The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 16, 1909, Page 2, Image 2
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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
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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.
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