Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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rjg fSalirtocIt PUDLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY So CIETIES OF TIE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. TERMS:. $1.50 A SESSIoN, PAY ABLE IN ADVANCE. "Entered as second-class matter November 20, 1908, at the postoffice at Columbia, S. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879." TiE GAMECOCK solicits humorous sketches, essays, verses, 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 1R. F. Simpson, Business Man ager. Business Manager, I. F. SI%IPsON, '11. Assistant Business 2fanager, T. S. MCMILLAN, Ulmers. BOARD OF EDITORS. Editor-in-Chief, J. 0. SIIEPPARD, '11..............Edgefield Associate Editor, J. I. HAZARD, JR., '11. Athletics Editors, J. A. GAINES, '12 ............. Clarlosophie H. G. OFFICER, '1l ............. Clarlosophic Local Editors, D. B. BROCKINOTON, '12.........Euphradian J. P. COATS, '11................Clariosopnic Y. Mt. C. A. Editor, J. H. JOiiNsoN. Student Body Editor, J. C. VONLEIIE. CoLUMBIA, S. C., DECEMBER 22, 1910. A merry Christmas to all. Make 1911 count for something. Don't miss the Roddey medal de bate. Boost your college to your home people. 'hat have you done for yourself in 1910? Make a resolution to get down to work after Christmas. Take in the Y. M. C. A. exercises at Flinn Hall tonight. Here's to our new year resolu tions. May they never be broken. Begin to think about that track team which will begin work soon after Christmas. Slogan and resolution for Carolina men: Resolved, That I will, be a booster's club all by yourself, that I will talk my college to my home people and thereby secure their sons as students. A good resolution, make it and keep it. A NEW POSTOFFICE. 'Those in authority wvill please take note of ,appeal. It is an ap p)eal couched in our best language for some change to be made in our facilities for handling mail. In the first p)lace, the small mail room is entirely inadequate for the volume of mail that is handled. One small, "two-by-four" room with a little window from which is handed the mail'of four fundred or more men. Outside the wvindow there is al wvays a rush and crush. Those next the window are jammed th-ere b)y the ones behind, and there they re main unless they scramble and push their way hneckwardto freonm. No order, no system, simply a scram bling mass of college boys fighting for their mail. This scene is enacted twice every day. If you doubt our word, come and see for yourself. The solution-a very siml)le plan: Behind the mail window is a large room, filled with paint, broken dishes and refuse of years. Certain ly some other room can be found as t .plunder room. This room, large and airy, could be easily re paired, painted and fixed up. Pigeon-holes could be construcbed for letters. Better still, the Univer sity could purchase lock boxes from some governnment postoffice, install these and charge a minimum rent, say 25 cents a year for the use of them. The lock boxes can be se cured very cheap. The -editor of "The Gamecock" can inform the proper authorities where such boxes may be secured. This would elimi nate all pushing, jostling and impa tience. Ev-ery man's mail would be put in his box, he could unlock it and get his mail any time he wished to without having certain mail hours. Furthermore, could not some ar rangement be made whereby the students could secure stamps, reg ister packages, and get postoffice orders on the campus? In other words, could we not get the postal authorities to establish a sub-station on the campus? Last year this question was brought to the atten tion of the postal authorities, but was turned down, as not enough mail came to the campus to warrant the establishment of a sub-station. We believe, because of the in crease in the student body, that we have enough mail to warrant the es tablishment of a station, if we can only get the University authorities to take up the question. Figures are not available, but we .know that a lot of stamps are handled in the president's office and many a dollar is likewise spent by the students. If these are brought together it will be seen that 'we use enough stamps, etc., to warrant the establishment of a sub-station. Co-operation is the keynote. This is not a "kick" or a protest. It is an appeal, a calling of the at tention of the proper authorities to our present conditions. They are deplorable. We appealed for drinking water on the campus and got a beautiful fountain; we asked for the library to be open at night, we got it; we now resp)ectfully ask for some improve ment in our mail facilities. May we hope to get it? Even if the sub-p)ostoffice scheme is not plausible, our first suggestion concerning the room and lock boxes is. We must have the first, and hope to have the second. Attention, proper authoriti.es. Let's have a conference and fix these things as they shopld be. Let us change our p)resent conditions. The following students, being so dleeply engrossed in their studies, will not leave Columbia before Sat urday: Aristotle, Shakespeare, the Merry Widow, the Old Scout and Deter the Hermit CAMPUSGRAMS. Frowsy Bill is to spend Christmas, in Christmas (Fla.) * * * *Johm P. Wise, upon being asked what show was on for the night, Peplied in his uniquely Wise way: "Bessie Fisher, in Miss Shark." * * * ' John Blackburn and Soph. Mar shall are to leave Saturday for a river -trip (in open boat) for George town. Blackburn was a member of the crew that took the trip last year. He is now a veteran at withstanding the frigid gales of the Santee. * * * Mr. Billy Klugh was warmly wel comled by his many friends when he visited the campus Sunday. * * * Mr. Kealer keeled from a height 500 kilometers above Kiel, and was killed. * * * Reward-Ten dollars reward for -the identification of the man that eloped Saturday night with a "night hawk." MHerry Widow, in his hurried, seemingly important bustle, blew into the geology exam Monday, and almost succeeded in scattering everyone's papers upon the floor. Professor Twitchell, who was exam ining some fossilistic specimens, turned around, and in his quiet, ear nest way, interrogated: "Did a breeze enter the room?" "No, sir; only some hot air or a draft on our good nature," an swered one of the students, deeply buried in contemplation of the "gen eral. properties, thoroughly, of the feldspars, feldspathoids, micas, pyr oxenes, aniphiboles and apatite." * * * Mr. Blackburn (upon seeing a number of A's beside his nani-e on the Doom's Day Book): "Professor, are those my marks?" Dean Moore: "No, absences." Blackburn (not noticing the com ma) : "I knew I could do it." * * * Fbur dagos weile cut down by the grim reaper, death, for drinking cider at Summit, N. J. A strong argument for some teetotalists we have on the campus. E,ven the pure, sweet juice of the apple, like all other alcoholic beverages, was con taniinated ith poison. * * * "Senator Lorimer is Given Brush" --Daily Record. McLeod: "How lucky; that is my favoritFe car." * * * Thue Salvation Army woman en ters Topshe's with the tambourin ish tray. "Muie" puts in a jit. She holds the contribustion box before Uriah. Uriah: "Ten, twenty and rude lumis; only the dealer anties." * * * Blackburn made a "stab" after a question the other dlay in history, and almost "shot" Professor Snow deni, for he brought ,the 1)100( (to his face). He aos that he is no, heavily armored with ambition for the fray in February. * * * She stood under the mistletoe, and walking away, said saucily: "I have 'stood' under it for five minutes, and no one has 'called"' "I bet you that you won't again," said a young fellow. She did. "Well, you win," said lie as he "passed" (out of the room). * * * A suffmgette is no longer a lady, neither is she a gentleman. The conjugations too, as many other long-standing forms and institu tions, will have to be wedged, twisted and split to make place for her. * * * A Christmas Eve jag means a jagged Christmas morn. . While in college is the best time to train yourselves for journalism. Nine out of ten men connected with the great magazines and papers of our country are college men. At the University of Wisconsin one hun dred and two students are- enrolled in journalism. The same interest should be manifested here. We have four enterprises at the University for training journalism. They are the University Press Asso ciation, organized for the purpose of "boosting". the University in the papers of the State; "The Carolin ian," a literary magazine of the highest type; "The Garnet and Black," a history of our college life, and "The Gamecock," the live little news gatherer. Moral: Write for all these and benefit yourselves besides helping them. I-low many men will you bring back to college with you at the be ginning of the second term? University credits are given at Co lumbia University for literary so ciety, debating, magazine and news paper work. Why not h'ere? What incentive have we now to participate in such enterprises? Only our de: sire for personal benefit. If credits were given much more interest would be taken in such affairs. Iast year we made an effort to get credits for literary society work, but it was frowned upon by the faculty. Take note, faculty, Con sider the proposition. LIBRARY BOOKS Ask Us About Them~ The State Com. SALES DEPAATMENT Phone 1848 ColumbIa S. C. You Gollege Men! When you get ready for that Watch or Ring, or get "her" something, drop in at Sentz's. We've a store full of things you want. Come in any way--we want to show you through our beatitiful -store--any day, any time. "We Know What We Setll e Good." Chairles F. Sentz, Jeute1ey 1439 MAIN STRERRT