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deal of i n t e r e s t was shown.
t h e house and diapospd of.
instead of weekly as h e r e t o f o r e.
speaKS well for the so-ciety.
t h e society at this meeting.
and an oration by Colonna.
i e s , to be held on the 19th of April.
to a t t e n d the debate.
suggested by some of the alumni.
ary society should be retained.
i t y of Waahingion.
another with his back to the ball.
in c a p t u r i n g the s c a r i n g sphere.
brought up their total to eight.
showed up well on first.
AB. R. H. 0. A. E.
several rvew f e a t u r e s are to be not-ed.
ends Wednesday, June 18, 1913.
to perform as does the s t a t e cadet.
*Crotty out, hit by batted ball.
2: Sewell, 3; Dickens, 2; Grove, 2.
Conn., has sent Mr. Greenlee D.
collertor for Rhode Island and Con-necticut.
Mr, Joy writes that Mr.
class to be held at the coming finals.
will be larger than ever be-fore.
Rome, March 5th, in which Mr.
and shipped in bond to Lexing-ton.
a r r i v e within the next week or so.
history of the I n s t i t u t e.
Full Text Search THE CADET VOL. V VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1912 NO. 24 Literary Societies SEASON OPENS WITH DEFEAT THE JACKSONIAN The regular weekly meeting of t h e Jacksonian Literary society held on Friday, the I6lh instant, was as usual, well attended/ and a great deal of i n t e r e s t was shown. Before the program for the eve-ning wag taken up some few buai nees matters were brought before t h e house and diapospd of. Among these was a question which haa arisen several times, namely, whether the society should not hold ita meetings bi-weekly, instead of weekly as h e r e t o f o r e. While t h e r e were a few who were in favor of biweekly meetings, the majority were strongly in favor ot meeting every Friday, and this en-thusiasm speaKS well for the so-ciety. Several new members who had a'lhmitted their names to the mem-b e r s h i p committee were admitted to t h e society at this meeting. The r e g u l a r program for the eve-n i n g consisted in a declamation by Bowering, a short story by Batten and an oration by Colonna. A debate on the s u o j e c t : Resolv-ed, That the United S t a t e s should own and control the railroads in the United States, resultert in a victory f o r the negative. The debaters w e r e : Galu and Satterfield un the affirmative and Hagan, J . , and Ram-beth for the negative. During the evening a challenge was received Irom the Kerlin society for a debate between the two socie-t i e s , to be held on the 19th of April. The challenge was accepted and t h e Jacksonian joins with the Kerlin society in i n v i t i n g the e n t i r e corps to a t t e n d the debate. THE KERLIN The r e g u l a r meeting of the Ker-lin L i t e r a r y society held in the li-b r a r y last Friday night was purely of a business character, the regular program being postponed until the next meeting. The first matter of importance ken up was the question as to wheth-er the name of the society should t b e changed to the " D i a l e c t i c " as suggested by some of the alumni. I t seems to he the wish of some of t h e old V. M. I. men that the l i t e r - ary societies here now should adopt t h e old names of the societies that existed here a few years ago. Dur ing tne meeting a letter from Col-onel Kerlin was read in which he s t r o n g l y urged that the old n t m e be adopted. After much discussion a vote was taken and it was finally decided that the name, Kerlin Liter ary society should be retained. A challenge was sent to the Jack-sonian society for a joint debate to t a k e place on April 19th. A com-m i t t e e of Richards, Averill and Schmidt was appointed to make the necessary arrangements. If it can be a r r a n g e s a t i s f a c t o r i l y it is hoped t h a t several debates may be a r r a n g - ed between the two societies be-tween now and finals. Taxicabs and flowers have been barred by the chairman of the 'Var-s i t y Dance Commitee at the Univer-s i t y of Waahingion. Fielding of Home Team Was Ragged—Visitors Play Fast Ball, Taking An Early Lead Th e first g ame of t h e season was played on Wednesday when V. M. I. met Dean Academy of Massachusetts and was defeated in a long and poorly played contest by the score ot 13 to 5. Certainly it cannot be claimed that the open-ing was an auspicious one for the fielding of the locals was f a r f r om p e r f e c t and the hitting outside of one inning light. Still there was some good baseball along with the loose work. Clarkson made a long running catch in the early part of the game and later repeated with another with his back to the ball. The visitors put up an unusual ex-hibition for so early in the season, the work of their outfield being es-pecially noteworthy. . Time and a g a i n long h i t s being the marks of a sure two or three baser would be made by a V. M. I. man,but always a f t e r a long sprint or by a super-human effort an opponent succeeded in c a p t u r i n g the s c a r i n g sphere. Throckmorton performed well in t h e box, but his support in the pinches waf wretchej. On several occasions a f t e r having gotten him-sell out of difficulties the whole t e am seemed to go to pieces, which with a couple of well placed hits enabled a brace of lunners to be pushed over the plate. Things started oft badly in the very firdt inning,when with one man down by the s t r i k e o u t route, an error followed by a misjudged fly, two stolen bases and two singles allowed four runs to be scored. An error by Bryan and a dropped fly by Clarkson, allowed another to bo added in the second. With the count of five runs a g a i n s t them V. M. I. got busy in the t h i r d and with some clever work on the bases began to throw a scare into t h e i r opponents. Reed was safe on a fumble a t third and a f t e r steal-ing second and t h i r d came home on S e w a l l ' s single through short, our first hit of the game. Dickens' sin-gle, two errors and several stolen bases brought three more runs across the pan, p u t t i n g the locals j u s t one run to the bad and driving Bauches from the box. Dimnuk succeeded him and retired the »ide without f u r t h e r d i s a s t e r . After this with the exception ot the fifth inn-ing when Sewall again singled and baseball | scored Dimnuk had the home b a t t e rs completely at his mercy. Dean Academy practically decided i t in their half of the fifth when two long drives and tfio more errors brought up their total to eight. To make it safe, however, they scored once more In the eighth on a double and single and four times in the ninth on another ascension by the home team. After the game was Inst Coarh Brummage shifted the linejp in order to give several new men a chance. Crewsell put up a good game at short and drove showed up well on first. The lineup: V. M. 1. AB. R. H. 0. A. E. Sewell, r. f 2 2 1 0 0 Grove, lb 1 0 0 7 1 0 Dickens, 2b and c. f . . . 3 1 1 1 o 1 Clarkson, 1. f 1 0 R 0 4 Bryan, 2b 0 0 1 0 2 Creswell, ss 4 0 0 2 2 1 Leech, c. f 0 0 1 0 0 Richards, c. f 1 0 0 0 0 0 Miller, 2b 1 C 0 0 0 0 1 0 8 3 0 Throckmorton, p. 0 0 2 3 0 32 & 3 26*11 9 Catalogue Out DEAN ACADEMY AH. R. H. O. A. E. Stafford, 2b , , 4 0 2 0 1 0 Tormery, c. f 3 0 7 0 0 Westcott, 1. f 2 2 2 0 0 McLaughlin, l b . . , 3 2 2 1 1 Murry, 3b.., 1 1 1 0 2 Connolly, c., 1 1 2 0 1 O'Brien, c . ., 3 2 1 13 1 1 Grant, r. f. 0 0 1 0 0 Crotty, ss.. , 5 0 0 0 1 0 Bauches, p, 1 0 0 0 0 0 Demnuk, p 0 1 0 0 0 43 13 10 27 4 5 In the new 1911-'12 registers, which are now ready for d ' s t r i b u t i cn several rvew f e a t u r e s are to be not-ed. From the calendar for session i912-'13, new cadets report for duty Sept. 2nd to 5th; old cadets return Thursday, Sept. 5th, and session ends Wednesday, June 18, 1913. A matter that will attract the a t t e n t i o n of cadets residing in the s t a t e is the allowance made to Vir-ginia cadets. They receive their t u i t i on f r e e and have no obligation to perform as does the s t a t e cadet. All cadets living in the state of Virginia are privileged to enter the I n s t i t u t e as Virginia cadets. Besides t h i s important information a more detailed explanation of the full course in practical m i l i t a r y instruc-tion haa been laid down. This will give to candidates for admission who e n t e r t a i n hopes of obtaining com-missions in the United States army froiT! civil life a b e t t e r idea of the t r a i n i n g and preparation to be had here for the service. In the list? of class s t a n d i n g s for t h e session of 1910 '11 appear the following names, bearing s t a r s , dis-tinguished in general merit; Second Class: Kibler, Miller, Ran-dolph, Goodman, Edwards, Bagkin. Third Class: Leech, Anderson.J., Richards. Fourth Class: Conquest, Brown, W., Nichc'a, Keesel, Everill, Lee, Armstrong. The total number of last y e a r 's g r a d u a t e s was fifty-two; total enroll-ment ol the second class fifty f o u r; ot the third class, f o r t y t w o ; of the f o u r t h class, ninety. The corps t h i s year received a total enrollment of 369 cadets, thirty-two states represented, besides England,China, Brazil and Philippine Islands. Numerically, Virginia ranks first with 187, Alabama and Texas, sec-ond, North Carolina third, Florida and Mississippi fourth. Jackson Statue *Crotty out, hit by batted ball. Score by innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 89 V M. 1 00401000 0—5 Dean Academy 4 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 4—13 Summary: Two base h i t s : West-cott, Obrien. Three base hits: Westcott, Murry, McLaughlin, 2; Tormery, 1. Stolen bases: Pead, 2: Sewell, 3; Dickens, 2; Grove, 2. Bases on ball*: Off Throckmorton, 2: off Dimnuk, 3. Hit by pitched b a i l : Ry Throckmorton, 1. Struck-o u t : By Dimnuk, 13; by Throck-morton, 7. Umpire; Capt. Kin-solving, V. M. I. Man Who Fired V. M. I. Dead 1892 May Have Reunion Mr. Moses Joy of New Haven, Conn., has sent Mr. Greenlee D. Letcher an e x t r a c t from a newspa-per containing a notice ot the d ' a th of Mr. Thomaf A.Lake, who was for a number of years internal revenue collertor for Rhode Island and Con-necticut. Mr, Joy writes that Mr. Lake alwayti said that it was ha who, under the orders of Gt-neral Hunter, fired the buiUiiiigd at Lex-ington during the war. Arthur Johns, '92, writes that he and Sidney R. Perry,,'92, are try-ing to arrange a reunion of their class to be held at the coming finals. Word has already been received of a reunion of '09 .nen and with a probatiility of one or two more gath- HringH in June there seems to be every indication that the number of alumni in Lexington for commence-ment will be larger than ever be-fore. General Nichols is in r e c e i p t of a l e t t e r from Sir Moses Ezekiel dated Rome, March 5th, in which Mr. Ezekiel states that the statue of General Jackson, together with the pedestal and base has been complet-ed and shipped in bond to Lexing-ton. The shipment is expected to a r r i v e within the next week or so. P r e p a r a t i o n s for the unveiling ot the s t a t u e are s t i l l in progress. Sir Moses Ezekiel has definitely accepted the invitation of the a u t h o r i t i e s to be p r e f e n t and will be the guest of General Scott Shipp. Hon. Thomas Ryan, in a recent l e t t e r to the sup e r i n t e n d e n t , has also said he will be here. Indications are now t h a t the 19th of June will witness the l a r g e st assemblage of visitors, alumni, vet-erans and friends of the I n s t i t u te t h a t has ever been witnessed in the history of the I n s t i t u t e. Captain William H. Raymond of the general staff, has been ordered to inspect the m i l i t a r y department of twenty six educational institutions, where there are army officers d e t a i l - ed as professors of m i l i t a r y science and tactics. The days t h a t he tvill be at V. M. I. have not been defi-nitely determined.

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