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U1%J E assweroc k ':I.ISHED %E::KI.Y HY TIlk LITERARY So CIFTIIE OF TIE UNIv:SBITY OF SOUTH C.IA. TEi:n:s: $1.50 A SESSION, PAY ABL.: iN ADwANCE. "Entered its second-class matter Novembcr 20, 1908, it the postoflice it Columbia, S. C., tinder the Act of Alarch 3, 1879." TmI: GAM:COCK solicits humorous sketches, essays, verses, etc., and will gladly publish such as is available, when accompaniled by the full nane of the author. Unsigned manuscripts will neither be acknowledged nor returned. All cheeks and money orders should be made payable to It. U. Siipsonl, 1usiness MN1 aiger. 111usineuss Managtilier. It. F1. S %il.so-, '11. .1sximait Bimsiness Jmmyer, T. S. MCMI..AN, Ulmers. BOARD OF EDITOlS. Rdilor-in-Chiof, C. G. W nciE, Ncwherr%. "hmsocile 1"'ditor, J. 11. N1rem1.-V... Athletics Iditors, It. '. Goonwix, '11............Clariosophic 1'. W. Woonnow, '12........... lmphradian Local EdfHors, V. .1. I :c-ran. '11 ............. Clariosophic 1). c. Ih:uvw.ulm. 'I I............F.uphradiani Lai: Alssociation IEdilor, JT. 11. H-vl)ntcl<. Sludent ilodi Edilor, J1. 0. Sim(lAn. COU:MBIA, S. C., Ou'roiu 28, 1910 V'air \Veek! Then Comes Clemson. \What vill be the result If the game. (let t(i wtk. "rooters." andi make it hot for the Fair \Week game. Coach Nelf is now hard at work w6ith his team. and he has all the confidelce inl the wrh(l of a victorv. lilackbu rn and Captain DesI'orles are both back in the game nov, and with these twuo fast ends w-', ought to gain a few vards. \onder ll how manly days tlIe Fac ultv will give us for the 14 air. I "ast Vear they gave us two and a half. \We certainly lope that they will make it tihree this yv. because vcry little studying is done during this weeck. The new Science I hall is just Iton\ Ill condition for the classes to beginl l() wvo-k iln it. It was VeIY Slow in putting oil the tinishing toucies. but since they have been put )on we have I'ne of the nicest buildings in the w0hole South. Thhat drinking fountain wvill so on hury it self ini thle gro nml1( and1( rust. It doe~s loo k like the authorities woul fix it tup for the visitors of lie campus11 I air \\'eek. It wvotd b c e vr in terest inIg forn t lie p eopl e who had niever seeni anyvth11ing on that ordher before. (e to wiuork . stomie body, anid let's have that thing in order by next \'onday night. \Vith this issue of The Gamecock, it goe.s in to other hands. Tu con.. eluding my work .1 wuish to say that it has beeni a peal p)leasulre for me to serve the two societies as editor-in chief of this pdper. T have eni <leavoredl to make the paper)C as init'er estingas possbe. if I hae oli up to the standard of the past years I am extremely happy, but -if not I am sorry. I wish to thank the socie ties for thie able 'and prompt assist ants which they gave me, for it is largely due to them that the paper has been what it has. In handing the work over to the n'ext staff. we, the ol staff, wish for them the greatest success in all its history. STUDENT BODY MEETINGS. \t the begillling of the session we had some of the best student body meeting.'s that we have had in the last four vears. The chapel was croWded. Ilit now the bovs are seeminlgly os interest in th.e businless of these gatherings. .\s S(on as they are dismisse<l froml chapel tley I-un for the door as if soelleoe wislied to 1()ck them up in jail. :\Ild whenl the meetilng is called to order there remain oIly a few juniors al seniors to transact the businvess. 'hIese Illeettings coIceri every student in tlie UTniversity. amid when a fell(w misses (ne of theimi lie is ot (oing his dlutv as a college maln. \\'e kinlw that they might 1not he inl teresting to the new mien, but they must realize that in a it ew vears tihev will have to govern the.,qe Ieetings, anld there are many little things which tie will learn at everv me of them which will p mobably do them s(IIe gp()oI in the fuiture. \\e think that a man lhasn' got any college spirit whenl lie Clits a studenlt body metiing. It shows that lie has Io interest inl what we are doinig. 'ellows, t his is a seious matt-er. and we want to urge that each man say to himself that lie will Int miss anIther student body Iiieeting dIr ing his enltire couirse at th,e L'niver sity. FAIR WEEK. \\'eek is here. 1in other columns of this paper will be f0unld an article all about the jubilee, the fun, etc., which we are all expecting to have with the thmiousands of vis itoirs who Will be in the city. Hlut. fellws, amid all this immense pleas uIre let us not forget Carioliia. \Ve have a reptitation as a State L'iiiver sity. This repultation is Ille too good,l il some parts of tie State. Now is a tim'e w]elln we can correct S)me( oif tle Inany false repo-ts which have goie (it against us inl da1s ge by. :\iid how can w\e c4rrect these relprts? Tlhe w~ays arc numlnerous.Th first pr incip)le is to conduhtct yourself as a gent Ileman oni all oiccasio ns. A\s lon g as thle sac red coloriis, ga rnet am11( bllack, arc liying fi'om y'ouri coat (ir your caie ior01 as long as you have a "C'' anywhiei'e upon01 youri personi, let not a wordl fall froim y'our lips wh ich y~i ~ou 1oul no( t sa v be forie yourii mot11her; let not an uinkindl act be seen fromi your hands: give way' to the ladies and the 01(d people; he kind a(n uteous to ev'ery one and make them ui nderstand that Cai'olina is the place w~here nothiing but gen tlemen residle. if we doC this, the peop)le will talk about it at home and we will hear- many miothers say ing'. Cai'olina is the p)lace for my boy! THE STATE COMMENTS. One of the great daily papers of the South has seen fit to take notice of our little weekly paper, The Gamecoqk, and comment on one of our edi orials. We were very much surprised that this paper of wide reputatioin should take what we acknowledged to be our weakest argument and try to find the fallacies in it. \Vhy did they not pick the strong points anl rej)ly to them? The State t(loubtedly misunder stood the aim of our petition. \Ve merely meant that since we have gone through our four years of hard labor and have risei to be a eiiior, we want just two weeks before com1menlcemient in which to do our work, such as writinig speeches, essays. etc. The wyriter of the State's editorial un(loubtedly did not. read the entire article il 0111 paper. Ile writes as if lie thinks we aix trying(3, to tramlple the fresh and sophis tiider our feet, wlhei we Ierelv want to establish a custom wihich we think will be for the goo(d of the L'niversitv. We realize that we are all the same kind of material, alid ttit we all once came froi "the reIM-est parts of the backwoods," but we have risen to the top an(d we want to be recognized. There is just one point that we would like to call attention to in his article. In one paragraph he is praising the fresh men as the "pure and ingenuous young man,"' anmwd inl the next para graph lie refers to the 'vile freshies" aid vulgar sophs" as the associates of the seniors. lie cannot he both. So we would like for our learned editor to explaiin his actual position. We caimot see upoi whiat preiises such "iuf'' as this is based. The State says, "down with the selliors." We suppose four years froi nowl he -;ill be sayilg "dow with the seniors" again an( they will be tile very fellows whom he is praising at present. We say, seniors to the top where the beaders of men are found, aul where we will rise if we are grantedh our just, d,eserving priv'ileges. If the .editor is the champion of the plain man, we ask him to help us, who are just about to step out into the cruel world, to get our riglits ald privileges as plain men of truth, honor. anld virtue. Composed Upon an Evening of Extraordinary Sadness and Blueness. If ever y,ou are ailing. And think your thr'oat to cut. Thlen runl to Mu's. .\adden, l'or she wilI cur'e 'ou, but1 I f yo'Otve got aniy lace to go WVitin a week 01' more, OJr (10 not like a lot to starve, lI)on't st ir fr'omi vonur own (door. I felt a little bum one dIay', (I shouldh have dru'nk a dop)e ;') Iliut what I dhid I'll ne'er (do O'er, And thus mnuch let us hope. '"Just take these cap)sules here," said she. "And p)ut your' system right." Tlhey lookedI to be quite haurmless things; I thouth the)'manulh not bit. She said that in an hour or two I surely would be vell; I've lain here now three solid (lays, And still I feel like So., if you're ever ailing, And think your throa-t to cut, just run to Mrs. Madden, lFor she wvill cure you, but -Capsule. 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