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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Century ago Colonel Claude Crozet, curly-haired, black-whiskered soldier of Napoleon, State Engineer of Virginia, became first president of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute. On November 11, 1839, 32 cadets were admitted to the new school. The contractor had not finished building the barracks, and snow had fallen before he was through. Food was scarce. The cadets decided to go home. If they had, V. M. I. would not have celebrated its centennial last week...
...band of 100 cadets trooped to Charles Town to witness the hanging of an indiscreet fanatic named John Brown. In 1861 a 37-year-old instructor quit his ten-year job at V. M. I., went off to become Stonewall Jackson, the Great Hope of the South. The school graduated 823 men who became officers in the Confederate Army, ranking from major general to second lieutenant. The entire cadet corps rushed to New Market to help check the Union advance through Shenandoah Valley. Union troops later burned their school buildings to a blackened shell...
...revised soccer team will face Brown this noon on the Business School field in all effort to get back on the winning track before meeting Yale next week...
Winning the Ames competition is one of the great honors in the Law School...
Burke comes from the same North Carolina school that Hal Kemp did. In fact, he did arrangements for Kemp for a while, but found that the Goodman-Basic style was more to his liking, and so he started a band on this idea. Results are not bad, the band's first record (Vocalion) "Tea for Two" being well arranged, with some decent solos...