The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-19
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC

Especial TO The Richmond NireinIanD
Blacks6urg. Va, Novem Der l8--Ar-
rangements have been completed for
the trip the students viii take to Roa-
noke Thanksgiving day for the annual
football game between the Techs and
x. NJ I. A special train Will be ope-
rated over the Norfolk and western
leaving Blacksburg early Thursday
morning. and the start home Will be
made lsta in. the-eX enIa4s~ot- tI4es-s-s--4s..-
day Friday and saturday nights. No
vemher 30 and December ]. the Ger
man club and CotiiIion club Of the col
lege VIII give their Thank giving
dances, and q number. Of visitors. In
GLIDING former members OF the Two
clubs. are expected to be present.
After the girls basketball game
Saturday between teams from the high
schools OF Blaeksburg and Pulaski. the
V. p I. Pulaski County club gave q
banquet at the BAckshurg inn as q
compliment 70 the visitors
The membership OF the Maury Lit
erary society has gone beyond the tHo
mark and this IS being added TO every
day. New life has been put into. the
! work Of the two literary societies and
the Saturday night meetings OF both
are well attended Officers If the Lee
society recently eterted are 3 Me-
Intosh.- president, G. {. ~'hsse vice
, president; J. d Shultz secretary; s
a Buchanan. treasurer. A q. Smith
critic; NJ T. Gardner. sergeapt-at-
arms; w. H Ferguson. chaplain A
new election of officers was made
necessary because nearly every man
elected last spring has entered sorne
branch Of the army
Virginia Tech" the student " eekly
paper published as the Official organ
of the General Athletic association.
has been vnlarged from eight to ten
pages this increase IN Size made
necessary by the demand for news az
the alumni who are now in the war
, November J. the executive secretary
/ OF the Alumni association had the
names or $40 Tech men who are sevv-
ing In some branch OF the national
service. and the list is far from com
plete. a conservative estimate places
the number at 400, and probably two
thirds OF these hold commissions, o.
H Culpeper Of Norfolk class of 1914
has just given up lucrative position
( as superintendent of the DUPONT
works at Augusta, Col. to enter Camp
Lee an enlisted man. waving indus
! trial exemption Under protest fFPH
his company.
H l. Maynard class or 1850, and
former representative from Nirgl bia
in congress wears a neat badge as an
indication that he has four sons in tho
service Of the country, and all are
former students Of V. z. l. One ~
surgeon in the regular army now in
France. second is q captain in the
ccast artillery. a third graduated at
the first Fort Myer camp, and the
fourth is a member of the naval re-
serves. His nth son is a student here
now.
Quinn W Stuart. graduate in
mining engineering, 1911 has recently
been appointed chief engineer OF iron
ore mines and quarries for the Ten
nessee Coal. Iron aud Railway COM
pany. a y. Shankland. a graduate
in chemistry. 1914. has been made
chief chemist for the Bethlehem Steel
company.
Jesse NJ Jones. director of extern
sion work: J. r, Hutchinson. assistant
director; DIR. a. w prinkarde director
OF the state experiment station. and
nr w Il Elicit. chief chemist Of the
experiment station, have been in
Washington this week for the meeting
Of the American association of d;rec-
tors OF experiment stations and extern
sion divisions Or Elicit also repre-
scented the station at meeting of the
national council Of defense.