appearing in the “Southern Literary Mes senger," which flourished

appearing in the “Southern Literary Mes senger," which flourished with great repu tation and far-reaching influence in the years before the Civil War. The spring and summer lectures are to be only part of the Institute. It helps pro vide undergraduate and graduate studies as academic course work in the field of southern civilization, and it will serve as a symposium for the publication of re search in the field of Southern culture. I he comfortable, handsomely-appointed lounge in the student building served as a delightful locale for the Institute lec tures, all the more noteworthy because of the absence of townspeople who missed a rare experience in seeing what is truly “in side” their college. There was some competitive noise pro vided by disinterested students whom some someone forgot to brief on the activitity that was going on below or inside. There was also mild differences of opin ion with the speakers. Those who differed, however, did so with an acknowledgement that they none-the-less had been helped, stimulated and enlightened. A college activity that provides these de serves to be perpetuated. And it deserves support, by the alumnae association which provides financial backing, but also by townspeople—Virginians, whose love of region can only be strengthened by critical honesty. _jg g