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STUDENT ACTIVITIES.
THE VIRGINIA UNION.
The Virginia Union was organized for the general purpose of directing and
coördinating various phases of student activity. It has set for itself the threefold
function of initiating, promoting, and supervising movements that merit
student attention and deserve student patronage. Iits activities include intercollegiate
debating, oratorical contests, and, through the coöperation of the
faculty Committee on Public Celebrations, the control of miscellaneous lectures,
concerts, and other entertainments. The union gives at least one public program
each term and holds informal entertainments at frequent intervals. Membership
is extended to students, faculty and alumni of the University, on payment of an
annual fee of one dollar. All business is conducted through an executive board
composed of both student and faculty members, elected annually. The present
officers are: D. C. Wilson, President; R. H. Meade, Jr., Vice-President; G. R.
Martin, Financial Manager; D. M. Faulkner, Recording Secretary; H. A.
Sparr, Corresponding Secretary; J. J. Luck, Auditor, and C. W. Paul, Treasurer.
The faculty members of the executive board are J. J. Luck, C. W. Paul, and
Lindsay Rogers.
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. Each society annually offers gold medals for excellence in
debating and oratory, and each organization contests for intersociety prizes.
| Jefferson Society Orator | Frank Stringfellow Barr |
| Washington Society Orator | Roy Lawrence Garis |
| Jefferson Society Debater | Gordon Barbour Ambler |
| Washington Society Debater | William Lanier Allen |
| Washington Society Declaimer | William Howard Estes |
PUBLICATIONS.
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 three medals.
| William Carl Whitlock | Editor-in-Chief |
| William Israel Siegel | Assistant Editor |
| Charles Francis Bopes | Assistant Editor |
| Howard Turner Jones | Assistant Editor |
| James Archibald Leach, Jr. | Business Manager |
| Robert Frederick Baldwin, Jr. | Assistant Business Manager |
| Archibald Robinson Randolph | Assistant Business Manager |
College Topics is a semi-weekly newspaper, published under the auspices of
the General Athletic Association, and devoted to the interests of athletics and the
University at large.
| Richard Hardaway Meade, Jr. | Editor-in-Chief |
| Howard Turner Jones | News Editor |
| Allison Everhart Palmer | Assistant News Editor |
| Thomas William Cumming | Assignment Editor |
| Frank Robertson Reade | Assistant Assignment Editor |
| William Hillman Wranek, Jr. | Athletic Editor |
| Beverly Chew Smith | Business Manager |
| Gerould McLean Rumble | Assistant Business Manager |
| Tazewell Taylor, Jr. | Adjunct Business Manager |
| William Roderick Mallan | Adjunct Business Manager |
Corks and Curls is the university annual, its aim being to present some
record of the scholastic, religious, athletic and social activities of the college
year. Its publication is in the hands of a chartered corporation formed by the
fraternities and literary societies of the University.
| Allison Everhart Palmer | Editor-in-Chief |
| Howard Turner Jones | Assistant Editor-in-Chief |
| Richard March Smith | Art Editor |
| John Chandler Adkins | Assistant Editor |
| Gerould McLean Rumble | Assistant Editor |
| Frank Robertson Reade | Assistant Editor |
| Walter James Bergstrom | Assistant Editor |
| Archibald Robinson Randolph | Assistant Editor |
| James Archibald Leach, Jr. | Assistant Editor |
| Henry A. Wise Oppenhimer | Business Manager |
Under the title of The Virginia Law Review the undergraduate students
of the Law Department conduct a journal devoted to the discussion of general
questions of American jurisprudence. Eight numbers are issued annually, from
inception it has maintained a high standard of excellence and a worthy rank
among the leading law journals of the country.
| Edmund Sumter Ruffin, Jr. | President |
| William Galen Vansant | Decisions Editor |
| Walter Wyatt | Alumnus Editor |
| Howard Clark Thompson | Business Manager |
John Henderson Bishop
James Douglas Carlisle
George Alan Garden
Walton Gregory Holland
Thomas Brown Jackson
Edwin Baylies Meade
William Smith Powell
English Showalter
Claudius Terrell
Edwin Thurman Boyd
Harry Thomas Dolan
A. Hardin Harris
John McConico Hudson
Melville Anderson Maxey
James Pidgeon
William Chapman Revercomb
Hugh Wright Stanton
Robert Whitehead
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