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A Verne Merrie Christmasse Ye CADETTE Wishes Ye Seasonne. Merrie Keydettes THE CADET T PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY

THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE

No. 14 VOL. XIX. LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, DEC. 21, 1925

ECONOMIC ASPECT OF XMAS MEASURED NOT IN MONEY FIRST UNCONDITIONAL FURLOUGH BUT IN PLEASURE TO ALL TO BEGIN TOMORROW AT NOON

By Colonel William M. Hunley, Professor of Special Trains Scatter Corps Economics, V. M. I. Christmas Day at V. M. I. Throughout Land. The most striking economic aspect In 19th Century Gives Col- of Christmas is, I think, an uneco- orful Slant Into Life of Ye nomical one. It is the use of wealth, Tomorrow marks an epoch in the whether in big or little amounts, with Merrie Cadet of Yesterday history of V. M. I., for it is then that relative inconsequence and without Cadets will leave on the first uncon- Keydets have always been differ- consideration of commensurate re- ditional furlough since the founding ent from "regular people." We of turn. It is the employment of money of the Institute. This gift front the the twenties think of Christmas as a as a means of giving pleasure to oth- gods will last for nine days, and Oa- time to see home and to fill ourselves ers and without thought—not decis- dfits must report back to tho Institute with rich food until the elastic quali- ive thought, anyway—of the useful- )fy taps of Thursday night, the thir- ties of our abdomens are t^xed to the ness of the gift. Christmas is the ty -first,. occasion of an unusual kind of invest- utmost. They of the fifties hardly This unconditional furlough v/as ment, when returns are not calculat- got outside the limit gates, but eager- granted last year by the Board of ed in percentages of profit, but in the ly anticipated our other Christmas Visitors at their annual January laughter of little children, the grati- joy. meeting'. By this progressive action tude of the under-privileged and the Christmas morning was not usher- the old Merit System of granting glow in the hearts of friends remem- ed into barracks by the melodious furlough was abolished, which system bered. It is the period of the year voices of two hundred and fifty little was first adopted in 1920. Prior .to when one's spending need have no re- saints offering praise to heaven by that year no furloughs were granted lation to any phase whatever of the the singing of carols, but was herald- the Corps during the entire year with utilitarian concept, as exemplified in ed by the long-drawn and dreary the exception of the usual Summer the story of the widow to whom gifts notes of the Life followed by the dis- HUGE BANQUET HONORS Furlough. Christmas Day was de- of food and clothing were quite regu- C. E. Johnson, editor-in-chief turbing clatter of the drums. This- served in a gala manner with a sus- larly made for herself and her chil- FOOTBALL HEROES AND of the BOMB, announces that harsh Yuletide awakening was re- pension of all duties save the "neces- dren. At Christmas time a kindly entries for the beauty section ceived in two ways. Those who were COACHES OF SQUADRON sary guard." disposed person said to her, "And of the annual will be received slow to realize that their dreams of Winee 1920, under the Merjt -Sys- what would you like for Christmas?" General Cocke Praises Fight immediately after the Christ- flower-bedecked boudoirs were fakes tem, all cadets were required to make She replied, "Don't give me anything mas furlough. He suggests that galloped down the steps to their and Spirit Shown By the grade of 1.5, the reqijisi-to useful; just give me something for men secure pictures during the places in ranks almost automatically. Team. proficiency in J>otJi ^cafjcmk: and myself." Yuletide. Those who became adjusted to so dis- Military work and were also .limited A brilliant assemblage met in the The beauty section has al- tasteful a change more readily gave tq 35 demerits, for a period of tii**: mess hall last Saturday night to pay ways_ been one of the features vent to their disgust by that ingen- up to December 15. Under thi*t -rys- One hearts much today of the value homage to those men who so nobly of the BOMB, and it is expect- ious mixture of exclamations which- Uin the air in and around barracks of organization and of the compelling and bravely carried the colors of the ed that this year it will surpass has always distinguished the impetu- was fairly electrical for several force of the men who are leaders in Institute through many hard-fought those of former years. ous outbursts of keydets from those weeks before Xmas, owing to the organized industry. The Christmas gridiron battles this season. Among of other persons. Breakfast proceed- frantic efforts of those with 34 .de- festival should remind us of the force- the notables present were General ed in the usual manner, after which merits to abide by all regulations. fulness of the character of Christ, and Cocke, Colonel Pendleton, Colonel "THE MAN ON THE BOX" "general permit" was granted until No one knew for a fact that of the power that has flowed down Couper, Colonel Ford, Colonel Ander- dinner. Church was not compulsory FINALLY IS CASTED he was eligible for furlough until the through the ages from the unit orga- son, Colonel Poague, Colonel Barton, on that holiday, and so we may be night before it was operative. nization that He founded. We were Colonel Polk, Major Heflin, Major Fifty Candidates Tried For sure that those who found no lure in Under this new system all cadets not taught to think of Christ as a Read, Major Clarkson, Bill Rafferty, Parts In Comedy. being surrounded by the hamlet's fes- virile organizer, but rather as a gen- Captain Lambert, Lieutenant More- tive throngs of worshipers found are entitled to nine days furlough, tle religious teacher. And yet He land, Captain Walker, Doctor Leech, To Be Presented Feb. 22. much more convenient places to sleep, regardless ol" academic standing or started the greatest organization the Captain Letcher, as well as the foot- and dream of old Saint Nick's visita- demerit record. However any cadet After nearly a month of tryouts world has ever known, as Bruce Bar- ball men, varsity, scrubs and rats. tions to their little brothers and sis- who desires to do so may remain in which were attended by nearly fifty ton, in his "The Man Nobody Knows" Among the lesser notables were such ters. barracks by securing- permission candidates the cast for the play "The reminds us. Christ chose twelve men nonentities as football managers, ca- There was no Ikey Weinberg and through the proper channel;;. Man on the Box" has been selected. from lowly ranks of society and det correspondents and cheer leaders. Establishments, Inc., then, strange to Special trains, chartered Pullmans through them established an organi Of the fifteen parts in the cast five and buses will scatter tho Corps over At seven-thirty the epicures took say. The North River made a fine zation that bids fair to conquer the are being filled by men who have the entire country. There is a special their seats and dinner was served. A place to skate and the opportunity world. He was no weakling, as the been in plays of past year. Hines, train

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ALWAYS INSIST ON WILLIAMS HUGE BANQUET HONORS team on their splendid work during the season. FOOTBALL HEROES AND At ten o'clock Major Read called Jewelers COACHES OF SQUADRON the assembly to attention and dis- Silwrsmitha Stalionere Q> missed them in the most approved (Continued from Page One) Established 1832 Arrowhead Hosiery military fashion. Thus ended the prepared to appease the royal appe- most successful and most inspiring PHILADELPHIA tite of a Tsar. banquet of the year, a banquet whose THE GIFT SUGGESTION BOOK During the latter courses of the victuals were unsurpassable and Mailed upon request. dinner one could see the estimable whose speeches were short and inter- Illustrates and Prices "Pop" Hopkins casting anxious esting with a flavor of fight, spirit, Jewels, Watches, Clocks, Silver, glances towards the clock. Despair and admonitions to study as befits a China, Glass ancl Novelties. was written in every feature of his banquet for virile, fighting men. From which may be selected distinctive face. Suddenly he left his place and Wedding, Birthday, Graduation and whispered a few words in the toast- Other Gifts. master's ear. Shortly aftrewards the toastmaster arose and said that since MJXENBER© FOR ALL THE] FAMILY CLOTHES FOR THE COLLEGE MAN there was to be a dance at nine Fleck Cigar Co. o'clock and since one fair Georgia Peach was pining away her life and Roanoke's Sporting Center Snappy Socks for Sharpshooters beauty because a certain Keydet was, even then, very late, he would intro- duce the first speaker and hurry the Whitman's Candies dinner to a close. Major Read, who Soda Cigars did the honors as toastmaster, then RICHMOND HOSIERY MILLS expressed his desire that the football Cigarettes banquet which was started last year, Luncheonette CHATTANOOGA, TENN. would become an annual affair. He Periodicals then introduced, as the first speaker, Pipes and General Cocke. The Smoking Supplies General Cocke's talk was very DINNER SUIT short, but very interesting, as his talks usually are. He called attention CuT precisely according to conservatively correct ideas LATEST SPORTING NEWS to the difficult position he occupies Cobb's Pressing- Shop in notch and shawl collar OF ALL KINDS as arbitrator between athletic and models. Tailored in the academic standards. He cited the LUXENBERG way of fab- rics which insure excellent three qualities that a college should wear. CADETS endeavor to develop and improve DRY CLEANING ^3950 which were physical, mental, and PATRONIZE THE moral. He made apparent the diffi- culty of bestowing favors on the one NAT LUXENBERG & BROS. without encroaching on the other. In 37 UNION SQUARE, N EW YORK, N. Y. COUNTY NEWS JOB OFFICE New Process which Dees Away with All^Odors closing he paid to "Windy" White and "Snail" Caldwell the highest compli- ment that it is possible to pay to a i 3 Nice Printing son of the Institute, "Their names shall be forever graven in the hearts Our style memo, book sent free on request and of V. M. I. men the world over." If you're in New York during the The next speaker was the young No Other THE POST EXCHANGE Holidays, visit our new shop— man for whom the Georgia Peach 37 UNION SQUARE, WEST was so anxiously waiting, Mr. "Pop" Between 16th and 17th Streets. Opposite Presbyterian Sunday School Hopkins. "Pop" tried to describe in Supplies for Cadets Always Welcome. a language designed to describe im- Room. The Cadet wishes to announce that minent things this great trancenden- there was an error made in the an MAIN ST. LEXINGTON, VA tal thing, The V. M. I. SPIRIT, and nouncement of the next showing he succeeded better than any man place of Luxenberg. It should have Rockbridge National Bank ASK PETE who has ever made the attempt be- been McCoy's Show Room instead of Paul M. Penick, Pres. A. P. Wade. Cashier fore. He made a very interesting Hotel Lexington. SAFETY and SERVICE He Knows About Anything You Need comparison between the American and French attitude towards athletics and the spirit exhibited by each in witnessing an athletic contest. Just before leaving to join his waiting fi- Order It Thru f*ete ancee he called attention to the won- derful spirit of the Corps during the past season and recalled how in de- feat they yelled more often and loud- A CAT MAY HAVE Resources (over) Sl.300,000 er than in victory. NINE LIVES, BUT A THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital $159,000 Colonel Poague then entertained SHEAFFER LIFE- , Lexington, Virginia TIME PEN WILL*, the banqueters with an interesting Is an Institution that places its duty to its customers ahead history of this great game, football. LAST LONGER^ of every other consideration. He told how the record showed that THAN A WHOLE ALLEY Caldwell-Sites Co. IT WELCOMES SMALL AND LARGE ACCOUNTS the ancient Greeks and Romans vied FULL OF CATS 105 S. Jefferson St with each other in playing this game. He was reluctant, however, to give them the credit for its origin, claim- STATIONERY AND BOOK SELLER. ing this distinction for the Irish. He Agents For CRUSHED LIMESTONE was undisputed on this point due "LIFETIMS" PENS For Railroad Ballast, Concrete Work, Highways and Streets. perhaps to the fact that old Erin was For Sale By Plants: Blue Ridge, Pembroke, Pounding Mill, Va. amply and muscularly represented. Reach Sporting Goods Wayland-Gorrell Drug. Co. Capacity: 4,000 Tons Daily. "Snail" Caldwell, captain of this ROANOKE, VA. W. W. BOXLEY & COMPANY, Roanoke, Va. year's Flying Squadron, was the next speaker called on. He thanked LEXINGTON STEAM BAKERY, INC E. G. ACKERLY & C. B. HAYSLETT the military department for their co- TAXI SERVICE operation during the past season and Home of Good Things to Eat acknowldeged the indebtedness of the 12 North Main Street SACHS Opp. Lexington ^Hotel Three Dodges and One Ford football team to the coaching staff. In PIES—CAKES an unmistakable tone of pathos he PHONE 27 DOUGHNUTS Men's Clothing, Hats, Shoes regretfully told of the inevitable brevity of a football man's career CREAM PUFFS PHONE 503 and Furnishings His closing words were the words of EATWELL CAFE regret of a Captain who must per A Clean Place To Eat. force leave his men after having We Make Prompt Deliveries fought with them shoulder to shoul- Phone 133 TRY OUR REGULAR DINNER 50c der many violently contested battles. 7 Nelson St. Lexington, Va, BROWN'S CLEANING WORKS EAT—WELL He complimented them most highly SAYS THE KEYDET on their FIGHT and SPIRIT in their Cleaning and Pressing past conflicts and expressed his con- HE KNOWS F. W. HARRIS AGENCY AT V. M. I. PRESSING SHOP fidence in next year's team. EATWELL LUNCH "Johnny" Fain, the captain of next 109 So. Jefferson St. Cars for Hire year's team, gave a short talk fol- ROANOKE, VA. TELEPHONES 318-532 lowed by Major Clarkson. "Windy" THE White, Colonel Polk, Bill Rafferty, SAM ARPIA Captain Lambert, B. K. Smith, and PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK THE MODEL BARBER SHOP —of— ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP Barnes also contributed a few words. The Cadets Favorite Shop. LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA Repair while you wait. We givo Service. Satisfaction guaranteed. The last speaker of the evening was Capital - - - §50,000.00 HUGH A. WILLIAMS, Prop. 14 Jefferson St. Next Door Students' Pressing Shop. Major Heflin, who took a few mo- Surplus * - - S50,000.00 Opp. Rockbridge National Bank ments in congratulating the "rat" Accounts Solicited 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, It Might Be Interest- THE CADET 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; Publication of the A Christmas gambol oft could cheer ing to Know VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE The poor man's heart thru half the year. LEXINGTON. VIRGINIA —Scott'3 Marmion. That, a man suffering severely Member Southern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association. from appendicitis lapses into a realm of sublime comfort when the anes- PUBLISHED WEEKLY ON MONDAYS. CADET OFFICE Subscription rate tost "-ai l«i thetic is administered, and likewise, we poor, miserable Keydets, suffer- All bl.511,1 cnmmii"loi ti(>ri> «huul(i at aid- t.« i,he tfw.ucv .clatiMizi*r AJI Diner munli>Htimi> 4houio NT »<*dr«?. Ilnrhiun J. M. McCall What foul stuff will they see smothering out the good? Will they note mind the words spoken by Dicken's 1.. Builder S. C. Robinson poor little crippled boy, who said, R. C. Earle W. C. Rogers negligence and unappreciation, or will they see youth re-energized by dili- Fugate Trapnell "God bless us every one," and remem- T. A. Klein G. L. Hart gence and adherence to duty? The babes they have nurtured so carefully J. Lake Parke." H. C. Wise from swaddling-clothes-days are now full grown men on parade. ber that it is Christmas time for the whole world, regardless of circum- BUSINESS DEPARTMENT stances. JOHNSON COUCH ...... Business Manager In that parade will they hear tin-cracked notes of the gaudy, a band made A R GEISEN - - Assistant Business Manager So let us be generous with our good J.' THOMSON ADAMS Advertising Manager up of the empty and garish led by their sons, like drum majors, who, like all J. E. NEVIN — Assistant Advertising Manager cheer, and more charitable than ever. G.' H. LIPSCOMB Assistant Advertising Manager drum majors, prate for an instant and then vanish into nothingness? A. W°. DEITRICH — Circulation Manager J. R ADKINS Assistant Circulation Manager That Christmas time without an J. A. WILLIS - Assistant Circulation Manager abundance of holly, a whisp of sig- Assistants to the Business Department. Will they see there replicas of the men they would have their sons ? F. K. Clements J- S. Gillespie nificant mistletoe, and Santa Claus A. B. Forsythe A. W. Griffith for the children, would be worse than S. W Holt Beneath each mother's fondling lurks a studiously hidden evaluating a rat year without a furlough. Why something when she softly says "My son." And after a full-tabled dinner, when OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE GENERAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF V. M. I. these things along with that mag- a father slowly draws on his pipe while his son smokes a fast-burning cigar- Entered nt the Poat Office of Lexington, Virginia. a3 second-class mail. Accepted for nificent Christmas dinner are essen- mniliiiK nt special rate o£ postage provided for in. Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, au- ette, father and son commingle in pleasant reverie, with each slow puff the thorial April 8, 1922. tial to the proper Yuletide atmos- father quietly forms an estimate of his son on parade. phere. Just think what a surprise it would They can judge no more than that which is ir. us to be judged; nor can they be upon arriving home if we should The time draw.-, near the birth of crticize less than which is in us to be criticized. find all the stores selling poppies, Christ, golden-rod and pussywillow, in place The moon is hid; the night is still, of the customary decorations. And Gentlemen, we are on parade, First call has long sounded. Make it a- The Christmas bells from hill to hill what a pleasure it would be to sit good one. Answer each other in the mist. down to a Christmas dinner of —Tennyson. "growly" and mess-hall cabbage in place of the turkey, cranberries, mince pie, and the other Christmas Splendid manifestation of Christmas good will: a keydet sauntering dishes. No trumphet-blast profaned through the W. and L. campus whistling the "Swing." The hour in which the Prince of Since radicalism has never attain- Peace was born, ed that extremity, we have much to be thankful for. No bloody streamlet stained Earth's silver rivers on that sacred The Corps appreciates the splendid dinner given by the Mess Hall estab- That the cross-word puzzle is very morn. lishment at noon today. —Bryant. popular in Japan. The festive colors, enhanced by the cheerful glow of candlelight and the It is said that the triangle instead huge Christmas tree, combined with the rare delicacies served, to make it a of the square is used as the basis of feast "fittin' for a king." design. This to accommodate the I beard the bells on Christmas day thirty degree slant of the Japanese Their old familiar Carols play, almond eye. And wild and sweet The words repeat Be large in mirth; anon we'll a measure the table 'round.—Macbeth. That a ship was saved from sinking Of peace on earth, good will to men. last week when after a hole had been —Longfellow. torn in the hull by the conduct of a heavy storm, and pumping was of no Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.—Hamlet. avail, a large fish got caught in the hole, plugged it up, and saved the day. The most up-to-date fish story.

• MILLENIUM MERRY CHRISTMAS, SIR! That England doesn't trifle with With sparkling freshness "Sir Sniper" proclaimed the Christmas season. criminals as was recently illustrated Tomorrow, the mystic, enchanting day for which we have waited so long, The NIX NUMBER was without question one of the best of the series and by the remarkable trial of one Sam will witness the greatest furore that has ever attended the ear of Fanny —quiet modestly we suggest—one of the outstanding humorous ensembles Johnstone, who was sentenced to Dook-y since Hunter tossed his puny shells in the court-yard. Six hundred in the fair southland. death in the record time of four min- joy-inebriated keydets will scurry hither and thither yelling fond good-byes To the young SIR'S guardian, Mr. Richard K. Hines of Georgia—though utes. and babbling meaningless nothings. Six hundred keydets will anxiously ask strong rumor insists it may soon be North Carolina—we send our warmest It takes an average American court r.ix hundred other keydets if their overcoats have that swagger- baggy ef- congratulations so that he might distribute them at random to the members just about that time to pronounce the fect—if their hats are cocked at just the correct angle—countless felicita- of the eminent staff, as well as take his just desserts. word "guilty." Liyn.s will be spoken—thousands of admonitions will be voiced—in other While the Cadet does not flip his toes "with his cockade" it does shout "with wOids the regular old Yuletime frenzy will he apparent. a stentor's lungs," Merry Christmas, Sir Sniper! May your Christmas sea- That Santa Claus is now equipped For the first time since 1839 there will be no weary sentinel pacing to and son be as merry as your NIX NUMBER. .with an efficient radio receiving set, fro in the court-yard and dreaming fantastic dreams of what might have been and should you desire bountiful re- on Christmas Day. No stumbling men with tear-dimmed eyes will hurry to sults we advise Arlington as the best answer the raucous notes of the bugle. No Xmas dinner will be served in place to communicate with him. AGAIN THE "PACT" the mess hall to taciturn men amid an atmosphere of forced smiles and Government officials have built a heavy, hollow laughter. The Locarno Pact has a more important significance to some people than large fireplace and chimney there At last the millenium has been reached, an unconditional furlough. The its mere diplomatic and economical value. where your messages to Santa may hei».i t of every one of the sons of Jackson will overflow with Yuletide happi- Just think! Had Blasco Ibanez, the famous Spanish novelist, been a be deposited. ness. General Cocke, Gentlemen of the Board of Visitors, and Alumni, we Frenchman, and had he waited until this month to make those treasonable thiink you. May you have the merriest of merry Christmasses. charges against his King, why he'd be sitting pretty right now with the whole League of Nations and the potent World Court to sugar-coat things The greatest of faults, I should say, for him, instead of living a life of exile. How cruel is fate! is to be conscious of none. And imagine! If America and Hungary had entered the League and reach- —Carlyle. ed to one of those amiable agreements, why Countess Karolyi, wife of Count Flowers are words which even a babe It is interesting to note that the 0. D.', are banqueting before "Make- Michael Karolyi of Hungary, who came to this country last month for a lec- may understand. ture tour, would never have been excluded from this country, despite her overs." —Selected. previous record, which led American Diplomatic officers of' Paris to refuse to vise her passport in American ports. Alack there lies more peril in thine Wouldn't it be terrible if all countries should adopt this affectionate atti- eyes tude toward each other? There wouldn't be any cause for suspicion, the LT. Than twenty of their swords. S. would give all plans of our coastal fortifications to Germany, Japan and —Romeo and Juliet. Congratillations are in order to Windy White. In "Collier's" selection for Russia wuuld join hands, and all these Siberian railroads they've been fight- All-American, chosen by Grantlant Rice, and in "Liberty's" selections, pick- ing about so long would be operated by a Russo-Jap board which would even The CADET will not be published ed by Hugh Fullerton, Windy has received honorable mention out of a score permit Germans to ride on the thing without fear for their lives. again until January 25. With exams in view, the reasons fur this are of names suggested. Good, Windy, blush and make your best bow! "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men." manifest. An Historical Review of The Girl Who Sang to Us So Sweetly Editor of Judge Believes Humor Christmas In English and Of College Is Accurate Indicator American Literature Of Quality of Undergraduate Body By Colonel R. E. Dixon, Professor of English Literature, V. M. I. Mr. William Morris Houghton of the famous weekly writes for the "Cadet." Prom the time when our Anglo- Two men from the "Daily Prince- mor should be one of the basic ob- Saxon forefathers were converted to jects of a college education. Christianity down to the present the tonian" asked me recently what I It isn't, of course. Faculties, as a literature of the English-speaking thought of college humor ancl humor- rule, seen fearful of humor, probably world has presented many references ous publications. I assume, therefore, because it is an enemy of pedantry, to Christmas. The Anglo-Saxon that not my opinion but the subject is and they treat the college's humorous writers, being mostly monks and men considered of importance. So I should publication as something to be toler- educated by the church, often refer like to say a word or two about the ated merely if not suppressed. At to Christmas, but they have trans- place that humor occupies, or should the University of Utah recently they mitted no gem of thought or expres- occupy, in college life. suppressed it. Such a publication is sion on the subject to our own times. Humor is the offspring of a de- never perfect; not all it prints is In Norman, England we are confront- tached mind andi a relaxed nervous funny or in good taste, but as the ed with a similar condition—much system. You can't have it and still formal outlet and clearing house for religious writing, but little literature be tense and tight, straining with ev- humor in an institution it is much on Christmas worthy of preserving. ery nerve for some coveted objective. more impoi'tant to the education and In "Sir Gawain and the Green Boosters, reformers, messiahs lack it cultivation of the students than the Knight" written during this period, utterly, and so do grinds and most football team or the board of trus- we witness the feasting and chivalry football heroes. And yet if I were an tees. of King Arthur's court at Christmas undergraduate I would rather have it tide and see Sir Gawain, in search of It seems to me that the quality of than an athletic letter, or a Phi Beta the Green Knight a year later, riding an undergraduate body can be de- MISS VONDEA HAMILTON Kappa key or a million dollars. (Per- alone through gloomy woods, his one tected more quickly by reference to Of Charleston, W. Va. haps I should except the million thought being not of his cheerless its humorous publication than in any dollars. With a million dollars one state, but of his desire on this Christ- other way. It is a good omen, there- might achieve humor and still live on mas Eve to find a shrine where he fore, that notwithstanding the mis- one's income.) might pray to his Savior. givings of faculties a vastly greater For it has been my observation number of colleges have their hum- There is little writing on Christ that humor can be achieved, even orous periodicals and that, in my mas of a really memorable character starting from scratch, as it were. In judgment at least, they are maintain- before Shakespeare. As on nearly all other words, humor is not a gift; it is ing a much higher average of qual- other subjects, he does not fail to An Apology For Christmas a state of mind. But a most import- ity than ever before. This ought to give us a memorable passage. Al- ance state of mind is get into, since mean that hereafter there will be ways he speaks reverently of relig- By 0. B. ANDREWS, Jr. it is the forerunner of the philosophi- progressively fewer fanatics in this ion and of cal attitude, of tolerance, of taste country in or out of nightgowns, and Class of 1925, former editor of the "Sniper," now student in Mapdalen College, Oxford, "those blessed feet, and sympathy. So you see what I | a higher degree of civilization. In the eleventh month of this grac- is impossible, but we do not desire it Which fourteen hundred years ago am driving at—the cultivation of hu- WILLIAM MORRIS HOUGHTON were nail'd ious twelfth month came a message the less for that. Are not our most irrealizable desires the most ardent? For our advantage on the bitter from a certain editor: cross." Doubtless—and this is our great mis- "Will you kindly write article ery—doubtless we cannot escape "It's Friday at V. M. I.' In his "Hamlet" the spirit of uni- suitable Christmas edition CA- from ourselves. We are condemned, irrevocably, to see all things reflect- versal reverence and wholesomeness DET; have this country Decem- By Churchill Gibson, Rector of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church. that surrounds Christmas is given ed in us with a mournful and desola- ber 5th. ting monotony." "Christmas is Christmas every- Jews were absorbed into the Chris- beautiful expression: "A Certain Editor." All the way from Thales of Mile- where, but Friday at V. M. I." tian Eastern, so the Yuletide became "Some say that ever 'gainst that sea- Ensued and interrogative answer tus, who first rationalized the scien- This dismal cry has echoed through Christmas. Into the lap of our son comes to this effect: tific, in opposition to the religious the embattled walls of the Institute Christmas holiday the ancients have Wherein our Saviour's birth is cele- "How long what on don't know mythology, to the diabolical Voltaire, for generation after generation of poured their offerings. brated, anything .suitable Christmas The bird of dawning singeth all men have voiced, though seldom so cadets, but now no more! It wasn't Now what is the new joy which has night long: Edition Cadet. beautifully, the same feelings. From so unendurable when the whole been in Christmas since it became And then, they say, no spirit dare "A Certain Individual." the satirical Moliere to the rather Corps stayed, but to see roommates Christian? Beyond a doubt it is the stir abroad; And then, this gem in return: morbid, materialistic Schopenhauer ana classmates pack up and leave, satisfaction we get from the day in The nights are wholesome; then no "800 words "Significance of the great philosophical artists have and then turn back to an "abomina- planets strike, which the world comes nearest to No fairy takes, nor witch hath pow- Christmas Agnostic College Man." carelessly sought for the unusual in tion of desolation"—that was too Christ's way of living. Christ's way er to charm, "A. C. E." which they might lose themselves as much. is so simple to explain that it is hard So hallow'd and so gracious is the And that was all; or very nearly Narcissus in his fountain. And the The blackness of darkness lifts to realize it is really divine. His time." all. This finishes it. And by the nearest they have come is the relent- this year and the Corps goes home. It rules of living are after all the nat- Shakespeare's most noted contem- time the arras is drawn over thi£ less pursuit of art. It is the beauty is fitting that this paper join in the ural way to spend a life, not a queer porary in the drama, bluff Ben Jon- disgusting conclusion it will be ob- of the ideal that fascinates and the common rejoicing. life for queer people. His sayings son, wrote "An Hymn on the Nativity served with clarity that the certain unreality of the perfect that consti- Now what is Christmas that it are today the very principles which of my Savious." Although certainly individual knows nothing of Christ- tutes the incessant will-o-the-wisp. should mean so much to us? It is big business men are preaching a3 not one of his best poems, it com- mas, and still less of its significance The Greeks attained the highest generally recognized as the heart of the requisites for success—service, a mands respect—especially its last to agnostic college men, and, mayhap, culture through constant devotion to the year. This cannot be explained fair return for money, honesty, fair lines: very little of anything at all. But great and beautiful ideals; there by a tradition, no matter how old or wages. Do unto others as you would "To see this Babe, all innocence, there is a lance to shatter, and it were their festival holidays, their how sacred it may be; there must be have them do unto you. A Martyr born in our defense; shall ding in the sides of the thought games, and a thousand marble halls some present reality, some living Christmas is a failure for those Can man forget this story?" less agnostic: ringing with chants to a thousand spirit in the season itself which makes who want merely to get. Christmas A few years later Milton, a student Once upon a time, a man called Pagan Gods. And the history of an- this Christmas the heart of this year. is the heart of the year for those who at college, wrote his hymn, "On the Anatole France has displayed some- cient Greece has been a history of Long ago, before Christ was born, want to share. Morning of Christ's Nativity." Al- thing out of the ordinary in iiis crea- happiness, and gorgeousness and ac- there was a mid-winter festival at Think it over and let's make the though imitative and often frigid, it tive endeavor and combined it with complishment; for theirs was a re- this time. There seems to have al- family glad we came home. contains magnificent promise of the a philosophy of disillusion, something lentless pursuit of Art, and the con- ways been such a feast as far back mighty Milton to come. It was not after the graceful sigh of an Epicur- secrated devotion to all that was true as history can recall. Among the suited to the popular taste of his day, ean who has concurred in the wisdom and beautiful in their pagan ideals; Romans there was a festival in honor Advisory much less that of ours. of Heraclitus. In one of these bril- but pagan is a harsh term; rather of Mithras, the favorite god of the Herrick, a merry-hearted parson, liant moments M. France has spok- they traveled a different highway to soldiers. The Druids celebrated the sometime member of the King's en: the same destination, which, indeed, winter festivals, using mistletoe as Win her with gifts if she respect not an emblem of the spirit. The Scan- words, court, and a disciple of Ben Jonson, "It is good to be reasonable and to smacks of a platitude. Dumb jewels often in their silent has left us several pleasant little love only the true; yet there are The story of Christmas is as beau- dinavians celebrated the yule-tide, kind poems on the Yule log and other joys hours when common reality no lnog- tiful as it is old. Whether we be- and yule means jollity. The reason of the old English Christmas. er satisfies and one yearns to escape for all these festivals is the turn of More than quick words do more on a from nature. We know well that this Continued on Page Six) Strangely enough, the next two the sun. The shortest days are over woman's mind. hundred years of English literature and even the crude instruments of —Selected. have little to offer us of a memorable the ancients are now able to record character. But when we arrive at the lengthening of days towards a Dickens, we suddenly stumble on a A Jarabox new seed time and harvest. There is wealth of material. The reader who :a real joy then, a new joy each year has not vicariously enjoyed the in this season for those who live!1 think about you often Christmas holidays in the country San (Eupgb brriu Ijga Ujttlr Sowr close to the earth and depend on her And I'd write you every day, with old Mr. Wardle and his guests Anil atraygljtuiaa yr arrow* from it flriur fruits for their living. But there's so very little That is quite worth while to say. of the Pickwick Club has missed a AUljuuijl) ita murar uia» ratlfcr Uuur, After the birth of Christ and the treat. Furthermore, in four succes- founding of His Church there were It either rains or it doesn't. 3 tliumjht 'tumulft puna alnwr mg Ijrabr sive years, beginning with 1843, traditions connecting His birth with It's either hot or cold, Dickens gave to the world four Jn Htaturr 31 am aijortj\ gou (motor. this season, and here as in many oth- The news is all uninteresting Christmas stories: "A Christmas er instances Christianity took over Or else it's all been told. Carol," "The Chimes," "The Cricket Hut aoour upon mg brraat a atagnr and reconsecrated the common joys I think about the way you smile on the Hearth," and "The Battle of (l)f bloob apprarrb, atib aljumrb gr uiarkr, of the people to this greater joy which And I recall your touch; The distance lends enchantment and Life." The first of these is probably Wtfrrral gr bog gob took ljy» airnr; flooded the world with a new light. the world's favorite story based on As the hammer of the god Thor in I miss you very much. 3 alaggrrrb. groaurb aub tliru. J auiylrb! the spirit of Christmas. heathen temples was beaten into the The purse is low, the time goes slow, lEgab! 3t uiaa a plraaaut pagur! cross of Christ on Christian altars; I hope you're satisfied; In the same age Tennyson touched —Hi L. Mencken as the festival of the spring goodess When I tell you I'm the only gift on the season and its spirit and cus- of the Danes and the Passover of the | I'll bring you Christmastide. AN APOLOGY FOR CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS IN CHINESE CU CHRISTMAS (Continued from Page 5) SCHOOLS GREAT DAY OF lieve the church is the chief trouble FESTIVITIES AND GIFTS By n Gentleman beloved and respected by all V. M. I. men, old and new. with religion, or religion the chief "Christmas," "Christ Mass," or ly nor arbitrarily was it assigned to trouble with the church, and whether By Cndet Tai, former student at Tsing Huu this period. In a posthumous paper we greet canonized denominational- College at Peking. The Anointed Sent," is a festival in of Sir Isaac Newton, entitled "Obser- ism with a sardonic gesture or -a A man asks me tell stomething of commemoration of the birth of vancies upon the prophecies of Dan- smile of thorough support, we cannot Christmas in China for the "Cadet." Christ. Its celebration on the 25th of iel, and the Apocalypse of St. John," forget the long valiant train of advo- I eonfoss I regret very much that the December of each year is due to causes far antedating the Christian that great philospoher observes: "The cates, apostles, disciples, and martyrs social atld religious life in China is era—and not due to any belief on the heathens were delighted with the fes- whose blood has been the seed of the entirely foreign to me, though I am By Allan Kaye Campbell. part of the early Christian fathers tivials of their Gods, and unwilling to church. John Hooker Polycarp, the Chinese, on, account of eight years' Having been asked to write on "As that Christ was born on the day part with those ceremonies; there- ancient Bishop of Smyrna, Rose Allin j confinement in a school where I was an Alumnus Sees it," (we were ask- ed) the question naturally arises to which has been set apart each year fore Gregory, Bishop of Neo-Caesar- and Cicely Ormes who went to the as ignorant there as I am as a rat to just what an Alumnus sees. for over 1500 years to commemorate ea, in Pontus, to facilitate their con- stake with jests on their lips—they here. However, the reader may kind- There are three general views on His brth. A brief historic review of version, instituted annual festivals to have a place in the story of Christ- ly permit me to tell of the jolly the Alumnus—we are speaking of festivals held at this season may the Saints and Martyrs: hence the mas. And, something over four cen- Christmas spent in that school. him in the early years after his grad- prove interesting: keeping of Christmas with ivy, feast- turies ago, we find Hugh Latimer and My school is called Tsing Hua Col- uation, before he has entered a bald Nature worship was the basis of all ing, plays, and sports, came in the Nicholas Ridley awaiting death at iegej and it is situated at the foot of spot, and recollections of hauling wa- polyteheistic religious and "Polythe- room of the Bacchanalia and Satur- the stake in the market-place at Ox- the Western Hills in Peking, China, ter from the Nile for his monthly ism" long antedated "Theism" as a nalia; the celebration of May-Day in ford; and Ridley was barely seven- The faculty of this school is com- bath. religious creed. Of all natural ob- the room of the Roman Floralia; and teen. "Play the man, Master Rid- posed of both Chinese and American The corps considers the Alumnus jects "the Sun," the giver of heat, the Festival of John, The Baptist, in ley," were Latimer's last words as teachers. The former are mostly as an exceedingly noisy individual light and life, was the earliest object room of the pagan rite at the sum- the bones of his body cracked in the returned students from the American who attends the hops and football of worship. As time advanced moral mer solstice; and to divers apostles fire. It was Thomas Cranmer, who, universities and the latter are large- games in a more or less sodden con- and intellectual attributes were asso- seeing the charred body of young ly the exchange professors from the in the room of the solemnities at the dition. In his more sodden moments ciated with mythological deities who Ridley, tore off his upper garment American Colleges. As China has entrance of the sun into the signs of at these affairs he may be seen and were mere presonifications of "the and strode to the stake as the classic many religions the students in this the Zodiac in the old Julian Calendar. heard cheering for some company Sun" or of one or more of its alleged snapped from his lips, "I shall kin- college also establish many religious Thus were Christian institutions which bears the same letter of the attributes. dle a fire today that will ignite all functions such as Confucian associa- grafted upon pagan rites, the obser- alphabet as did the organization in England." And Cranmer gave his tion, Y. M. C. A., and Bhuddist So- Hence arose the gods of antiquity: vancies of the latter being overlaid, which he marched to meals when a right hand to the flames and allowed ciety. Of all these Y. M. C. A. is Jupiter, Zeus, Odin, Baal, and others. transformed or masked, but not en- cadet. This indicates his Company it to be splintered before the remain- probably the most active organiza- And hence arose festivals in their tirely obliterated. Spirit. der of his body was touched. tion, backed up by many enthusiastic honor: The Hebrew "Chanuka." "The While the church sought to combat The Alumnus views himself as an Beltein" of the Celts, the Roman We might follow the Crusaders in professors. and banish—and it was to a large ex- exceedingly righeous young man just "Festival of Sol," "The Bacchanalia," the days when every newly dawning Every year a few days before the tent successful—the deep-rooted beginning his battle with the world— the "Saturnalia," the German "Juul," morning had a glory of its own, when Christmas time the college store is heathen feeling, by adding, for the at any rate he intends to begin as were all festivals in honor of the Sun, the faint stir of silver clarions sum- supplied with all kinds of presents purification of the heathen customs soon as he gets that new job his Un- their origin being lost in remotest moned troops of Knights down the good for remembrance. There exists and feasts, its grandly devised litur- cle Henry has promised him around antiquity. emerald-misted aisles of woodland an enthusiasm for exchanging Christ- gy, besides dramatic representations the first of the year. glades, and when in forest paths we mas gifts. A play is usually given During the 1500 years intervening of the birth of Christ and the first seemed to catch afar the flutter of after the Christmas eve dinner. At The family of the said Alumnus do between the 23rd century before events of His life, it was yet unable flash of white robes, as of some ever- the dinner a student may invite as not appreciate him at all. Moreover, Christ when the observations of the to prevent many of the beliefs and floating fairy or nymph. And we many lady friends as he can. Those they are so unjust as to look upon Chaldeans were first recorded, and usages of the period from passing can find the glamour of Spain in a who have no lady friends may sit be- him as an exceedingly indolent fel- the 7th century before Christ when over from heathenism to Christian- frail barque that grates upon the side the lady friends of their school- low who has three square meals each Thales of Miletus, one of the seven ity, many of which survive to us of gravel of a Central American shore, mates. There is a jolly time, of day, together with an utter lack of wise men of Greece, discovered the the present day. Hence the common and the Holy Cross—the smybol of course, at the table which I need not desire to secure employment. solstitial and equinoxial points, there custom of decking the houses and ' an ideal—stands forth from the sands to describe in details. Immediately upon graduation your seems to have been no fixed period churches with evergreens, of making friends and relatives, together with assigned for festivals in honor of the like a flambeau in eternal darkness. The play begins after the delivious presents, of building bonfires, of il- friends of your friends and relatives sun. Soon after the discovery, about "In this sign we conquer." dinner. The American teachers and luminations, of merry greetings—all swarm around you and ply you with 650 B. C., we read of .these festivals And all these elements belong to ladies laso participate the actions. I of which were of ante-Christian orig- advice and questions. Their ques- having been held at the winter sol- the story of Christmas, for Chris- recollect last Christmas we had a in—have descended to us, side by tions range from, "Do you think lit- stice, the 22nd day of December. tianity is the gradual evolution of the show titled "Moonshine" and the side, with the so-called manger songs, tie Rubert is quite old enough for V ideals of a race, and Christmas is the Christmas before last year we had During the first three and a half Christmas carols and dramas of the M. I.," to "Who's going to win the j centuries of the Christian era the fes- apex, the epitome, of the best in "Christmas Carol" by Charles Dick- Christian church. And so pagan Thanksgiving game?" tival in commemoration of the birth Christianity. The story of Christ- ens. The Santa Claus comes to the usages and Christian customs were mas is still going on and the flight stage with his followers to distribute The favorite, though, can always 0f Christ (Christmas) was the most blended and then, as now, the season of centuries still hallows an ideal the Christmas presents at the end of be heard approaching and it is gen- movable of all the Christian festivals, was considered in the double light of that time has not erased. the play. Some mischievous school- erally prologued by "Well, well, and often solemnized more than once a religious commemoration and a you've finished at (the) V. M. I. How during the same year. Some of the There is Art in the story of Christ- mates roll up a bundle of newspapers cheerful festival, distinguished by time does fly. It doesn't seem as if ancient Christians held the festivals mas, from the birth of Christ to the or pack a piece of brick to present to goodwill and kindly deeds and by a you'd been there four years." Now . end of the nineteenth century Trac- their good friends. I remember I had in the month of May or April, others cessation from business pursuits. duck because it's coming. tarian movement; and for that rea- received such kind gift once and re- in January. The Festivals of Epip- And so "Happy Christmas" from Here it is. son, if for no other, both agnostic and turned the same immediately. hany were for a long time confound- each of us to each other and from all "And what are you doing now?" ed with it, the ancient Christians be- atheist must find admiration in its When the new students go to bed of us of the Corps of today to all This is not said in a pleasant tone lieving that the rising of the star in beauty, as they admire the glory of they find something under their pil- "the boys" of all the Corps of "yes- at all. It is said with a snarl as if the east indicated the periods of the a great storm or the rolling, half- lows. terday." they meant, "You bum, you, I know birth of Christ. Some fixed the na- sleeping chimes of a Gargantun Ah! it is a box of candy, peanuts darn well you're loafing." tivity at the Feast of the Passover; Cathedral at midnight. And it is my and some other good eatables. They LETS GO If you reply, "I'm working for a : others at the Feast of Tabernacles; sincere belief that most collegiate eat the candy with drowsy head and Civil Engineer," they will say, others still at the Feast of the Resur- Boys, it's here! It's come at last! agnostics do. Neither do I find any- find themselves at the North Pole "You're in the wrong branch, you rection. This latter period seems to We're going home tomorrow. thing surprising in the fact that a with the Santa Claus. Before dawn ought to be with the highway com- have been more popular than the We're going home to celebrate fairly large minority of University the next morning every one is awak- mission." others, for we find that the Holy And drown out every sorrow. and College men—either secretly, be- ened from their sweet dreams by a cause they hesitate to face the facts, chorus of "It came upon—" But if you had said, "I work for Fathers,, who were assembled in The trains will fly—I hope they do, the Highway Commission," they Council in Nice in 325 A. D., in order or openly—are agnostics and athe- The remaining melody seems vi- And get there in a hurry, would have said, "Oh, you should get to put down the Arian Heresy, sep- ists. It is no more astounding than brating in my ears whenever that fine The quicker they can do that thing a job with a contractor, that's where j arated by order the Feast of Easter the aphorism that many men "find time visits my imagination. The less will be my worry. the money is these days." and Christmas. About 40 years aft- themselves" in college, and some few TAI, '28. rise to the brilliance of genius or tal- And if you had replied, "I am a big erwards, in 321 A. D., St. Cyril of There's nothing I can think of ent, just as a like number follow the only the true; yet there are hour3 contractor making $100,000 a year," Jerusalem obtained an order from That man could more desire line of least resistance and blaze a when common reality no longer satis- they wquld have said, "Oh, you should Pope Julian for an investigation con- Unless right after Christmas gaudy trail along the primrose path. fies and one yearns to escape from study glass blowing, riches don't cerninR the day of the nativity. The We'd find this place on fire. bring happiness." For college is to the life of a man nature." If he can do it through result of the inquiry by the theolog- Just think what you can do what an Italian Renaissance is to A. K. C., '25. Christianity then certainly he should ians of the East and West, assembled When you get off that train, civilization. Turn the searchlight of be a pillar of the church and give the in obedience thereto, was an agree- You'll have a million rare delights Philosophy and Sociology, Chemis- utmost to his cause. But if one can KEYDET'S FANCY ment upon the 25th day of December, And joy will simply reign. try and Physics upon the dogma of lose himself rather in the shimmer- the day of the old Roman Feast of

accepted faith—and a reaction is al- ing gold of the ocean's waters at In the spring a young man's fancy the Birth of Sol> the chief gr0Unds for But sometime midst the red and green

most certain to follow; and it is only sunset and the sparkle of its spray May turn perchance, to thought of the decision being the tables of the Of mistletoe and holly, the bare and dense who do not begin as it bursts into a thousand uncaught you, ! Censors in the archieves at Rome. Just think of the significance

to wonder and doubt as to the why colors; or if he finds an outlet in But most Keydets get more lovesick While in the opini0n of the Fathers Of Christmas—when we're jolly. and wherefore and The Reason Why. scepticism or pessimism; or if he Just when Christmas time is due there was no proof of the identifica- Christmas is a wondrous day, It is not alarming and it does not glories in the majestic singers of sun- You remember how he missed you tion of the day, yet the decision was So dear to you and me; mean the gradual decay of our moral rise and sea, the Peter Pans of Poe- When the summer'd passed away? universally accepted, and from that It introduced a Christian world— ideals, as many of our pompous try who never grow old, who remain Well, right now it's twice as bad, as time down to the present day. a per- The epoch of eternity. evangelical brethren of fundamen- in love with Life and Love and Song You will know by Saturday. iod of over 1500 years, the nativity talism assert with blatant noise. It —certainly he worships a dash of di- has been celebrated throughout the was intolerance of the same brand vine touch in all these things, though Takes more than an average poet Christian world on the 25th of Decem- OLD HOLIDAY SCHOOL SONG that forced Master Ridley to "play we may call it what we like. For all To philosophize on him, ber. Yet it is almost certain that the the man." of us, however humble, ceaselessly Keydets will do things uncommon 25tli of December could not have been Omne Bene seek for the unusual, in which we Just upon the slightest whim. Indeed, it is impossible to believe the date of the nativity of the Savior Sine Poena may lose ourselves as Narcissus that one is base for having thought So all the world's fine lit. and reading for it is then the height of the rainy Tempus est ludend; his fountain. out his own conclusions, regardless No, nor even Elinor Glynn, season in India and shephards could Venit hura of his ultimate conceptions. "It is And now we may draw the belated Can prophesy a Keydet's loving, not have watched their flocks by Absque mura good to be reasonable and to love arras over this disgusting conclusion. When Christmas time is ushered in. night on the plains. But not casual- Librus deponend! AN HISTORICAL REVIEW Miss Elizabeth McCoe, of Char- OF CHRISTMAS IN ENG- lottesville, Va., with Cadet White, W. R. LISH AND AMERICAN LIT- Miss Margaret Perry, of Staunton, Merry Christmas ERATURE Va., with Cadet Smith, C.

(Continued from Page 5) Miss Irene Breslin, of Roanoke, Va., with Cadet White, J. B. toms in "In Memoriam," and Brown Miss Mary Griffith, of Southern and ing argued over his views of the Seminary, with Cadet Carson, S. A. Christian religion and the reasons Miss Katherine Baker, of Winches- for them in his rather long poem, ter, Va., with Cadet Wise, J. "Christmas Eve." Misa Nancy Sherrill, of Sweet Healthy New Year A bit later Swinburne wrote two Briar, with Cadet Hines, R. Christmas songs and William Mor- Miss Franklin Neal, of Stuart Hall, ris contributed slightly on the sub- with Cadet Page, C. ject. Robert Louis Stevenson, queer Miss Kitty Nasby, of Waynesboro, mixture of Bohemian and Puritan, Va., with Cadet Woodward, R. O more than merely wrote "A Christmas Sermon," which Miss Evelyn Weaver, of Front wish your friends a is still sold as a Christmas booklet. D Royal, Va., with Cadet Chapman. In our own day, even in Thomas Miss Helen Weaver, of Front Roy- healthy, happy New Year. Hardy with his pogan attitude, one al, Va., with Cadet Morgan, ex-'16. Make it a healthy New catches a delightful glimpse of the Miss Katherine Huff, of Roanoke, Year. Remember that the Christmas mummers in "The Return Va., with Cadet Kulp. of the Native." This scene vividly Miss Russell Adams, of Lynchburg, germs of tuberculosis are portrays an ancient custom now all Va., with Cadet Nabers. everywhere. You, your but extinct. Kipling, writing in his Miss Tina Mallory, of Lexington, family, friends and strangers early days in India, has contributed Va., with Badet Baird. "'Christmas in India," a cynical poem alike, are constantly threatened by this in which the insurgence of a young intellectual tries to be scathing and dread disease. There is only one sure terrible, but misses the mark through escape. That is to stamp out tuberculo- lack of an adequate object of attack sis entirely. and succeeds only in being callow. By turning back in our own Amer- It can be stamped out. The organized ican literature to Washington Tr'< one is rewarded by discovering .11 warfare carried on by the tuberculosis "The Sketch Book" a group of essays crusade has cut the tuberculosis death rich in the spirit of the old-time rate in half. Only one dies now where Christmas 'of England. They are based on Irving's observations of two died before. Christmas Seals helped English customs over a period of to save the other life, for the sale of many years spent in England and Sack Suits, Top Coats, Christmas Seals finances the tuberculosis upon his wide knowledge of English Overcoats. Exclusive literature and old songs. Nothing fabrics, perfect tailor- associations. better of their type is to be found in the literature of England or Amer- ing. Made to individu- Buy Christmas Seals. Buy as many as ica. al requirements and you can. They are the sturdy little guard- Stamp °%™esrculosis Somewhat later comes Lew Wal- measurements. Satis- lace's famous account in "Ben-Hur" faction assured. ians of your Merry Christmas and Christmas Seal of the coming of the three wise men $50 and more. Healthy New Year. to Christ's birthplace. Irwin Rus- JACOB REED'S SONS sell's "Christmas Night in the Quar- THE NATIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL TUBERCULOSIS 1424-26 CHESTNUT ST. ters" holds a unique place in our ASSOCIATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES memory also, and some of Eugene PHILADELPHIA Field's Christmas poems and stories are still read. In these later years John Fox, Jr., gave us an interesting story in "Christmas Eve on Lonesome." Dr. Henry van Dyke, however, is our most prolific writer of Christmas lit- W/, en the second act has come to an erature. His "The Story of the Oth- er Wise Man" is one of our best known Christmas classics. His other Christmas stories, "The First Christ- end—and the curtain is rung down amidst mas Tree," "The Lost Word," "The Lost Boy," and "The Sad Shephred," together with several of his poems, whirling applause—"when you mingle out- are all worthy of remembrance in connection with the Christmas sea- son. side with the excited throngs in the lobby Numerous beautiful Christmas hymns have been written in both —have a Camel! England and America; lack of space, however,prevents a discussion of them. They embody and breathe WHEN the thrilling second act has forth, perhaps more perfectly than come to an end. And you join the all other non-Biblical writings, the crowds outside just as pleased and very spirit of Christmas. It is pleas- thrilled as yourself—have a Camel! ant to reflect that during the coming For no other friend is so checrful, so season we .shall hear the words of resting between acts as Camel. Camel most of these hymns in connections adds its own romantic glamour to the which will endear them yet more to us; and as Christmas follows Christ- brightness of memorable occasions. mas into the repository of our past, No other cigarette ever made — and the songs will gain strange powers kept—so many friends. Camels never of awaking within us those thoughts tire your taste, no matter how liberally and memories which we recognize as you smoke them. Camels never leave among our dearest and best. a cigaretty after-taste. So when you leave the theatre FIRST CLASS HOP FORE- pleased and inspired for greater things RUNNER OF XMAS SEASON —taste the mellowest smoke that ever (Continued from Page One) came from a cigarette. Miss Dorothy Overacre, of Roa- Have a Camel! noke, Va., with Cadet Spivy. Miss Catherine Johnson, of Sweet Into the making of this one cigarette goes all of the ability of the Our highest wish, if you do not yet know Camel quality, is that you try Briar, Va., with Cadet Smith, W. W. world's largest organization of expert tobacco men. Nothing is too good for Camels. The choicest Turkish and domestic tobaccos. The them. We invite you to compare Camels Miss Emily Echer, of Lexington, most skilful blenders. The most scientific package. No other cigarette with any cigarette made at any price. Va., with Cadet Griffith, L. S. made is like Camels. No finer cigarette can be made. Camels are the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. overwhelming choice of experienced smokers. Miss Mabel Fitzpatrick, of Bre- nau College, with Cadet Merchant. Miss Nancy Breslen, of Roanoke, Va., with Cadet Frothingham. Miss Carmen Mather of National Park Seminary with Cadet Hopkins, J. R.

Miss Kitty Alwin, of Glasgow, Va., © 1925 with Cadet Neville. FURTHER DISCUSSION commands. At the conclusion of his CHAS. H. ELLIOTT COMPANY speech there was an enthusiastic The Largest College Engraving Hons* ON GRIDIRON RULINGS in the World. demonstration and when the chair- SINCE END OF SEASON Commencement man resumed his seat he asked Dr. Invitations THE GORRELL DRUG CO., Inc. ii Sanford whether he spoke as a rep- (Southern Conference dope continued Class Day Programs from last week.) resentative of the executive commit- Class Pins and tee. In the confusion Dr. Sanford Rings From the conference of the coaches was understood to reply that he did. Dance Programs and Invitations Menus of the teams of the southern confer- A motion was immediately made Leather Dance Cases and Covers Sodas Drugs Fraternity and Class Inserts for Annnals ence convening at Athens, Ga., Dec. from the flooi' that the principles Fraternity and Class Stationery 3, was issued this resolution Dec. 6, elucidated by Dr. Sanford in his School Catalogs and Illustrations Weddinor Invitations addressed to the Southern Associa- speech ba adopted and put into ef- Calling Carda Stationery tion of Colleges and Secondary fect, the motion was put to a vote Seventeenth Street and Lehigh Ave. Schools in reply to their resolutions and carried unanimously by a viva PHILADELPHIA adopted Dec. 4: voce vote, and with the same en- "Whereas the public press of Dec- thusiasm occasioned by their presen- W. T. ROBEY SOLE AGENT ember 4 carried a statement to the tation by Dr. Sanford. effect that the Southei-n Association Immediately upon the receipt of Auto Transportation of Colleges and Secondary Schools this resdluction the conference of Whitman's Candies V. M. I. Colors and Seal had adopted at its meeting in Char- coaches proposed and adopted their leston certain rules governing ath- resolution above quoted and the out- Service letics, these rules being in conflict come of this situation now being Bus Line Between Buena Vista and with the by-laws and constitution of awaited. Lexington. the Southern Conference. The above was written on the one "And whereas the newspapers car- hand acknowledging the promise that THE YOUNG MEN'S SHOP ried also the statement that these something must be done and that Lexington Phone 62 rules originated in the executive something immediately, and now, on Buena Vista Phone 3 committee of the conference. the other hand, we offer these criti- "And whereas the latter statement cisms and suggestion as our sincere Carefully Selected Christmas Presents f is not in accord with the facts as pre- opinions, truthful facts which seem sented to this meeting. to have been ignored, and for their CUSS RINGS, PINS, FAVORS For the Home Folks and the Girl "And whereas the conference is face values, respectively. composed of faculty members having The motions of the Crimson are charge of athletic matters in twenty- interesting first as an undergraduate THE CORNER, Inc. two of the leading Southern colleges. expression. The Penn State Col- HALE'S Opposite Post Office "Therefore, Be it resolved that legian of Dec. 8 commented upon this conference places itself on record them in a flippant and irrelevant JEWELERS AND DIAMOND MERCHANTS as not being in accord with the action manner in a poorly written editorial reported as having been taken by the and failed to treat them with the association and connot abide by such consideration they deserve. We be- GREENVILLE, S. C. action. lieve they deserve at least considera- "And that this conference respect- tion and some degree of respect. QUALITY and SERVICE fully submits to the Southern Asso- The Crimson bravely acknowledges ciation of Colleges and Secondary certain of the evils of the system on Schools its belief that it is not to the which collegiate sports are conducted, best interest of the colleges that two but at the same time while their ges- separate bodies should legislate on ture seems meant to indicate the athletic matters when these bodies right direction we feel that their are to such a large extent the crea- deed, or proposed deed, is highly im- tures of the same colleges. The result practical. They have projected an will undoubtedly lead to confusion. ideal system of conducting physical ODORLESS DRY CLEANER "And that the secretary of this education with the same care that 35 N. Jefferson St. PHONE 514 conference be instructed to send a Sue projected plans for a Utopian Terms: CASH copy of this resolution to the presi- community where factory workmen dent and secretary of the Southern might live and write poetry. The Association of Colleges and Second- Crimson has attempted to obliterate CHARLOTTESVILLE WOOLEN MILLS ary Schools." with one gesture the colleges of Scott Charlottesville, Va. These three sets of resolutions are Fitzgerald and Percy Marks; it has Manufacturers of self-explanatory and the motives for proceeded on the assumption that Olive Drabs, Sky the adoption and protection, respec- colleges are founded and that men and Dark Blues tively, of the first two are equally attend colleges for the pure purpose and the largest and best quality o) self-evident to anyone work in col- of acquiring higher education. This CADET GRAYS leges. The first, however, is the more attitude is admirable and not to be including those used at the Unitec important due to its imminent prac- ridiculated if it is sincere, but at the States Military Academy at Wer tical effects, the second is without a same time it is as impractical and Point and other leading military schools of the country. HAMRIC & SMITH'S doubt the more significant, for here blindly made as it is naive. Used in uniforms of cadets of Vir is presented a spotaneous sentiment The existence of any college spirit, ginia Military Institute. from the students of one of our lead- the value and life of this same seem New Jewelry Store ing colleges on the very problem and MEET YOUR FRIENDS to have been not only disregarded but from the very men, at the same time, Opposite New Theatre totally ignored. The restlessness of AT who were the subject of discussion of a post-war generation venting itself the convention in Charleston. The in more or less genuine hilarity over resolutions of the coaches of the LEXINGTON POOL COMPANY'S college athletics has certainly not Southern teams cannot be flippantly been taken into consideration. NEWEST and NICEST disregarded as the scream of pain of We are in favor of certain reforms one touched in a vital point, for the ROCKBRIDGDE MOTOR CO. ourselves but .we believe in approach- salaries of these coaches will be af- Pool and Billiard ing the matter sympathetically, fected little or not at all and their practically, and by gradual steps. We Hudson Dodge Essex service in equally wide demand un- admit that certain of the suggestions Parlors der the nek regulations. Its signifi- of both the Crimson and the Associa- cance lies in the fact that they have Washington Street tion of Colleges and Secondary registered themselves as directly— Schools of the Southern States sound though respectfully—opposed to the Remington & Winchester Fire Arms and Ammunition practical, but we hesitate either to measures adopted by the heads of Colt's Revolvers others, highly absurd, advocate or their faculties respectively; so in the condemn arbitrarily and without a CULTERY RAZORS and BLADES present locked situation it seems that Murphy's Hotel more practical and working knowl- MYERS HARDWARE COMPANY, Inc. we shall see decided the long debated edge of the situation from the several supremacy of the academic vs. the RICHMOND, VA. points of view that either of these r.thletic. agents display or we ourselves pos- This side of the question—not yet sess. We admit the goodness of published in any account—lends an their intention but must quote at the AGNOR BROS. entirely different aspect to the action same time Pope's, "With good inten- of the Southern Conference of Schools tions hell is paved." Aside, however, and Colleges, though it detracts in no from what we believe or what the General Merchandise wise from its practical importance or Crimson believes or the theoretical MAIN STREET the importance of the issue: On the significance of either belief, we are program of the Conference of the at present most deeply interested and Colleges and Secondary Schools of concerned in the outcome of the ac- McCOY'S the Southern States Dr. S. V. San- tions of our respective coaches and ford was scheduled to speak on the faculties and its effects on our schools Fancy Groceries problems confronting the colleges of and teams. the country under the head of ath Corner Main and Washington Streets letics. At the scheduled time ho rose, and read a carefully prepared S. G. PETTIGREW address to the convention. Dr. San- Confectionery V. M. I. Repair Shop ford is a man of high intellect, mark- Under New Management. ed oratorical ability, and a personal- TOBACCO AND CIGARS ity that at once points the way and Picture Framing a Specialty. W. II. Kelsey, Mgr. 4. Afccurate calculation has it that the movement has been the direct cause of 186 excess demerits, 99 tours, three broken arches, and two serious cases of fidgeting maniacs. 5. It i3 variously estimated from STOP AT .these figures that 21 First Classmen will not graduate, that 16 Second Classman will repeat the year, and that 19 Third Classmen will take Liberal Arts. McCrum's PROJECTION INTO THE FUTURE—1935 Soda Fountain ADVICE TO YE CIVILE ENGINEERE WHILE ON YE YULETIDE FURLOUGH GOING and COMING As ye faculty sees it— far as is possible that there is any The student of Civil Engineering such thing as an engineer. should bear in mind that examina- Though he may not be so rash as tions are approaching and that im- to burn all of his books, he should at Everybody Does mediately after furlough will come least tear out the leaves presenting a time of reckoning. the more difficult problems if this does not seem appropriate he should He should carry his text books at least give them to Fanny Dooly. home and study several hours each MR. JOHN ROOT HOPKINS Returning to the haunts of his day. Observe the characteristic tilt of childhood he should immediately the hat; the swank of the cain. The He should endeavor to get nine taste of the Social Bowl in order to position of the feet is an advance nights of refreshing sleep to condi- show that his college education has movement of the Charleston. The Woodward's Garag-e tion him for further work next term. not been in vain. cigar is a later acquisition picked up He should where possible observe In reply to any questions as to in Spain where Mr. Hopkins served BUICK SERVICE all kinds of construction work and what he intends doing next year, to for five years as Commander of the even get in a few days of useful ar.d his parents and guardians he should Guard and playmate to the king. The instructive toil if possible. reply, "I'm gonna work." To all oth- abrupt end of this career was caused If he becomes boisterous enough ers beneath the rank of magistrate by the overthrow of the aristocracy to sing a few songs he should be dis- he should answer by tactfully inquir- instigated by the Russian revolu- Cars for Hire creet and remember to sing only such j jng after the health of their Aunt tionist, Mr. Ale Hart, former V. M. I. anthems as "b-d squared x-y-z" or Mjnerva. iconoclast. PHONE 303 LEXINGTON, VA. "I've been workin on the Railroad." He should get at least one night's His slide rule should be his con- sleep of approximately eight hours; stant companion. the purpose of this is to discover He should return several days what he has been missing for the last early in order to collect his draw- few weeks. ing instruments and work out a few On all other nights he should be WEINBERG'S MUSIC SHOP moments and design a parabolic floor especially careful to stay up and slab. make merry till the wee sma' hours As ye poore sufferer sees itte— of the morning. On leaving the Institute on the Finally he should return to the In- Victor, Columbia and Edison 22nd a Civil addict should forget so stitute if he is able. 0 PROF. NEVIN CONDUCTS three-tenths of a kip and Professor Machines and Records Nevin was made an honorary mem- UNUSUAL PSYCHOLOGY Distributors V. M. I. SPIRIT and ALMA MATER ber of the Benovolent order of Der- CAL EXPERIMENT rick Builders. SHEET MUSIC

Proves That Average Cadet THIS ALARMING Admiral t>ouldoin at the age of Prefers Furlough To Stay CHARLESTON MOVEMENT seven, in a familiar pose "hoisting the In Barracks. sail." The "Cadet" learns that the "Char- The eminent Professor Nevin, the leston" is seriously impairing the Dutch psychologist and wonder- normal routine in barracks life. worker, has just completed a series Nightly we are told in the proximity Theatres of experiments in barracks. To of the northeast corner of barracks those unfamiliar with Prof. Nevin's violent vibrations set the building methods, a few words as to his many a-teetering, joyous yelps burst NEW triumphs in experiments dealing with through the air. Close scrutiny re- LYRIC the mental life of the human and veals that it is "J" Hopkins and his beast will prove interesting, even if eminent assistant, Professor Booker Director—I. WEINBERG difficult to believe. Professor Nevin, T. Maxwell, instructing a class of on being interviewed, proved rather amateurs the latest Charlestons as uncommunicative; he refused to talk practiced on Peach Tree Street, in a great deal as he claimed it would East Lexington, and metropolitan en- disturb his peculiar osmosis complex. virons. However he did mention that his "What, have you not learned to eyesight was exceedingly poor; he Charleston? You say you haven't; even went as far as to say, "kroost what Ah-a-haaa social outcast, m'lad. Shancr's Taxi Scrvice. I'vo got a bad right eye." But to No V. M. I. man can permit such Composite photograph of Sheik return to his discoveries: first, and negligence; no sir—no slackers here. Hobbs, tho estimable Mr. Reinhauer perhaps of most profound import- Lemme tell you. Old "Jay" knows and smiling Charley Bolhken. The ance to humanity, was the learned that's what; ha-haa—five lessons— sweet expression of the eyes has been Seven and Five-Passenger Cars doctor's discovery that animals are like pretty little bubbles, you will taken directly from Mr. Hobbs; the subject to graphical analysis, if de- burst forth the Charleston King. Yes, lay of the hair is a splendid reproduc- prived of food for more than a week. sir-r-r."—These from Jay. tion of the aforementioned Mr. Rein- This study proved a long step into hauer; and the pert squat of the limbs the realms of psycho-analysis; Pro- WHEN REAL SERVICE IS WANTED CALL ME Our greaj^ statistical department is an exact replica of Mr. Bolhken in fessor Nevin, at great expanse, had has compiled the following statistics his accustomed posture, "At Ease." PHONES 203-161-2127 a box constructed. In this structure to sustain our argument: he confined a cat (Felix Barrux), 1. It is understood that graceful, which cat was forced to remain in bouyant Johnson Couch came a- IRWIN & COMPANY, Inc. close confinement for one week, dur- Charlestoning into the studio, wreath- Everything: in ROCKBRIDGE HARDWARE COMPANY, Inc. ing which time no food or drink was ed in smiles and a towel, and so well DRY GOODS and GROCERIES The Yellow Front Hardware issued to the animal. The food thus did he caper, the floor sunk one full saved was sent to the starving Ar- inch—actual measurement. Specialists in l Gun Oil, Gun Grease, Gun Brushes, Rust Remover, Lock menians. The professor seemed much 2. The frequency of the dance QUALITY SERVICE and PRICE Boxes, Pocket Knives, Razors, Razor Blades. touched at the plight of the poor cat. makes undue demands upon the par- Finally he produced a juicy fish and ticipants. For example, we learn laid it near the box. At the com- that "J" bathes nightly now. Christian Science Services pletion of the required time the box 3. The faculty of the Civil De- Held at No. 5 South Main St. JACKSON'S BARBER SHOP was shattered by a gentle explosion. partment we know have pranced wild- Second Floor The feline emerged in an emaciated ly about, hair rumpled, because the Caters Especially to the "Keydets" Sunday Services 11 a. m. condition and with a yowl of joy de- grades in their sections have drop- Opposite New Theatre. voured the morsel of fish. This was ped amazingly within the past two Wednesday Services 8 p. m. conclusive proof, the data checked to ' weeks. All interested cordially invited. NIX NUMBER SNIPER Loomis. One Increasing Purpose—Hutchin- Ariel—Maurois. son. MAKES DECIDED HIT Twenty-five Years, 1892-1916— Portrait of a Man with Red Hair (Continued from Page One) Viscount Graey of Fallodon. —Walpole. Our Showing for Fall Life of Judge Gary—Tarbell. the type caricatured by Vogue, is Third Volume Letters of Walter Fraulein Else—Schnitzleri there represented in flesh and blood Hines Page. 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