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BOARD OF EDITORS.
Editor-in-Chief,
D. E. FINLEY, JR., '10, Yorkville.
Athletic# -Editors,
S. J. COHEN, '10............. Student body
T. S. MCMILLAN', '12...........Clariosophic
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H. J. HYDRIcic.
OOLurBIA, S. 0., MAY 18, 1910:
WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.
With the exception of one issue dur
ing commencement week, this number
of the GAMECOCK is the last that will
appear this year. For this reason, we
take the present occasion to review
what Carolina has done during the
nine months just past, and to ask, what
has the session of 1909-1910 added to
the University?
In .answer to the first question, we
unhesitatingly pronounce the past ses
sion the best the University has ever
had. More has been accomplished,
and more will result from it, as a
short review of the facts will show.
To begin with, the attendance was
increased, which is always one of the
best ways of measuring an institution's
growth. From a total of 280 men last
year, the roll of the University has
increased to 339, and there is every
reason to think that next year the
number will reach the four hundred
mark-a goal aimed at for many years
but up to now seemingly impossible of
attainment. The University has been
filled to the limit of its capacity this
year, and undoubtedly, next session, it
will be necessary to secure extra ac
commodations in town.
The appropriations by the General
Assembly this year have been more
generous than ever before and with
out an exception been directed at the
most pressing needs of the University.
Money was app)rop)riated to complete
the new Science Hall, on Gibbes'
Green, now nearing completion. This
will be one of the handsomest college
buildings in the State and will be to
the departments of Physics, Chemistry
and Biology wvhat the new Davis Col
lege has been this year to the other
academic departments.
Another building, whose acqui
sition is quite as important and more
far--reaching in its results, is Flinn
H-all, on Sumter street. 'i'his build
ing will be completely furnished and
ready for occupancy wvhen college
home to the Y. M. C. A. and will
give this important work an untold
impetus, as well as quickening every
phase of social life at the University.
This is probably the most important
addition that has been made during
the year and will have the greatest
effect on the future life of the institu
tion.
Along with a consideration of this
building, we must consider the Student
Secretary, which has been secured for
Carolina. Not only will the man him
self do camplis life an untold amount
of good, as is proved by what has been
accomplished at other colleges, but the
fact that he was secured through the
united and persistent efforts of the
student body, proves a most important
fact-that Carolina men are awake to
the things that. will do most towards
the development of the University and
through their own endeavors have ac
coniplished what -seemed the best
means toward this end. It speaks
well for the moral tone of the student
body, to be able to say that from three
hundred men or less, eleven hundred
.dollars was raised for the furtherance
of the work of the Young Men's
Christian Association. Even Colum
bia could not show so good a record,
per capita.
The new gymnasium, which is
to be made from the old Sci
ence Hall on Sumter street,' is an
other'addition scarcely less important.
The building when finished will be
one of the finest gymnastic halls in
the South and will fill a need which
has been most pressing at the Univer
sity for many years.
Along with the gymnasium comes a
heating plant, which is to have its be
ginning in the new Science Hall on
Gibbes' Green. Each.year it is to be
extended until it embraces the entire
campus, making the buildings thor
oughly modern in this important re
spect.
The new department of Engineering
which has been established under
Prof. Homes, is also a noteworthy
addition, as is the lecture course, which
was conducted with so much profit
during the past year. The two liter
ary societies have a larger member
ship than ever before, and are both
doing most excellent work. The An
nual promises to be the best we have
ever had, and last, but by no means
least, the baseball team is not only
the best we have ever had, but one of
which any university would be proud.
In a series of twelve games, only four
were lost, two at the beginnitig of the
season, and two at the end, leaving
a stretch of eight straight vic
tories, some of them over the strongest
colleges in the South. Such a record
is one to be proud of, and argues still
b)etter things for the University in
years to come. It means that our
team will be still better in the future,
for men are naturally dIrawn to a col
lege where athletics are of a high or
der and to make the team is something
of an honour.
From facts such as these, we can see
that the University has accomplished a
great deal this year. It has made a
good start upon a career which will
mean the ultimate upbuilding of a
great University. The war, and more
especially the radical days wvhich fol
lowed, gave to Carolina a setback,
which it has taken years to overcome.
This loss has now been more than
made up, and the University stands
upon a better .footing and in a more
prosperous condition than ever before.
Within five years, undoubtedly, there
will be an enrollment of 500 students
here, and when that point is reached
it will be easy for the University to
grow by its ownfimpetus. It remains
for the studeqts and alumni of Caro
lina to raise her to this position, and
to put her on a level with Georgia,
North Carolina, and Virginia univer
sities, which started out under like
circumstances with Carolina, and, ow
ing to happier conditions, have only
reached vh6t an earlier development,
of what will some day be Carolina's
as well.
THE HONOUR PRINCIPLE.
In a few weeks the University of
South Carolina will celebrate its 106th
commencement. .
Founded over a century ago to bind
together the conflicting interests of
the two sections of the State, it has
had an eventful history. Its fortunes
have risen and fallen with those of the
State, but during all these years of
stress and change, it has preserved its
early character and today stands for
the saine principles which it has al
ways upheld,. Vdrhaps the most dis
tinctive feature of Carolina's history
and the one thing which was always
obtained here, in a perfection found
at hardly any other institution in the
country, is the code of honour that
has always existed among the students
and regulated their actions. This prin
ciple was early adopted at Carolina.
An outline of it is found among some
of the old by-laws of the 'Board of
Trustees from which we quote the fol
lowing extract:
"The rewards and punishments of
this institution shall be addressed to
the sense of' duty and the principles
of honour and shame.
"Offenses are any acts, omissions,
or habits un-favorable to the peculiar
duties of a student, or incompatible
with the obligations of morality and
religion, and inconsistent with the pro
priety, decorum, or courtesy which
should always characterize a gentle
man. As the end of the college is to
train a body of gentlemen in knowl
edge, virtue, religion and refinement,
whatever has (a tendency to defeat
this end, or is inconsistent with it,
shall be treated and punished as an
offense, whether expressly mentioned
in the laws or not. The sense of
decency, propriety and right which
every honorable young man carries in
his own bosom, shall be taken as a suf
ficient means of kcnowing these things,
and he who pleads ignorance in such
matters is unfit to be a member of the
college. The board expects and re
quires the students to i aintain the
character of refined and. elevated
Christian gentlemen."
This in brief gives wvhat is possibly
the greatest heritage Carolina has to
hand dlown to the youth of the State.
It is still in force at the University
and wields as wide an influence among
the students as ever. Such a thing as
cheating is almost unheard of, and in
general the standard of honour is of a
type that is rarely met with in a mod
erni college. It is impossible for a
man to go through Carolina withou
absorbing this feeling, and when he
leaves lie has at leat the instincts of a
gentleman. This attitude which has
always characterized Carolina may be
summed up in the following lines
which have been much quoted in this
connection:
"Who misses or who wins the prize,
Go lose or conquer if you can,
But if you fall or if you rise,
Be each, pray God, a gentleman."
THE HIGH SCHOOL MEET.
One of the most important events
that has ever taken place at the Uni
versity was the High School Track
Meet on Saturday. The plans for the
occasion were well made and the af
fair proved a success beyond all ex
pectations. This is the first contest of
its kind ever held in, South Carolina,
but the innovation is one to be en
couraged and repeated every year.
The meet was carried on with great
enthusiasm and was productive of a
great deal of good. Interest in ath
letics was awakened and encouraged
among the boys who represent the fu
ture athletes of the State. The advan
tage of an early start is thus given to
men who can keep up the good work,
and when they arrive at college be
already familiar witi the various
kinds of athletics and in much better
condition for their previous training.
It will do away with the raw fresh
man, who has to waste much good
time in learning the rudiments of"the
game. At the same time it does an
untold amount of good to the Univer
sity. Boys who are just beginning to
think of What college they shall aittend
learn something about the University,
and by their visit are attract'ed to
wards it. In another way, too, it adds
to the prestige of the Carolina. It is
the rightful province of the State Uni
versity to be the chief promoter of
everything educational in the State,
athletic as well as literary.. Time was
when. the University led the thought
of the State, and under such men as
Dr. Thomas Cooper, was the leading
force in all movements. We would
like to see the old importance of the
University again re-established and
and this institution recognized as the
dominant factor in education in South
Carolina.
Jim Wideman to Lead Baseball.
(Continued from Page One.)
Due West, where he attended Erskine,
graduating with the degree of A. B.
While there he was captain of the
baseball team of '06 and was elected
captain for the following year, but re
signed, as Erskine was a member of
the S. C. I. A. A., and under the rules
of the association, lie was ineligible
to play. He is a member of the Jun
ior law class at the University, and has
taken a high stand in his class.
A class of boys in composition wvere
given the following sentence to punc
tuate: "Mary Ann wearing a new pair
of shoes crossed the street and dis
played a pretty ankle."
The first boy said he would puit a
comma after Mary Ann, and one after
street. The second 'boy said he would
put a comma after street, and a period
at the end. The third boy, after a
little -hesitation, said he would make a
dash after Mary Ann.