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etc 0amsecocu PUBLIS1181 WEEKLY BY THIE, LITERARY SocIE TIES Olt TIE UNIVERSITY o SoUTH CARO LINA. TERMS, $1.50 A SESSION, PAYAULI IN ADVANCE. "Entered as second-class matter November 20, 1908 at the postoffice at Columbia, S. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879." THP GAMECOCK solicits humorous sketches, essays, verse, etc., and will gladly publish such as is available, when accompanied by the full name of the author. Unsigned manuscripts will neither be acknowledged nor returned. All checks and money orders should be made payable to H. G. Officer, Business Man ager. Bufsiness Manager H. G. OFFIcvR, Eddy Lake. Assistant Business Manager. R. E. SFIRPLS, Columbia. BOARD OF EDITORS. E difor-in -Chief C. T. GRAYDON, '10, Greenwood. Associate Editor J. 0. SHEPPARD, '11, Euphradian. Local Editors J. 1. HAZARD, '11, Euphradian. C. A. AsimEY, '10, Euphradian. Athletic Editors A. B. ADAMS, '10, Clariosophic. E. N. CARNS, '11, Clariosophic. Y. M. C. A. T. K. VASS,Y, '10, Clariosophic. COLUMBIA, S. C., OCTOBER 14, 1909. Fight! Fight I Fight! Now for a riffle with Tech. Keep up the Carolina spirit. Be optimistic, a better day cometh. The new Carolinian looks good. Let the next be better. Have you joined one of the socie ties? Do it immediately. That cheering must be more con centrated. Get together. Over 280 men have signed the breakage fee. Have you? Don't kick at TH-m GAMEcocK; write for it and make it better. When you can't hit the line, go round the end ; when that fails, punt. With Carter, Belser and Winn out of the game we were at a disadvant age. Come out and play football. You, we mean. Don't wait for the other fellow-come out. Send THE GAMECOCK to your girl, she'll applreciate it and love you all the more. If you don't believe it, try it. Coach White says rah, rah is neces sary on the side line, but the men in the field in uniform is the men. He's right. Come out. This is a poetry issue. All the poems are snappy and lively. They appertain to college life. Read them, laulgh andl grow fat. VICTORY IN DEFEAT. Events have frequently occurred that though they were defeats, they were in reality victories. 'In the his tory of nations battles have been fought and.lo1 nut they were. v,,to ries, in that they changed the tide of affairs for the better. Likewise with us. On last Satur diy we fought hard and long,'l ut we met with defeat. It was not a defeat. No. It was a victory in reality. It was a victory in that it taught us our weakness. It was a victory in that it learned us more about the science of the great game. Now we know our weak spots. Now we know where to play what men. Now we have courage, determination and desire to meet our next enemy. The football field may be compared to a blacksmith shop and the opposing team to the mighty smithy. It is here that our team receives the hardest knocks, but those knocks are rounding and welding them into shape. They are making then strong and tough. Making them able to learn the bunt of the line. So with our first game. The knoeks, and they were many and hard, only tended to weld us into shape, make us ready for the next bat tle. But we say we lost the game. So wVe did. Our opposing team took the game, but they cannot take from us, no never, the benefits derived from it. Let us not be discouraged by our .first defeat. Let us look to the future and hope for better things. Let us be joyous in that we were "victorious in defeat." COLLEGE DAYS. "No other (lays are like our college days. I ever grieve that mine are fled so long; And in my ears the college cries still raise Tumultous echoes; and a college song, In riotous nonsense ringing loud, is strong To lift one instant all the weight of years." The writer of that poem is correct. No other clays are like college days. No other days are as full of happiness and joy as college (lays. No other clays abound with lasting benefits to us as college clays. In fact, in four short years we secure the benefits, pleasures and joys of half a lifetime. To make college clays happy and successful, we should partake of every phase of college life. Any man who comes to college to play football alone is losing half his college course. Like wise anybody who spends all his time in class room and with his books. will not be a well-rounded college man. We should take part in everything. Have a share in athletics; take p)art in the society work, do your class room work, associate with the men on the campus. Let your motto be, "Get everything that is coming to me out of college life." Do this and years after ward you will be able to truthfully say "there are no clays like college days." A SERIOUS MATTER. A university with three hundred men registered at the president's office, with the name of Gamecock appended to its athletic team, and with a past record unrivaledl in athletics could only boast of a football sqluadl of thirty men on last Friday afternoon. When the or more men out, but first a few quit when tackling began, a few more when scrimmage began, and then of the re-. -maining some others left when the first varsity squad was. announced. Now, fellows, this looks pretty bad. 'Some assign as their reason too much work'; some, 'I am not able physically to play," and others that they have no chance for'varsity. Of'all these rea sons there Is.not one which is worth the time that it takes to tell about it. If you have too much work to tend to your physical self, drop some of it; if you are not able to play football, get able, and if you have no opportunity to make the varsity, make opportuni ti-es. There is no truer saying than "The man who wins is not always the man who seizes opportunity, but more often the man who makes opportu nity." Let us consider, furthermore, that it is not always the man with the block C who deserves the credit for winning the game, but it is very often that scrub, "a youth to fortune and fame unknown," who standsf before the varsity (lay in and day out making them able to cope with other teams. Men, this one thought, that is, that you can materially aid in helping win games for your college shotAld be enough to brivig every man in school out, not to speak of the physical, moral and other advantages that the individ ual derives. On Monday we note with no small <legree of satisfaction that a number of new men were out beside some of the men who had gone in for various rea sons. We earnestly hope that every one of these will stay out, and that each afternoon may see new forms in football togs on Davis field. WANTED-JOKES. The Gamecock has received some favorable comment and criticism since its two appearances. It has also received some knocks, but we are used to that and hence ignore it. There are some people who knock everything regardless of what it is. These knockers very rarely write anything, mark that; they content themselves with the knocking de partment. We have received favorable com ment from the faculty and old stu dents. We appreciate it all. The Gamecock is a leading factor of college life, probably the leading factor, as it supports athletics, the societies and other prominent branches of college life. We want to give you a good paper and we are trying to (10 so, b)ut we need your support. We have too much solid stuff. We want to establish a joke column. We already have a local page, butt we need a joke column in the local page. Now, the freshmen (and others) are exceedingly green and hence they make many mis takes. They are fresh from the country and are not citified,- so to speak, so they are prone to make mistakes that are good jokes. Won't you collect such jokes and hand them in? We want to establish this columni and will be able to * (do so with your aid. Think about it and help us. It's your paper. B ird1 Seed1 I A BAD HABIT. We all,jove beauty. And there is no.. doubt that our new building is very beautifully furnished. Btit the attention of the staff has Been called to the fact that some boys through carelessness have been defacing this new furniture. Now, perhaps these boys do this without thinking of what they are doing. But it matters not h6w it is done, it mars tie beauty of things. And since beauty is what cleanliness is to god liness, we should be very careful about this matter.and stop this child ish habit. I remember that when I was in the graded school it was my ambition to carve my name upon more desks than any other boy. But it seems childish that young men in a Univer sity should do such a thing. We are no longer school boys, but are now college men, and we should act like men. We can derive no pleas ure and certainly no profit from this silly act. So, why deface, destroy and mar the beauty of this furniture. Let's put a stop to this habit. And profit by the saying, "That fools' names, like their faces, are often seen in public places." F. E. S. The Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. was particularly fortunate in getting Dr. J. W. Daniel to address the meeting last Sunday afternoon. Dr. Daniel always gives something rich, spicy, and new. And he was at his best last Sunday. The subject of his address was "The Rela tion of the Bible to Science." He hdld the attention of the audience com pletely, as from time to time, he drove home an important point. Although the meeting was well attended, still a great many students missed a treat by being absent. There are three Bible classes being conducted under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. These classes are held every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. The class work consists, more or less, of informal discussions. The follow ing is an outline: Studies in the Life of Christ, conducted by Mr. H. C. Ritter. Studies of the Prophets, by Mr. L. P. Mellichamp. Old Testa ment Characters, by Mr. M. M. Rec tor. A half hour spent in one of these classes is calculated to do one more good than a whole hour spent listen ing to a sermon, where one man does all the talking. This statement is based on a law of psychology, which law Is, "Expression deepens impres sion." It has not been the custom hereto fore of the faculty's construing Y. M, C. A. attendance as counting for church attendance. Now, the Y. M. C. A. always secures able speakers and earliest Christian workers 'to address its meetings. Therefore, it seems to us, that Y. M. C. A. attendance may well be counted for church attendance. This wvould undoubtedly increase the attendance of the Y. M. C. A. meet ings andl greatly strengthen the asso ciation. It is to be hoped that this arrangemen.t may soon be madle. Mr. IH. L. Cogburn,.a memb)er of the famous '02 team, was upon the field 'Saturday to see the game.