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VOLUME” 

Robert F. Howe To Lead Figure in Last of 1l:‘our Formal Dances;
C. E. L. Gill In (fharoe of Unirue l}e«.*«.=r:1tiem.~;' iloremus
.-2. I 7
Gym Has Been Scene of All llnive,rsii.y é~‘.-or.-ial Fxmclzions.

FRATERNITIES, SOCIETIES,
TROUBS. GIVE DANCES

Interfraternity Ball, Sigina (lerman,
Senior-Alumni and Final
Balls Feature

Reckless atandon and ca1‘ei'ree
life have been the ontstanrling‘ fea-
tures of a glorious week of Finals
since the initial event of the attrac-
ive series of dances and entertain-
ments scheduled for the week ending:
today, June 5. Arr:1rig_r(-iner~£.~: for the
dances liaving all been coznplt-tcrl

7
v.

Ly President. F. Howe, and with:
th::- arrival of i’1iends, swi~etlieari:<-.l
and parents, and the thougght of re—l
:-tp-;>n;xil,ility temporarily su.spen<lc:l:
from the mind, came the invincible

desire for gaiet-J and pl;‘.L~'.ll1‘t‘. ‘Vents

for these ambitions presented them-
rzelves and were accepted, as has

;,.3en evinced by the past ft‘-.v event-

iill and colorful days.

the forauai

1928 Finals with the

(lance heading‘ the

formal night tlaiici-s.

strains of Jan Gar-

known musicians be-

of_ good times” and

the happenings of “never to be for-

gotten” events. For those who had

an ardent desire for jazz as well as

those whose ideal consisted of

dreamy chords, Jan performed.

Friday night marked
:, ptning; oi" the
1.1te1'i'iatcrnit_'/
list oi the four
With the first
Ler’s nationally
gan the “reign

Decorations for the dance consist»-
cd or lovely alternatin;:' stripes of
white and national blue forming a‘
tent over the whole ball room. Brit-
liant blue and white lights present-
(U. a most pleasing‘ appearance.

The Pi Alpha Nu—White Friarl
(lan .ant was a notable event of Sat-
urday morning. The Pa’n—W'

Friar dansant is given annually at‘ Z,

this time and the figure to be form-
ed  interchanged regula1'iy, this
year being; in favor of the White
Friars, a “W-F” being formed in the
center of the gymnasium.
baturday afternoon a tea (lance
was enjoyed at the Pi Kappa li<,u.se.
l'rTuSl’ for the afternoon was turn
ed by the V. M. I. Cadet orcher:
A most colorful crowd assemble<l
(continued from page '1)

ill.

____ 0,1, _.

Flournoy Believes
Sleuth Spiritual
Leader for Nation

The country will have to look to
the south for the lead in spiritual
greatness in the coming years, ac-
co .ng' to the Memorial Day ad-
dress of Professor Fit7.g'eraltl Flour-
noy‘, of VVashin;.>,'ton and in
Lynchburg' last week.

The address was made as a part
of the Confederate Memorial ser-
vices held in the Methodist cemetery
Lcfore hundreds of veterans of the
1,-a;t three wars.

I')1'<‘.fcSsoi' Flournoy was presented
l. y James E. Caskie, an alumnus of
W'asl1ing'ton and Lee, who told of
record here and at Oxl"o1'd Uni-
v..r:-tity in England.

"flu.«=.e men did something; for the
South,” Professor Flournoy

L cc ,

.his

voice of flame to which the spirit of:

th.:- noble must forever harken. If
they had contended themselves with

talk, they would n0t b0 \V01'l«hY Oliithe student body of Washington and
cu.-' praise; and if we content our—li,(m 1l1]i\'(_\]'\'_. '
selves with talk about them we shall ,\V7,,,.¢}-,;,,g«1,(,,, mm igpiw,-1;
not be worthy of our heritage 0tl(‘i1(,‘:)lil'z11I(‘(l and stren_e'thenerl b_v the

i

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Sill-(ls iwhi<‘h
"and their noble youth spoke in Zliflm-ni1,y_

l

BY THE STUDENTS, FOR THE UNIVERSITY

XVASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSE? Y TUESDAY,

President Student

Eody l§:l27-728

P. M.— Sigma ilerinau.

lie, on.

Noon —— Dedication Class

Respoi'ise, E.

T‘. M.-—Alunini Class
’i)$l, ’lil. ’11. ’l2 and of

I‘. l\’l.---Alunmi Baseball
P.
l‘.

M.-———~Senior-Aluinni Ball.

1i):-4:") A. l\'l.~———.A.!l’.ii.1:‘:l
uates.
A. .
John ll. l.at:~.ne.
10 P‘. l‘vl.~5-Fina l’~all.

1 A. l‘»"i.-—-I’inal Ball Supper.
G A. lVl.-—-—“Collc_e4‘c Fi'ie;i«l:;liips.”

’2.—’:}1
A<lrli'e:~;s. Thomas M. Glasgziw.
ll. lililler,
teunions,

Gain“

M. -First Crew I-loat ll:-ice.

l‘/l.-—l“.acult_v P:--cepiion to (lradiv
’ar<=nl's., in (‘-arne_<_>‘ic Library

'l'l,iF.b‘l).\Y, Jli

I"ro<:es:-‘ion

ill ———(l/.1111I)lL‘i1("’li1(‘i1l If :\ei'.r'is.r)s,

"»‘»'li.i:f{i-T.3u.‘\'1

FINALS VVEEK PROGRAM

FIEIIIAY, .lU.“lu‘ 1
P. lVl.——Inter—Fratcrnity Dance
S.\'l"llRl).-\Y, .ll NE 2

A. M.—~--Pan-W‘hite Friar Ilarsniiix
I’. l\«l'.—--Open llousc, I{<:s_»'i:'-st ration of Alumni, at Alumni Building
P. Ill.----‘*‘~econd and Third Crew Roz‘!

Races.

.‘1.t’;‘w'D_»\Y, .Il,i'tl3l 3

A. M.——I3accalaurcate Sermon, Lee Chapel, by Rev. Peter Ains-

MONDAY, JlT\‘E 4

Alumni l)ny

Bi ilgrc.

l‘res dent of Student Body.
/alumni Building. Classes of
'il, ’S)2, and ’il3.

son lfield.

’il{l,
, Wi

ates, Trustees, Alumni, and

r

oi’ .--,....tees, Faculty, and Grad-

.<-e Chapel, Address by Dr.

9

‘MIL

President of Finals and Leader of Ball

t""'..~.ii"l 
<4.‘ 9 “

Dr. John H. Laiane of Baltimore Delivers Thouefh
Address In Lee Chapel to 1928 (lraduaies and Ltil‘§3‘c Aud-
ience of Officials. Relatives, and Friends.

President Student
Body 1928329

'1
‘i:

ciVES

It/l27—’.“5l
li(‘l,\\'(‘(‘l|

l)on;:ie \Valk
and Field

Ycsi erday

‘x ‘lasses of

(23:21

(ii. 1

he

I’ »:il’nre

l'vl<'in.rn‘ial
“Alumni
held
.\i'o:ida)‘
that
ever-

iii"
The rn\'ei'<‘i:-‘us in
ii‘.

‘.\‘t'l'(‘

‘-I\.- liiort-:nu.: 1mi:i:<iiin.i

:10‘ rain
the

to liezrin.

due to :1 -.'l'«'r us:

‘i:iri<--'l just bci'ore

we ‘.‘«.'cr- :?(‘l1v’.'il|.ll<'<l
V-ni‘l:I.;i1

f1't‘:‘»lil(‘(l

alumni

l< -"~-“.}‘., s(-creiary '‘
int.i'o<iLu~c(l Edwaral
illiller. pr<'sid<5nt of the VVashine‘t-on
and Lee :--iu<leni' l':ody.

iolil

l <-;2'ii1niI‘;-;'

"' il

brid_:e had
of the

’27 to l-rave behind them :1

and how

_1;“‘(i'\‘»l1 until included

u:l(’:‘.i lworlv.

‘.seui.0(l the llriilg‘-\ in!

how the

in

fsliller

the desire

of

» :-;1.:1neni ni<nn:)ri:il the

11:27: it

El: 2‘

the ‘J. l‘1Ul».‘ 1,!’

1 l
anal ice linivwi'..-'ity asl

’Z'F~’3 .

the classes 
President; ll-einy Louis Smith :‘.r'—l
ceptrll the snlerulid gift’. in the namel
oi‘ the iruttees. i'ar-ialiy. and the a—l
lnmni of the llniverf-‘1i.y. i
Vt-rhon 
—"D(‘€‘.l(:"l' of
w :1 l::\i.'yei'

(3., and :1 «liuiii
hurt on ‘ and
lllr. Clan,

Kemp then in‘.i-odur*erl the
tho

M.
N.

'l'homas
(Tha riot’ to,

drrv.
of
='ui::hed son of '\Va.,r—:li-
Lee.

ow’s subject: ‘.va.< “l3rid—
/re lltzilclihpf and he told in the elo-
and forceful l:1iie‘1iac;e of the
ltorn eralor of the l,-ri(l.°;es built by
the alumni liave gone forth
from the classic halls of ‘Na.‘=l'iin_Q‘—
ion :ir<i Iiei---—-l‘ri(lp'es built by
am:

9

uncut
w ho

fam-
built by he-
l47\'("l lI2Yx"l’1Cl‘.s‘. bri.'l_<,r'es built: by bril-
liant lavgveru‘ and statesmen, l‘.ride;es
liu7li l
and

sionaries

pi-<::1<'li<-1's, l»ri<l_s:‘es

 :»:iiccr\ssi'1Il men in coinmei'ce
l~usine::=:. ln‘izlu;<-s by mis-

frrr (‘i‘.1,lllll‘l(‘,‘1-—-l)l'lll,l_2‘(‘S
into the of

built
in
reach realms e-

The
l‘,iev.ulaj., the ,e‘ifi

“/37-‘til

llentori-~l dedicated
i he fi ve cla-=s<~s

of the spirit: of

P»ri<h;‘(‘
of
is syitiliolic
l'o.<~tci'-oil by GeorQ'e
E. Lee and

(Continued on Pagre 2)

“l3OB"

Employment: More
‘ii-’Via’;h Education.

./\llhou;;h
fected

i<~ni;.\:

has a i"-

unemployinent
(‘ollegw and stu-
lris disastrous
to them as to <vt.‘.icr:‘-‘. :1c<'<n‘tlin.~.‘~; to
Frank l.a\\'s<m, ‘.32 the Bu-
reau of Einployment of New York
University, who made a recent study
of the conditions in the principal
universities and colleges.

gjrailua t es

it not ‘men 215':

rector of

f7.pr-al<in_q oi’ the condition.—: at New
York University, Hr. Lawson said:

“Our employment bureau has not
l;c<-n swamped by our si.ude'ni'.-: and
gr:1(l11:1tes the way othz‘-r empl’-ymeni:
bureaus are. This also holds iiue in
the university and rxollerre employ-
ment bureaus throughout the coun-
' l*)mplo_vers have learned that
on the averagre their
are college men, and they are dis-
char_e'ing' only the
lT:l‘.lO_V(‘(‘ls'.

.1 ,3

unsatis i'acl,or_v

“Thore firms which are (liscl1arg'-
in_e; their unsatisi"aci;or_v employes
are sending‘ to us for June ;_:ra-:lu—
ates.
though the work is slack and em-
pl<.»yes are being‘ dismissed. the firms
still feel the need of executives.

best workers ‘;

e_'atii,n.

It has been found that even.

HOWE

(June of

-The l‘:l'2\‘ v.-u-siiy baseball squad has
to lead the
in 1929.
those
this
of

Wliiie, second-baseman

v<« u elected

._i;
at

i.osscrs
l,-v
lil<>tl~i;1'l'al11

 nipiei ion

their
the

who earned
season after
the schedule.

l(’t ted

(line is a freshman in the law
hot i. haxin,<_r entered the commerce
.<chool for two years. He alternat-
xd xxith lCig'elbach at third last sea-
and was shifted to second this
where he handled himself in
".ni'h~<l style. VVhite is from New
1"».-’e::ico, a member of the Phi Kap-
pa l’si social fraternity and Omicron
ii. ha Kappa honorary fraternity.

,‘i~‘.\

‘year

(i('ll(.‘, with Ilickman, Lowden, Tug‘-
§Z'l(, and Slanker will form the nu-
tlcous for the next season’s aggre-
Spotts, Tips, Jones, Eig'el—
arh. and \Varthen will be lost.
Tips, Jones, Spotts, and Eigrel—
earned their monograms for
the third time this year. White and
their and
.“lanker, Hickman and Manager Bach
received their first.

.:*.<‘l

E or» .lr‘n received second,

General 1
White was ;

3. :’ "  -
l*t.’l.ilif:l 

RAEUATE

.'lvzll.:*-we-4 l\.i-on Dlewly E(luc2:'tc(l To
Interpret ('l:ri.st as Real
h‘piri‘:u:1l Head
lli‘i."‘l’\‘li(l l‘eier
l.li. it, of
the :=.“.nual
ih-- lllL)'\'
Ill‘ ruin;-3
(‘lia;‘i~l.
Thu

Ainslie, D. l).,
laltinu-re, Md. delivered
li-siccalaurate sermon to

g;‘ra(li1aiiire' Sunday

at 11 the
ilr. editor

Quarterly,

and
in

class
at
is

Lei-
of
2111
in't(n'u:1i,ion-~
the interest
the divided

o’<*lock
Ainslie
Ell llnion
‘rt:iill-irnninaiional
al published
( V ‘:~conciliai:ion
(‘burgh of Cl"l1"i.“»l).
('h‘1llan':§in_;' _i*ersons living
r.-res:‘n.t. area to consider the
lion i’-hrist l'('<‘(‘lV(‘il at the hands
' “hi~' i)\‘-'11." the .I( vs. who would
:1!-s-i-pt him l;ec:.1use he was not
,i itical leader, and that accord-
ed him by the early Christians. who
made him a political leader and in
so doing‘ His spiritual
:nini.<tration to mankind, Dr. Ains-
lie delivered a forceful sermon of
‘pleasing: lenth and full of substan-
tial advice and counsel.
.1‘ biicf outline of the spz-aker’s
lress follows:

v'\
I
K

i‘h:'i::i

§:>ur.ial
in

in the
recep-

obscured

a <
"1.‘i'llf‘l\.é< the most obscured (‘l1.'-11‘-
a’i n‘ in history is Jesus. The Jews
did not umler::i:1n(l Ilim.
mind v.. . filled with t.he_thou;:ht of
the lllessiah, as was the mind of
Jacob. David, and hosts of Jews. On
the death of Solomon the Jews divid-
and the _9_'overnments
never reconciled. One was taken in-
to capt,ivit_v by the Assyrians and the
other by the P»-abylonions, but the
dream of the Messiah did not perish
in their ilio!.u:lits. The Jews return-
ed from Ilabylon and rebuilt Jersu-
salem in preparation for tlie l‘«lessi.. .
llnder John llyrcanus all the old
;:'lory came back, to the Jewish rapi-
tal. It was :1 grreat, period in their
hi:"toig\', but in consequence of in-
tense quarrels the gzoverrnient we:'il\-
ened and Judea became tributary to
dome.

This deepened their study of the
Old Testament in their exp(‘('t':.‘.iien.1
<:i' the l‘=’lessiah. They could con:-cive
oi’ lrlim only as a political deliverer,

(Continued on Page 2)

d

ed two were

:\.l)ralia1n’s ‘

GR./\l)UATES MARi,‘l‘I FROM
(‘OLI,.E(lE T0 l.l?Jl1l t‘HAl‘EL

Economic Imperialism of United
States Criticized by Speaker In
Principal Speecli

One hundr<d and tweut_v-'»ur d
e;rees and certi
1n<-rcr‘ were -vcariletl
l‘;<\n:~y l.ouis Smith
the llorzrd 'l‘1'us'iee:‘ \.‘-'z1sliii~,_i_»;_
ton and Lee. at the one lnindr:-d and
fo'.t_v-iii"ih :‘n:iu:il <'on.;ii-on
the

this

H. .L‘__.

um

one
if‘. P”
l'L‘l)i'(‘1~‘\"l‘ill no:
of oi‘
-.-1'-uicni
l‘.i'l<l
11

(Q1.

€i'c1:I'-cs of llnixi
Lr<‘- (Jhapel

clock.

in

moruini: at o’-

inelntle
M

. .

confei red

L‘ ,
i

one
Im*(,-l'iir.g_ ;1si4-rj:
Ii£1(l’1i"ll)l‘.s‘ of
P:v_»-lir of /\ris.

, I'i£l»‘ .
Elzience, Ill

l"n

I'iil(‘ll1‘l<Il"~' It
(l(illllll(“‘«"(‘, and the i’o.'lo,v‘£n_;_r lionv.-r,-—
vi"

and

2“-_\’ -:le:‘en<->1: ii-tiur llorimz
iy, two Doctors of
Ilottor of
The p1'<ice:-xsioii of iru~'i-:"e<. i'u'ul—
tj.‘. and §.'.'l‘él(lll;1l(‘,s‘
of the zicmleinic
and inarchezl the
§:ia(lL1:1tes led the ., the
chapel entrance, vrlu‘-re they ptiriezl
i'<»rinin;:; two filer, llli‘-1>tl'."ll \'~.'lllill the
iiurttees, i‘:u*ult_v and oificv-i‘.-1 of
Univer.~:ity passed and cntercil the
chapel. The Law, (2 ll, ['21. .‘.. I}.
A., Science, and (‘onimcrcc gzradurdes

iii \ ini-
l.£1‘.\‘:<,
Cruninercial

one
flcit-zice.

i'orn‘:<'<l ‘ front
ill: 1'").
The

liuildiugr
io clizinci.

prov to

the

followed in ordci, and took .“(‘.‘ll.‘3 :1».-—

coriling: to fiI‘(‘:1l‘l‘i1ll_L{‘(‘(l placement.
Ili‘«‘*‘i—-
ii'iii'i:m;. Kl

J,

ii1no'.:i_‘£i<;n,
Sluiili

the
Louis

Following‘

dent llcnry

the commencemeiit:

ll. Iiatanc, who (l{‘ll\'t‘i‘f‘(

to the
;'\?'lL‘i‘

l ‘ . . l‘. 
n:t~_ <1ii(ll:‘.~,\,

g-;r;ul1iai'-s.

llr. l.;1i.:‘.n~ l‘-,::zl <'.».a.g:':‘.<-al

to
lllt fr de-
grees from llr. Srniili 11.: their llilllixis‘
called

no full text
marks follow:

Wlilli‘ l

Wasliin<;‘ion and
the
ne\. ilheh 

tlie _J.'lilill“lli:‘ itlcal

the pl;itl'orm azid rev:-i‘~‘<<i

V‘. (‘l‘(‘

rV|

of llr. l.at;ine re-

noi, aii :1l11vonu.-:

oi‘<liP:ir_\.' sci

li‘;.[.tl’<l
it

‘i-utinu.-il on l‘a_e;e
, ,

,,, ,._U ,
N.  .BLll€€3.F’ 
For illrbiti“ 
C’0art, The .l'”~Z. i:

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r.

3 1 .
‘es; . -

‘:1
3.

l\.'<‘v.‘lor Iii. liJll\'~'l'. uronzinz-ni
alumnus nil" \V:i:-'liiire'ion and lme has
‘een appointeil one of the four Unit-
<‘(l .°~taies members of the i)i"i‘l'r‘.2i?I~"lli
Court of Arbitration at
President Oooliilgre

the llajrue,

2lllllO!lll(‘('il iill‘ll

"Secretary of State I\:(‘ll4>;;'}1‘ Saiiirday.

Baker is 57 years of a§_-‘e. and is
the son of Newton I)i<’hl
l')ul-zehardt Baker. Ile received his
A. B. at Johns Hopi-:isis irillti;
LLB. at Wasl1in;r;ton and Lee in 1:~1‘.i.1
On July 7Slll2. he illEll'l'lt‘(l i".li:<.~:
Elizabeth Leopold of Poiisiown. l‘:1.
He served as private to
iiifilH12tI~‘l(’l‘—(it*n(‘i‘:1l ‘.Vilsoii in 1896-7
bc_e;an pra(:i,ice of in .“il.:;{ius—
liriigq, W. Va.. in 1897; was city so-
licitor of (ileveland, 0., 19i)i’.—l2;
mayor of Cleveland. term 101:’.-l-1
and lfll-al~lti; &lDl)Olllir"(l S(‘<‘l‘f‘i,:»ll‘_\' of
‘Var by Presiilcnt Wilson on i\la:'«-h
7, 1916, and served until l\larcii l.
1921. was appointed (‘e1nm:indine'-
‘Colonel of the O. R. C. in March
1921. He is a member of the firm
I I}al<er, llostetler and Sidlo,
Cleveland. He is a member
."hi Gamma Delta. Society

(Continued on Page 2)

and i‘.‘l::i{\'
in
5.

:~<\H'.’l'(*l ;1r_v

lil \"

of
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should come to the Editor-in-Chief.
We are always glad to publish any communications that may be handed to us, but no

unsigned correspondence will be published.

IN RETROSPECT

T IS OVER. THE ONE HUNDRED and forty-fifth session
of Washington and Lee University was officially closed
this morning when Commencement exercises in Lee Chapel were
declared over, and the social features will be climaxed tonight
with the Final Ball. Those who for nine months were Sen-
iors are now Alumni, while the Freshman class has stepped into
the shoes of the late Sophomores to make room for the hundreds
who will come here for the first time next September, yearn-
ing for knowledge and prepared to drink freely of the educa-
tional facilities and traditional characteristics which make Wash-
ington and Lee a school without a prototype.

The thirty—first volume of the RING-TUM PHI closes with
this issue. The editor’s responsibility ceased when the last
copy of this issue came off the press, and the staff heaved a
sigh of releif at the thought of a three-month vacation. Type-
writers are silent, the copy readers’ pencils have been pocketed,
head writers are no longer striving to find a synonym which
will exactly fit, and the reporters will not look over the as-
signment board again until the middle of September.

The RING-TUM PHI has not been free from criticism this
year. It never will be. Our only regret, however, is that at
times we laid ourselves open to merited criticism, which was
always welcome and acted upon where possible. The frequent
and almost continuous attempts of certain individuals and or-
ganizations to impress their views upon the executives of the
paper were annoying, but never worrisome. Criticism directed
for the evident sake of securing more publicity or better space
for causes or happenings which should be——and were—subordi-
nated in position and headlines, at times became actually liu—
morous, although the persons bringing the suggestions or fault-
finding to the editorial desk considered their pet cause the
grestest in importance on the Washington and Lee campus.

Many criticisms, to apply a mild name to a few of the thought-
less and provoking raiitings of some individuals, were entirely
unjustifiable. How can a paper be expected to give much space
or a good position to an affair or organization when the very
persons who afterwards are dissatisfied have refused to give
sufficient information for a good story? Some stories which
would command a top space on quiet days have to be relegated
to the bottom or the inside when more important news is avail-
able, but some persons will never understand this. Instead of
criticising the editor bitterly, why not consider yourself in his
position and try to understand the principles of evaluating
news? The editor does not purport to know the best method
of handling the affairs of all organizations on the campus, but
he does beleive he knows more about running a newspaper than
do those presidents, secretaries, publicity officers, and indivi-
duals wlio are frequently trying to point out what a mistake
the editor made in not giving their story top space.

We do not apologize for any of our editorial stands. Many
among the student body, faculty, and administration disagree
with us at times as some pet hobby or favoriige cause was rapped,
but the RING—TUM Plll during the past year cannot be ac-
cused of taking advantage of its positon to force its views down
the throats of the campus inhabitants. The columns were al-
ways open to any wishing to take issue with the editorial policy
or to try to bring up any subject of their own. Few took advan-
tage of this, it is true, but the opportunity was offered, and
mention was made of the privilege at the top of the editorial
columns in every issue. A

We have tried to bring to the attention of the proper per-
sons certain conditions on the campus which we beleived needed
attention. We have expressed ourselves freely on certain moral
issues, and have receivedqueer returns in expression of senti-
ment. Soine considered us too liberal, while others disagreed
with what they termed our “temperate” policy. The necessity
of keeping conditions on the dance floor at the high level which
has characterized them throughout the last year and a half has
been repeatedly emphasized, and cannot be sticsscd too much.
A lapse into the old rut of conduct would be fatal to the contin-
uance of the functions which have made Washington and Lee
socially famous.

There remain a few observations which we feel we must
make before the opportunity is lost. Some of them we have
mentioned before, others we are now considering for the first
time.

There has been less drinking at Washington and Lee during
the past year than any of the preceding years, we believe, and,
we feel practically safe in saying, than during any year within
the memory of the younger alumni. The “shines” of the few,

which may possibly appear more flagrant because of their com-
parative scarcity, are what give the faciilfy, administration, and
outsiders the idea that students here are always imbibing. A
man under the influence of liquor is much more noticable than
he was in the days of the open saloon, and, with the majority
of the population abstaining most of the time, one man who has
been indulging is the subject of much criticism which would
not be heard if the former situatioii existed. Washington and
Lee men are not given to drinking as a rule, and certainly do
not drink as much or as s‘.‘ca(iily as students at many others
institutions. We believe that much of the criticism aimed at
students here is unjustifiable, and results from the growth of
gossipy rumors which are the result of someone seeing one
man come out of a certain house slightly inebriated. Some stu-
dents here do drink. Some students in every university drink.
In our opinion, however, the percentage of drinkers among
Washington and Lee students is no higher than that among
men of the same age not attending institutions of higher edu-
cation.

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AN AUDITORIUM?

ASHINGTON AND LEE needs, and should have, an auditor-

orium, equipped with a stage, organ, and facilities for seat-
ing two thousand persons. The present Lee Chapel is inade-
quate, and results in many interested persons refusing to attend
University functions at which they would otherwise be present.
University assemblies held in Doremus gymnasium are unbear-
able at times, to say the least, and not always so because of the
character of the program. Students should not be made to sit on
bleachers for an hour, with their backs to cold brick walls and
cold drafts circling around their heads and feet.

If pressure and sentiment in favor of leaving the present
chapel alone are too strong to allow the trustees to decree the
building of an addition to it, some provision should be made,
even if borrowing is necessary, to remedy the shameful and dia-
bolical situation now existing. There is no room for holding
assemblies, the Chapel is cramped, and many are forced to stay
away from baccalaurate and commencement exercises, and there
is no place in which mass meetings or dramatic or musical or-
ganizations can gather before the crowds which they should
draw.

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CURRICULAR REFORMS

NE OF THE MOST WORTHY FIGHTS which President

Henry Louis Smith has pushed during the period of his ad-
ministration here, and one which meets with the enthusiastic
suport of this paper, is that for curricular reform in the under-
graduate schoolsiat Washington and Lee. In recognition of
the requirements which are so dogmatically supported by some
professors here as obsolete in present—day American civilization,
Dr. Smith has again proven his progressiveness. Progressive-
ness as applied to the Presidcnt’s program must not be con-
strued as radicalism, however, for Dr. Smith does not propose
or fight for reform until he is certain of its worth.

Some steps have already betzii taken toward the fulfillment of
the plan he espouses, but there remains much to be done. He
secured the tentative approval of the trustees when they ap-
propriated money for an expert survey of the present curricula,
and the reports already submitted by the independently acting
members of the survey board bear out Dr. Smith’s contentions
to a great extent.

The progress towards greater freedom of choice for uiider-
graduates has not been confined to the more pi'ogress;ive north-
western colleges and universities. Guilford College is one of the
latest to revise its requirements for an A. B. degree, and has
provided for the scaling down a “general culture” subjects
as the student grows from freshman to senior. Four-fifths of
the first year work will be of this type, while only oiie—fifth will
be required during the last uiidergraduate year.

Revision of the curricula: to permit more freedom of study
has been announced at Hamline College by President Alfred F.
Hughes. Majors and minors have been abolished, the first and
last two years of work separated, and requirements reduced in
number. “Gateway” courses in the freshman and sophomore
years, will introduce the student to college, and thereafter he
will be free ‘to select his own .~:iibjecis. The only demand is for
36 hours of concentrated study. The “gateway” courses will be
liberal and varied.

Particular emphasis is being placed on the junior and senior
years. After caring for the rieiiiand of :56 hours, the student
may browse as he pleases, or he may limit his work to one field.
Provisions will be made for graiitiiig the exceptioiizil :~'.l.ll(iCllL
research facilities if he is able to carry his work beyond the
limits of courses offered. Similarly, by ‘ct1‘1‘a11g‘elll€I1t with de-

partment heads, study may be done outside of class rooms and
with no direct reference to courses.

Washington and Lee should consider well the exaniples set
in other schools. The system of “vagaboiiding” would not work
well here because of the comparatively small size of the student
body, but revision of the curricula should be made, 21.11-Ll the fa-
culty, most of whom are trained in the old order, would be fool-
ish to ignore the reports of the experts when they are submit-
ted in final form.

_.._._,,_. W 

NEWTON I). BAKER SPEAKS

OMMENTING UPON THE ADDRESS of Newton D. Baker,

' alumnus of Washington and Lee, at the commencement ex-
ercises at Birmingham-Southern, the Birmingham AGE-HER-
ALD spoke as follows:

“At Birmingham-Southern, Newton Baker was the l).‘1C{‘:dl£L1l~-
reate speaker, and delivered the kind of address to be ex1)ecte(l
from this admirably clear—headed and well-poised person. Not
for him the flub—dub_and platitudes resounding through the lani.
at this season, but the earnest appeal to young persoiis of this
transitional age. He spoke of adjustments, since, in a period
of flux and change, adjustments is the great desideratum. And
he indicated at least three points of adjustment to which all
thoughtful men and women must direct their attention.

“There can be no doubt that racial adjustment, not merely in
this country, but throughout the world, is a matter of signifi-

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SOUND ADVICE

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one by whom international alliances
could be formed, a great army or-
ganized, and Rome forever driven
out of Judca. Political parties sprung
into activity and Jerusalem was
periodically soothing with suppress-
ed emotion for the Messiah whose
political sagacity would fulfill the
dream of Jewish poets and prophet:=,
So when Jesus appeared as a carpent-
er of Galilee, humble, kind and
courageous, they rejected His claim
as absurd, expressing their disgust
in His crucifixion. “He came unto
His own and His own received Him
not.” ‘

Has the Christian Church under-
stood Him any better than the Jews
did? For the first few centuries
Christians were an humble, kind, and
spiritual people, not unlike Jesus of
Nazareth. As they grew in numbers
they grew in pride, dreaming of a
world empire. Constantinefla char-
acter as dissolute as Herod—c.-iine to
the Roman throne and, under his
patronage for political purposes,
Christianity received the edict of tol-
sration and then became the state
religion. The council of Nicea was
called and out of it came the Niecene
Creed. Henceforth Christianity pass-
ed into its captivity. On one hand,
the creedal statements henceforth
put Christianity into definitions; on
tho other hand, being a state re-
ligion, Christianity became the ally
of every fraud and scandal in poli-
tical affairs.

The result of all this was that
Christianity became involved politic-
ally, coiiiniitting itself to war; involv-
ed industrially, committing itself to
unfair industrial measures; involved
socially, committing itself to the
rule of superior races; and involved
theologically, committing itself to
systems of theology that have con-
fused the public mind.

The Jews would not accept Jesus
because He was not a political lead-
er; the Christians made Him a poli-
tical leader and obscured His spirit-
ual ministration to mankind.

No age has ever been so challeng-
ed as this. VVe have back of us
these two experiences. Now is the
world of open mind as never before.
It is possible for Jesus to be brought
out of His obscurity. His Spirit is
here. It is seeking for outlets. It
must find these outlets in human
personality. The adV'ciil7iii'es in sci-
ence that crowd our thinking are
but parables to reniind us that the
greatest of all adventures is in the
spiritual realm. War must be
abolished, industrial adjustments
must be made, self—del'ei'inination
mustt be the unobstructed pathway
of the races. theology must take its
place with other sciences in chang-
ing for fairer foundation for a unit-
ed Christendom.

If it is pardonziblc that He came
unto His own twice~fii'::t to the
Iews and then to the Geiitiles—an(l
they did not receive Him, it is no
'ongei' pardonable. No man has a
right to be provincialized by his
back yard, whether that back yard
:e his country or his denomination
or his business. By the transporta-
tion of food, fabrics, and ideas the
world has been made a community.
We have got to learn to live as
I‘,1'Oth0l‘S in this world coiiimunity.
It is treasonable not to make a con-
tribution for world betterment in
erms of the Spirit of Jesus. He is
the last hope of the world’s free-
ioin and history waits on tip toe
for the unobscured Jesus of Nazareth.

are capable.

FLOURNOYIWLAUDGS I
SOUTH AS LEADER

(continued from page 1)
glory. These men died for the South
and our praise is mockery if we do
not live for the_ South, because she
needs it now as she never did be-
fore.

“These men fought, first in de-
fence of the civilization of the old
south, the most beautiful culture and
the most productive of great men
that modern times have known,”
Professor Flournoy continued. “They
fought secondly, in the defense of a
political principle, upon which the
nation was founded and upon which
freedom must always rest~—the right
of the individual to govern himself
and the right of the locality to gov-
ern itself in thing that concern him
or it alone.”

These things are threatened with
extinction, Professor Flournoy said,
with the tendencies of “this mater-
ialistic, vulgar, intolerant and hy-
sterical age and nation” directly
opposed to “the poise, serenity, tol-
erance, dignity and gentleness of the
old southern civilization.” The
south still remains, as yet, herself,
he said, and has not been entirely
standardized. She is unjaded and
has an incomparable background,
but there are enemies in the path
of southern progress which must be
eliminated before the spiritual qua-
lities can reach perfection, Professor
Flournoy said. These enemies, he
added, are intolerance and self-satis-
faction, and he called upon his
hearers to remember that the men
who died made the supreme sacri-
fice to save the land from the ra-
vages of intolerance and self-satis-
faction.

“These things are the by-product
of forces over which the south has
had no control. They are the chil-
dren of narrowness and must be con-
quered by light and made to fade in
the dawn of an intellectual renais-
sance.”

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MEMORIAL BRIDGE
DEDICATED MONDAY

(Continued from Page 1)
the example and training of their
esteemed president, Henry Louis
Smith.

The Memorial Bridge connects the
athletic field with the main Univer-
sity grounds. It is the longest and
highest foot bridge in America and
in the opinion of Horace Peaslee,
‘landscape artist, the most beautiful.

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NEWTON D. BAKER
GETS APPOINTMENT

(continued from page 1)
Cincinnati and Union, University
City, Chamber of Commerce (Cleve-
land), Army and Navy University
and Cosmos (Washington) clubs.
His home is at 343 East 105th street
and his office in the Union National
Bank building, Cleveland, Ohio.

_____0___

Memorial Service

At Lee Chapel 30th

Lee Chapel was again the scene
of the annual Memorial Day services
in Lexington, Attorney General J.
R. Saunder being the speaker of the
day. A double quartet from the W.
and L. Glee Club lead in the singing
of several popular Confederate Civil
War numbers.

The usual parade was held after
the memorial services, and a squad
from V. M. I., fired a volley at the
cemetery in honor of the dead bur-
ied there.

caiice. There can be no doubt that industrial adjustment, which
sliall keep the human superior to the machine and master of the
machine, also presses upon the prayerful iiiterest.
be no doubt that iiitcriiatioiial adjustinent, with all that it im-
plies of the grace of peace supplanting the threat of war, de-
inands from Americans, the profoundest concern of which they

There can

“In stressing the duty of college graduates to rise to the

height of their obligations with respect to these incalculably
vital iiccds of our world, Mr. ‘ial-.er has merely given a new form
0 the ancieiit challenge which confronts educated men and wo-
men. They must find themselves to the task of allaying the
dreads of humanity. ‘Speak to it, Horatio, thou are a scholar,’
was no more pregnant in the Denmark which Shakespeare ini-
igiiied than in the America we know.”

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NO FLAG FLOWN

I‘ HY HAS NOT THE FLAG BEEN flown from the top of
I Washingloii College at any time this year? We have asked
this question on several occasioiis, and have never received a
satisfactory answer from the University administratioin. The
emblem of the nation should be raised and lowered every day,
but if that is too much trouble to the man who has immediate
supervision of the campus buildings, it should at least be fiown
on holidays and days significant in the history of Washington
and Lee. We cannot believe that it is the policy of the admin-
istration to ignore the proper observance of symbolic days, but
believe that some subordinate executive authority is either in-
different or positively disinterested enough to fail to realize the
propriety of the recognition of common formalities.

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an Alma Mater, for eleven of the
happiest and most fruitful years of
my life were spent in her service.
If the hundreds of fine young Amer-
icans whose interest I endeavored to
arouse in history, politics, and in-
ternational relations got half the in-
Lpiration from me that I received
from them, my labors were not in
\ain.

During the past fifteen years my
chief work has been with a more li-
mited group of advanced students,
and the dissertations and books, now
filling a long shelf, written unedr
my supervision and published under
my editorship, offer tangible eviden-
ce of the results of our joint labors,
but my pride and satisfaction are
equally moved when I meet my for-
mer Washington and Lee students-
and I have run across them wher-
ever I have gone, in distant sections
of this country, in’Europe, and even
in far off Chile and Argentina—and
they tell me that I first aroused
their interest in wrold politics, an
interest which was destined to be
unexpectedly quicken by the stirring
events of the World War.

While, I trust, we are not facing
another world war in the immediate
future, we have, nevertheless, many
great problems to be solved if we
weould avoid such a catastrophe.
And so today instead of giving you
advice, as is usual upon occosions of
kind, as to what constitutes success
in life and the means of achieving
it, I shall address myself to one of
the great problems that American
democracy faces—the problem of
imperialism.

Very few Americans yet realize
the fact, much less the full signifi-
cance of it, that as a result of the
World War the United States has
ceased to be a debtor nation, and is
rapidly becoming, if indeed it has
not already become, the world’s
greatest creditor nation. At the be-
ginning of the European war we ow-
ed abroad five or six billions of dol-
lars. Our great railroads and in-
dustrial enterprises had absorbed
billions of European capital. We
borrow where the interest rates were
low‘, in London, Paris, Hamburg,
Berlin. By the time the United
States entered the War, most of
the American securities held in Eu-
rope had been sent back to this
country in exchange for food and
munitions, and a clean slate was
presented. As a result of the war
the rest of the world now owes us
twenty-five billions. This includes
ten billions of government debts, re-
presenting sums advanced by the
United States government to the
countries of Europe for war and
post-war purposes. And we might
as well wipe these debts off the
slate, for in my humble judgement
they will never be paid, certainly
not in full.

That leaves about fifteen billions——
the amount of American loans and
investments abroad, and we are now
investing abroad at the rate of over
a billion dollars a year. I ask you
to stop to consider what that means,
what effect it will have upon the
foreign policy of the United States.
Although the Constitution does not
follow the flag, the State Depart-
ment follows the dollar. How are
these foreign investments to be pro-
tected? That is a new problem for
American statesmanship to solve,
for we have never before had oc-
casion to develope a foreign invest-
ment policy.

Leaving Europe out of account,
let us confine our attention to the
Caribbean and to the countries bor-
dering on the Caribbean, an area
nicely fenced off by the Monroe Doc-
trine, where we can do what we
please without interference from Eu-
rope, for what European power,
since the World War, is in a posi-
tion to challange the Monroe Doc-
trine or any interputation we may
choose to give it? Let us see what
we have been doing of late years
in the Caribbean area, and let us
ask ourselves whether our rule over
our Southern neighbors has been
subject to the democratic will of the
American people, or to constitutional
control, or merely to the autocratic
powers of the American president.

The Monroe Doctrine has for over
a hundred years been the basis of
our policy in Latin America. It is
a unilateral policy proclaimed ori-
ginally, as President Monroe stated,
for the purpose of preserving “the
peace and safety of the United
States.” Incidentally it was a pol-
icy of benevolent protection, for it
saved Latin America from sphres
of influence and from the kind of
imperialistic exploitation to which
China and Africa were subjected
during the latter half of the the
nineteenth century. As a result of
our vast national resources and our
economic self-sufficiency, we were
not tempted until recently to ex-
ploit the countries of Latin America,
and therefore the Monroe Doctrine

was, in effect, an open door policy.
In recent years, that is, since the
Spanish War, the situation has
wholly changed, particularly as re-
gards our relations with the Carib-
bean and the countries bordering on
the Caribbean. In this area the
Monroe Doctrine has become the
main instrument of American imper-
ialism.

Some Americans object to the
term imperialism when applied to
the United States, but you will not
often find this objection raised by
econimists and political scientists.
The term imperialism, as used by
writers in this country and abroad
for the past quarter of the a century
means the subjection of backward
races to the will of more powerful
and more highly industrialized na-
tions and the exploitation of the na-
tural resources of the former by the
latter. If this term does not ac-
curately describe the relationship of
the United States to the Caribbean,
I am at lose to find a better one.

At the beginning of the present
century our total investments in La-
tin America were less than three
hundred millions. Today they a-
mount to the enormous sum of five
billion two hundred million, and
more than three billion of this is in
the Caribbean area. The overflow
of American capital into this region
is undoubtedly destined to continue.
While European capital may recover
lost ground in the larger states of
South America, the Caribbean area
has been marked off ofr American
development or exploitation, as the
case may be. Our economic frontiers
have outgrown our political fron-
tiers. The United States has become
the most industrialized nation in the
world, and it is already apparent
that economic imperialism is not go-
ing to be held back by political
fronteirs.

Investors in the backward or dis-
orderly states of the Caribbean area
look to the government of the Uni-
ted States for protection, and the
government has not been unrespon-
sive. Some of the methods of con-
trol already employed may be brief-
ly referred to. In the case of Porto
Rico and the Danish West Indies
we have resorted to direct annexa-
tion, through cession from thir for-
incr sovereigns. So far we have re-
frained from annexing independent
states, and it is not likely that we
will resort to that method of control
for the formal annexation of the
territory of other peoples is no long-
er in vogue. But economic i1npcr-
ialism does not have to resort to
such crude methods as annexation.
Its aim can be equally well accom-
plished in other ways. Thus we
have established proctorates over
Cuba and Panama; we have estab-
lished receiverships in the Domini-
can Republic and Haiti; we have
sent financial advisers under loan
contracts into various countries to
 that the money is spent for the
purposes for which it is advanced;
we have intervened by force for the
purpose of policing disorderly coun-
tries, as in Haiti, Santo Domingo,
and Nicaragua; we have undertaken
the intellectual as well as the phy-
sical sanitation of certain states of
this area by declaring that we will
not permit Bolshevistic and Com-
munistic propaganda; we have deve-
loped a non-recognition policy under
which the President of the United
States may withhold or withdraw re-
cognition from a govermnent which
he considers unfriendly to the Uni-
ted States, an(l bestow recognition
upon some claiment to executive
power who will be a mere puppet in
the hands of the Department of
State, as in Nicaragua; at the re-
quest of the government thus set up
we have landedmarines for the pur-
pose of crushing opposition; and fin-
ally, we have assumed the task of
supervising elections in disorderly
countries. If these various methods
of control do not constitute imper-
ialism, then what is imperialism?
But of course some of you will say
that our motives have been high-
minded and pure, and that our in-
tervention has been benevolent. We
have, it is true, done a good job in
Cuba and Santo Domingo. Imperial-
ism always has an element of bene-
volence in it. England has undoubt-
edly done more than any other na-
tion in the spreading of civilization
throughout the world, and yet we
consistently refer to her in words of
condemnation as an imperialistic na-
tion. Between the Spanish War and
the close of the World War we
brought under our control 18,000,-
000 of people and 281,000 square
miles of territory. Did any of the
imperialistic nations of Europe, to
whom our Senators refer so fre-
guently as being unfit or dangerous
for us to associate with, muke such
gigantic strides in imperialism dur-
ing the same period? Imperialism is
inevitable. We have on the one
hand a group of highly industrializ-
ed nations, which have already used
up a large part of their own ma-
terials, and on the other hand a
group of backward countries with
vast natural resources which they
are at present incapable of develop-

ing. The great powers must furnish
both technical skill and the capital,
and this can be done to the mutual
advantage of both, provided the
measures adopted for the protection
of investment are just, but they are
not likely to be just unless they are
brought under constitutional or in-
tcrnational control.

The rapid advance of the United
States into the Caribbean has been
done in the sacred name of the
Monroe Doctrine. As has been said
frequently, the American people do
not know what the Monroe Doctrine
is, but they will fight for it at the
drop of a hat. It is obvious, there-
fore, that if the State Department
can bring any Caribbean policy un-
der the ever-expanding aegis of the
Monroe Doctrine, the American peo-
ple will be disposed to give it their
approval. Prior to the World War,
it behooved us to be on our guard
against any violation of the Monroe
Doctrine, for there was real danger.
After undertaking the construction
of the Canal, Roosevelt was deter-
mined, and I think very properly
so, that no European power should
acquire cotrol of any of the ap-
proaches to the Canal. In fact, his
Caribbean policy was based entirely
on straight considerations. He cer-
tainly was not consciously influenced
by economic interests.

But the situation has undergone a
radical change. What European po-
wer since the World War has been
in a position to challange the Mon-
roe Doctrine? What European po-
wer is in a position to do anything
of which we disapprove in the Car-
ibbean area? There has not been a
time in the century of its existance
when the Monroe Doctrine was safer
from European attack than it is at
the present moment, and yet in or-
der to justify every new move that
we make in the Caribbean or the
countries bordering in the Caribbean,
we invoke the Monroe Doctrine. This
is all pure camouflage. If we could
eliminate the Monroe Doctrine from
the discussion of the Caribbean ques-
tions, we would be in a better posi-
tion to pass on the policies of the
administration.

In dispute between American cit-
izens and foreign governments aris-
ing out of loans and investments,
the traditional American polisy has
been no-intervention, but with the
development of the United States
into a creditor nation, this policy
has undergone a change. The sound
principle of caveat emptor was aban-
(loned by the imperialistic powers of
of Europe a generation or more. ago.
Latterly we have followed in their
footsteps. Roosevelt at first admit-
ted the right of European powers to
ntcrv(-xne in Latin America for the
'=.‘lcc!.ion of debts, providing such
intervention did not take the form
of a permanent occupation of ter-
ritory. Later he changed his mind
and decided that as such interven-
tion would endanger the Monroe
Doctrine, it would be better for the
United States to assume the respon-
sibility of making these states pay
their debts and refrain from dis-
orders which might ivite foreign in-
tervention. To this end he estab-
lished the Dominican receivership,
and paved the way for much that
has since been done in the name of
the Monroe Doctrine. International
law provides no remedy for foreign
investors save diplomatic protest,
and, wher that fails, war. In the
absence of treaties of arbitration
covering such cases, a nation still
has the right, through its constituted
authorities to declare war on any
pretext it choose. This raises the
moral issue. In the recent cont1'o—
versy with Mexico the Department
of State vertually demanded that
Mexico should live up to our stand-
ards of justice and our concepts of
law. As a result of John Marshall’s
decisions we have inherited rather
rigid concepts of vested interests
and the inviolability and enduring
obligation of contracts. We have
found relief in later years from the
extreme implications of Marshall’s
decisions in the doctrine of police
powers. Have we a right either in
law or morals to demand that a
foreign government, in matters af-
fecting our citizens, shall live up to
our concepts of law?

The right of the President to land
marines or other armed forces on

foreign territory for the protection
of the lives and tangible property of
American citizens against immediate
danger from mob violence or other
temporary disorders is well fortified
by a long line of precedents. I have
a list of about eighty-five cases of
such use of the armed forces of the
United States. In practically all of
those cases the local government
was, for the time being, unable to
afford protection at the place where
the troops were landed. In the oil
dispute with Mexico such was not
the case. We objected to a provi-
sion in the fundamental constitution
of the country and an act of the leg-
islative body carrying out that pro-
vision. President Coolidge appar-
ently failed to recognize any differ-
ence between an act of the govern-
ment which he regarded as confis-
catory, and a temporary state of
disorder which it is unable to con-
trol. To use the armed forces of
the United States for the purpose
of protecting the investments of A-
merican citizens against alleged con-
fiscatory acts of a foreign govern-
ment is nothing short of war, and
.hould not be undertaken without a
formal declaration of war by Con-
gress. In the Mexican case, Presi-
dent Coolidge declared that the A-
merican people did not believe in
the confiscation of private property,
and that consequently there was
nothing to arbitrate with Mexico.
We were rapidly drifting toward un-
declared war. As soon as the Sen-
ate recognized the aim and purpose
of the administration, it acted with
swift decision. On January 25, 1927,
 resolution urging the President to
submit the dispute to arbitration
was unanimously adopted. As a re-
sult of this action on the part of
the Senate, and a widespread oppos-
ition to the President’s Mexican pol-
icy, he accepted the resignation of
Ambassador Sheffield, and sent
Dwight Morrow to Mexico. The
conciliatory policy of the new am-
bassador has already borne fruit and
the Mexican crisis has passed for
the present at least.

It is true that both in Europe
and America that imperialism has
not yet been brought either under
the constitutional control of states
or under international control. The
first attempt to bring it under in-
terantional control is the mandate
system adopted by the league of na-
.ions. It is commonly said by cri-
tic of this system that the former
German and Turkish colonies, hand-
cd over to England and France, are
as much their possessions as if

did to them. That may be true in
a sense, but there is this important
difference. England and France
lé1V0 to render an account of their
stewardship, with the League, and
h.- inhabitants of these mandated
areas have a forum to which they
may appeal. Since the Monroe Doc-
.rino prevents Europe from exercis-
ing any control over what we do in
the Caribbean, there is no interna-
tional check upon the power of the
i’1‘csi(lent, and through the recent-
ly developed non—recognition policy
and the President’s discretionary
power to use the marines, it is pos-
sible for the President to wage war
against our Southern neighbors
without a declaration of war on the
part of Congress. There may be
heavy fighting and a long casualty
list without there being any war in
the technical sense, for it is not
war unless it is waged against a
recognized government. The Presi-
dont may, them:-fo1‘e, at any time,
withdraw recognition from a govern-
mcnt which he does not like, re-
cognize thc leader of some faction
which is friendly to the United
States, and then at the request of
the new government, land marines
and crush the opposition.

The policy developed in recent
years of refusing to recognize de
facto governments which come into
existance as the result of a revolu-
tion or a coup d’etat, has tended to
perpetuate dictatorships and not to
promote democracy. We have at
last been forced to recognize this
fact, and have decided that it is
our duty to supervise elections in
disorderly countries. The supervi-
sion of elections in Haiti and San-
to Domingo, and the attempt to hold
a plebiscite in Tacne-Arica, have not
succeeded in producing harmony or

\,

s.9.tisfaction, and now we are prepar-
ing to supervise an election in Nica-
ragu contrary to the expressed terms
of the Nicaraguan constitution. We
are confronted, furthermore, by this
dilema. If the Conservatives win,
we will be charged with gross un-
fairness, because it is generally con-
ceded that the Liberals are greatly
in the majority. If, on the other

hand, the Liberals win, it will be a‘
in

serious reflection on our policy
having maintained the Conservatives
in power with the aid of marines.

The recent Pan—A1nerican Confer-
ence at Havana registrd th high
point of North American imperial-
ism. Two important proposals in
the interest of Pan-American peace
and concord came up for discussion
and both were defeated by Mr.
Hughes, who did all the talking for
the United States delegation. One
was a declaration prepared in ad-
vance by a commission of jurists,
that no state srould intervene in the
domestic affairs of another state.
Two Americans, appointed by the
President. Dr. James Brown Scott
and Dr. Jesse S. Reeves, were mem-
ers of the commission which met
at Rio last year and drafted this
declaration. Both signed it with the
understanding that the United States
could still intervene in a disorderly
country for the protection of the
lives and property of foreigners, but
when the proposal came up at Ha-
vana Mr. Hughes defeated it.

The other proposal, also drafted
by a commission of purists, provid-
ed a general plan of arbitration and
conciliation, conferring upon the Pan
American Union powers of concilia-
tion somewhat similar to, though
not as extensive as those exercised
by the Council of the League of Na-
tions. The plan was also defeated
or postponed. Mr. Hughes, in the
role of attorney for the United
States, through an extraordinary
display of ability, won his case by
playing on the jealousies and special
interests of the other states attend-
ing the conference. But was it a
good case? A large majority of
the delegation protested with great
earnestness against the intervention
of the United States in the internal
afi’airs of other states, as exempli-
fled in the case of Nicaragua, but
the opposition of the North Ameri-
can delegation, backed by all the
power and financial domination, pre-
vented an adverse vote.

Although the American people
profess to believe in open diplomacy,
they were kept in ignorance of what
was really going on at the Havana
Conference. The American press
published only what Mr. Hughes
gave out, and the State Department
issued nothing but a brief and whol-
ly inadequate “press release.” The
Conference adjourned over three
months ago, but the proceedings have
not been published. In fact our
government gives the people less in-
formation about foreign affairs than
any of the great governments of the
\vorl(l. The last volume of “For-
eign Relations” is that for the year
1927 and that appeared only a few
months ago. Eleven years, as Mr.
Hughes facetiously remarked at the
recent meeting of the American So-
ciety of International Law, has a
mellowing effect. It takes the edge
oil" of criticism. In recent years
the United States has participated
in a number of other important in-
ternational conferences, the proceed-
ings of which have not been publish-
cd by our government. In such
cases the American investigator has
to rely entirely on the publications
of other governments or on the pub-
lications of the League of Nations,
which are not available except in
the larger libraries.

The prominence given to the Mon-
roe Doctrine in the Senate debate on
the League of Nations convinced our
Southern neighbors that our refusal
to enter the League and even to be-
come a party to the World Court
was due to our desire to have a free
hand in Latin America. And they
were not wholly wrong in this con-
clusion. We refused to cooperate
with Europe throught the League
of Nations and the World Court be-
cause of the alleged danger of Eu-
ropean entanglements, but our de-
lcgation at the recent Havana Con-
Eerence opposed the establishment

EXECUTIVE HEADS’ OF 1927-28 MINK

GARRISON

W. A. PLUMMER

Managing Editor

G. S. DePASS

\

Business Manager

of an American Court and the reor-
ganization of the Pan American
Union in order that no international
court or council of conciliation may
interfere in any course we choose
to pursue in the Caribbean. When
we were a weak and feeble republic
we were the great champions of in-
ternational arbitration. Now that
we have become the wealthiest and
most powerful nation on earth, we
do not care to be hampered by arbi-

tration treaties, international courts»

and leagues of nations, European or
American. As this statement will
doubtless be a surprise to some of
you and I have not time to discuss
it at length, I shall simply quote
the statements of a few public men
whose authority will doubtless car-
ry weigh and at least convince you
that I do not stand alone.

John Bassett Moore, author of “A
History and Digest of International
Arbitrations to which the United
States has been a party,” the great-
est living authority on the subject,
and a Judge of the World Court, in
his’ volume of essays on “Interna-
tional Law and Some Current Illu-
sions,“ speaking of the action of the
Senate in amending the Roosevelt
arbitration treaties, says: “The re-
sult of this action is that, so far as
the United States is concerned, it is
now in actual practice more difficult
to secure international arbitration
than it was in the early days of
our independence. Although this
satement may occasion some surprise
its absolute correctess may easily be
demonstrated.”

Senator Elihu Root, when advocat-
ing the arbitration of the Panama
Tolls dispute with Great Britain, to
which the Senate refused to consent,
exclaimed: “Oh, arbitration when
we want it, yes; but when another
country wants it, ‘Never, never furl
the American flag at the behest of
a foreign nation’.”

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, dur-
the same debate, wrote as follows
to Theodore Roosevelt: “That the
United States, which has been loudly
boasting that it was the champion
of arbitration, should refuse to enter
upon the arbitration of a question
the moment such question involves
their interest, pleces the United
States in an attitude of hypocrisy
which is very serious and is really
revolting.”

Ex-President Taft, referring to
the rejection by the Senate of the
arbitration treaties on which his
mind and heart were so set, said
later: “I put them on the shelf
and let the dust accumulate on them
in the hope that the Senators might
change their minds, or that the peo-
ple might change the Senate; in-
stead 01' which they changed 1ne.”
Mr. Taft also asserted that “the
real. reason for defeating them was
an unwillingness to assent to the
principle of arbitration without
knowing in advance of whether we
were going to win or lose.”

Our constitutional machinery for
the conduct of foreign relations does
not seem to be working well. The
actual conduct of foreign relations
is placed by the Constitution in the
President’s hands, with almost no
limitations except in the matter of
declaring war or making treaties,
but he has almost unlimited power
of aggression. He may create a
situation which inevitably leads to
war, and he may, in fact, wage war,
provided it is not technically called
war. But when it come to making
peace or providing for the judicial
scttlcment of international disputes,
we find the President’s powers are
limited by the Senate, and there is
very little that he can do. In v.iew
of this condition, the proposal has
been made that the Constitution be
amended so as to provide for the
ratification of treaties by the ma-
jority of both Houses instead of by
a two-thirds vote of the Senate. It
is not likely that the Senate will,
within the lifetime of any of us,
agree to any such change.

The remedy, in my opinion, is the
development of a strong, intelligent,
well-informed public opinion. In the
formulation of foreign policies the
President has a powerful initiative,
and this initiative is backed by all
the agencies of publicity at his com-
mand. The Senate has a temporary
veto which it uses unsparingly. But
the ultimate decision of all questions
of permenent interest lies with the
people. Public opinion in this coun-
try at present time is determined
largely by propaganda; we may al-
most say that it is a victim of pro-
paganda. Now, most of us regard
propaganda as good or as pernicious
according to whether we approve or
disapprove of the cause in which it
is employed. There is nothing dan-
gerous about propaganda, provided
it is recognized as propaganda and
weighed as such. Discussion is the
life of democracy, and I am a funda-
mental believer in democracy. I do
not believe in the new doctrine of
presidential infallibility in foreign
affairs, advanced by President Cool-
idge in his address in May, 1927, be-
fore the Press Association of New
York. We have recently had a re-

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THE RING-TUM PHI

THREE GENERAL
BASEBALL MEN
To BIG LEAGUE

Folliard, Spotts, and Tips Sign
To Compete in Fast Company
This Coming Year

By Henry P. Johnston

Paul Folliard and H. S. (Babe)
Spotts, for the past three years re-
gulars on the Washington and Lee
General’s baseball team have signed
contracts to perform with the St.
Louis Cardinals of the National
League. And B. B. (Horse) Tips,
it is understood, is being sought
by a major league club.

Folliard and Spotts will leave
Lexington immediately after Finals
for the Cards. It is doubtful if
these two players will remain on
the Cardinals roster the remainder
of the year as it is likely that they
will be sent to one of the St.
Louis farms for seasoning.

Folliard has been the leading hur-
ler of the Blue and White for the
past three years and with his depar-
ture the Generals lose one of the
smartest college pitchers ever to
perform on the hill, as well as one
of the best and most consistent
hurlers to represent Washington and
Lee. Paul has a great chance of
breaking into the majors as a re-
gular in a few seasons—-he has a
wonderful change of pace, a fast
ball, and a great breaking curve. He
He was the leading pitcher all three
years that he performed for the
Blue and White and at the close of
last season was elected to captain
the 1928 machine.

Spotts came to Washington and
Lee in the fall of 1924 and made
the grosh football, basketball, and
baseball teams. The next year he
stepped into the varsity ranks of
all three sports and has been play-
ing regularly since. He is a first
basemen. Babe has played in every
inning of every baseball game since
becoming eligible for varsity com-
petition except for the last V. P. I.
game this year, when he was forced
to the sidelines on account of an
injured leg.

Last year Spotts lead the team
in hitting and his sophomore year
was right among the leaders. He is
a clever fielder, utilizing his height
to great advantage and low and high
throws.

Tips broke into the regular line
up his sophomore year as a catcher
and has been doing most of the re-
ceiving since. He has great promise
of developing into a major league
catcher of the highest rank, accord-
to several major league scouts who
have watched his play during the
present season. This year “Horse”
lead the willow swingers and was
high in the standing last year.

This is the first time since Gus
Lindberg left school in 1925 that a
general has signed a major league
contract and it is with great interest
that the followers of the Blue and
White will watch the papers for the
work these three will show during
the summer months in America’s
most famous pastime.

~;—0
INITIATED

Dr. Freeman Hansford Hart, A. B.
1923, M. A. 1925, now head of the
history department at Hampden-
Sydney College, returned for Finals
and was initiated into the Omicron
Chapter of Kappa Phi Kappa Satur-
day at the home of Professor Wat-
son B. Sclvage.

Professor Hart is originally from
Rockbridge Baths, and attended the
Union Theological Seminary in Rich-
mond. He later taught at the Horn-
cr Military School in Charlotte,
North Carolina. At present he also
teaches history through the Exten-
sion Division of the University of
Virginia.

GRADUATES WITH DIS-
TINCTION

SUMMA CUM LAUDE

Butler, H. H.
Carr, G. H., Jr.
Dix, D. S.
Kaplan, J.
Pierpont, A. VV.

MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Haller, R. J.
Miller, E. H.
Neel, H. B.
Norman, W. C.
Reed, J. D., Jr.
Rennie, J. G.
Strahorn, C. A.

CUM LAUDE

Clarke, E. S., Jr.
Dickerson, W. D.
Eiglebach, C. L.
Goldstein, J.
Harrison, P. R., Jr.
Howe, R. F.

Luria, W. J.
Magruder, W. C., Jr.
Pcarse, F. M., Jr.
Spence, J. M., Jr.
Sprouse, P. D.

ELLARD BACK
FROM TRIP TO
THREE STATES

Journalism Head Spoke In Vir-
ginia, Wisconsin. and Missouri
For University

Prof. Roscoe B. Ellard, head of
the Department of Journalism, re-
turned this morning from a two
weeks’ trip through Virginia, Wis-
consin and Missouri in the interests
of the University. He made ad-
dresses at high schools, secured the
promise of additional equipment for
the Department of Journalism, and
prepared a report on a specific prob-
lem of instructional nature which
the trustees had authorized studied.

“A. most marked tendency is to be
seen,” Profesor Ellard said, “on the
part of Class A journalism schools
in the states I visited towards re-
definite use in Journalism courses of
a sure working knowledge of history,
economics, political science, litera-
ture, aesthetics and other ‘back-
ground subjects’. The study of ef-
fective reports of mere ‘interesting
facts’ of police blotter data, deaths,
and surface movements of politics
is finding less and less a place in
collegiate instruction for newspaper
work. The work now is becoming
strongly an organization of know-
ledge and methods of procedure for
efiective interpretation and evalua-
tion of current history. This is, of
course the method of approach up-
on which we have been working
constantly at Washington and Lee
since the installation of the depart-
ment of Journalism three years

T

ago.

Journalism schools and depart-
ments, Profesor Ellard said, have
proved themselves as fundamental
parts of the modern university cur-
riculum. In the schools he visited,
he said, such departments are strong
well elected and apparently well sup-
ported by both the faculty and the
administration.

Professor Ellard spoke at both the
Lynchburg and Danvillle high school
in this state on “Feudamentals of an
Effective Literary Style.” The bur-
den of his thesis was that one must
learn to think before one can learn
to write; that one must acquire
early literary habits of mind; that
literary or journalistic ability is not
something that can be assumed for
a few hours each day by a mind that
is indifferent or undiciplined the rest
of the time. The speaker contended
that intellectual qaulity is a basis
for all writing, but that pure learn-
ing without specific training in writ-
ing is more than apt to leave a mind
intellectually “muscle—bound” as far
as literary or effective expresion is
concerned.

A letter from Mrs. Nora Payne
Hill, of the English department,
George Washington high school, of
Danville, indicates that Professor
Ellard will deliver the main com-
mencement address at that high
school next year.

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EXERCISES END

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markable and encouraging exhibi-
tion of the effective forces of pub-
lic opinion in the defeat of the ad-
ministration’s naval program. Some
attribute this result to the efforts
of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt and
the various women’s organizations,
others to the efforts of the Federal
Council of Churches. The signi-
ficant fact is that letters and tele-
grams poured into Washington in
such large numbers that the Presi-
dent and members of Congress quak-
ed in their boots. The administra-
tion’s naval program was abandoned,
and public opinion scored a great
victory. The American people are
opposed the naval program because
they are inherently opposed to war
and could see no danger on the hori-
zon. Their instincts were right,
though they were probably not fully
aware of the fact that navies are
instrucments of policy, that they are
used for war only when diplomats
blunder or overplay their hands, that
in the fierce competition for raw ma-
terials navies are great aids to dol-
lar diplomacy and to the plutocra-
tic intersts which reap the main pro-
fits of imperialism. The United
States and Great Britain are the two
great rival imperialistic nations of
the present day, but happily both
people are accustomed to legal and
orderly methods of adjusting diffi-
culties, and it would be the height
of folly to interject naval rivalry
into their commercial competition.
The United States should be satis-
fied with the naval parity, if it real-
ly wishes to perserve world peace.

Since the repudiation of the ideal-
ism of Woodrow Wilson and the “re-
turn to normalcy” there has been
little in our foreign policy to which
a thoughtful and well-informed A-
merican can point with pride, but it
be a mistake to be pessimistic about
the future. All the great wars of
history have been followed by per-

Howard -Houston Fellowship:
Mapleson Scholarship:

South Carolina.
Luther
Maryland.
Franklin Society Scholarship:
James McDowell Scholarship:

Hawes, Virginia.
James J. White Scholarship:

Virginia.
Taylor Scholarship:
Young Scholarship:
Inter-Fraternity Council

Massachusetts.

tucky.

Algernon
Arkansas.

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS

Guy Waldo Dunnington, Missouri.
Herbert Harriss Butler, Florida.
Vincent L. Bradford Scholarship:

Seevers Birely Scholarship:

Gale Blackwell Haley, Virginia.
Edward Spencer Graves, Virginia.
James D. Davidson Memorial Fund Scholarship:

Irwin Taylor Sanders, ennessee.
Mary Louisa Reid White Scholarship:

De Witt Barker Cook, New Jersey.
Charles Irving Lewis, West Virginia.
Scholarship:

The John H. Hamilton Scholarship:

DEPARTMENTAL SCHOLARSHIPS

leology: Jack Harold Hardwick, Kentucky.

German: Anselm John Eiband, Texas.

Political Science: Hugh Graham Morison, Tennessee‘.
French: Andrew Warren Pierpont, Florida.

Economics: Walter Preston Battle, Jr., Tennessee.
History: Hartford Ernest R. Bealer, District of Columbia.
English: Thomas Joseph Sugrue, Connecticut.

Commerce: Robert Bryarly Lee, Maryland.

Biology: Murrel Herman Kaplan, Kentucky.

Electrical Engineering: John Theodore Mosch, Pennsylvania.
Physical Education: William Smith Sandifer, Jr., Kentucky.
Spanish: Walter Hedrick Wilcox. Jr., Texas.

Education: William Miller Hinton, Kentucky.

Accounting: Page Tredway, New Jersey.

Civil Engineering: Edward Fearn Pilley, Virginia.
Physics: John Pierce Armstrong, Tennessee.

Journalism: Virgil Carrington Jones, Virginia.

Latin: Harold Merwin Platt, New York.

Prizes

Sydney Sullivan Medallion:

James Murdoch Sheckelford,

Robert Earle Clapp, Jr.,

N orman Emery

Edward Steidtman, Jr.,

Henry Theodore Groop,

George Allen Fleece, Ken-

Robert Fernald Howe,

List Of Undergraduate Degrees

CIVIL ENGINEER
Cox. W. J.

MASTER OF ARTS

Magann, S. T.
Simons, M. A.
Stearns, T. P.
Wice, D. H.
Williams, J .H.

BACHELOR OF LAWS

Arnold, G. S.
Barker, H. M.
Bryant, T. B., Jr.
Clarke, G. 0.
Crozier, N. R., Jr.
Cubine, I. W.
Garvin, P. H.
Glickstein, R. M.
Gwaltney, J. '1‘.
Jordan, R. W., Jr.
Koedel, J. G.
Lancaster, J. L., Jr.
Latham, R. C.
McCoy, C. R.
McHugh, J. D.
Maynard, W. H.
Montgomery, L. C.
Osterman, J. H.
Stipes, R. W.
Wagner, B. J.
Woodley, W. P.

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Atria, N. F.

Bade, F. E., II.
Bate, R. A., Jr.
Brown, L. A., Jr.
Bullard, B. K., Jr.
Busold, H. B.
Butler, H. H.

Carr, G. H., Jr.
Clower, J. B., Jr.
Davidge, L. L.
DeI’ass, G. S.
Dickerson, W. D.
Dix, D. S.
Dunnington, G. W.

Holland, C. J.
Howe, R. F.
Jackson, J. M.
Johnston, H. R.
Jones, J. E., Jr.
Knight, W. P.
McClure, J. G.
Mellen, F. C.
Merritt, R. A.
.\'Iiller, R. L.
Miller, R. L.
Neel, H. B.
Pearse, F. M. P., Jr.
Pierpont, A. W.
Powers, H. M.
Reed, J. D., Jr.
Rennie, J. G.
Rucker, J. A.
Shaw, W. M.

Sherrill, F. W.
Spence, J. M., Jr.
Sprouse, I’. D.
Strahorn, C. A.
Stuart, J. L., Jr.
Torrey, T. F., Jr.
Warfield, W. P., Jr.
Wickersham, R. C.
Wilkins, T. A.
Wilkinson, 0. J., Jr.
VVurzburger, S. A.
Yeatman, G. E., Jr.
Zimmerman, F. B.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

Copper, J. B.

Eckcr, J. B.
Eiglebach, C. L.
IIaller, R. .I.
Hanckel, J. S.
hepler, R. E.
Laytham, J. G.
Lindsay, A. W.
Magruder, W. C., Jr.
Newman, J. G.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN
COMMERCE

Alderson, J. \V., Jr.
Armentrout, L. M.
Atwood, G. F.
Inch, VV. D.
Barclay, F. C.
Bondurant, A. P.
Clarke, E. S., Jr.
Cohen, P.
Comegys, J. L.
Drewry, W. C.
Fisher, V. A.

Fitch, J. H.
Franklin, G. C.
Gilmore, F. B.
Goldstcin, J.
Gualtieri, U. L.
Halsey. A. 0., Jr.
Harris, VV. L.
Ilarrison, P. R., Jr.
Ilenlinc, II. B.
Hollomon, V. V.
Ilorfne, G. F.
Kaplan, J.
Luria, W. J.
McKimmy, J. D.
Middlckaulf, A. R.
Minion, J. W.
Nance, J. B.
Norman, J. B.
Norman, W. C.
Patterson, W. D.
Sutton, H., Jr.
Tips, B. B.
Tayloc, II.
Whitehead, W. H.

A .

CERTIFICATE IN SCHOOL OF
COMMERCE

Butler, II. H.

iods of more or less extreme react-
ion. Since the World War the pen-
dulum has swung for to the right,
cut, by law as immutable in politics
as in physics, it is destined before
long to swing equally far to the
left. Plutocracy, temporarily
strengthened by war profiteering,
will give place to liberalism. This
will not solve the problem of im-
perialism, which is based on funda-
mental economic conditions, but it
will bring it under constitutional or
international control and correct
many of its abuses. I look forward
confiidently to the day when the Uni-

led States will again assume the
moral leadership of the world and
u.-;tif'y its faith by its works, when
it will not longer be satisfied with
high-sounding professions and de-
clarations, but will actively cooper-
ate with the only existing agencies
£01’ the promotion of world peace,
when it will no longer be, in the
,vords of Elihu Root, “a dangerous
drclict adrift on the high seas of
international intercourse, lying
straight across the path of every
ship that sails laden with the pre-
cious cargo of international friend-
ship and concord.”

All Night Dance
Ends Festivities
(Continued from Page 1)
for the afternoon enjoyment.

The Sigma German given Satur-
day night, was the second of the
Final series. Members of the figure
presented a most agreeable aspect
as they swayed to and fro to the
strains oi’ the 'f'a1niliar march. The
figure made consisted of a circle in
whose center large
“S”. The Signia sum,‘ was then sung
after which the mcinbers began to
alanse.

was 'i‘..rin ed a

The Kappa Sigma fraternity on-
tertaincd with a dansant l\Iond21y
morning in the chapter house on
South Main. This event stiiiiulatcd
the throng of dancers and sent them
on, enthused for the other “adven-
tures” of the day.

The Sigma Nu—Delta Theta tea
dance. which has come to be an an-
nual event also, was given at the
Natural Bridge Hotel Monday after-
noon. An ideal and congenial crowd
was present to enjoy the proceed-
ings.

Closing the day and rounding it
out in a fitting manner came the
Senior ball Monday night. The grad-
uates for this year completed their
figure with a \Vt‘ll formed “28.”

Natural Bridge will be the scene
of another tea dance this afternoon
when the VVashington and Lee Tron-
badours will serve as hosts. The
dance will begin at three o’clock and
music will be rendered by the South-
qrn Collegians. An enormous crowd
is expected to attend, and -.1 big
time for all is anticipated.

Tonight Final Ball will tcrminatc
the week of good times. President R.
F. Howe and Prof. C. E. L. Gill have
worked persistently and to them is
due the credit for having originated
the varicd colored decorations, and
ideas carried out in the effects pro-
duced. Prof. C. E. L. Gill, whose tra-
vels abroad have enabled him to ob-
tain the ideas for the designs

A number of unique designs will
be formed by the Final Ball figure,
the last one being the VV. and L.
Monogram. The girls in the l”i_gurc
will all wear white Corsages of old
fashioned roses.

Between 1:00 and 1:30 o’(-lock a.
in. a lawn supper will be served on
the campus near the Library and
University Dining Hall. Japanese
lanterns will swing from abovc, giv-

will continue until dawn.

SOUTHERN C NFERENCE
TRI-STATE LEAGUE
1925)

April 2——‘.Vashingfon and Lee at
N. C. State.

April 3——\Vashin_:ton
:1‘. N. C. I,Tnivcrsity.

April 6——V. M. I. at University
of Virginia.

April 9——Maryland
University.

April l0—Mar_vland at
sity of Virginia.

April ]l——Univ(-rsity of Virgin-
in at \Vasliington and L0,".

April 12  C. Univrr,~:ify at
Maryland.

April 13-—N. C.
Virginia.

April l:';——.‘l. (‘. University
Washington and Lee.
April l6——N. C. University
M. I.
April l7——N. C.
V. P. I.

April l9—~V.

April l9———V.
State.

April 2{‘-——V.

April 2.‘.——V.
University.

April 22—N. C. State zit N. C.
University.

April 2?.——W'z1sliir:;:t()i1 and Lee
at V. P. 1.

April 26——VVashin;:ton and Lee
at Maryland.

April 28-~V. P. I. at N. C. Uni-
vcrsity.

April 27—V. P. I. at N. C. State.

April 27--Virginia at V. M. I.

April 29——N. C. State at lVlary-
land.

April 30—N. C. State at Vir-
friizz.

l‘a!:1y l-—N. ('. State at V. M. I.

Jllay 2—N. C. State at \Vz1sh-
ington and Leo.

May 3-—N. C. State

May 3-Virginia at l\*laryl2md.

May 3 Virginiai at Maryland.

May ~l——V. M. I. at V. I’. I.

May 6-—-Maryland at V. I’. I.

Mz1_v 7-—Marvlaml at Wasliiir<_>;-
.n and Lee.

Mzy R——1"Earyl21iid as v. M. I.

l‘»E:1y S>—-Virgrinizi at N. C. Stale.

May ltl-—Vi1'gii1i:i at N. C. In-
vcrsity.

May (?——V. I’.
ton and Leo.

May ll—V. P. I. at V. M. I.

May ll—-Virgxinia at V. I‘. I.

May l:’:——V. M. I. at .“.l:irylan(l.

May l8—VVashing'ton and Lee
at Virginia.
Way 2(!——N. C. University at N.
State.

and Lee

N. C.

at

Univer-

Univcrsity at
at
at
V.

University at

I’. I. at Maryland.
M. I. at N. C.

P. I. at Virginia.
M. I. at N. C.

at V. P. I.

I. at Wasl1in;:'-

C.

  or I
 EeiiTiiERE

‘fill.

C®Ll.iIGlAl‘l SUT

rt

Is Volume n.
\‘.'2i.-uliiiiglxiii and Lee
ll:l:l_Q‘2‘.'1',ll'.i‘

of Old

Runs‘ vrnl

- s coztil i'-::ni~ of llm ‘W'2isliiiig-
lo“ lii»'*i'2\i'_\,' i":21'1':i:'.ii1r‘.

r i_\ (‘llliilI‘(l “'l‘li:= i~1otil,l1.‘Vii
lc,Q'ian," }1_§)il(‘:ll“.‘<i l:\“.t
first l“l1lillj(‘,l' the in-.i;;'217.ii1c was
lmowii. as tho “I’cri\'.'i:1'.” arid was
‘};ul,lisi1t~d lil<‘l'L'l)' as an c.\'pcrinicnt.
The sl,L1<lc1i‘i.<t l.V‘.l(‘l'."‘.§l(‘(l in the pro-
jccr, h<,wc\‘cr. feeling that enough in-
..(,‘l(',:'wl3 has been shown in the maga-
zine to warrant its success, have pub-
lished the second number of the mag-
azine as Vol. 53, No. 1 of “The
Southern Colli=.ginn,“ which was the
f'or2nei' Washington and lee literary
pllhlitéatioii.

‘v cznil per-
Col-
wt-clt. The

of"

The m:1l<e—up ol the new magazine
is much more attractive than was
that of the “Periwig.” The cover‘
is light blue, and bears the lcg<:~ntl
“Founded 1868 by the Students of
W2‘-.s‘hiii,<_>;t<>iT and Lee University.”
Facing the cditorial page is a poem.
“I*1'ol'cssm":< W'ii'e,” by “Stcvc." The
poem is clever in spite of the fact
that it is not very good poetry, and
we suspect that the authorsliip is
genuinely p1'<)l’es'si>i~ial. “Running
lhc Gauntlet," an editorial, is an ox-
collcnt justification for the maga-
zine's cxistanco, and contains an ap-
;>(':1l not to be i_s1‘nui'0(l. “Natural
Bridge Afirc,” by VVm. Ilill, is an
excellent l'(—-aturc article on the
iion-\\'i«lc lioax pcrp:'t1'at(‘il by the
old “Sou‘iihern Collegian” in 1973.
’l“ncn we have “ lain Child," a short
by Tom Surguc. The story
is xwll tl1<>iig'l1t out, and is a marked
inaprovcmr-nt over the author’s pro-
vions short story, “And thc Band
Pleiyctl On.” “Co—Education,” an
article by Barrzitt ()’Hara in favor
oi" that institntii,-n, is light and in-
tcrcsting i'cnilin;:, but proves little.
'l‘licrc arc poetry and art sec-
tions, the lzittcr licingan innovation
and the i-oing particularly
lllill i<~;'<l by the poetic cf’l'usions of IV.
M. (Jz1iri::on, which are not without
nics'it. Dr. IV. D. lloyt, prol'cssoT'

1111'

story

also

to rm er

ing a lawn garden effect. The dance ‘

oi‘ Biology, has \vriltr_>n an expose
,oi' lriml mi-r:1l coinlitions along the
ilino oi the “.lui<c,” and “Kallikak”
Jnvcstigzxtions which is more inter-
}("l\‘iiilf_-,' than one \‘.'(:ulIi bclcivc. “Grub
iSti'ct-T,” by “llack,” is a lictcrogon—
lous collection which amusing
i;:_i<lin;‘;. "i’i'ohilJiLio1i in Porto
Rico,” by R. R. dc Arcllano is “in-
ic-r<‘stiiTg it‘ true.” Tlicn thcrc fol-
lows a book section with
.~:i:ir.c reviews of re-

is
{ind

rcv low
wcll—writtcn
cont lmoks.

Thc l‘c:1ture of thc 1n:1g'azinc, how-
<‘\'t‘l', on-c—act play, “Jehovah
ikiiss Jenkins,” by Ted Ilarris.
llarris, an alumnus of lVashington
Llllil l.i—c, is now a professionzil dra-
nrati:-“i. living in New York. The
play is very amusing, and is an un-
u;~:n-.il cont-option presented in an ex-
.‘(‘(,‘(lill,£';‘l)' <'lc\‘(-r mzmncr. “llcavcn”
is 2. modern business office, Jehovah
is the c.\*ccu‘iivc and Miss Jenkins
the The descriptions
the “i’ra_vcr l‘l.‘{('lldll,L’,‘C” and the
ol‘ the different worlds

is 2'.
.2r=<l

1;’. sc<'i'et:.\i'y.
ct‘

.‘.:z1=::‘.;:;ii:f;

arc clt-vol‘ and we-ll—writton to say
..hc l:21.~:t.

in

whole Elie Southern Col-
is at dcci<l.\<l iniprovement
ovcr the “Peiiwig," and it seems
that with this issue the rcal worth
the iiingaziiio will become proved.

Hi

On the

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lr:;;.:,.ii

i*‘l::3EiE:no;* Caiifornia
E513-.i  kappa Poet
l’i‘«-les.~:(>i'

lho

l='it7:g<-i'al(l Flournoy, oi’
zlcpartinciit, will leave
this ‘.\'o;\l< Lcluni Stanford Uni-
xeixsity, (7alil'ornia, whore he will
l\2].(] at pocm at the ‘,':‘2ll,il(.‘1'lll_Q,‘ of the
(7zilii'ornia <2h21_otcrs of Phi Beta Kap-
pa. l’r<;'l‘cssoi' Flournoy was recent-
ly notified of" his election as official
pool’, for that iwgzinizatioii.

I ".iA'.V\: (.‘ARBER

iinglish

for

Leader of orcliestra which is play-
ing for this year’s set of Finals
dances.