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automobile while in residence. Every year, more men and women
comfl out of prison in the United State~ than graduate from all our
eollrgeR anrl universities.
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A few of our alumni of the Uni- versity of Virginia were kind enough to stop over, on their way home for the holidays, and pay us short visits. They were Frank Andrews, on his
way to Vicksburg; Francis McGa- vock and Van Duesen Eppes.
Those to visit the school during the holidays were Hotchkiss, Hub- bard, Carter, S., and Radford.
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Reinhold Rogers, '22 who dur- visers to the Freshmen. They are ing the last fall, has b~en h~lding not to protect them in any way but down a job with the Va. Western to solve some of their problems for Power Co., is now acting as assistant them such as a faculty adviser usual-
for boys' work at the Boys' Home ly does. The plan should work very
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well if the Freshmen do not take ad- vantage of it.
toring in Middleburg. It seems that
"Joe" is a past-master at the art of
drilling things into little boys' 1 tenzed as one who smokes c1garettes,
Covington, V a. ' Joseph H. Crane, '24, is still tu-
heads.
"Roy" Knight, '25, who attended
Ga. Tech for the past term, is now enr?llecl at the University of Vir-
gmla.
Fred MeNear, '19, of Bluefield, and prosperous manager of the Tip- toe Inn of that city, has recently been married to Miss Pinky Wade, also of Bluefield, West Virginia.
Theodore Cannaday, '23, is now working for the United Supply Co., of Gary, West Va. We hear he is very successful.
Win low Randolph, '23, is at pres- ent employed by the Standard Oil Co., in Washington. We also hear that "Randy" is selling tin lizzies
on the other side.
George Darst, '22, is now working
with the Southern Railway Co., in W ashington.
Huddy McCormick, '25, has a job in Bayonne, N. J., at which he is doing very well.
We are glad to hear from W. R. Ellett, '23. "Kikipoo" has been at- tending the University of Potomac. "Dick'' Telfair, '24, has been
taken into the Kappa Alpha fra- ternity at N. C. State, where he has been going to school.
We are glad to hear that Tom Rol- linR, '24, and Vernon Cowper, '25, have been very successful along clra- matic lines at the far-famed Uni-
wears loud clothes and talks women and football. But according to the opinion of a professor of the Uni- versity.of Colorado, the college wom- an "is too free; you can pick her out at a glance; he has lost her re- serve." What Co-eds would think of this is probably unprintable.
Women at the University of Okla- homa have started the idea of flav- ored lip-sticks, and this weapon of womanhood has literally swept the University town in flavors ranging
from lemon to tutti-fruitti.
Alabama Polytechnic Institute has enlarged its radio broadcasting station so that it is now the equal of any other in the South. The pow- er has been increased to 1000 watts and, beginning last December, pro-
grams have been broadcast daily. The station is the last word in radio en- gineering because a great deal of ad- ditional equipment has been pur- chased and added to the station which formerly belonged to the Ala- bama Power Company. The call letters are WAPI.
Almost every college paper has something in it about the honor sys- tem as to how it should work and telling the Freshmen what is expect- eel of them. All colleges seem to realize that this system is inclispens-
If you want real harmony
versitY of Carolina. They recently able to their· very existence so its figured in a play called, "Yes By workings are kept before the stu-
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B. C. Pinkerton, '24, paid us a
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V. E. S. NO LONGER IN THE STICKS
On January 1st our school was taken into the city limits of Lynch- burg. Now let those cynics consider well before they call V. E. S. a
farmer's school.
Those who lived in daily anticipa-
tion of the bridge's crumbling are doomed to disappointment. Work has already begun on repairing it,
and we hope other improvements will follow.
dents at all times.
Last fall the University of Iowa
was building a new field house which will include nine tennis courts, a basket-ball floor, an indoor golf
room, 5,000 lockers, fifty shower , an
equipment room, regulation size
gridiron, baseball diamond and other .
convem ences.
Origination of the plan of the French government to give up her interests in the Caribbean as part payment of her debt to the United State is credited to Prof. David P.
Barrows, of the P olitical Science Department of /the University of California.
Miami, Florida, has decided to build a fifteen-million-dollar Uni- Yersity of Miami. Dr. William L yon Phelps, professor of English at Yale
for thirty-three years, was offered the presidency, but declined.
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pal stage for the University of N. C. :Jfr. Elli Tucker, who paid us Glee Club in the winter quarters, numerous visits last fall, has com- when it represented the South in pleted his leave and is going back the Intercollegiate Glee Club con- to his work in China. He sails from test held there, being the first San Francisco on B. B. President Southern University ever to enter the contest. Concerts were also given in North Carolina, Virginia, WaRbington, Philadelphia, ancl Bos-
How@ wants to lai.fiv who this fel- low Excess is that ~11'the boys arr
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is shown by the example of J oe Pon- delik, football and wrestling star, i§ who recently entered a course in commerce and did not discover that
he had taken the course until an exam was sprung on him.
The Seniors at Virginia Polytech- nic Institute have instituted a new plan by which they are to act as ad-
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