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THE GAMECOCK VOL. III. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., SEPTEMBER 30, 1909. No. 1. GYMNASIUM COURSE IMPROVED, Plans for This Year Are Very Pleasing. MR. SCHOFIELD INSTRUCTOR. He Comes With High Recommenda tions From the City Y. M. C. A. Mr. F. E. Schofield, our instructor in Gymnastics and Physical Educa tion, comes to us from the City Y. M. C. A. He has been very successful in building up large and enthusiastic classes in this institution, among the business and young men of the city. He has many friends in Columbia, and it is hoped he will be a friend to all the fellows on the campus. In years past he has had considera ble exl)erience, first as a contestant, and then as a coach in track and field athletics. Two years ago the track team of Iowa Wesleyan University, coached by him, broke four records, of about ten years' standing. This would lead us to belie've he can get results in this line at sports. Early in the spring track work will be taken up in earnest. a varsity team chosen and inter-col legiate contests will take place. Bas ketball (varsity) will be developed, and class games will be pulled off. Tennis and golf will receive due atten tion. It looks as if Carolina will have one of her best years in general ath letics. Coach White is doing excellent work with the football men; it seems we are waking up to the impontance of the athletic life of the University. Classes in regular systematic phy sical culture exercises will soon begin. It is said by some who has been in Mr. Schofield's class that not a moment is lost; that things are on the move from start to finish. He has a habit of giv ing new competitive games, which add materially to the pleasure of the class work. Class for Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores, Freshmen and Law will be organized. Freshmen and Sopho mores are expected to take this work. All other men are urged to register in their respqctive classes, and avail themselves of this privilege of taking this sort of work. Mr. Schofield comes to us with excellent recommen (lations, and can produce results in develo)ing muscle, strength and health. A new gymnasium and swimming pool is hoped for, and will be a cer tainty if all members of the University back upJ the efforts of our Physical Director andl take some active part in some phlase of his work. Football, baseball, basketball, track and field athletics, tennis, etc., are openI to you. \Ve must show that we are ready to avail ourselves of the new equipment, andl it wvill come. Some one has saidl that the best way to get a new univer (Continued on Paac Thwre. STRONG ENGINEERING COURSE OFFERED. Dean Colcock Makes His An nouncement for This Course. TWO' ASSISTANTS SECURED. This Promises to Be One of the Best Courses in the South. With the opening of this year the engineering department is fully pre pared to give complete courses in engineering, and we hope the depart ment will grow and eventually become one of the strongest and most popular in the South. Prof. Colcock has associated with him two gentlemei, both of whom, in addition to a full university course, have the additional advantage of the military exactness incidental to West Point training. The department in addition to a full undergraduate course in engineering offers a C. E. degree based upon two years' post graduate work. This department not only gives the theoretical work in engineering, buit insists upon an unusually large amount of field and laboratory work. The head of -the department believes that especially in engineering work nothing teaches one to do so well as the actual doing. He desires to take his students off on actual survey, and invites the local engineers to call upon his department at any time to furnish men to go out on any occasion in any capacity in which the students may serve wlhen they are investigating water powers or doing any other work where the students may derive benefit by theit actual assistance in the work. We desire to call especial attention to a most useful course now being offered in this department, open not only to the engineering students, but as an elective to any student in the college who has had a necessary prepa ration ; that is to say, a course in high way construction and drainage. This course will be most useful to anyone, especially those living in the rural dis tricts, enabling those taking it not only to do the work themselves, but to act in any capacity of supervision. The time has come in the develop ment of the South when our young men should fit themselves to take an active part in all the movements tend ing toward the betterment of their ovn country. In no wvay can they o10 this better than b)y preparing them selves for carrying on and( directing engineering enterp)rises. Every year railroads are reaching out in their ramifications in all parts of our South* land, and as lands become more valu ab)le and the p)opulation increases there wvill be more and more demand for transportation facilities and more and (Con tin ucd nui Pane Thrce.) COACH ROBERT V. WHITE TAKES CHARGE. He Comes to Us With High Recommendations. ONE OF HARVARD'S STARS. A Short Sketch of His Life. All eyes at Carolina are now riveted on the man who is trying with all his might and main to miould, out of the raw material which may be seen any afternoon on Davis' Athletic Field, a clianpion football team for Carolina. Coach Robert V. White was born December 26, 1886, at Hyde Park, eight miles south of Boston. He at tended the school at that place until he was eighteen years of age. At school he was Major of the Bat talion, President of the Athletic Asso ciation, Captain of football team an! President of his class. Here he also played first base on baseball team, guard on basketball team, guard on hockey team, and ran on class track team-they had no school track team. Coach White has a brother four years older than himself. This brother graduated from Harvard witi A. B. '05, and M. E. '06. Since grad uation Coach White's brother taught one year at Harvard and is now mine engineer in Michigan. Coach White also has two sisters; the older one is taking a Radcliffe A. B. '10. The younger, twelve years old, is at school in Cambridge. Our coach had the misfortune to lose his mother July 29, 1909. Hi-i father is now in the sandpaper busi ness, was formerly in the leather busi ness until the United States Leather Company ruined him, forcing the olde. brother to pay his own way through college, and our coach to meet his own expenses ever since he was .fourteen years old. At Harvard, where he took A. B, '09, Coach White played class basket ball, full-back and half-back on foot. ball, sang in glee club, also sang in church clioirs for many years to help defray college expenses. Hei held a scholarship all four years that he was in college. He was a member of the Class Day Committee, which ha.; charge of all the graduating ceremo nies, etc. Also he belonged to the Round Table, P)i Eta, Hasty Pudding Club, Institute of 1770, and A. K. E. Coach White's view, stated emphati cally, is that athletics help, not hinder, tihe studlent ; in ordler to study system atically oine must train systematically. staking regular meals, regular exercise and keeping regular hours. That sys. tem and regularity form the slogan of present-day activity, business anid intellectual. That this system and regularity can be inculcated nowvhere as wvell as on tihe athletic field. Coach ( Continw,d om Prgc11 Fo,ur, GRAND ATHLETIC RALLY IN CHAPEL. Enthusiastic Meeting on Last Monday Morning. DOCTOR BABCOCK'S SPEECH. He Shows What True Spirit Is--Other Speakers Follow With Rousing Ad dresses. In the one hundred years of the existence of the college :there probably never gathered a more enthusiastic meeting than the one on last Mon, ay. It was the first of a series of meetings arranged between the faculty and the student body for the promotion of col. lege spirit and college athletics. There were several short speeches made by different men, but the orator of the occasion, so to speak, was Dr. J. W. Babcock, of this city, a physi ciai of wide renown. Dr. Mitchell introduced Dr. 13ab cock, who, by way of greeting, said he considered it an honor and privilege to address the student body of the Uni versity on the important subject of hygiene and physical culture. ic then launched forth by telling his own ath letic experiences at Harvard. He showed the effects of athletic training in after life. How it taught a man to bear great pains and to have endiir aice. He showed the great benefit derived from rowing, which shotIld be a lesson to the University, as we have no athletics of that kind, although we have the material advantages in the canal and river. le said the present system of training was team work, teaching the men to work together. He also pointed out that the only road to success was to abide by the rules, to keep the pledge and obey the coach and captain. In conclusion Dr. Babcock said that modern athletics, rightly conducted, made men strong in mind and body, and taught self-reliance, confidence and endurance. His speech abounded throughout in good advice, and was much appreci ated by the whole student body, who will welcome Dr. Babcock any time it is convenient .for him to address them. Mr. Schofield, the new physical director, was next introduced. He said that athletics not only included football and baseball, but everything, track, gym, basketball, itennis. He stated that a physical examina tion w~oumld be given to all freshmen andl sophomores and to juniors and seniors if they dlesiredl it. Records of the improvement ini the men will be kept. Hie said he would have an office onI the campus, and would be glad to assist the men in any way possible. Coach White was next introdlucedl, and( arose to p)rolongedl appllause. His talk was emp)hasizinlg college ( Continued nu Paae TPnur.)