I ONCW OOl) College launched its lnsti I tute

I ONCW OOl) College launched its lnsti I tute of .Southern Culture Friday with a minimum number of references to magno lia trees and a maximum effort to appraise honestly some traditional aspects of South ern civilization: C the first three speakers in Friday’s opening series of lectures may be taken as typical of those to follow, the Institute flowed that it will serve not only as a pen >■1 rating, factual approach to a great tra dition. but unafraid to look with scholarly honesty. In Dr. Francis B. Simkins, Dr. Louis D. Bubin and Dr. Carder B. Taplin, the col • pro .anted three lecturers who disdain ! chauvinism for factual reporting, who ' tilted perceptive scholarship for mere ■ ■ rsement of ante-bellum glories. Dr. Simkins, professor of history at Longwood College, spoke on Virginia folk ways. their merits and defects and their '"■rCstent effect on modern education. In hf process he looked earnestly at our pre ■-> fit system of schooling, !>> tile afternoon, Dr. Rubin, associate !"v of the Richmond News Leader, dis ■ wsed the Civil War in Southern Fiction, w.'h illuminating remarks on the artistic u hiovoments and failures of that period o; regional writing. I he evening's concluding lecture pre Dr. I aplin. associate professor of 1 ngif di at Longwood, in a critical ap i rur al of essays on writers and literature