how incredible Virginia is, of course.
i got an e-mail today with a link to the first ever edition of the cavalier daily. the date? september 1967. here are a few of my favorite excerpts from the various articles.
"The unhurried outlook seems to
But behind all the latter day vitality, pervading it as mint does
a julep, is the Jeffersonian tradition,
and definitions of what that is
depends on to whom you are talking,
and when. On the one hand
it is the student honor system;
on the other, as someone has put
it, "the God-given right to go to
hell in your own way." It is abstract
and material-the faculty's
jealous guardianship of its
academic and intellectual freedom,
and the buildings which constitute
"Students here no longer have cocktails before dinner each evening,
as once they did, and the old
practice of tipping hats to professors
has disappeared (probably because
students no longer wear hats):
but at the University, the tradition
of wearing a coat and
It is not a tradition set by any ruling on the part of the University;
instead, it is based upon the
assumption that the University man
has maturity enough and sufficient
pride in his personal appearance
that he would want to appear presentable
to the outsider, as well
It will start out with an introduction
"
to new friends in the dorm and very soon
you, your friends & dates will be walking
down Rugby Road to fraternity parties.
Rugby Road...one of the most interesting
by-ways around-a strange combination
of fraternity houses, none of which
look the same testifying to their guarded
right to individuality. Rugby Road...
clothed in bright leaves in fall, blanketed
by gleaming snow in winter, fresh and
spontaneous in the spring and crowned
only excerpts from many articles worth a look. check it out.
and hey duke, enjoy the beating tomorrow night.
