Word: darden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today the alumni will journey to Charlottesville, where, prior to the game, they will hold a luncheon. Colgate Darden Jr., president of Virginia University, will be the principal speaker...
...aristocracy, embracing one seventh of a total University population of approximately 7,000. Around them is now coalescing an incipient campus revolution. After a quarter of a century of laissez-faire administration, John L. Newcomb, president for a quarter of a century, relinquished his chair this week to Colgate Darden, former governor of the state and chancellor of William and Mary. Darden is an outspoken advocate of limiting the fraternities, which currently enjoy free flowing liquor and a similar interpretation of parietal rules. There are no bars in Charlottesville, so that liquor stores for the alumni "homecoming" weekend...
...like a quarterback throwing a forward pass and catching it himself. As Virginia's wartime governor, urbane Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. had often told the people what was wrong with their state university and had persuaded the General Assembly to spend $4,500,000 to fix it. Last week ex-Governor Darden took on the presidency of his languishing alma mater...
...Governor, Darden had proposed tougher University admission standards; a curb on the "expensive, restricted and ingrown" fraternity houses; new, million-dollar dormitories and a cafeteria, to put a Charlottesville education within reach of many more "rank & file" Virginians. Last week President-Elect Darden held a three-hour peace talk with student leaders, to convince them that he was not proposing a fate worse than death. He assured them that he would not let Virginia's traditions get lost in his bigger & better University...
...Colgate Darden's own student days at Virginia were interrupted by World War I. In 1916-17 he was an ambulance driver with the French Army at Verdun and the Argonne. When the U.S. entered the war, Darden switched to the Navy and then the Marines, injured his back in a plane crash. He returned to Charlottesville to finish up, took a law degree at Columbia, went on to Oxford. Now 50, for 22 years he was a faithful member of the Byrd political machine, was elected four times to Congress, once to the governorship. Although Darden doesn...