Establishment
In 1915, President Alderman announced his intentions to create a university publication that would be "an organ of liberal opinion":
"I take leave again to bring before you a dream: a magazine solidly based, thoughtfully and wisely managed and controlled, not seeking to give news, but to become a great serious publication wherein shall be reflected the calm thought of the best men."He appealed to financial backers of the university for financial contributions, and over the next nine years an endowment was raised to fund the publication while it became established. Alderman announced the establishment of The Virginia Quarterly Review in the fall of 1924, saying it would provide:
"independent thought in the fields of society, politics, and literature...in no sense a local or sectional publication... as contributors to its pages men and women everywhere who think through things and have some quality of expressing their thoughts in appealing and arresting fashion."The inaugural issue was released in spring of 1925, and the 160-page volume featured writing by Gamaliel Bradford, Archibald Henderson, Luigi Pirandello, Witter Bynner, William Cabell Bruce, among two dozen other notable, mostly southern, writers.
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