"TheExamination period had always been a time of turbulency and strife -- a strange mixture of real scholastic endeavor and of genuine hell-raising. Students can be seen, outlined in the light of their window frames, diligently studying Plato, or what have you, for the morrow. Then next night, like as not, they are tippling and toppling tables over at the corner to the tune of the Good Old Song, or struggling in a friendly manner with a cop.
First to our mind from the fast few weeks comes the story of the student who was bored at the thought of studying and decided to do something about it. Passing over the attractions of Charlottesville, after a little consideration, he made a long distance call to his home-town. The girl he talked to accepted his invitation and came down to see him. This is the first time we ever heard of having a girl down for Exam Week.
Many of the Virginia customs are of the sort to be more honored in their breach than in their observance. One of these is the habit of painting the "pass-outs." Any coloring matter will do, but iodine is preferred, for the addition to give the face a healthy brown it lasts longer. The procedure is simple. First find your drunk (preferably one who is too far gone to realize who you are and what you are doing); then paint his face. One student who particularly recommends this iodine treatment, says- 'When I went home a month afterwards, Mother commented on my sunburn.'
As might be expected there was the usual number of victims of this tradition. One boy and his date were both painted..."
-H.L.O.
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