci) in IS4S at ydsbmoton iinfl Jefferson Active Chapters, .58 iFratrcB m fatultatr CuRRn.L, Dii. W. S. Hu.Mi ' iiuKYs, Prof. D. C. Jratrro tn Collcsia M. R. TuRMiULI. R. P. Bledsoe B. M M.VNLY C. S. (il.ASGOW S. Davis W. W. Oliver J. F. KucK F. M. DURRANCE R. E. PowixL ?igma 9[lpf)a Cpstlon IDirginia :S igmfl Cliaptct Active Chapters, 07. «i?8tabiiSbcti III i8o8 Alumni Chapters, ii4. jFratrcB in cilrbr McElw ' ee, AV. M. Graham, F. I. ratrrci in CDllrtjto W. R. J. Duxx SORSBY JeMISON , Walter M. Hood Jefferson Cole Robert Moore Cherubusco Newton, Jr. Thomas C. Newton Emmett Raxkin Fred Dulaney Elliott Vawter James C. Hamilton Walter H. Dunlap George H. Miles Vincent M. Miles 7 V v ■ L ' liappa igma iWu Chapter 4F8tabli9hcb t873 Active Cliapters, 70. JFratrra in SIrljc Alumni Chapters 27 1 Owen . R. L. Jratrre in Collfjio Watts, Capt. C. W. ) A. F. 1 White John Pilkington, Jr. A. Beitle, Jr. M. W. 5HEAFE, Jr. J M. Dyer P. B. Spindle J. W. Eggleston E. M. Steves S. D. Eggleston R. M. Strassel P. P. Glass Knox Walker T. B. Hubbard R. E. Witt R. W. Hynson C. S. Osburn D. S. MacDonald 177 1 i ' lgma J u. J ounDcb in I86d. i 11 amtja Chapter, [ 1 ■iJstablishcb 1882. f ratrr in iijlrbr. Jack ' Preston. fratrfB in Cnllfgio. U. G. Rasin J. W. Mitchell H. W. Phillips O. R. Price C. INI. McCrum R. S. Hutch ESON J. T. McCrum H. C. Tillman R. H. Chatham P. W. Turner R. H. Hagood 179 : ' Pt Brlta Cl)tta lE irffinia Zcta Cliaptfr Jfoimftcb 1848 Active Chapters, (i!). Alumni Chapters. 59. fratrre in ilitbr Walkkh. Capt. S. H. Pkndlkton, Dh. Huntkr 1. fratrre in CoUrgio T. O. Baglfa- W. F. Skmplk C. F. Baglky (i. W Puest jn Wiiii C. B. Bagley, Jh. F. X. Hahhison George McPh. Minetree Waller .M( Bhyde John S. Long ISl P liappa Iplja, i Chapter. founbcb at JUnitictBitp of Pitijinia. Colors tBarnct anS iBolB. l ili Jratrre in Collrgto. H. Anderson L. A. Anderson L. A. McMuRRAN AV. R. McMuRRAN H. M. ] IoOMAW W. E. Jones J. L. Wysor L. C. WlTTEN C. M. Hanna B. S. Saunders S. Fleshng f y 9llpl)a=9llpf)a Ct)apter l)i i appa isma. i ' ounOct) at the HniUersitB of pennaoluanM, i850. Moore, Fuank MooHi:, John A Colorct— $lacb anH SlO (Solo. JFratrrB in iHrbc. SpFlNCEli. ChAS. F. Wuni;, (). 15. Jratifs in €oUrg:io. C. N. Campbell John McCulloch L. J, Desha K. B. Stephexson F. G. Jones P. E. Collins A. V. Staples, Jr. L. C. Gordon S. II. Staples J. W. Anthony A. H. Chandler M. M. GivENs I. P. Gassman D. A. DeVane J. G. MUNCE W. E. Lawson, Jr. 185 N M ' - ' - ™ ViMju. Belta Can iclta Colors purple, ll hitr anS tSolU Active Chapters, 47. Aluiniu Chapters, l ! fratrr in fatultatr Farrak, T. J. Hyatt, H. E. JFratrts in (tErbt Shields, E. S. jFratreB in CoUeffto J. R. Caskie H. W. Withers W. H. HOGE L. P. Holland D. L. Anderson W. H. Marquess A. M. Withers R. B. Fruit D. E. Fruit R. A. Brown W. K. Ramsey B. T. Smith ilK ' ' ' ((] m tonctoall (Eliaptcc •(Pstablijhfb i«05 Jfoiinbcti ificu) Jiiorh JSnilicrsitp ijoi Colors— JBilr (Errrn nnli Whitt flomve -WhiU Carnations Jralrrs m Collrffio Latt) Caraisallo, Martin P. Jr., ....... Fla Stkrn, Leonard M., ........ Ark. Flannagan, John W., ........ Va. Grossroll, Powell J., ....... . I]]. Walzer, Bernard R., ........ Fla. AxLEROTH, Harry R., ....... Penn. Hurnett, Henry P., . . . . . . . Va- Terry, Isaac H., I.azarus, Morton L.. Cnffintrnng; Va. Va ScHWABE, Clarence A. Claudy, William J., aralifmtt V. Va. . Md. nsma 3rn JFatnltatt AV. J. Lauck. ' ((Wli 3fn Collcffto D. W. Pipes T. O. Bagley Jr. E. P. Hunter B. B. Shields W. R. Bledsoe J H. AVkkham L. P. Bryant K. W. Trimble J. L. Campbell, Jr H. Allen C. F. Bagley H. Anderson H. G. Temple A. Steves, Jr. C. B. Bagley H. M. loOMAW C. N. Hanna D. L. Anderson C. N. Campbell M. W. Sheafe - v Lauck. W. J. Milks. V. M. Miles. G. H. Turner. P. W. Trimble, K. W. Hood. W. M. Phillips. H. V. Hamilton, J. C Brown, R. R. Bledsoe, W. R Sheafe. M. W. Tillman. H. C. Rankin, Em.met m 1 X v % I C|)eta M Cpsiloi t 1 (iDmirron Cljapler W. 11. Bledsoe C. B. Penn D. W. Pipes, Jr. T. O. Bagley, Jr. f K. W. Trimble E. P. Hunter 1 H. G. Temple A. F. White m B. B Shields A. Steves, Jr. 7 C. F. Bagley C. N. Campbell J H. M. MooM. w C. :M. McCrum A H. W. Phillips P. W. Turner s W. M. Hood G. H. Miles m L. P. Bryant C. B. B. GLEV ' ( Leroy Cooper J. H. Wickham Harvey Al len H. M. Dow 3fn JFatnltate W. J. Lauck In (sErbt R. L Owen J. W. Russell 1 d ' 1 ONE =r y u Clif flaltpon Baps JS lies yoiii- pictur( i vi u aiiiple justice (lone tlien. EFORK im That does In tints hy Milev, Lcxinnjton In Ei rlitecn Ei rlity You seem 1 not more than twent Perhaps I missed i)y eif ht or ten — At least the past years must liave been Somewiiat more weif hty. Your Hps were tender, ricli and red; I lik ' d the way you held your head; Your rosy eheeks — I think I said Somethintr of peaches. I think I liken d your dark eyes To stars that f;emm ' d the summer skies- So callow Youth will make unwise, Hxuberant speeches. I wrote you verses — many a line Declar ' d you Princess, Queen divin . Laid at your feet this heart of mine. In stanzas clever. I car ' d not for the poet ' s bays, Content with only your dear praise — Ah me, ah me, the halcyon days Are f one forever. Ah, kindly friend of long ago. You were so true, so gentle, tho ' Mov ' d as you must have been, I know. To frequent laughter; I, gazing at your photograph. Compose my lost youth ' s epitaph And o ' er mine ancient fervor laugh — These long years after. ' Twas but a passing whim — a few Brief months would cure the fever — you Would be forirotten in some new Romantic passion. You were more sane than I — and yet I own to somethiiif; like rejjret. I did not, as you thought, forget In graceless fashion. I have not seen you since. You went Down your predestined paths, content. I hope that oftener o ' er you bent June than December. I hope your sunless days came not Oftener than is the common lot. Altho ' it may he you forgot — I yet rememl)er. What pleasures had you to assauge The gradual pangs of growing age ? I ong since you turn ' d the final page Of life s brief story. Who miss the vanish ' d fingers deft ? Who walk in loneliness, bereft ? For me, upon the past you left A touch of glory. Ah, well; I have grown old; romance Grows prosier as tlie years advance; Yet, in some weary hours, perchance. Of dull heart-hunger. With ghosts of hopes I fail d to win Ideals of my dead youth drift in And dreams of that which might have been — Had you been vounger! — W. H. F. |i c t 1 arntudip Clut, Colors : Yell : iloonshinc and Lead. Hi! Hi! Hi! Rock and Rye, I Bluegrass Country, Kaintiicki ! First T?:rm. C. R. PiLKiNGTON, ........ President L. J. De-5HA, ........ Vice-President W. L. Lord, ..... Secretary and Trcasunr Second Term. Summers Davis, ........ President John Pilkington Jr , ...... Vice-President J. P. Hobson, Jr ..... Secretari and Treasurer 200 ' %r ' ...i y l oster of Colonels Col. V. S. Bkati ' y Col. W. L. Loud Col. C. C. Crockktt Col. I). M. Maddox Col. Summers Davis Col. W. H. Mauqukss Col. F. a. DAiNCiKKFiKLi), Jr. Col. H. S. McCIuirk Col. L. J. Desha Col. J. M. Dyer Col. W.m. L. Hoce Col. C. N. Hobsox Col. J. P. HoBsoN Col. C. R. Pilkixgtox Col. Jno. I ' lLKixfiTON, Jr. Col. R. S. Sanders Col. R. M. Strassel Col. H. S. Hollowat Colonel in JacnUate Col. James Lewis Howe. E onorarp Colonels Col. Henry Watterson Judge James H. Mulligan Col. Bennett H. Young :lFloritia Cltit) Collins, Borchardt, Shields, May, Givens, Diamond, De ane, Sapp, Herzog, Caraballo, Walzer, Durrance I T. B. Hubbard, D. R. Bell, W. F. Rlser, Officcrjef President . ] ' ice-President Secretary and Treasurer D. R. Bell W. R. Cooper G. J. Dominick W. R. J. Dunn S. M. Engelhardt R. H. Hagood W. M. Hood T. B. Hubbard Sorsby Jemison E. C. Nix L. C. Pope W. F. Riser J. J. D. Rodgers G. S. Rodgers P. AV. Turner v: y. . 7= - [ L ?j)tnantioaf) Y aUrj) Chit). w J T - ' c J j|)cnantioalj allri) Cluij. iy ] I yVr.v. Wi.iman — Club please come to order. AVill some member state the olijeet of the meeting? Eiujh— We wish to discuss tlie advisabihty of serving booze at the next tianquet. Su ' itzcr — I move, Mr. President, that we have a good old round of booze, and make things as lively as possible. (CJreat applause) Faulkner — As much as I am opposed to procedure, still I believe that the dignity of the Club deniancls that I second the motion. (More applause) ' k ' .v. W ismaii — Any discussion of this motion- ' l i(j Lurrick — (president of the Y. M. ( ' . A.) I heartily advocate the carrying of this motion, Mr. President. We should have booze, and I will use my influence to have the best booze. .1. . Miller — (icntlemen. You all know the stand I take in regard to such matters, and I now vehemently ojypose any such measures. Hooze makes men sour. iS. ) ' . Phlllipti — Booze didn ' t make me sour. (ap])lause) (A page enters with a letter) Prcs. WiJiman — (reading ) Gentlemen of the Shenandoah ' alley Cliil): The advocation of wine for your banquet is diametrically opposed to the sacred traditions of your valley. I trust that the president will use his influence to discourage the use of wine on the occasion of your banquet. Respectfully, Gko. H. Dknny. yVc.v. Wi.sman (to page) — Tell the doctor that we are upholding traditions. (lentlemen, are you ready for the (luestion . -1. . Miller — (Jreat minds run in the same channel. liitj Larriek — Gentlemen, if we do not have booze, I am not coming to the banquet. Eiujle — Fellows, I am afraid of Old Mike. I would like to add an amendment to Mr. Switzer ' s motion: Tliat we tlon ' t have a drop of booze. (Pandemonium on rear seats) Faulkner — I think that there should be a limit to the number of glasses we shall have. Suppose we vote not more than eight glasses to a man. (Hearty applause; the house shakes.) Question put; Switzer ' s motion unanimously carried. Frcn. Wittman — The Club is adjourned. Cenncssife Club Lee Smith, Frank ]McCutchan, Jr. Knox Walker, President ] ' ice-President . Treasurer C. I. DWIGGINS J. W. Murrey D. R. Rhea N. D. Smithson A. S. Keebler. 206 K ;|Warjlanli Clui) ilk fiw.K. „,„„.„, Prr.s-idciil K nl L. A. Toms, . V icc-Prcsidcnt H ■■ E.H.Deets, Treasurer !loU Al.OERSON ' . E. L. Baltimore Claudy, J. W. Baltimore Bknson, T. B. Grafton DouB, W. N. Beaver Creek Gabriel, G. C. Cearfoss HoLTZ, A. S. . Thurmont Hunter, E. P. Bel Air HuT.sox, A. H. Rawling Iathn, W. R. . Poolesville Miller, H. W. Ila erstown Offutt, W. E. Sell man Orderman, H. W. Frederick Rf)BiNsox, A. T. Brandywine ROESER, E. B. . Cambridge Weinberg, Leo . Frederick Whip, G. W. P. . Frederick Raisin, M. G. . Baltimore Zentmeyer, J. D. . Half Way 2C7 cwi. ' i ( ..-- ' t:i 0, IVr. W. Shkafe, Jk.. . C. R. FiREY, Carl R. Firey, Mark W. Sheafe, Jr., Sheafe, Mark Wentworth, Firey, Care Roswele, . Jr. ©ffitrra fSltmbnsi )Vf President ] ' iee-Pre. ' ideiit Secretari) . Treasurer Watertown, S. D. Aberdeen, S. D. J wfe N V% : I rHAHS-MlSSlSSiPPi QUifQ I Go WesV Yoar j J Crans-i iSfiiisisippi Club ODfficertf VV. F. Semple, T. N. Havlin, : President W. A. Ray, Vice- President D. E. Pruit, ) E. G. Moore, ) Secretary L. M. Stern, ) E. M. Steves, f 0« toonorarp Jflrmbcr Dr. Jas. a. Quarles, Mo. Treasurer 1 ] Beitle, Albert Jr. . Texas Sullivan, J. E. . Ark BiRKHEAi), Ora E. Mo. Beitel. J. J. Texas CoLbixs. L. M. Ark. Cole, J. 1). La. Crews, H. H. . N. M. Cooper, LeRoy Mo. Dexman, K. J. Texa.s Dale, Jno. R. Ark. Faulk, W. F. Texas Dow, H. M. N. M. GoRi)(iN, L. C. :M(). Firey, C. R. S. D Hill, T. D. . Texas Havlin, T. N. Mo. MiLLSAPS, F. F. La. McGiLL, E. H. Ark. Moore, E. G. I.T. MooRE, R. n. La. N?;wTox, T. C. La. Newton, C. Jr., La. Pruit, D. E. . N. L Oliver, W. W. Mo. Ramsey, W. K. Ark. Pruit, R. B. N. M. Ray, W. a. Texas Ray, S. L Texas Sheaee, M. W., Jr., So. Dak. Stern, L. M. Ark. Steves, A. Jr., . Texas Steves, E. L Texas Beitel, Albert Jr., Beitel, Jesse J. Newtox, Jesse T. Steves, Ed. M. Steves, Albert Jr., mn 9intonio Cltit) Donnrarp ;fflrmbrr Hayden, Jas L. M. C. . 315 Belvin St. . 315 Belvin St. . 409 Marsliall St. 431 King William St. . 504 Kintr William St. p. laotbingfiain Club :: l iiW 38lantiolpt)=iJlaton AcaDemp Club. Anthony. Wight man ■itzer. Markwood. Neel. i McCoy. Griffith, (Pres.) Deets. fjenantioaj) ¥ aUep Icatiem 9ilumni Clut) ©rffanijtti, 1905 iHotto ' ' Labor omnia rincit. Colore Crimson and Green. The Shenandoah Valley Academy Alumni Cluh was orfjanized in October, 1905, and its membership is composed of former students of the Shenandoah Valley Academy, of Winchester, Va., wlio are now attend- ing the academic, engineering, and law departments of Washington and Lee University. Clubs are numerous, and their purposes are even more so. In most of them the social element predominates; so it is in the Shenandoah Valley Academy Club. Hut all do not realize the import- ance of enshrining the light of other days in the temple of memory or of regulating the conduct of their members by the principles of Hohemiari conviviality and Parisian hon homme. Sucli are the tenets of this organ- ization. Larrick, J. II. Cle.vdening, H. N. Larrick, A. R. Ghiselin, Morrison Faulkner, J. O. Crawford, F. R. Clarke, B. E. Robinson, Roy Baker, H. M. Cather. T. R. Nelson, W. S. . Socit in Collegio Sottas Kern, Dr. James William A ' , eep tn JFaraltatc . President } ' ice-President . Secretary ■ Treasurer . Historian Chaplain the Coat Club Attorney Sergeant-at-arms . Reporter .Librarian Physical Director of -y ( i y HfjTington i g ' cj)ool Alumni (B ttre R. ¥.. Witt President C. S. Glasgow, ....... Vice-President J. P. Irwin ...... Secretary and Treasurer im Sill Ml HH mp r ETTT... , . — 1.- ; H r? | L HL 4 ir (3 B htilkji fMi ' 9 B l R. P. Blkdsoe (). C. Jackson W. R. Cooper J. T. McCrum C. S. Glasgow J. E. Quisenberry J. P. Irwin H. M. White JfirmbrrB W. P. Irwin L. C. Champe C. M. McCrum .J. L. Campbell, Jr. j. K. KOONTZ M. C. Deaver R. McE. Firebaugh R. L. Page E. K. Paxton R. L. HUTTON W. R. Shields B. M. HiGGINBOTHAM R. J. Reveley E. S. Humphreys R. E. Witt ' V i C L (EoUrgf Cppts Behold the pride of every ball, Of every rival ' s suit the bane, — His greatest work ' s to bear a fan. His greatest crime to tear a train. Cbt foot 4Sall li)cro If apparel should proclaini tii man. As sung in Homer s sanguine story. Would seem a tale of Sunday- school IJeside this Jiero ' s record gory. Cbc pott Our worthy friend the litterateur So gentle, peaceful, and demure : His appearance gives his works the lie So fear him when lie cometli nigh, — His manuscripts more ilcadly are Than all the arnianients of war. (Tbf S ' port The bar ' brous wars and dre;i(lful tields. As Old Bill Shake hath said. The brazen tone of this youtli ' s duds Would waken half the dead. i -r J ::i 1 ©ffitfCB J. H. Larrick, . M. R. TURNBULL, C. A. Engle, F. R. Crawford, W. R. Cooper, M. R. TuRNBULL, C. A. Engle, F. R. Crawford, A. R. Larrick, . J. W. Addison, . W. L. Hoge, W. L. Hoge, R. M. Firebaugh, Cbairman of Committer Devotional . President Vice-President . Secretary ■ Treasurer Mcmbcrsliip Bible Studi Missionary Cuban Fund . Finance . Reception Hand Book Sunday Ereninc Friday Night 1 i S. iH. C. a. at l asftington anti ilet The association of this institution has just passed tiio forty-first mile- stone of its career. Its ilhistrious hcfjinninj;, when (Jeneral Lee and a small body of other prayin ; men assembled each Friday evenin j for Christian service, fjave it an impetus which has been everlasting;. Each year, renewed interest is manifested in the several phases of Y. M. C. A. work, and Washin jton and Lee men are realizin f more and more that the Association Hall is the Church of our University. It is here that the stand is taken for all that is i;ood; there is no specialization, if a man is a jfood student, the Y. L C. A. eiicourajjes him to become a better one; if he be inclined toward athletics, it would inspire him to physical proficiency whether it be in the fjynmasiuin, or upon the Athletic field; if he be a Christian, excellent opportunities are given to use his influence among those who are less fortunate, and if he be not a follower of Christ, the active members use their prayers and influence to win him from his in- fortunate channel. The Association is well organized to meet all spiritual demands. The Bible Study department furnishes rare opportunities for spiritual knowledge. The classes meet to suit the convenience of those conccrnc(l and are lead by capable and sincere IJible students. There arc also three Mission Classes, in which men are kept in touch with ])ast and present Mission work in all parts of the world. . s a result of this phase of . ssocia- tion work, there are now Ave student volunteers, and they meet each Wednesday night for prayer and atlvanced Mission study. The Ministerial Band, which is composed of all candidates for the Christian ministry, meets twice a month, and at these meetings, two members have prepared papers, treating of the most felt spiritual needs of ministerial student.s. The many mission points of the county are largely filled by the members of this band.. The greatest advancement of the year in Y. ISL C. A. work has been in the fruitful efforts to secure a local college secretary. The work is now being pushed with untiring energy, and all the requirements of this long felt need have about been met. The new secretary will come in contact with all our college men, and brilliant results are anticipated k. c i 1 0) fc s O unto those upon the passing; ship Dim echoes of the wailing voices roll ' d Across the level waters: — Lo, the King Forever and forever — lo, the King Forever and forever passes by! Whereat there fell a sudden nameless fear Upon them of some strange and stormy death In the great gulfs of sunset. One let fall His heavy oar and shouted: Hark. O King! That echo of sad voices ! Shall we die ? O whither do we sail ? — for lo, the light Fades down along the ocean, and our homes We leave behind! Then all of them, gray men Of battles who had laughed at many a death. Rose up and thronged about him — Hark, O King That echo of sad voices ! Shall we die ? O whither do we sail ? And one: O King, Long years upon the deep we toiled, and now Are fain to rest in quiet these few days That storm and war have left us. For we move Toward some great gulf of underwashing seas. Whence nevermore, I think, shall we return ! No farther will we sail, for we are old, And we would die at home among our friends! And all his comrades .shouted: Yea, O King, No farther will we sail, for we are old. And we would die at home among our friends! And as they cried the sea-wind died away; The broidered sail drooped idly from the mast; And the long vessel on the windless slopes Lifted and down the noiseless hollows fell. l C i?= c:? l LJvsw% And then tlie old Ulysses, sad and slow ■ Have ye so soon forgotten what ye were? Or do ye fear the tempests of tlie deep? I thoufilit to liave ye by me till the last, Livin ; aijain the j reat days of our youth. The groat days that are gone forevermore. My glory was your glory; we have fought Togetlier, on the land and on the deep, In all things liolding life as something more Than something to he cherished like a flower. Then were the golden days of noble deeds; Then were the statelier heroes on tlie earth. I, too, am old; yet little worth to me. Whose stormy heart forever made of life Something to be endured or overcome, A dull and useless season ere the end. Ye shall return. For me the vovaj;e lies To seek the Blessed Islands, whither passed The comrades of my youth, the mighty Kings And heroes of tlie battles. Silence fell. As falls the starry twilight on the hills. Yet even as he spake, as tho one heard Beyond the autumn fields some happy voice Singing a song of half-forgotten spring. Upon their weary minds came blowing back Great memories of the glories of old days. The wars and all the wanderings of their youth; How they had never faltered, never blenched Beff)re at any danger. So they stood With shame-bowed heads; and low the swing and lap Of the long hills of water on the sides Of the slow-drifting ship; the idle oars And cordage moaned and rattled ; one great star Blazed o ' er the crimsoned hills of pillared mist About the waning sunset, but a long Gray-growing world of water stretched behind. M ( ' i £ :y 5LJ$Sw= , Then some one in his anguish; O my King! And of a sudden all his comrades thronged, Weeping, about Ulysses; Nay, O King! We care not to return to that dim isle! We care not for the tempests of the deep! name us hut thy friends again and we Will follow where thou leadest till we die! ' ' And then the glad Ulysses; Ah, my friends, 1 knew ye would not fail me. We shall try Together what adventure, what strange death May wait beyond the sunset; and perehance We may at length, blown by the kindly winds. Come safely to the blessed afterworld. And in some happy haven of the gods Rest from the weary labor of the deep, And furl the useless sail forever. Then thinking of their olden wars and all The endless peace from toil toward which they moved They raisetl a shout of triumph, such a cry As if an army, shouting on the hills. Gathered its mighty strength ere yet it swept To victory. Then again they seized their oars; Across the rippling deep the sweet new wind Came blowing: the long oars swept and fell And with tlie sailors chanting some great song, The strong wind blowing out the golden sail, And gleaming of the helms, the stately ship Moved swiftly, and passed on and on, and drave Toward the deep sunset; and the great sun, rolled In hills of vapor, on the far-off marge Dipped and the quiet twilight gathered down. W. H. F. ai Ci)f iRpkatioo— 91 Comic (J pera JntroDuction ■ HE autlior of Tlie M vkadoo is one of those brilliant young 1 1 Japanese wlio have completed the process of occidentalizing the i Far East by transforniinu; the ancient traditions of tiie Japanese stage, — the last stronghold of the Samurai civilization. It is noteworthy that altho the version herewith presented has been only slightly modified, the change for the most part consisting in a literal translation of the original Japanese proper names e. (j. Rollem from the original Aicli Ho, yet it might very well be mistaken for a bona fide description of a small American college town. It is even conceivable tiiat some unfortu- nately self-conscious individuals might find in some of these characters, which have already become classics of the Japanese stage, a mirrored likeness of their own peculiarities as they imagine other people see them. In this universal application of characters and situations we firul evidence of the genius of tlic playwright as well as a measure of tlie de- gree in which ancient i|)pou has donned the vestures of modern West- ern civilization. Yet in the drama, as in the other arts and the sciences, Japan has adapted, rather than servilely adopted and the new product is certain to be more Japanese than Occidental. Thus a sympathetic analysis of this libretto (.see Woodbridge) cannot fail to discover the unmistakable and distinctive characteristics of that Japanese art wiiicli is at onie tiie envy and despair of the Western Hemisphere; i. c. a certain vagueness of background and thinness of atmosphere on the one lumd and on the other a startling fidelitv to Nature in details, tojrether witii a teiideiicv to C: T over-emphasis or exaf; ;eration tliat sometimes even approaches the grotesque. We cannot forbear in this connection to quote from one of the most trenchant and strikingly original of modern critics; one who during the past winter has hurst like a comet upon the gloom of the critical horizon, with a wit so hrilliant as to be almost glaring and a learning that is little less than astounding in one so young. After reading the advanced sheets of this, the first English translation of The Mykadoo, Mr. S. writes as follows: The genius of Nippon has brought forth one of the loveliest and most wonderful of the great national literatures. It is a literature which will well repay your careful study — as it has mine. I am also familiar with the French, German, Russian, Hebrew and Vedic literatures, besides Omar Khayyam and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. In this exquisite little libretto we have the latest and most perfect flower of Japanese art; yet, paradoxical as it may seem, the essential principles of its construction are the same which lie at the root of the great spreading tree of the English Drama. Japanese art has simply reached a higher state of development than that of the West and differs from it only in being more so. This I can easily demonstrate and will now do so. Watch me. Trace the development of English drama from the pre-Elizabethan Miracle Play to Flora-Dora and what do we find to be the vital cohesive principle that runs through the whole and binds it into an organic unity. It must be evident to any one but a blind fool that the only thing in common between Marlowe and Bernard Shaw is incoherency. Shakespeare is sometimes inconsistent, Harry B. Smith oftener so, and here at last we have the perfect work of art that is absolutely without rhyme or reason, in which nothing happens but accidents and nothing is said Imt nonsense. I find in the Mykadoo then, the essential artistic essence of Job, Aeschy- lus, Euripides, Seneca, Plautus, Aristophanes, Moliere, Racine, Schiller, Wycherley and Goethe, Maeterlink, Pinero, Stephen Phillips, Bernard Shaw, Rostand, Hauptmann, Weber and Fields and William Shakespeare. Off X .. - Q. A COMIC OPERA .11 IN In Three Acts Entitled ' THE MYKADOO or, The School for Graft [Translated and Adapted from the Original Japanese by B. M. and R. B,] DRAMATIS IMPERSONAE. An up-to-date College President Mayor . . • , , Police Force excitable individual Rollem ' ' J. ' ' ' rotund blue-coat Carew ' ' ' ' ' P ' ' ' of a choice confection parlor Gaeer i. ' • ' Owner of a pool-house Carmaker ' ■ ' ropnetor of a total abstinence bar Business Manager of the Rank Bum Eye ' ' ' ' ' Ft J ' t „ J , INTERMEZZO Board of Trustees Alumni Saturday Night Club , . a k i  • = A benevolent society ACT I — Scene I. Rollem ' s Corner — Police Force leans penaively againsf a pod, and sings in a monotonous monotone. iSo o-PoLICE-FoRCE The criminal cringes in fear. When he hears that I ' m out on the trail; He knows that he cannot escape So he drops hut a faltering tear And gives himself up without bail, I capture ' em all without fail. Refrain — I capture ' em all without fail. As the Somnolent Sleuth I am known. But tho ' others are greater in Fame, King Brady, Nick Carter, and Holmes, ISIv cunning the world soon must own And the mountains resound with my name. Refrain — Hou. ' e Mountain resound with my name. Bold murd ' rers Fve oft hunted down Mere Bandits are usually tame. But God help you and keep you from harm. When the students have taken the town And are out celehratin ' a game. Refrain — They are hell celehratin ' a game. En ' ter Mayor (excited and breathle.s. ' .) I won ' t have it. draft is rampant in this place. I will make a stand for municipal purity. This is a City rnasliaiiied, it is Corrupt and Content. I alone am ashamed. I will he its Weaver. Civic Righteous- ness is my watchword. There .shall he an awakening. I — I shall lead the forces of reform. Police Force (dismai ed.) Wh — What ' s the matter now? Is it that Saturday Night Cluh again .- M.woR (e.i.ftaticalh .) (iraft reigns openly in every corner of the town. Corruption is written in glowing letters on the portals of its public buildings. There must be an expose. 22G PoLiCK FoRC?:. You ' ve been listening to that new minister. I knew it. Mayor. Yes, and we ' ve got to hurry or lie ' 11 have ' em all in Sunday School, and there won ' t he anybody to reform. He ' ll l)e running things and they won ' t need a mayor. We must lead the reform. I appoint you Secret Service, District Attorney, Investigating Committee and Su- preme Court. Police Force. Watch me show up Jerome and Folk. AI.WOR. Yes, yes — now listen. When you find a grafter grafting, and are sure the graft ' s a graft, get the grafter first and then later we can get the graft. But be sure to get the big grafters first. You see, lon ' t you . ' ' Police Force. What nmst I do with ' em ? I never did any reform- ing before. Mayor. {P )mpout!li .) As secret service you must shadow the grafter, and report it to yourself immediately. Then as District Attorney prepare a warrant indicting the grafter for grafting. Then you ' ve got to get your billy and arrest him. Try him before the Supreme Court, and appoint yourself an investigating -ommittee. If he is really guilty, see that he is run out of town. That ' s clear now. Police Force. But suppose the grafter is a real genuine grafter, but isn ' t grafting and is on a vacation ? Must I catch ' em all in the act . ' Mayor. As Supreme Court, you must issue him a writ of immunity stating that his graft is no longer a graft. But don ' t go and run all the grafters out of town at once. We won ' t have any body to vote for the Reform Mayor. {Tuni.s away.) Police Force, (.sotto voce) Nor any Reform Mayor. [Exit Mayor. Police Force, (wearily.) Well I ' ll have to get bu.sy now. My days of tranquility are over, and that Mayor will worry me to death. But my dream is realized, I can reap fame and renown. Who must I get first ? Oh, yes! There ' s Rollem and Gager and Carew. Everybody knows about them but nobody ever minded them l)efore. Well I ' ll have to get ' em. I et ' s see, — I, secret service, must get a warrant from me, District Attorney, giving myself. Police Force power to nab ' em for graft- ing. That ought to be fun. I ' ll go do it right away! (ExH) p o (Front of Docomi Voices- heard i Hall. Da rh m kin i( lif. I he distance sincjinij). Slight focj. If you (lon ' t know who we are, We ' re tlie ,n-at ' ters of the place You can tell it from our ads You can see it in our face: We skin the hoys, you know. We relieve them of their dough. And then we let them go Oh, Oh, Ami then we let ' em go. Enter Carew, Rollem. and Gager en ballet If you chance to think us green Because we ' re rather old You ' ll find out when you ' ve seen Us do tlie hoys up cold, ' ' That we ' re something on a stick. Our grafts are very slick. And we ' re awfullv politic; Oh, Oh. We ' re awfully politic. Gager. Ah ' tis a hitter thing to he cast forth from the place which one has helped to civilize and heautify. As the Good Book says, every Paradise has its Morning — after, as well as its Eve. Rollem. (aside) That ' s a good one, I ' ll use it for a motto, (aloud) For three generations I have been the Students ' friend. When they were hungry I fed them, when they were thirsty I gave them drink, when they were poor and strangers in a strange land I — I took them in. Carew. And we public benefactors are to be driven out of town all because of this upstart of a President. He is behind it all. You ' ll see. He ' ll buy our business cheap and then make billiards a part of the curriculum and {ret rich himself. 1 -y :i m ( i v. i {iiciisirch ). Yes, he ' ll ruin my rliaractcr too. Ihit tlic rain falleth alike on tlie just and unjust. 1 woukl rcven ;e myself, if it were consistent with my character, but I must resist temptation. C. RKW. We can ' t do a tiiint;. Hasn ' t he promised the Mayo ' the solid Faculty vote at the next election . ' And as for appealing, ' to the courts or sendin , ' out a petition, what ' s the use! ' He is a particular chum of the Postmaster, no petition can j o throu ;h the office without his know- -Vh, hut how about the ri al candidate, h ig.t. Roi.LKM (llopcjilllll) J n ' t have ' em both. C. REW. Huh — tluit ' s no good. Haven ' t you heard about it ' i Ti Martin goes to Roosevelt in favor of one of ' eni: ' ' ou see, Mr. President, says he, we ' ve got all the leading citizens on this petition. Here ' s so- and-so and .so-and-.so, and here ' s the President of Dubuiiell College, you see. ' I can ' t make out the President of Dubunell, says Teddy, shcnving his back teeth. Here he ' s signed this man ' s petition, and written a letter of recommendation for the other. I can ' t figure it out, says the President. It ain ' t no use, he ' s got ' em all. RoiJ.KM. He ' s got us sure; but maybe we can get back at him. As it is, we ' ve got to go; just look at this order tliat cop gave us (glances through warrant). Leave town at once and never return And all for a little graft. Why there ' s lots of bigger grafters than we are. It looks like it ' s all over now, but you can ' t judge cheese i)v its odor. {Advance to center of stage and take t drink p-oiii ii hiiltle ij iinilt, which Gager produces). Trio {Gager, ilollein, Careie) ROLLEM My brain it teems With wondrous scheme Both good and new The boys to do ; But if I must Shake oflf the dust Of this good town. G. GER I am so good. That, if I should Have in my zeal Made some one feel, That there is cause T ' enforce the laws And make me go. Whoever viewed Ingratitude So base and rude . ' ' They should assist A philanthropist; For in my biz IMy policy ' tis, (fo) Why, my renown Which will go down In history Will be deep-dyed As that of Hyde Or Jesse James And such fair names And so Although I have to go I ' d like to know, If there ' s a way By which to stay Or at least to pay Before we go The debt we owe Our mutual foe, We guarantee They still should know That I am no Base hypocrite: — I ' m thro ' and thro ' W. C. T. U., And I insist A Methodist. And so Although I hate to go, I wish to show It ' s not my fault That my good Malt Doih some exalt. It cannot be For you can see My guarantee, Readu guarantee from bottle: this to be a non-intoxicating valuable for insomnia, indigestion and headache. To uplift youth From ways uncouth At my expense And as you say At some brief day I ' ll surely be In bankruptcy. And so Although I wish to go. Before we flee I ' ll try to see If I can be A nemesis To him who is To you and me An enemy. beverage, especially H ' Gager. Hush. I hear somebody coming down the steps, may be it ' s him. Let ' s go, quick. [Retire around corner of building. Rollem cranes his neck a few feet around corner and awaits results.] [President comes out of Docome, throws overcoat about his slundders and stops on steps.] President. Huh, wonder what that noise was a minute ago. I guess I ' ll have to call somebody up for this. Who shall it be . ' ' [Manager of Rank Bum Fye enters.] President (nodding.) Well, Sir, how is the Rank Bum Fye coming on . ' ' Business Manager. Oh, very nicely, thank you. President. Huh! There don ' t .seem to be much in it. It don ' t puff athletics enough, the editorials are inane, and the news is all copied from the County paper. I don ' t take much stock in a paper like that. BusiNKss Manager (trith a irink.) You can ' t. The stock is not for sale — President. Huh, how ' s that Sir? BtTsiNESs Manager. It ' s too jijood an investment, Sir — just like Standard Oil stock. President (taknuj hi in hy the (irw). 1 think you ' re the very man I want. I ' ve f, ' ot somethin ; for you to do. Can you he discreet ? i Business Manager. Yes. President. You ' ve had (|uite a little experience in — um — college affairs, haven ' t you . ' Business Manager (.sing i). ] When I, dear sir, first came to school I was filled with a hi ;li ambition. For I was, unlike the common fresh — Desirous for erudition; But I also wished for a scholarship And a manaijership or two, I But if not those, I really thought, A professorship would do. In Docome Hall I roamed around Like the lost sheep in the story, I For I thought that I should never have j A chance for gold and glory. But I persevered in my earnest search Nor my want of success deplored, For I soon found a chance to attain my end ' With a place on the Rank Bum Board. i The Rank Bum Board they shouted aloud, I . s they gave tlieir approbation, I You shall reap the reward of your nerve, my boy, ' In the current coin of the Nation, ( You ' ll soon get used to the job, my boy, ' And a very nice graft decree her. She well may pass for a decent sheet, ' If you ' re drunk and can scarcely see, sir. (Piano) At last I amassed in good cold coin, A couple of hundred or more sir. But others who hadn ' t done so well Persisted in getting sore, sir. There were some who stuck to plain cuss-words There were others who wished to sue, sir, - - (Piaiii. ' iximo) But now if you please, I ' ll undertake. This little job for you sir. President. You know Carmaker ? Business ] I. nager. The guy that says he is going to die poor if he has to wait till the last day and then give away a billion ? President. Yes, that ' s the man. I feel it my duty to rid him of some of it. My plan is to invite him to address the Student Body at Finals. ou must meet him and kidnap him. Lock him up in a bare room — the Dormitory will do — let his meals be sent from the University Inn — give him nothing to read, but the Hank Bum Fve and Silly hields ' poetry — have the glee Club sing nightly under his window. If he doesn ' t consent to a few millions of endowment by that time, provide him with a phono- graphic record of Sunny Jim ' s lectures. Business M. n. oer (.ludilenh ( rasping head willi hotli lunids). My God, suppose his mind should give way beneath the strain . ' President. I had thought of that. But we must make the best of it. He will at least be eligible for manager of the foot-ball team under the present system. Ah, think of what I can do with a few millions — I will have five hundred buililings each one of a different style of archi- tecture. I will make Transylvania College look like the Athletic Field after a meeting of the Saturday nighters. I — I — (breaks info song) (President ' s Song) A more progressive young president never Did any where exist. When I was elected They thought they ' d selected A genuine classicist; But in mv business-like endeavor c i l I;- l y To corner a pile of niun They all agree I ' m a second John 1)., And Tom I awson all in one. licfraiii — Hurhank I einulatc In striving to create- In time a liyhridized college And a cultiirelcss graduate. Let those disdain my ardor, who never Have ta.sted this barbarous joy To picture in rapture The day when I ' ll capture Mv .seven hundredth hoy. In order to further my earnest endeavor To give this school a yank, A good education I ' ll ship on probation To any one filling a blank. Retrain — Burbank I emulate etc. Oh, vhat a vision of splendor inspiring My eyes prophetic see. To my words now hark ye I ' ll paint you this archi — Tectural pot-pourri! You ' ll please recall without persjiiring Each style the Hrittanica shows, From a Mu.scovite Mosque To a Chinese Kiosk, Arranged in seventeen rows. Refrain — IJukbaxr I emulate etc. Kindly imagine Old George a-posin ' Up there without am pants, A-straddle a dome That is j)artly Rom- Refruin- An, the other part Dutch Rennaisance. Sure if architecture is music frozen My plans will certainly suit ye Unless ye oliject to the fjcneral effect Of a petrifiefl Hooche-Cooche. -Burl)ank I emulate In striving to create In time a hybridized college And a cultureless graduate. Prksidknt. You understand what I ' m after don ' t you? You have shown yourself proficient in every other work which you have under- taken, and I am sure you will prove successful in this. AVell, we ' d better go now, it won ' t do for us to be seen talking together here, this time of night. I ' ll give you minute directions later, and you can get to work then. Good night. Sir. Business Man. ger. Good evening, (exeunt) (Carew, Rollem and Gager come stealthily around corner.) Gageb. Saved by providence. I knew that men so upright as we, would never be allowed to suffer injustice. Tho ' I never gambled for a cent in my life, I would have bet two bottles of Malt against a plugged c|uarter, that we would be spared. RoLLKM. And to think that this brings with it a chance to make our fortunes. Carew and Gager {breathlessly). What do you mean . ' Rollem (gesturi ng with both hands a la jrancaise). Don ' t you see, all we ' ve got to do is re-kidnap Carmaker, and we can hold him up for what we want. (jager. Really, I never kidnapped a soul in all my sixty-eight years; but as you say, it is simply an expedient, and I don ' t think it could be looked upon as immoral. We ' ll make it a moral kidnapping — I ' ll do my best to win him — Carew. Oh, cut it out! Let ' s talk busine.ss. m RoLi.KM. Well, it ' ll 1)0 all rifjht anyhow. We won ' t do the old ransom act, we ' ll just make liim endow us, then we ' ll be on a plane with all the rest of these people. Carkw. We ' ve gol to find out when he ' s comini; ami then make our plans. Rollein, you find out, you know everything else. Ah, we ' ll get back at ' em all now, and get rich in the bargain. Trio — RoLLKM, Caukw, and (Iagkk (Erpre.fsirn.) N ' ow plotter tremble, this day you ' ll rue, You can ' t dissemble, we ' re on to you Do what you will to escape our ire You ' ll bow beneath our vengeance dire. Solo — Roll KM Go sountl his knell, his iloom is sure; Our torments fell he nuist endure Solo — Gagkr He ' ll rant and rate with pure vexation And imitate a Hull of Rashan Trid — (Fortlsgiiuo) Prepare for woe, your day is done Our retributions just begun; Your little plot we can forestall And make it work a boon for all. (Excinit om m-s) CUR TA IX— ACT II- Scene 1. Ruff House corner. Tu-ilic ltt. Police Force seated dejecfedl; on hotel steps. Police Force (philo.ioiihical mouoloijue). Well I ' m glad it ' s over, I ' m tired of reforming. All the grafters that I can get at, have either stopped grafting or I ' ve run ' em out of town. Gager don ' t even sell hard cider now, llollem has cut his prices, and Caiew is running a model business. Somebody wanted me to get that Saturday Night Club, but I don ' t see any harm in Vni. They don ' t hurt anything. I dont see why they don ' t consolidate the Fortnightly and the Saturday night club. They ' d cut down exj)ense.s and would have lots more fun. But even these have (juieted down now. Everything ' s so dead, I ' m tired of sleeping. Oh, for the days of yore, when there was some thing to wink at, some favors to he granted, some little grafting for me, so that I could at least be a good imitation of a city cop. Now the only thing I can do is sleep — well, that ' s like ' em anyhow. What ' s that coming now ? Why, here ' s a chance to get famous. (Business Manager, comes up sfree t from depot drcu yiny along a short, fat, (jmy-whinkered man, dressed in a $2.60 ' hand-me-down. Inarticidatc with his exertions the fat individual makes gurgliuy sounds and frantic gestures for assistance). Police Force. We ' ll, here ' s graft all right. I ' ll get my rep back now. I don ' t know exactly what ' s the matter, but I ' ll have to arrest him just the same. (Seizes Business Manager by arm. Fat one makes desperate efforts to escape but is tightly clutched by Business Manager). Police Force. In the name of the majesty of the law, I arrest you for disturbing the peace of this community. Business Manager. Let us go. He — I- -We are late for supper — he ' s sick and needs a doctor. His heart is weak. Turn me loose. Fat Man (regaining breath). Sir, officer, release me from this young mad man. Sir, do you know who I am ? My name is Carmaker, and I resent such insolence and coercion. I am — Police Force. You, Carmaker, the bulti-billionaire. Why, why — you ' re the biggest grafter yet. I ' ve got to get you any how. (Relea. ics Business Manager, who makes good his escape, .seizes Car- maker with both hands). Carmaker. I, a grafter. The richest man in the world to suffer indignities and insults at the hands of a paltry policeman. Why, sir I can buy up your tiny hamlet. Z. -y m ? H PoLU ' K FoH( K. Ah Sir! Hrally, Sirl I don ' t iiu ' mii jiiiytliiiij, ' hv it, but I ' ve r()t to do it. {llrii lilcniiKi up iritli sudden insjiinilioii.) It ' s all right, don ' t worry. You ' re on a vacation, ain ' t yon; you ain ' t 1, ' ral ' tiiif; n ow ? CARMAKf;R (bubhli)ig with ru(jv). You, you must not a| |)lv that term to me. I repeat, I am a finaneier, not a grafter. Police Force. Don ' t carry on that way, Sir. I ' ll fix it, I ' ll giv ' you a writ of immunity and then let you go. IJut, come on, you ' ll have to stay arrested till I get you fi.xed up all right. Here ' s your hat. Sir. Come on, now, don ' t bother me any more. {Police Force dnufs Carmaker up street, who resists docicjedlij.) (Enter RoUem and (latjer stcalthilij, ( lance up street.) KoLLE.M. Well, did you see that ? Gager. Yes, now our chance is gone and were going to l)c ruined after all. RoLLEM. Why, it ' s all the better, don ' t you see all we ' ve got to do is rescue him from the cop and win his everlasting gratitude. That ' ll be easy enough. GAGf:R. Then we won ' t have to hurt our self respect after all, will we ? RoLLEM. Oh, drop it! Come on, let ' s see what becomes of ' em. We ' ve got to get ready (juick and rescue him or they may turn him loo.se. (E.vncnt) ACT II— Scene 2. President ' s .sanctum sanctorum. President seated at desk writinej. Enter Busine.is Manager, c.rcitedit : ru.iJies in without kuockinq. Business Manager (breathlessly). Mr. President. President (continues writing). Well, sir, what is it. ' Business Manager. He — I — Carmaker is escaped, gone, arrested. President (looks up a.stonished). What. What are you talking about ? ..k v: Business Manager. I got him all right, and was conning straight from the station, when that cop grabbed me and said something about grafting. Then Carmaker told who he was, and he turned me loose and grabbed him. I ran away and came right away to tell you. Really, sir, it wasn ' t my fault, — don ' t blame it on me. President. I must attend to this at once. Since it ' s the police, I don ' t expect much trouble. I think I can fix it all right. You may go, sir. Businf:ss Manager, [xtops at door). I ' m mighty sorry but I did my best. (Exit) President. Well, it ' s not as bad as it might be. I hope I can make it all right with Carmaker. I ' d better go right up and do what I can now. {Exit President) ACT II.— Scene S. Room in City Hall — Carmaker seated di.scoii.tolateb before fire, irith elbows resting on knees. Carmaker. What ' s wrong with everybody down here, anyhow? Are thev all crazy ? First, I am taken in charge by a young lunatic, who keeps hold of me all the time and rushes me round like a house afire. At the station I am met by a wild-eyed young man, who tries to read an ode, that he wrote in my honor, — it had something about tempestuousness, and somniferous, and . zrael and Lenore. that was all I heard. I don ' t know much about poetry, but I know he couldn ' t even write a soap ad for me. Even the cops down here are crazy — in fact, that one that just left is the wildest proposition I ever struck — rattled off a lot of crazy jargon about writs of immunity, investigating committees, secret .service, criminal procedure, and a lot of other stuff. Well, I don ' t know what ' s going to happen, but one thing ' s certain; this is my first adventure down this way and my last too. No more lunatics for me. Oh, what ' s that noise ? (Window suddenly flies up—Carew. Rollem and Gayer leap through.) Carmaker (aside). More lunatics — worse than the others. — (To the trio). Well, what do you want ' - • , ,| ' ' _ ' Stilij i ll eSmJ RoLl EM. Sii — we ' ve coiuc to resciie yni, (•(itiic on; lie |uiet. Cahmakkh. You jje! out of here. I ' ve liad enough of lunaties ami rescuing already. I won ' t he rescued. Gagku (aside fo RoUcm and Carcir). ' llal are wc ,i; ' oiiiti- lo do now? Did you hear what he said . CvRKW. Well there ain ' t hut one thing to do, that ' s kidnap him like we meant to do at first. Gager, you get his feet and I ' ll earry him out. Rollcm, you .see he don ' t make any noise. Come on, now, here goes. (Riifik up and seize Carmaker who struf gles violenily to free himself, bid in vain. Bear him out throuqh window. Gager is temporarily disabled, by the collision of his prominent and rotund middle vit}| Carmaker ' . ' foot. Heeorers and Carmaker is sneres. -fulli borne airai ). Cl ' KTAIX. IXTKRMKZZO. College Cam pus in front of Main llnilding alioal 11 i. m.. on a clear June ■:vening. Trn. ' tees in .sy.s-x o;; in main building, irliilc Ahimni are gathered in chapel. (Sin( nii heard in the di.s-tance). Tuesday nights come (|uiekly round. When we gather here, when we gather here. Let good cheer ahound, and our songs resound As we drink our foaming lager heer. O! Tuesday night is far too short To drink our fill, to drink our fill ; IIo I Here we come, we ' re out on a hum. And Alex Foxhall pays the hill. Voice from in iin building — Brethren, we must once more stand firm and lesisf all their ons ' aughts. One alumni representative on the hoard would give them a foothold. It would he as an armed hand within a citv, a.s the Greeks who entered 1 y i l Trojan walls in tlie wooden horse. They would open our gates to the enemy — they would surrender the secrets which we have so zealously guarck ' d — they would defeat our every scheme. Tlieir power would grow even as Jonah ' s gourd, it would increase even as the mustard-seed. We must for our own sakes and for the sake of that which we represent, withstand their attempts to assist in the control of the school. They will force us, they have saitl, to grant them their desires. I et them attempt it. The spirit of Calvin shall he a pillar unto us by day, and a torch by night to lead us into our promised land — complete control of the school in e erv department. The school will suffer educationally, and materially; hut spiritually and religiously it shall ])r()sper. We shall have succeeded if there he hut one goodly-minded student left in the day of our final triumph. The alumni are already disheartened and are ready to cease all interest in the school. This is the goal for which we strive. The day of our triun;|)h is at hand. Let us stand firm and wait patiently, brethren. Voice front chupcl — Brothers, fellow alunuii of Washington and Lee, it is time for us once more to rebel against the absolutism that controls the Alma Mater. Bosses have fallen elsewhere, bos.ses shall fall at Washington and Lee. We have it in our hands to rise and overthrow that body which has so long tyr- annized over us. Behold, we are men of power and energy, distinguished for the i)arts which we have played in the affairs of the world. And yet in one of our chiefest interests, we are dominated by men of less force than ourselves. We see policies pursued, which we believe detrimental to our college. Let us arise in greater strength than ever before, let us rouse our fellow alumni, and fight to the finish for our rights. We must at last achieve the victory. {Moving heard in Trustees rooms as thci rise fo siiu . I ' oirc heard — Brother — jilease raise flie tune. (Sinc iny liegins in nasal tnoitotone). Sliould old John Calvin be forgot And his theology. Should old John Calvin be forgot In Washington and Lee. y ' 240 Rejr Refra i For sake of ohi Joim C, my friends, For sake of old Jolin C, We ' ll sing a hymn before we go For sake of old John C. We ' ve kept each other on the hoard, We ' ve put no otiier on. Save one with C ' alvinistic views For sake of dear old John. ] ' ( fniiii ' Tlio wc have nearly wrecked the school Our record still is clear; We ' ve kept our places as we should For sake of Calvin dear. Rrfra in So here ' s a hand, my reverend sir. Our consciences are free. We ' ll ruin the school, if so we must, For sake of okl Jolui C. For sake of old John ( ' ., my frientls For sake of old John C, We ' ll sing a hymn before wc go. For sake of old John ( ' . (Siiu iiu from icitliin clnipcl). By the banks of old North River, winding lazy round the hill. To the dear old college campus, my thoughts are turning still; For the college bells are calling, and I know they say to me. Come you back, you old Alumnus, back to Washington and Lee. Back to Washington and Lee, To the dear old varsitee. Can ' t you hear the students cheering, and the old songs ringing free? Back at Washington and Lee, That is where you ' ll want to be. When the Finals are beginning and the old grads call for thee. r ' Tho my college days are over many, many, years ago. Yet my heart will beat the faster, and my blood the warmer flow. When a thought of Alma Mater comes to thrill me through and through, Or I see again the colors of the dear old AVhite and Hlue Oh, our hearts are ever true, And we ' re worthy sons to you, Come, boys, let ' s give a cheer For the dear old White and Blue. Back at Washington ami Lee, etc. Ship me back to old Virginia, where tlic summer skies are blue. Where the gods walk on the hill-tops in the sunset ' s ro.sy hue, For I ' ve heard their voices calling and it ' s there that I would be. In the shadow of tlie mountains, back at Washington and Lee. For Washington and Lee For the dear old Varsitee. We will sound the fame of her fair name from mountain-side to sea. Back at Washington and Lee That is where you ' ll want to be. When the Finals are beginning and the old grads call for thee. (Trustees and Ahtmni come out of buildings siniultancously and meet in front of main building — singing faintly heard in distance — sound grows louder as Saturday Xight Cluh approaches. As Alumni and Trustees approach each other then sing untiphonally). Alumni: — Why don ' t you resign As you ought to have done, AVlien we asked you before In the year nineteen one ? Trusfee. ' : — Hallclujaii! we are here, Hallelujah! going to stay. Hallelujah! we are stickers. That ' s all we hue to say. (Break off suddenly as Saturday Xighf Club comes nearer.) Phesidkxt of Boakd. HvnWy. ucmHimicii, «%■ slidiild iu,t ,r licrc. wc should not 1)0 onlookers at such pniciTdinos. l.v[ us separate and depart at once. ( Trustees jkr prccipUaiclij. Suliin ai Xi, lit ( hih nniiids mritrr. Alum ' III hrmk up info ( roups, some of the ijouiujer i.nuls „ into S. .V. ( ' . irh. ' le (illicrs initcli proceed iiH s from bcln ' iiil frees.) (Safurdai Xiidit C uh enters sinainrj.) Where the foam mounts hiffh on the stein, AMiere the cup circles freely around. Where the glass ojows red with the wine (ic.dd fellows are sure to lie found. Refrain— Vw we ' re jolly good fellows gathered here. To drown our cares in lager heer; (-)ur cares are few, the beer is much. So fill your steins and shame the Dutch. When we ' ve drunk as mucli as we care, (Of beer may there never be dearth) Then our song rings out o ' er the air. And the night grows gay with our mirth. Ju ' f rain— For we ' re jolly good fellows gathered her( , etc. (Alumni ( radualli emenje and mi.v in with fite Saturdaii X 1, littrs Trustees in full fliiiht.) CURTAIX ACT III.— ScKXE 1. (Collef e Campu. ' i on mornini of Carmaker ' s address. Stiidnits ' Alumiii. etc. tjutliered around auditorium awaitiiK approacli of speaker. Time for his arriral is jia. ' t and eroird beeomcs impatient. ) Enter President lo(d:ini haf i ard and worried. Mounts .steps and motions for silence. President. Gentlemen, I really cannot account for the delay of the speaker of the morning. Son;e accident must have befallen him, or he may be ill. I shall go at once and ascertain the cause of the delay. ■y Mean all He — (hnuhs off ■•imldeiili as Cannalcr infers hreuthlenshj and rushes toward students iciih extended arms.) Cakmakkh. 1 appeal to you to protect nie from the network of plots wliich surround me. (President deseends steps and cowes toward Carmaker as if to (jreet him.) CAnMAKKK. (■•■:Iirinl:ini hark toward crowd, points toirard President with a tremhiinij hand). There fi;entlenian, tliere stands the man who hired me to this place anti has been the cause of all my difficulties. Sir, I know of the snare you set for me, and I shall reveal it all. President {calmhj). — Produce your proofs, sir! Carmaker. — Here they come. (Enter Hollem, Gager, Carew and Pnsine-is Manaijer of Hanic Bnnt Fi e: Pnlire Force brinc s up rear.) President. Hum, I ' m up against it now. (ofW r.s-.sr.v newcomer. ) I ' m ready to compromise, gentlemen, — what do you demand ! ' Rollem. Give us a permanent license to conduct onr husiness. — Gager. And give us a place on the campus.— Carew. Recognize the great educational w-ork we have been carry- ing on and give us a place on the college curriculum. Business Manager. In short establish a School of Graft. The Rank Bum Fry should have the ground floor. Carmaker, (beamine ) (ircat! I ' ll give you an endowment. For years I have been looking for a school, that would inculcate in the American vouth those sound business principles, to which I owe my success. Here at last I have found what I want. President. Vcrv well. Instead of erecting for you a new building with the endowment, I will use it to pay the railroad fare and board of three hundix ' d new students. But I will, instead, turn over to you the new Alunini Building and having put columns around the Gymnasium call it Ahinmi Hall. Alfmni (huddled to(ptlier).. Shall we object? Board (if Trustees: — This is ])reposterous, — not that we mind a little craft — Im LT (I Prksidkxt: — Keep (|iiivt. Wc won ' t teacli ativtliini; hut Calvinistic Graft. I ' OMCi; FoHCIO {l (ril(lli !■(■). My brain ' s a ' nuiddlc with the things Tiiat I ' vorv new exposure brings; — When first eoniniissioned ))y tlie mayor The town of every graft to elear, I httk tliouglit the end woukl bring The l)anishnient of everything. Not much atnazed when I iiad found A grafter e erywhere in town, — I found my duties just l)egnn. The (M)lh ge boasted two for one. The smaller grafts eame first in view. The Cnllegidii and The Tniichxionr too. The Rank Bum Fyr, however, vies With the grand-stand scheme for major prize. Polirieal scjicmes that 1 have seen Wouiil turn Tom T ' iaif willi envy green. Athletic managers alone Can never reap what they have sown: The students sow sub.- criptions wide, Then, paymcni.y due, they slyly hide. They wateh the game with j yful soul And leave the manager — in the hole. But let me tjuit these minor strains And tell where graft in power reigns: — Up at the top graft grimly stalks. Library, dorm, and cement walks, — The trustees too have their full share As when the college they declare Is purely undenominational. But sing to Calvin hymns (national. Alas, I ' ve found in all the iViace But one thing with an honest face, That is exactly what it swears And no false-colored garments wears. — KjQ ' c 1 Alusixi :- All, now your point we clearly see Wc must that virtuous bodv lie. Police Force.-- (You) ! You see the Mater wlioni you praise Dishonored and no hand upraise; — Ah! Loyal sons yc are in deed. Who come not at your mother ' s need. {Variou s ones have withdrawn us tlieij were aeciised. Alumni now exit ivith downcast heads.) Police Force : — The Saturday Night Club alone Can dare to call its deeds its own. {Exit Saturday Niglit Club bearing Police Force on shoulders singing. AVe ' re jolly good fellows gathered here. To drown our cares in lager beer, — Our cares are few, the beer is much, So fill your steins and shame the Dutch. CURTAIN i 91 fMt Q ,XCE upon a time there were two young men with whom it came to pass tliat in their day of fullest immaturity and of ripest inexperi- ence there befell them a great trust. And the trust was this: that they should make a Book which should he worthy to bear the two which are Names Ijeyond honor or reproach. Where upon the young men cried out against the Gods, who had decreed it thus in a moment of merry jest, (for the 6.30 had just pulled into Mt. Olympus and thereon a consign- ment of nectar); and the young men spake, one unto the other, saying. We are but dolts and asses, and the Gods are drunk. But as they lamented there came unto them Two, One from the North and One from beyond the Western Hills. Yea. even as Augel-shapes shining through the dusk the Two Gracious ones came unto the young men, and laid soft hands upon them as they knelt in their misery, and spake unto them saying: Be of good cheer. For though we conie from the North and from the West, yet are we still, like you, of the South; and whatsoever we may do, shall be done for the glory of the two names. (Now be it known unto all men that, despite of Omar and of sour-stomached church-building con:nnttees, there is but one angelic sex; and this we know. ' ) Then the Gracious Ones began to build in such wondrous fashion as, since the childhood of the people, none save Angels and Good Fairies were ever wont to use; and beneath their hands the Book arose, a thing of beautv, like unto a flower. And anon others came to aid them, from the North and from the West, saying: For the glory of the two names, it shall be m.ade beautiful. So that the hearts of the young men did swell witliin them and they said unto themselves Verily, our nan.es shall hz called blessed, vea, and our childrens ' , if they have any. it 1 But, alas, it caine to |)ass that about this time tiic Gods Ijo an to sit up and take uotire. For altho ' it was the nijfiit of tiic ()lyni])iaii Foit- iiiL; ' htl vet was the nectar sadly lnw and tlie (iods were not very di-unk — not so drunk as they wouhl liave liked to he: wheri ' t ' ore were they i;rouehy. And they summoned Hermes to don his motor-hoots and j o (|ui kly unto the plaee of the huildiuo- of the Book and say unio all (iuardian Anii ' els and Good Fairies, Skidoo; likewise, ' •i. ' !. Whereupon Hermes came unto the plaee and said unto the young men: Ye have evaded the decrees of the Gods and made a jest of their jest. Wherefore your name is Dennis: and whatsoever has been done may stand, but the rest of the Book ye shall finish yourselves. FVjr are ye not Editors ■ ' Then the young men labored long and vehemently and the mountain- streams were swollen with their tears and the bitter sweat which tliev sweated: and behold their last condition was woi-se than their hrst, so that the glee of the Gods increased m ;mentarily until Mt. ()lym|)us re- sembled nothing so much as the Senior Banquet room at -!• A. M. F ' or. in the hands of the well-meaning young men, the Book which the gracious Fairies had left them was like unto the First-born Infant in the hands of the Young Father, and the things which they did unto it were grievous — yea, even the limit. And when they had finislied, the one said unto the other, Verily it is a mess, and we are the fools of the (Jods. v[ u])ou their heads l)e it, for they have been drinking Uno (which is what you drink when you are up against it): and they are very drimk. Wherefore, since it is decreed of the inexorable Fates that no Book may be made but that it shall be edited we do beseech you. Gentle Reader, blame not the Gracious ones. For whatsoever is good is theirs and, at that, much the worse for wear; and whatsoever is evil thev knew nought of. Moreover, knock not the young men, or, at least, grant that their Jack was not the lack of labor or of taking thought. If ye must needs knock, can vou not knock the Gods .- :{::i;:{;:{;:{::f; :J;:I::J:;f: ■:J f [fttrtoorti The loyal response of Alumni and Students to every eall made upon them by the Editors we are ready to accept as only what is riijhtfully due to the Calyx. We take this opportunity however of making our grateful acknowletlgements to certain who stand to the University in the more objective relation of outsiders and yet to whose enthusiastic interest any merit of the Book is largely due: to Mr. Meredith Nicholson who has courteously permitted us to reprint A Virginia Impression from the Phi Gamma Delta Monthly in which it originally appeared, and who has, in addition, taken considerable pains to revise the article in question for our use: to Miss Xeale and Miss Russell and Messrs. Harslie Witten, and Winters, who contributed drawings; and to Miss Foster, who has made offering of that fine gift of poetic expression which of late has attracted so much attention in certain literary circles and has commanded the homage of such critics as Madison Cawein and our own Washington and Lee poet, W. H. Field. The wafer-color series was done by Miss Johnson of Louisville Ky., and Miss Taylor of Washington, D. C, besides doing the largest part of the drawings for the Book has designed the cover and margins and acted as Art-Editor down to the smallest detail of the Book. It is needless to say, that these are the two Gracious Ones to whom we have attempted to make some acknowledgement above, altho ' nothing we might say could lessen our burtlen of indebtedness — our burden and that of every Wash- inirton and Lee man. THEXCAIYX THE BLACKSTONE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. A In ls94 ifter a aretul study of the situation a Christian Training ih ol ftr Girls ■was optned at Blackstone. and about S80.000 has been expended m the purrhabeofa campus of twenty-five acres and in the erection of a massive brick building equipped ■with all the modern appliances of Lighting. Heating, Sanitation. The purpose of the founders was declared to be to give THOROUGH INSTRUCTION UNDER POSITIVE CHRISTIAN INFLUENCES AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE COST. Instniclion: — This ptirpose has been carried out. Thorough instruction has been given, and the Blackstone students, in addition to the regular instruction given in Seminaries, have received Normal training, all applicants for diplomas being required to take both Theoretical and Practical Pedagogy, including actual teaching in the Model School. The Blackstone certificate or diploma is recognized by educators as meaning what it says, and about five hundred teachers have shown the practical ■value of the ■work of the school. ChariLcter: — But at Blackstone, character is regarded as the student ' s most pre- cious possession, and boarding school life is known to be a critical time in the formation Df character. The greatest aim of the faculty is to direct and stimulate the development jf the character of the students committed to their care. Direct contact of the student R ' ith the teacher is one of the greatest benefits of the school life, and hence the faculty at Blackstone all live in the building with the girls, and meet them not only in the class-room, but in every relation of the school life. The atmosphere of the school is wholesome, inspiring, and uplifting, and the influences arc positively Christian. Cost: — The cost is less than at an; other school in the State of equal grade. One hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per cession pays for Board, Laundry, Medical Attention, and Tuition in all departments except Music ar.d Elocution, which subjects are taught at correspondingly low rates. It has .jec the aim from the beginning to maintain a student body sufficiently large to give to parents the benefit of low rates for first-class instruction, but not too large for the Principal and his helpers to kno n ' each student and to give her individual care. This re It has been attained. If you want your daugh- ter to have thorungh instruclion under positive Christian influences at the Imrest pnssilile cost, vrite for catalogue to JAMES CANNON, Jr., A. M., Blackstone. Va. For the next session, twenty scholarships, worth J75.00 each, will be given to young ladies who are unable to meet the full expenses of the school, but who are suffi- ciently anxious for an education to be willing to assist the housekeeper in the cire of the dining-room. Randolph -Macon Woman ' s College, LYNCHBURG, VA. Classed by the U. S. f ommissioner of Education as one the fouiteen Colleges for Women in the United States entitled to rank in Division A. llantlsnnie and commodious dormitories witli modern conveniences for four hundred students. Forty-Hve officers and teacliers. Four laboratories. Library, gym- nasium, etc Fifty acres in campus ; two miles of prepared walks ; tennis and ba=kct ball courts ; boat-hovisc :ind funr-mile boating beach Foi- Catalogue and full information, address, REGISTRAR, College Park, LYNCHBURG, VA. Union Theological Seminary RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. FULL CORPS OF PROFESSORS. Sl ' l ' X ' IAL lectmes b} ' distinguislied scholars of other branches of the ( hureh. Degree of Rachelor of Divinity. Fellow.sbip for post- graduate study. The Seminarj ' occupies a spacious and beautiful site in the most highly improved section of suburban Richmond, wirh imsurpassed conditions of health, quiet and accessibility. The build- ings are new and thoroughly appointed, provided with all modern conven- iences, heated with steam and open grates, lighted with electricity and sup- plied with an abimdanee of pure artesian water. Well ventilated and well lighted rooms, completely furnished, are provided free of rent. Ciood boai ' d is provided at the refectory at cost price. There is no cliarge for tuition. Tlie library of nearly 20,000 volumes has been carefully selected and is en- larged annually by the purchase of the best new books. Tlie ninefj ' -fifth annuo! session begins on the second Wednesdaj ' in Septeml ' cr, 1906. : Por Catalogue apply to VV. W . iVIOORE, President. 253 Mary Baldwin Seminary, FOR YOUNG LADIES. TERM begins September 6th, 1 906. Located in Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Unsurpassed climate, beautiful grounds and modern appointments. 308 students past session from 33 States. Terms moderate. Pupils enter any time. Send or Catalogue. MISS E. C. WEIMAR, Principal, STAUNTON. 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