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THE GAMECOCK Published weekly by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. Terms, $1.60 a session, payable in ad vanceL "Entered as second-class matter November 20, 1908, at the postofice at Columbia S. C., under the Act of March 8, 1879." The Geameceek solicits humorous sketches, essays, verse, etc., and will gladly pub lish such as is available, when accom panied by the full name of the author. Unsigned manuscripts will neither be acknowledged or returned. All checks and money orders should be made payable to Bernard Manning, Bus Iness Manager. Business Manager. Bernard Manning, Sumter. Assistant Business Manager. B. S. Beverly, Virginia. BOARD OF EDITORS. Editor-in-Chief. A. D. Olphant, '10, Euphradlan. Associate Editor. B. J. White, '09, Euphradi.p. Local Editors. J. H1. Brown, '10, Euphradian. J. A. Marion, '09, Clariosophic. Athletic Editor. 0. N. Sapp, '10. Clariosophic. T. K. Vaisney, '10, Clarlosophic. Y. M. C. A. W. S. Hutchinson, '09. COLUMBIA, S. C., MARCH 18, 1900. THE LIVING ALUMNI Carolina's past is glorious. The men she has produced have made, not only the history of South Carolina, but also that of the United States. She has every right to be proud of her sons and to call them, as did the Ro man matron Cornelia, her jewels. But the past is the past. George McDuffie, Richard I. Manning, Wade Hampton, and a host of others have reflected honor on old Carolina and departed. They were graduated be fore the war, when South Carolina was the first State in the Union. We have no doubt that they loved their Alma Mater, and the liberal appropria tions which the old college received then show that those in positions of power had a keen eye for her material welfare. During the fifteen years following the Civil War, Carolina's star was on the wane, but in i88o it rose again and has continued to rise up to the present time, when it is now well on its way to the zenith. Prosperity smiles upon the Univer sity. And whom have we to thank? Why the alumni who have been grad uated since i88o. They have stood by us as did those old historymakers of ante-bellum days. They have been as loyal to us as any body of men could be. It is needless to say that Carolina is proud of the sons which she has pro duced since her reopening in i88o. They have taken prominent posit-ons in all the walks of life and been an honor to her. The object of this issue of The Gamecock is to tell in part wvhat some of them have accomplished. This is sue was gotten up on such short notice that it wvas found impossible to obtain the 'records of many of the most prom inent alumni, and only such data has been used as was conveniently to be had. The short sketches are not in tended to be biographies, but merely to give some idea of what various alumni have accomplished since they left their Alma Mater and went out into the world. Many names have not been mnentioned and, we only wish that spaze lIad been available to speak of each and every alumnus who has left the MODERN EDUCATORS SONS OF CAROLINA (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONID) Mr. Coker has been professor of math ematics at* Winthrop College since 1906. William C. Coker graduated in 1894, taking the B. S. degree. He was employed in the Atlantic National' Bank of Wilmington, N. C., 1894 1897. In 1897 he entered Johns Hop kiis University, where he took work in the departments of biology and geol ogy. He took the Ph. D. degree in 19o1. He studied botany at the Uni versity of Bonn, in Germany, 19oi 1902. He is now assistant professor of botany at the University of North Carolina. Mr. Coker has published a number of britannical papers. Francis Le Jau Parker was gradu ated in 1896, taking the A. B. degree. He went to the University of Chicago, where he took the B. S. degree in i9oo. He pursued his studies in Johns Hopkins University, where he took the Ph. D. degree in 1901. He was assistant professor of chemistry at the South Carolina Military Academy, 1896-1901. He is now professor of chemistry and physics at the College of Charleston. Charles Heyward Barnwell, who was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1887, was a member of the Clario sophic Society. After graduation he was private secretary to President John M. McBride, of South Carolina College. He was adjunct professor of modern languages at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1889 to 1892. He did graduate work at H-ar vard University from 1892 to 1894, taking the A. M. degree in 1893. Pro fessor Barnwell had the chair of Eng lish at Hollins Institute, Virginia, from 1894 to 1897. He returned to Harvard and did graduate work there in 1897-1898, having the Ph. D. degree conferred on him in 1898. He was instructor in English in Western Re serve University, Cleveland, 0., from 1898 to 1899. Since 1899 he has been professor of English at the University of Alabama, and is now dean of the faculty. David Franklin Houston, who is to be our commencement orator in June, was graduated in 1887, taking the A. B. degree. He was tutor in Latin and Greek in South Carolina College, 1887 1888. He was superintendent -of the Spartanburg schools from x888 to 1891. Mr. Houston entered Harvard in 1892, and was president of the Graduate Club, 1893-1894. In 1894 he was elected professor of political economy at the University of Texas. Later he was made president of the University of Texas. He was a mem ber of the board of visitors to the United States Military Academy in 1900. He has published a critical study of Nullification in South Carolina. He is now president of Washington Uni versity, St. Louis, Mo. Andrew Charles Moore, who is our acting president, was of the famous class of 1887. He was a meniber of the Clariosophic Society. Professor Moore was superintendent of the Spar tanburg Graded Schools in 1888. He organized and was the first superinten dent of the Camden Graded Schools, 1888-1890. He was principal of the City High School, Birminghamn, Ala., 1800o-I89R. Whieteaching :., l.. mingham he was made elder of the Central Presbyterian Church. He was State treasurer of the Y. M. C. A. of Alabama. In 1898-1899 he was a graduate student, in the University of Chicago. As a recognition of his tal ent he was made Fellow in Biology in the University of Chicago, 1899-i9oo. In 1goo he was appointed assistant professor in botany at the same uni versity. From ioo to 19o5 he was assistant professor of biology, geology and mineralogy in South Carolina Col lege, and was raised to regular profes sor of these subjects in 1904. In 1901 he was a student at the Biological Laboratory, Woodhall, Mass., and was assistant instructor in 1902-1903. Pro fessor Moore was elected to the chair of biology at the University of South Carolina in 19o6, which position he now holds. Henry C. Davis was graduated in 1898, taking the A. B. degree. After graduation he taught one year in Fair field County, and one year in Beaufort County. In 1901 he taught in the Lancaster Graded Schools with Pro fessor Baker. In 1902-1903 he did graduate work at the University of Chicago. While there he was appoint ed assistant professor at Washington University. He returned to the Uni V versity of South Carolina as assistant professor of English. He studied at the University of Chicago last year on leave of absence. Alumni in Agriculture E. McIver Williamson, '83, took a special two-years' course in agricul ture. After graduation, he went back to his farm to apply the methods he had learned at Carolina. Mr. William son is known all over this section as the originator of the Williamson method of raising corn. He is one of the foremost theoretical, as well as practical, farmers of this State. He has a splendid farm in Darlington County. Robert Pickett Hamer, '85, is an other eminently successful farmer who received his literary education at Car olina. He has been, since graduation, a farmer, merchant and manufacturer. For ten years he has been a member of the executive committee of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, and held tht! presidency of the organi zation in 1903-1904. Mr. Hamer has also been a member of the board of trustees of the University since 1904. Paul Vernon Moore, '94, is an agri culturalist of note from the upper part of the State. Mr. Moore won a thous and-dollar prize and many medals with his agricultural exhibit at the Charles ton Expo&'Gon. Mr. Moore had charge of the/Jouth Carolina exhibit at the Jamestown Fair. He is now presidlent of the Good Roads Association of Spartanburg County. S. T. Donaldson, '88, and J. H. Donaldson, '89, are twvo extensive rice growers and cattle raisers of Geoige town. S. T. Donaldson was State chemist for a number of years. James Lucas McIntosh of Doves ville and Robert Ervin Jamesi of Dar lington, are two very successful farm ers who attended Carolina for two years. Good fellowship was simply over flowing at the last studentbody meet Edwin Orenville Selbels (Vol. II Hemphill's "Men of Mark in South Carolina.") Edwin Grenville Seibels, son of Ed win Whipple Seibels and Marie J. (Smith) Seibels, was born at Colum bia, S. C., in September, 1866. Mr. Seibels' first schooling was ob tained under Mrs. Frank Ehnore; later he attended Capt. Hugh Thomp son's Academy; his course here he fol lowed with a course at South Carolina University, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of B. E.. in 1885. His college course cost him little struggle, although he paid his own way. His life work began when in Sep tember, 1880, he assumed charge of his father's insurance office. His original desire was to be an engineer and work was offered him in connection with the Panama Railway, but circumstances took him instead into insurance. Since that time- he has been constantly con nected with this business. From Sep tember, 1886, to January, 1887, he was special agent for a fire insurance com pany; in the Southern field from 1887 to 1888 he was a member of the firm of E. W. Seibels & Son; from 1888 to 1892, special agent of various com panies; from 1892 to 1898, general ad juster of fire losses; in 1898 he be came Southern Manager of the Glens Falls Insurance Company; in 9oo lie was appointed manager of the Roches ter German and of the New Hamp shire Insurance Company, with the Glens Falls Company. Since that date lie has had the management of the Milwaukee Mechanics, the American Insurance Company, of New Jersey, and the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation; he also manages a large foreign marine insurance business. In addition Mr. Seibels has held the office of president of the Tree and Park Commission of the city of Columbia. He was president of the South Caro lina University Alumni Association, and promoted the movement for the establishment of an endowment fund for the college by the alumni associa tion, and is the president of the board of trustees of the alumni fund. He was elected a member of the State leg islature in 19o8. He was the first president of the Clariosophic Society to be elected from the junior students. He is president of the South Carolina Club and of other social clubs; he is also a Mystic Shriner in the Masonic Order, a mem ber of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra ternity, the Columbia Club and the Metropolitan Club. Mr. Seibcls is a gold Democrat and an Episcopalian. His md.Vict to young Americans is: "Be straightforward. Help others whenever an opportunity presents it self. Don't tell your business, but never do anything in business you could not tell." On the 25th of February, 1892, Mr. Seibels was married to Miss Dorothy Newton, granddaughter of Conmmo dore John Thomas Newton and of Commodore Eben Farrand, of the Confederate navy. Mr. Seibels lives in Columbia. Mr. J. H. Cooper is ill in the in firmary. Write a yeli I