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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, with its stately colonnaded campus, W. & L. is essentially the college Lee planned. Its 1,200 students like it that way. The "minks" (as W. & L. students refer to themselves, with determined superiority-their next-door V.M.I. rivals are known as Brother Rats) affect a high degree of collegiate courtliness, are seldom seen without coat and tie, still abide by the strict honor system Lee set down for them over 80 years ago. Though they come from 39 different states, most are from the South, where W. & L.'s college of arts and sciences and its schools...
...L. boasts of a sound faculty, without world-famous names. "There are no [Harold] Ureys or [William Lyon] Phelpses on the staff," explained one professor, "but it is good and solid." There are some famous names, however, among its alumni: John W. Davis, Democratic presidential nominee in 1924; Newton D. Baker, Wilson's Secretary of War, three of the last four governors of Virginia, and two of the last three of West Virginia...
Surrounding Tradition. Today, W. & L.'s first gentleman is a suave Southerner named Francis Pendleton Gaines, who arrived 19 years ago from North Carolina's Wake Forest College. President Gaines has done nothing to change the smooth flow of campus life-including the round of fraternity dances leading up to the annual Fancy Dress Ball for Washington's birthday...
...plump 56, Gaines still rises at dawn, still likes to promenade about the campus swinging one of his 30 canes. He himself never forgets the traditions of W. & L. ("You may not be aware of it," he tells dinner guests in the president's house, "but Lee died in this room.") Nor can his minks, surrounded as they are by a statue of George Washington on the cupola, the bronze plaques that mark the places where Yankee cannon balls hit during the Civil War, the tomb of Lee himself, and the polished skeleton of Lee's favorite horse...
...Congress, federal fair-trade laws also were under attack. Brooklyn's Democratic Congressman Donald L. O'Toole introduced a bill to repeal the Miller-Tydings Act of 1937, which permits states to pass price-fixing laws that might otherwise violate the federal antitrust...