University of Virginia Library

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.

MEDALISTS.
1913-1914.

       

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.

Medalists for 1913-1914.

     

Thomas Jeffries Betts	Short Story
John Owen Beaty	Essay
John Owen Beaty	Poem

Editorial Board for 1914-1915.

 

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.

Editorial Board for 1914-1915.

           

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.