University of Virginia record February 1, 1915 | ||
STUDENTS' LITERARY ACTIVITIES.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
Connected with the University are two literary societies of long
standing—the Jefferson Society and the Washington Society. At weekly
meetings in their respective halls, they hold debates and practice extemporaneous
and other forms of public speaking. Jointly they form the
Congress of the Debating Union and follow a procedure similar to that
of the national House of Representatives. Each society annually offers gold
medals for excellence in debating and oratory, and each organization contests
for intersociety prizes.
All intercollegiate contests are managed for the societies by the
Debating and Oratorical Council, which sends competitors for the prizes
of the Southern Inter-State Oratorical Association and the Virginia State
Oratorical Association, and conducts a triangular debate with two other
universities. Its present officers are W. A. Adams, Jr., President; A. R.
Ehrman, Vice-President; E. P. Baker, Secretary; C. W. Paul, Adjunct
Professor of Public Speaking, Treasurer, and B. C. Taylor, Assistant
Treasurer.
Jefferson Society Orator | John Owen Beaty |
Washington Society Orator | Roswell Curtis Long |
Jefferson Society Debater | John Hugh Murphy |
Washington Society Debater | Roswell Curtis Long |
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MAGAZINE.
Founded 1838.
The University of Virginia Magazine, designed to encourage literary
work among the students, is published by the students with the advisory
assistance of the Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature,
and appears at monthly intervals eight times during the session.
As a stimulus to literary activity, the Magazine offers every year
three medals: one for the best poem, one for the best short story, and
one for the best essay, of student authorship, appearing in one of the
numbers of the publication. The awards are made by alumni committees,
one committee for each of the three medals.
Thomas Jeffries Betts | Short Story |
John Owen Beaty | Essay |
John Owen Beaty | Poem |
Hugh Alwyn Inness-Brown | Editor-in-Chief |
Associate Editors.
Charles Francis Bopes
Thomas Jeffries Betts
Charles Edgar Gilliam
Barron Foster Black
George Abraham Smith | Business Manager |
Alexander Luther Bivins | Assistant Business Manager |
COLLEGE TOPICS.
College Topics is a semi-weekly newspaper, published under the
auspices of the General Athletic Association, devoted to the interests of
athletics and the University at large.
William Joseph Parrish, Jr. | Editor-in-Chief |
Donald Mackenzie Faulkner | News Editor |
Thomas Jeffries Betts | Assignment Editor |
Robert Bruce Jackson | Athletic Editor |
Joseph Mettauer Hurt, Jr. | Business Manager |
Darius Todd Wool | Assistant Business Manager |
CORKS AND CURLS.
Corks and Curls is an annual, published during the last term of each
session, under the direction of the Greek letter fraternities and the two
literary societies.
Robert Bruce Jackson.
University of Virginia record February 1, 1915 | ||