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

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Herbert Bailev Gregory. K i;. of Ro one resident of itial Mecca of all our pilgrimages — May 1st, at least — who is belter informed as to ll of the churches of that town than of the P. He is a guide to lie to when V. P. 1. plaved. Herbert still remembers that he w Randolph- Macon Academy, though it has Macon Academy, though it has been some Goode Law Debating Society and the Grab oratorical ability. He is Vice-President of ihe Mason and a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity. A remarkable man is Ben Harvev. He is the only transfer liom ihe University of Virginia ever seen who was willing I admit that that ancient and honorable institution is a prep school, but so he has recorded it in his Senior history. Born in Mississippi he found that climate not damp enough for hiin, and crossed the river to Arkansas. During his slay in ihe Law School, since October 18. 1909, to be precise as to the dale, Harvey has become famous as a propounder of inlerrogatories — a qualification which marks him as eminently filled lo 1,11 a chair in a law faculty. He has chewed up and digested the lexl-books on law, and will make the judges w lo try his cases turn green with envy. He never balked on any subject — except Partnership, and then it was not life-long pailnership lo which he objected, but Joe Long ' s. Denis Smurr Kilmer was bo.n in Martinsbuig, W. Va., attended the Martinsburg High School, and entered the Academic Department in 1905. After Iwo years in college he and J. N. withdrew for Ivno years, in order lo acquire knowledge of the actual workings of the outside world. He returned to Washington and Lee in 1909 for Law; and he has gotten it His only recreation is participation in the debates of the Goode Society. Kilmer will locate in West Virginia. 25

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William Staples Engleby. o f Roa, noke. Va., is another member of La V 1911 w ■ho in his Junio, • year was fficiently successful in m i argumen; with the Board of L aw E xar niners lo allain a license lo pracli ce. Bill look a n aca idemi c c ourse at Roanoke CoUe ge befor, ' . coming lo Washir igton id Lee. While here he has folio- wed the usual c. Durse for 1 futu ire great spcakeis — the Graham-L ee Litera ry Soc riety and the Goode Law Debaling Society. To this ; expei he ha! ; added foolball. being on the V arsity Sqi lad in 1909 and 1910. He will practice m Roanoke. William Leonard Freeland. K . , the Countess of Lama, a name lo conjure withal the shades of departed justices to the aid of bewildered Law students, and worthy to be associated with ihe appellations of the masters of the profession, past, present, and future. But, to come to earth, Freeland was born in Charleston. S. C. — that accounts for most of his excellent qualities. Add lo that, he lives in Jacksonville, and Ihe whole problem is solved. He is a Phi Delta Phi. a While Friar, a member of the Tennis Club, the Albert Sidney Boat Club, the Flo.ida Club, llie Goode Law Debaling Society, and the Cotillion Club. The versatility of the members of Law 1911 is remarkable. Included in its ranks are not only poets, and philosophers, and social lions — witness Bennie Hooper — and editors, and athletes, but even musicians; of whom SiDNEV RuDOLPH GrizzarD is which, for he is a member of the University Band — an organization which deserves and has the thanks of the entire collete for its faithful and efficient work. Grizzard admits thai he is from Boykins, Va. He graduated at the Boykins High School, and atiended ihe Soulhern Shorthand and Business University of Norfolk. As secretary ;o President Denny he has done three limes as much work as the ordinary law student. He is a member of the Masonic Club. 24

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John Nevin Kilmer is the silent boy with the knowledge. The Martinsburg, W. Va.. High School has the honor of fitting him for college, a task which was done thoroughly and successfully. K.lmer entered Washington and Lee in 1905, and for the next two years was a disciple of Babe Willis and Jett Lauck, who awarded him in 1907 the scholarship in Economics and Politics. He was out of college two years, leturnine for Law in 1909. He started well by making 99 on Torts, and has kept the same stride through the course. Kilmer ' s will be an LL. B cum tauJe maxima. George Thurman Knote, ATA, and Lee from Davis and Elkins College George made good on the Varsity Footb unfortunate injuries compelled him to reti In 1909, he received the coveted B. A., ferred his labors to Tucker Hall. He Team in 1910, and is this year Vice-Chi came to Washington in the fall of 1906. II Team of 1907, but e early in the season, and thereafter trans- managed the Track irman of the Athletic Committee. He has been eh Phi Delta Phi, : and the Cotil LL. B., he will [ jract ice the pr cted to White Friai ion Club. Upon rec jfession in Wheeling. CtAUnE PoRTERFtELD Llc.HT, - X P. has a history so replete with interesting details, that to rightly chronicle it would require a volume. His connection with the University dales back to 1903. so that he is one of the band of patriarchs known as the Senate, of which august body he is Vice- President. In . ' cademic days he was on the Gym Team, rowed on the Harry Lee boat crew, presided over ihe Washington Society, and won third place in the Hart-Schaffner and Marx Economics Contest of the University of Chicago. Getting his B. A. in 1906, Claude left the University for three vears ' teaching, but the call of Lexington was too strong to be withstood, and 1909 saw him back in the fold. He has instructed Freshmen and others for two yea rs in Malh. organized the University Band, resumed his role in the Washington Society, presided over the Harry Lee Boat Club. and assisted the Y. M. C. A. to keep going. 26