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will be distributed on the train.
review is as yet unconfirmed.
in Richmond is not known.
of the Richmond V. M. I.
to stay at their private homes.
this invitation to the Ca-dets.
tickets will be on sale in Maj.
during the week prior to the game.
and other users of the Library.
among the V. M. I. tactical officers.
the fatal step was Captain C. A.
took place. Captain G. L.
here today by Dr. Julian A.
Burruss, president of the institu-tion.
Football teams, the men of V. M.
cast a vote for their favorite play-ers.
in the later, more important gam-es.
voting for your choices without de-lay.
overcoats will not be finished.
resulted in a serious accident.
down to the new mess hall.
would show a like increase."
could be sent to the World's Fair.
graciously offered to the V. M. I.
during the entire first term.
existing between our two schools.
for this year's corps trip.
in the temporary mess hall at. sup-per.
vote or preferring not to vote.
and former professor at V. M. I.
the Letcher Family of Lexington.
fireplace of Jackson's home in Lex-ington.
since only one trip was sug-gested.
the Richmond trip?" Brown asked.
staff. "Who determines the pol-icy?"
editoiial board has charge of that"
"This may be a good paper,"
Full Text Search Corps Given Opportunity To Vote On All-American Football Team VOLUME XXVIII 1 . M. 3 . (Eafot Flying Squadron Is To Help South Carolina Open Stadium Saturday LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1934 NUMBER 2 QMD To Issue 50c Per Meal For Corps Trip Couper Says Commissary To Finance Subsistence For Richmond Jaunt Oct. 20 Win Not Carry Arms Corps Will Travel Unarmed Regardless Of Presidential Review, Still Undecided Sept. 29.—In a statement issued today Col. William Couper said that in all probability the Commis-sary Commission will issue to Ca-dets making the Richmond the sum of $.50 for each meal necessary in Richmond. If the Corps is en route at dinner time Sunday a box lunch will be distributed on the train. Will Not Carfy Arms The Corps will carry, in addition to the regular fatigue uniform (blouses and grey trousers), over-coats, and will wear them in the event of cool weather. Regard-less of whether or not the Presi-dent reviews the Corps arms will not be taken. The possibility of a Presidential review is as yet unconfirmed. Whether or not his. executive du-ties will require all his time while in Richmond is not known. Formation Required Cadets who live in Richmond will be allowed to stay at home, but will be required to attend the game formation and any other special formation designated. All other Cadets may stay at one of the armories provided or may stay at any hotel of their choice. Mem-bers of the Richmond V. M. I. Alumni Club have invited Cadets to stay at their private homes. Capt. Edwin Cox today again ex-tended this invitation to the Ca-dets. In these private homes Ca-dets would not only be quartered but would receive all meals during the stay. Railroad tickets will be placed on sale at the Post Exchange on October 19th and 20th. Cadets will pay the admission price for the game at the time of purchase of the railroad tickets. All other tickets will be on sale in Maj. Clarkson's office in the gymnasium during the week prior to the game. New Mess Hall To Be Completed By Dec.'l Sept. 29.—According to a state-ment issued to the Cadet today by Superintendent Walker the con-struction of the new mess hall is progressing rapidly and, unless something happens, the building it-self should be completed around December 1. The walls of the building are entirely completed and work on both the ceiling and floor are well underway. "As for the furnishings," Superintendent Wal-ker stated, "although they do not come under the scope of our con-tract it is planned now that, if the construction of the mess hall continues on schedule, they will be put in during the first part of De-cember and through the Christmas holidays, so that when the corps returns at the expiration of the furlough they will find the mess hall ready for use." Library Reduces Fines The Library Committee at a meeting on Sept. 13th reduced li-brary fines from 5 cents to 2 cents per day. This rule will apply to all books kept over-time by cadets and other users of the Library. Overdue notices will be sent out when books are one week late, and no fines will be charged to cadets' Q. M. accounts. R. O. T. C. Pay Checks To Be Distributed This Week It has been announced by the R. 0. T. C. office that the one hundred and twenty-four first classmen and the eighty-eight newly contracted second class-men in the R. O. T. C. will re-ceive their first pay check some-time during the first week in October, the exact date to be set by the commandant. At this time first classmen will receive $16.50 while second classmen will draw $6.17. Y.M.I. Officers Are Married Capt. G. A. Goodwyn, Former Institute Instructor, Weds; Maj. Montague To Marry Sept. 29. — Marriage seems to have become the prevailing fashion among the V. M. I. tactical officers. Two have already joined the ranks of those happily married and a third is about to be numbered among the chosen few. Goodwyn First The first of the three to take the fatal step was Captain C. A. Goodwyn, who left the Institute at the close of. last year. » The second of the marriages was that of Captain McWane on Au-gust 25, at Lowell, Mass. His mar-riage with Miss Sarah Hill Pear-son took place. Captain G. L. Browning, a former tactical officer, acted as best man. The bride and groom are now making their home with Major E. A. Sale at 311 South Jefferson St. Montague Third The third of these happy occa-sions will take place on December 27 in Gloucester, Va., with Miss Fanny Burwell Catlett and Major Montague playing the leading roles. All plans have been made and the couple are now patiently await-ing the joyous day. V. P. I. Skipper To End Career This Fall Blacksburg, Sept. 26.—That The Skipper, Virginia Polytechnic In-stitute monthly comic magazine, has been discontinued was confirm-ed here today by Dr. Julian A. Burruss, president of the institu-tion. This action was taken by the college administration during the latter part of the past session, and the editor and business man-ager of the student publication were informed of the action this summer. Corps To Pick All Americans Unusual Football Ballot Is Published In Current Issue Of Rotogravure Section Sponsored By D i g e st Will Be First National Favor-ites Chosen By Colleges For the first time in the history of the selection of All-American Football teams, the men of V. M. I. and the other institutions in which Collegiate Digest is distrib-uted, will have the opportunity of voting for their favorites and se-lecting an All-American team of their own, according to an an-nouncement made in the first 1934- '35 issue of Collegiate Digest, na-tional rotogravure section for un-dergraduate newspapers. A coupon, to be found on page 8 of today's issue of C o l l e g i a te Digest, has been provided for the convenience of those wishing to cast a vote for their favorite play-ers. This coupon may be filled out and mailed or brought in to the Cadet office where arrangements have been made to handle the large volume of voting that is expected from V. M. I. Submit One Team Under the rules of the contest, each individual may submit one complete team as his or her selec-tion for the Collegiate Digest All- American Football team. Then, if spectacular playing by some individual or team changes the voter's mind, he is free to sub-mit a second choice team as can didate for the honor. The only restriction in balloting has been placed in the fact that each undergraduate is allowed to select no more than one full team each week. At the end of the contest, the closing date of which will be an-nounced later, Collegiate Digest, representing the undergraduate bodies and newspapers of the United States, will present each member of the student's own All- American with gold medals signi-ficant of the honor which has been bestowed upon them. Good playing the earlier, less important games of the season is just as important as good playing in the later, more important gam-es. In order to make a selection which will compare favorably with the team that is finally picked as the Collegiate Digest All-American for 1934, it is advisable to start watching the gridiron feats of the different players and institutions early in the season, and to start voting for your choices without de-lay. Steele Says Blouses Will Be Ready For Rats By Oct. 20; Borrow Coats Sept. 28.—In a statement made for the Cadet today Captain Lewis E. Steele stated that the entire Fourth Class would be furnished with blouses in time for the pros-pective corps trip to Richmond which takes place on October 20, and that in case the weather made overcoats necessary they too could be furnished. Ready In Two Weeks The number of blouses to be made this year is comparatively small as nearly all of the class were able to be fitted from the sup-ply on hand. Only 61 had to be made to order and as blouses can be made at the rate of about 5 per day, Captain Steele said that blous-es for all new cadets should be finished within two weeks. , Overcoats, however, are a dif-ferent story. As yet, no measure-ments for them have been taken so it is not known how many will have to be made to order. Last year it was necessary to make only 24 but this year as there is a larg-er class to be fitted and only 135 overcoats in stock, an amount much smaller than last year, in all probability a much larger num-ber will have to be made, so that it lis almost a certainty that all the overcoats will not be finished. However, should the weather make overcoats a necessity, all those new cadets not having overcoats will be furnished with them tem-porarily from the large supply of second-hand ones which Sam Zim-merman has on hand. F. B. Cavanaugh Makes Bold Dash From Ranks; Saves Lives, Property Sept. 28.—Quick thinking on the part of F. B. Cavanaugh today prevented what might easily have resulted in a serious accident. Rushing from his place in ranks on the extreme left of "F" Com-pany, Cavanaugh jumped aboard and brought to a stop an Institute truck which was starting an un-controlled dash down the mess hall hill. Heads Down Hill The truck, one of the Institute model T Fords, was parked be-tween the Chemistry building and the east side of barracks, and was facing toward the steep hill lead-ing down to the new mess hall. Just before "F" Company moved off for Parade, another truck, back-ing out toward the road, struck the rear end of the Ford and start-ed it in its driverless jaunt. In the path of this potential engine of destruction were several pedes-trians and three parked cars. Cadet Cavanaugh, seeing that no one near was in a position to reach the rolling truck, rushed down the hill, clambered upon the running board and quickly brought the ve-hicle to a full stop. V.M.I. Museum Has Gain In V i s i t o rs Attendance Doubled In Last Year, Says Mias Gibbs Sept. 29. — That attendance at the V. M. I. museum has almost doubled in the last two years was revealed by Miss Nellie Gibbs, cus-todian, today. "In 1932," she said, "we had only 481 visitors for the month of August, but in 1933 the number had increased to 679. This summer we had 990. It is reason-able to expect that the number in the other summer months also would show a like increase." Miss Gibbs also said that the number of registered visitors to the museum since its opening in June, 1931 was 8,550, or an average of over 2,137 per summer. Many visitors at finals and other crowd-ed times failed to register. Several views of the museum were taken by a Lexington photo-grapher this summer for use in postcards, Miss Gibbs stated. It is probable that the postcards will bo made and placed on sale some-time in the near future. At the same time other cards will be made t'rom pictures now on view in the Engineering building as part of a special V. M. I. exhibit. This ex-hibit was prepared by Captain Mc- Carthy with several assistants and it was hoped at one time that it could be sent to the World's Fair. Later this was found to be impos-sible and the exhibit has been on view in the Engineering building the entire summer. Corp Votes To Take R i c h m o n d T r ip Cadets May Stay At Armory, Hotels, or Private Homes W. & L. Offers Use Of Gym For Dances Sept. 28.—Today after a unan-imous vote of the Executive Coun-cil of Washington and Lee Uni-versity, the first such vote ever m a d e by that organization, the President, Jack Ball, speaking on behalf of the University, very graciously offered to the V. M. I. Hop Committee, through the Su-perintendent, the use of their floor at any time for any dances that the Hop Committee wished to hold during the entire first term. Makes Statement Charles W^ Hancock, President of the Hop Committee, in a state-ment made to the Cadet said, "I consider the action of Washington and Lee in offering us the use of their floor one of the utmost gen-erosity and one which is a splen-did example of the friendly spirit existing between our two schools. On behalf of the Hop Committee I wish to take this opportunity to thank them for their very gener-ous offer and hope that sometime in the future we may be able to repay them." Whether or not the Hop Committee will take advant-age of this most opportune offer is as yet undecided. Sept. 24.—Well over two thirds of the corps voted to attend Rich-mond for this year's corps trip. The figures are those taken from the ballot appearing in last week's Cadet. As a great number of ca-dets protested the vote, on the grounds of forcing, the trip was again voted on the following night in the temporary mess hall at. sup-per. The vote was essentially the same in that a great majority of the corps was in favor of making tho trip. Altogether 477 of the corps ox-pressed their opinion through the Cadet ballot, 76 reserving their vote or preferring not to vote. There were four questions asked on the ballot: Are you in favor of the trip? Will you go? Do you prefer to stay at (a) an armory, or (b) at a hotel? An even greater number voted to attend the game than were in favor of making Richmond a corps trip. The majority was also in favor of staying at hotels although the vote was closer here than on the other points. The exact figures of the vote are tabulated below: Yes No Corps to Richmond .383 94 You 414 56 Hotel 221 114 Armory 119 181 Total Ballots 488 Summer SeesReli cs Added To Museum Among the newest additions to the museum this past summer is an iron cross, formed from a scrap of the armour of the famous Con-federate iron clad, the Merrimac. It was donated by Lt. Colonel Robert E. Ebbs who received the metal from Captain Benjamin Mel-ville of the U. S. Navy, during the war between the States. Another donation with an in-teresting history is the sword and sash of General Dabney Maury, adopted son of Commodore Mat-thew Fontaine Maury, the cele-brated "Pathfinder of the Seas," and former professor at V. M. I. General Maury was presented with them by The Ladies of Fredericks-burg in commemoration of his bravery and gallantry at the bat-tle of Cerro Gordo in the Mex-ican War. They are the gift of Mrs. Dabney Maury, Jr., and her son. A fireside set, formerly the prop-erty of General Stonewall Jackson, was presented to the Museum by the Letcher Family of Lexington. The Set used to stand beside the fireplace of Jackson's home in Lex-ington. Brown, Arnold Claim P o l i cy Of Cadet Poor Criticize Richmond T r i p Ballot; Say Vote Unfair; No Alternate Trip, Reason Board Unrepresentative Consider Deciding Of Stand By Few Irregular; Radicals Not Catered To, Reply Sept. 29.—In a forceful state-ment made tonight, C. A. Brown and E. T. Arnold, both of the class of '35, criticized the policy of the Cadet with regard to editorial mat-ters as well as the changes effect-ed this year in format. Question-ing the validity of the ballot re-garding the prospective corps trip to Richmond on October 20, Brown remarked that the vote seemed un-fair since only one trip was sug-gested. "The other possible trips were considered impracticable," he was told. "The ballot was run for the sole purpose of determining whether the corps wished to go to Richmond. It was unfortunate that the announcement made in the mess hall prior to the distribution of tho paper should have conveyed tho impression that the corps was to vote on two trips. Furthermore the Cadet supports the Richmond trip." Radicals Insignificant "Why should the Cadet support the Richmond trip?" Brown asked. "Because trat is the policy of the Cadet," replied a member of the staff. "Who determines the pol-icy?" Brown wanted to know. "The editoiial board has charge of that" the staff member replied. Brown remarked that he considered it un-fair that the policy of a paper which was supposed to reflect the views of the corps as a w h o le should be decided by a compar-atively few men. The staff mem-ber then explained to him that it would be impossible to go from :Corr> to room in barracks deter-mining individual opinions and then attempted to coordinate these opin-ions into a workable policy. "The final policy," said the staff mem-ber, "is tRat which after due con-sideration seems to reflect the opinion of the majority. The Ca-det does not attempt to cater to the whims of a handful of radicals who are always present. In car-rying out such a plan it isinevit-ablo that the handful must be of-fended which is regrettable but unavoidable." Criticize Paper "This may be a good paper," said Arnold, "and I suppose you are to be congratulated upon it, but your ballot seems to me to be unfair." Numerous criticisms have come to the editorial staff during the past week, most of them centering about the grade of paper which is being used this year. J. J. Bur-gess, recorder of the class of 1935 remarked that he was in favor of the change. This opinion was also voiced by W. C. Holt, editor of the Bomb. O. E. Jordan, '35, consid-ered it "rotten." Favor Book Paper The opinion of the majority seems to favor the book paper which has been used in preceding years. The return to this type .r-ing the current year is consid^td impossible by the staff because of the anomaly which would be in-troduced by pul.lishing a few is-sues on one type of paper and then altering that type. The Collegiate Digest which is being featured this year has also been criticized as being provincial and uninteresting.

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