Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-09
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Especial to Tho Times Dis7atcn.1
BLACESBUEG. VA. September s.
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute will
oron for the session 19l7-lS on We'd
nesdaS. September 10. ana tho pros
poets for n considerable increase In the
number OF new students arc exceed
tngiS bright. AS so many OF last years
men entered the reserve officers train
ing corps at instruction camps. o. have
secured commissions in some branch
OF the national service. il is likely that
there Will be a falling of in the num-
Dor OF old students. The authorities
OF the college announce that all former
students who have conditional or de-
ferred examinations to get on. and
new men who have not u certificate
from some accredited preparatory or
high school emitting them to enter
without examination. must report hero
September IL. SO that the work of tho
session may begin on the first day of
the regular term. September 10.
Major William +. Stone. u. S. A.
retired. who has been detailed by the
War Department TO succeed Captain c.
c. Carson as commandant OF cadets at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. arrived
at the college Wednesday. Major Stone
is n native of Arkansas. is ffty-seVen
years old. and graduated from West
Point in the class OF 1883. He is an
officer of the coast artillery corps and
"dS TellTcQ bt MS own request AFTER
thirty years of active service. 4 ca
blesram from Captain Carson an
nounces his arrival with his regiment
st a French port
John J. Owens. of Roanoke. has been
appointed as steward OF the college
dining hall. succeeding the late John
II. Shultz. Mr. Owens has had n wide
experience in this line of work at the
University of Chicago commons and at
Johns hopkins University. and tor the
last TWO years has been steward at
the Elks' Club in Roanoke. He comes
to Virginia Polytechnic Institute with
the highest recommendations as a ca
terer and business man.
At the summer meeting OF the board
of visitors OF the college. the follow
ing promotions in tho faculty were
made. effective September /:
Clarence y. Miles and John ]. Davis
promoted from associate professors in
the department OF modern languages
TO the rank Of full professors: William
Nj. Brodie. department OF mathematics
promoted from associate to full pro
iessor; Frank L. Robson. department
of physics. from associate to full pro-
lessor and head Of the department of
physics: NJ. c. Harrison. department OF
rhetoric. from instructor to associate
professor; Dabney S. Lancaster, from
instructor in animal husbandry to ss-
sociatc professor. Mr.. Lancaster has
hecn on a years leave OF absence at
the University OF Missouri FOR post
graduate work. S. c. Harmon. class Of
1916. has been appointed as assistant
IN the aEronomy department.. and S. A.
Winsard. an NJ. S. OF the Alabama Poly
technic institute, has been made as
sistant TO DR.. F. .. Fromme in the de-
partment OF plant pathology.
Major Stone Will have the following
men rs aids on the military staff this
year: first assistant commandant S. r
Mckesson. Petersburg; second assist
ant. Beverley S. Parish Richmond;
mira assistant. Robert Somerville Gray,
Richmond These men are graduates
OF the college, and Mr.. McKess ser ;ed
as major last year