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PUDLISIED WEEKLY Y TiE LITERARY SOCIE TIES oF TIn8 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHT CARO I,INA. TERMS, $1.50 A SESSION, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. "Entered as second-class matter November 20, 1908 at the postoffice at Columbia, S. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879." Tim GAM1ECOCK 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. Business manager 11. G. OrricER, Eddy Lake. Assistant Business Manager. R. E. SEinEm.s, Columbia. BOARD OF EDITORS. Editor-in-Chief C. T. GRAYnox, 10, Greenwood. Associato Editor T. M. Ross, '11, Euphradian. Athletics Editors P'. L. WHIMnT, '11, Euphradian. C. G. Wycup, '11, Clariosophic. Local lditors W. S. 11o1:r, '112, 14uphra1-1dian. J. II. FEi.Exis, '10, Clariosophic, Y. M. C. A. Editor 11. C. RirrrER, JR. Lawl A9sociation Editor C. A. Asnm.FY, '10. CoUNtrA, S. C., Diccien 16, 909. Juniors, 12; Seniors, 2. Worked out, too, didn't it Freshmen, 10: Sophomores, 0. Five more days-thell Christmas. Therefore, juniors, 0 ; F'reshmen, 0. A toast to you all--Merry Christ inas. Once more the Juniors and Fresh m1ien. Clash, and then football is no more until .1910. The 1910 G.. lcoc1 will be prettier and more Spirited. Make your New Year resolutions before Christmas-to write for the '1) ird." XMAS FOR THE COLLEGIANS. Christmas! What a simple word it is, and yet what a note of joy it has for tihe college man. To him it means rest, home, parents, friends, eatables and a host of other delights. Then, for ten long days we throw aside our hooks, forget our work, our profes sors and all plertaining to college hard sips. The Freshman forgets the hours of torture spent over first math, TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT PAID THEIR $1.00 We must have this money at once or we will not be able to run much longer. Our printers demand a monthly settle mient, and the only way we can meet these bills is to have all the money which the subscribers have contracted to pay. The contracts were dated for the first payment to be madie November 1st, and we have only collected a few of these. You signed up the contract and we want you to live up to it. Please take this to heart and pay the Business Manager at ne. He rooms :.n N. 5 E. er. and goes home to greet his friends and be a big man in town. The Sopho more,'having grown brave with look ing down at the Freshmen, (Ions his college colors and his socks of kaleido scope mixtures and boards the train with a look of triumph. The Junior, feeling for the first time, his import ance as a higher classman, puts on that sedate look, which comes with the study of logic, and goes home to his folks not a boy, but a man. ilut the wisest, the most sedate and manly of the groutp, the mighty Senior, the highest type in the evolution of a college man, goes forth to enjoy his last college Christmas with the feeling that he is a man and no more ; that his knowledge, though great, is yet small, and that his battles, though hard fought and bloody, have been only pre liminary skirmishes. He realizes that there is a greater battlefield before him, and that he is only a private in the Army of Life. XMAS BEHAVIOR. 'his being the last issue of TI.: Gam:coci: before the holidays, we wish to give all the fellows, and espe cially the Freshmen, a hint as to de portment and general Christmas be havior. The first year men are now going holie, Imlost of them, for the first tinie since their entrance in Sep tember. Your parents sent you off probably with many misgivings and doulbts, and they are still anxious as to your progress, your behavior, health and everything else that a mother or father will think of. They have got ten your letters and your reports, but these are very indirect means for con veying to their anxious minds all.they wish to know. In short, you must carry the message yourself. In you alone will they find the justification or the downfall of their hopes. They sent you off in September with the hope and desire that you would (o well,-stand high in your classes, win tle favor of the professors, and (Io everything that goes to make up a suc cessful college career. And the first moment you reach home youN will be sized up by your parents. They can tell quickly what progress you have made or what your behavior has been. And in that sizing ip your fate nmay rest. If you are broken down phy sically or show1 by your actions and talk that you have loafed, wasted time and made C's on everything, or if you have spent money too lavishly or done any of the great evils you may have done, you may be kept at home for the remainder of the term and restricted otherwise. Still, if your (disfavor wvould stop with your* parents alone the result wvould not be so bad. Ilut not so. In your home town, you are the represeni tative of your college. If you have beeni stud(iouls and economical, have NOTICE: If recep report the irregularity to the but few complaints so far, v get the paper regularly, and v to corret any fault that- line i made good progress, then the Univer sity of South Carolina is, in the eyes of your neighbors, a great school. If, on the other hand, you have wasted your opportunities and gone to the bad, w}Py, then your college is held in discredit and need expect no encour agenient from that town. Each one of us may, then, in an humble way, help the advancement of our college. Let's do it. A Letter. Queen's College, Oxford, England. Dear )r. Mitchell: Since I have just finished one year as a Rhodes scholar, and might, therefore, be thought to have something to say about Rhodes scholars, I shall write you the letter that I promised. But my experience does not help ine mutich in writiig about them; for after all they are not very different from other American col lege men, and there is not much to be said to one who already knows that class much better than I do. The course that I have chosen, Jurisprudeince, is very popular among the Americans. More enter this schoolp than any other. \Vhcther or not this is partly because Rhodes scholars aret usually ambitious men and consider law, and politics the best field for advancement, I do not know ; hut it is certainly due, in part, to the fact that the course as it is offered here is a good one. To be sure, one gets some law of little practical use, such as Real P roperty, but that con stitutes a small part of the legal cur riculum, and has its educational value. The greater part consists of such as constittutional law, general jurispru dence, international law, contracts, Roman law, etc. ; and is almost if not quite as valuable to an American as to an Englishman. It has the extra ad vantage of letting one into English life in a way not possible with all the other courses. We learn something of their ordinary life by living among them, but I think we become acquainted with their institutions, national make-up and policies best by studying their laws as they study them. Rhodes scholars have very conflict img statements to make of their Ox ford life. But as a rule I think Ameri cans make it very well socially. It seems a little harder for us to get along with the students than it is for Englishmen, but less diflicult than it is for any other non-Britishers. Some overcome this slight disadvantage, but some do not; hence, the difference of op)inion on the subject. As athletes andl as students they surpass the aver age Oxford man ; but as the latter they (10 rnot come qutite up to what one wvould expect, if one didl not consider that they are usedl to a very different system, andl that they sp)end( many of their vacations traveling andl learning nanagement would deem it or if anyone who does not re the paper regularly would rn. Altho there have been ie want every subscriber to re wvill consider it a pleasure n our powne other things while Englishmen are working on their courses. Another question to which you have perhaps found conflicting answers given by Rhodes scholars in American papers regards the sufficiency of the money allowance. Speaking from my own experience and the experience of a great many others, I can say quite confidently that those who do not find 1300 sufficient are either ones in the very expensive colleges, such as Mag dalen and Christ Church, or ones in any college who are not willing to be careful. Those who do find it enough are the moderate livers in the cheaper colleges and the very careful livers in the more expensive ones. In spite of the synical views of a very few gloomy creatures, I think a Rhodes scholarship undoubtedly af fords one great opportunities, not the least of which is that of meeting and knowing young American men from every State in the Union. It is an op portunity not afforded by any Ameri can university or college that I know of. I think that most Rhodes scholars will look back upon their sojourn in Oxford with satisfaction and pleasure. Will you kindly place the elected Rhodes scholar for 1910 at liberty to write me about anything in which I may he able to give him help? With my respect and best wishes for all members of the committee, I am, Yours very truly, 1RANK A. Rjim. College of Charleston CHARLESTON, S. C. 125th Year Began October 4 Letters : Science : Engineering Tuition $40. Board and furnished room in dormitory, $12 per month. All candidates for ad mision ar,e per in itted to com pete for Boyce schol a r ships, which pity $100 a year. For catalogue, illustrated circular and information in full, iddress HARRISON RANDOLPH, President. WE ALLOW A SPfCIAL 25 per cent DISCOUNT TO IJNIV[RSIIV 8I4DINIS Shorthand and Bookkeeping are Indispensable to rapid and systemn tic work. Day and night classes Apply for terns, The Macfeat, Bisiness College M. ". BOW[N, Manager Do You Want a Diamond? 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