Institute May Have Re* ough Extended One creation Room Next Day; Corps Leaves Year On 22nd VOLUME XXX LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, DEC. 14, 1936 NUMBER 13 Attendance Is Earl Lutz, Richmond Journalist, Graham Plan To Address Club Here Tonight Committee Will Up At Games Is Modified g. A. L. A. Invites Members Of Corps To Hear Talk; Inter- Squadron Plays To Larger esting Exhibit To Be Shown Virginia Withdraw^ From the Name New Coach Crowds During Season Just Tonight the Institute Association the faculty deliver speeches on Conference, Climaxing A Past of Liberal Artists will con- various topics at meetings to be Stormy Session New Squadron Captain Successor To Raftery To Be duct its last meeting before the held in the near future. Named After Applicants The Flying Squadron had a suc- Christmas holidays. Earl Lutz of Mr. Lutz of Richmond, is re- After a stormy two-day session, Are Considered cessful season during the past the Richmond News Leader is to garded as one of the foremost climaxed by the University of fall from more standpoints than deliver a talk on the subject of newspapermen in the state and is Virginia's withdrawal from the Several Are Mentioned one. Victorious in six games out "The History of the Newspaper." now affiliated with the Times Dis- Southern Conferense, the Graham of ten on their schedule, the team With his talk he is to exhibit copi- patch of the Capitol City. The Plan emerged from the annual proved to be not only a squad es of various newspapers which speaker is recognized as one of conference gathering with most of Council Awards Monograms of good football players but also date back almost to the beginning the best authorities on newspaper its power gone, and its teeth defi- And Numerals To 44 Men a popular drawing card. of the publication of the Leader. history in the country, and his nitely drawn. Enemies of the plan It is understood that the meeting talk is eagerly anticipated by the hailed the compromise as a moral Although speculation as to the The game which drew the big- new coach to replace Bill Raftery, will be held in the Alumni Hall members of the Liberal Arts de- victory for their side, and impar- gest crowd was, of course, "The whose resignation was accepted by instead of the usual meeting place partment as well as the rest of the tial critics admitted that the result Military Classic of the South," the the VMI athletic council last week, due to the displaying of the news- corps. left Dr. Graham's pet program con- game with VPI. With an attend- has been rife in Virginia, it was papers, which will take up con- Exhibit Presented ance of almost 14,000 there was a siderably weaker. learned that no definite negotia- siderable room. The meeting is An entertaining and educational total gate receipt of $24,000. Of The plan had several planks tions have been made by the com- expected to prove one of the most exhibit, showing the rise of the this sum VMI and VPI each re- omitted in its new version, and as mittee delegated to consider appli- interesting of the season. For the newspaper from 1750 up to the ceived in the neighborhood of $10,- it stands now, the basis of eligibil- cations, and members said today first meeting scheduled upon the present day will be found on the 000. ity for athletes is on a scholastic that the Institute is in "no hurry' return of the corps next Janu- first floor of Alumni Hall. This Homecomings Help rather than a financial basis. A to sign a new mentor. Among ary, plans have been made to exhibit is probably the most com- more liberal interpretation of the those mentioned for the post have A factor which helped to increase have President Gaines of Washing- plete collection of antique news- plan will be permitted under the been Ernie Nevers, former Stan- the gate receipts during the sea- ton and Lee University give a papers ever seen at the Institute. AL FIEDLER new wording. Although no dras- ford star, Pedie Jackson, now son was the number of Homecom- reading on the story of David. Sev- Among Mr. Lutz's collection can be tic changes were made, the result coach at King College, and Carl ing games in which the Squadron eral clubs and societies in Lexing- found such startling news as the was obtained by changing the Voyles, one of Wallace Wade's took part. The Richmond, William ton have had the pleasure of hear- announcement of the war with paragraphs and inserting clauses Fiedler Named lieutenant at Duke. About fifty and Mary and Maryland games ing President Gaines, and all have Spain, the assassination of McKin- in the parts relating to financial other coaches are aplicants. were all played as the Homecom- expressed favorable comments on ley, America's entrance into the requirements to be met by ath- ing games of their respective col- his reading. World War, and many other great Team Captain The resignation of Raftery and leges and there v^as in addition to letes. Ed Hess, line coach, came as a cul- The I. A. L. A. anticipates hav- news items that have made his- this the Institute's own Homecom- mination of a season in which dis- ing cadets as well as members of tory. Graham Opposed Changes ing game with the University of New Squadron Leader Is Dr. Graham and his associates, satisfaction with the staff, parti- Virginia. Regular Guard On VMI cularly among the alumni, had been it was said, fought bitterly for the Grid Machine The attendance at the three gam- May Provide A.S.C.E. Meets retention of the famous Paragraph j steadily growing. Although VMI es listed above, averaged about 13 as it stood for the past year, had one of the most successful Albert Fiedler, of Greenport, seven thousand. VMI's own Home- but the tide of opposition was too seasons since 1929, the resignation Long Island, N. Y., was elected coming game, while totaling less Hear Speeches great and it was overruled. of the coaches was not entirely Came Room by the football squad last week than several of the other games on unexpected when the council met. Virginia's withdrawal precipitat- to captain the 1937 edition of the the schedule, had an excellent at- Charrington And Way Talk At the coaches meeting in Rich- Plans Call For Recreation ed a discussion which will probably Flying Squadron. Fiedler is a tendance when the relative inac- mond last Saturday, Raftery de- Room For Corps In '94 To Civil Engineering continue to rage until the decision guard, and has been a regular in oesibility of Lexington is taken in- nied that he had received any Hall Group becomes final. As it stands now, the line-up for the past two sea- to consideration. the school has one year in which offers for a new post and was sons. Although injured in the lat- quoted as saying that he was "still The only game to fall below the Dec. 13—The seventh meeting of to either definitely resign or to re- If plans now under consideration ter part of the season, he was nev- a man looking for a job." expectations of the Athletic Coun- the VMI Chapter of the American join the schools now in the circuit. ertheless a mainstay in the early by Major M. G. Ramey, director Committee Named cil was the Columbia tilt. The ex- Society of Civil Engineers was held Virginia spokesmen, however, said games, and his presence next year of Intramural Athletics, are carri- The committee delegated to se- pected crowd was greatly curtail- in the auditorium of the engineer- that there was little hope that the is expected to be a great help to ed out, VMI may have a full- lect a new coach is composed of ed by the weather because for ing building during the first period University would decide to take the team. Colonels J. A. Anderson and Wil- some time previous to and during fledged recreation room sometime Saturday morning. D. C. Hastings •back its resignation, and said that Fiedler is vice-president of the liam Couper, Cadet James Farley, the game there was a heavy de- in the future. The rooms will have opened the meeting and called for the action taken was final. Several Second Class, and in addition, is and Mr. O. H. Beasley from the luge. Even with this handicap, a bowling alleys, pool and billard the secretary's report. The pro reasons were advanced as to why one of the best wrestlers on the alumni. They will consider all crowd of six thousand turned out. gram which followed consisted of the move was taken, and it was Institute grappling team. He will tables, and ping pong tables, and applications and decide on the new two addresses by members of the said that the school felt that its succeed Jim Farley as Captain Total Receipts Up will be situated where the old box- coach, but a decision, it was said, chapter. L. B. Way, Jr., gave an in> athletics would fare better if it of the Squadron. By his election ing room is now. The room is will probably not be reached for The entire season from every teresting talk on "The Extraction of withdrew from the group. Should he became another in the long line sometime. point of view proved far more suc- vacant at present, the boxers having the Lactic Fluid from the Bovine Virginia remain outside the con- of linesmen, who have led VMI In other business taken up by cessful than that of 1935.