mous in its recommendations to the General Faculty. And, marvel of marvels, the General Faculty, after the fullest consideration, has voted unanimously on all recent athletic questions, a statement that can scarcely be made about any other motion save that to adjourn.

In view of these truths and assurances, we trust that you will grant us your confident belief that we at the University are working together, patiently yet persistently, toward the proper interpretation and realization of the best in American intercollegiate athletics, according to the light as we see it, whereby we shall live.

UNIVERSITY JOINS NEW CONFERENCE.

At a recent meeting of the general faculty it was decided that the University should join the Athletic Conference of Southern State Universities. In a statement presented to the faculty by Dr. Albert Lefevre on behalf of the faculty committee on athletics, information about the conference was given as follows:

Object.—In view of the community of the educational and athletic interests of the Southern State universities, their similarity of character, purpose and responsibility, the aims of this conference shall be in general: to promote the best interests of intercollegiate sports and their educational values; and to develop the highest sense of fair play and honor among the young men of the South in connection with intercollegiate contests.

Membership.-Membership shall be limited to the State universities organizing this conference and other Southern State universities admitted by unanimous consent of the members. Officers. There shall be a chairman and a secretary to be elected annually.

Meetings. There shall be an annual meeting on the last Saturday in January at one of the universities represented in the conference, the selection to be made at the previous meeting.

Representation. Each institution shall be represented in the conference by two delegates and each institution shall be entitled to two votes.

The general regulations follow:

1. To be eligible for an intercollegiate athletic contest an applicant must be a bona fide student who is pursuing a course of at least ten hours of undergraduate work or a course of study certified by the proper faculty authority.

2. Before any student can take part in any intercollegiate contest, he shall make application in a prescribed form in writing to the Faculty Committee on Athletics, and secure the endorsed approval of the committee to his application. It shall be the duty of the Faculty Athletic Committee to have the executive officers of the University endorse such application to the effect that the applicant is a registered student of the University.

3. It shall be the duty of the Faculty Athletic Committee to inquire into and make a record of the athletic experiences of the applicant, who shall appear before the committee and answer on his honor such questions as the committee may see fit to ask.

4. It shall be the duty of the Faculty Athletic Committee, before it endorses an application, to require a pledge in writing of the applicant certifying on his honor that he has never accepted directly or indirectly remuneration, compensatory gift, valuable consideration or the promise thereof for or on account of his athletic services, and that he is in the proper and strict sense of the word an amateur athlete.

5. Until the beginning of the session 1916-17 each member shall enforce its present one-year law. Thereafter no student shall participate in any intercollegiate football or baseball contest during his first college year and in no case shall a student be eligible for these teams unless he shall have been a resident student for at least six months.

6. No person who has participated in intercollegiate football or baseball contests, for four sessions, consecutive or not, is eligible; provided, that his total time of participation in these sports shall not include more than five college years.

7. Members of this conference shall permit the playing of intercollegiate games with such colleges only as play under rules.

in general conformity with those adopted by the members of this conference.

8. No student shall be eligible for any athletic team who shall have played upon, or been a member or substitute member of any of the professional or league teams named in Classes A, B, C, and D, in the publication of the American Sports Company.

9. The term "college" is hereby interpreted to mean any college named in Table 28 of the Report of the United States Commissioner of Education of 1902, which has not less than 150 male students of at least collegiate grade recorded in the catalogue of the institution in question as students of the session preceding the applicant's entrance into this University. In case such catalogue fails to distinguish between students of collegiate and preparatory grade, the president of the college concerned shall be requested to render or to authorize an official statement of the number of college students.

THE MAGAZINE AND A UNIVERSITY PRESS.

BY H. A. INNESS-BROWN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MAGAZINE.

Since the early part of the nineteenth century, the University of Virginia Magazine has appeared eight times a session, sometimes on time, more often a little behind, but ever up to a certain fixed standard. This, the oldest student publication in the University, and perhaps in the United States, deserves praiseworthy recognition for the training it has given to those who have gone out each year from our doors into that greater sphere of activity to profit by their associations with the Magazine. The first issue, appearing in the spring of 1838, was but a few sheets, containing, what seems to the modern mind, uninteresting sketches and essays. However, a few years afterward it took its present form; and except for the introduction of the short story some time in the 70's and the dropping of the Collegiana Department, it has remained unvaryingly the same; its policy being conservative, its contributors limited, its subscribers few.

In 1887 a rival arose in the form of Corks and Curls, and the next year the Magazine was further hampered by the appearance of a bi-weekly, College Topics. It was not until some time later that the ALUMNI BULLETIN, the News, and Madison Hall Notes made their début. With the organization of each of these publications, the Magazine's work became more and more limited, until in 1890 it became a purely literary publication, with the one aim of encouraging that spirit in the University.

Among the contributors and editors of the Magazine have been many great names. Foremost is that of Woodrow Wilson, who contributed in the year of his residence at Charlottesville two essays on political themes. Another distinguished name is that of James Hay, Jr., whose recent novel has created quite a stir in the literary world. Mr. Hay was an editor as late as 1901. In the United States Senate and the House, there are men who gave their first attempts in literary expression to the Magazine; there are editors of great dailies, and of smaller publications, who, in their college days, with untiring efforts made the Magazine their mouthpiece, to reap the reward of practice gained upon its board.

As I have said above, the changes in the Magazine have been very slight, but through the years a gradual, almost imperceptible, change has been taking place, so that the old editors would hardly recognize the new issues as compared with those before the War. While preserving the old traditions and methods, the Magazine has advanced in literary value; while departing from the personal point of view, which Topics is supposed to have inherited, it has gained an immense advantage over the average. college magazine, until today it stands as one of the foremost literary magazines of the country. However, the Magazine, though changing has not kept up with the constant demands of the world at large. It has not, as it were, tried to make itself popular, even as a literary magazine, but has confined itself more. to the development of a certain class of men in the University who early show the ability to write, without appealing to the average man. This would perhaps be all right if it were not for the fact that it often happens that very excellent material is absolutely ignored until too late to develop the man sufficiently be

fore he graduates; that is, this policy has put a premium upon writing that should not exist. It has made the student-body look upon the contributors as if they were men out of the ordinary, in some cases geniuses and in others fools, so that a false standard has been placed upon the literary work of the University, which amounts almost to discouraging all aspirants to true literary production. The present board has attempted to reform the Magazine in this respect.

What seems to this board a fallacy in the old Magazine is that before this year the monthly was published as a sort of literary wastebasket. That is, all the material which came up to standard was published without reference to the readers of the Magazine. Undoubtedly the Magazine was published originally for the purpose of encouraging literary endeavor; but we question very much the advisability of putting out a magazine which, though it contain the work of a university, is not interesting to its readers. For this reason it has been found expedient this year to define a definite policy in reference to both the literary and financial side of the publication.

The Magazine today is published primarily for readers. Every article which goes into its columns is carefully considered in reference to the subscribers, whose likes and dislikes have been carefully studied. This we are enabled to do by encouraging every man who can write to hand in some work during the year for consideration, and never allowing matter that has the least originality of thought or treatment to be discarded. By constantly making the contributor work this material over and over, an essay or short story of only average worth can be made into excellent "copy." It is hard work, it is true, for the board, but we have the decided advantage of knowing just what we want, and can easily show the contributor wherein his mistakes lie. In the class room a professor teaches a man how to write in general, while the board shows him how to write a particular article. It is very much easier for a younger man with a definite point to drive home to convince a student, than it is for a professor who is trying to teach the whole class the qualities of good style and the rest. We try to show him where he is going wrong from the viewpoint of the public; the professor, from the viewpoint of