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PURLISHED WEEKL.Y BY THE LITERARY So cITIEs oF -rHE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAIOr.LINA. TIERMS: $1.50 A SESSION, PAY A.IL: iN ADVANCE. "Entered as second-class matter November 20, 1908, at the postoffice at Columbia, S. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879." Tur GAM:cocc solicits humorous sketches, essays, verses, etc., and will gladly publish such as is available, when accompanied by the full namne of the author. Unsigned manuscripts will neither he acknowledged nor returned. All checks and money orders should be made payable to It. F. Simpson, Business Man Rger. Business Manager, R. F. SImi-soN, '11. Assistant Businoss Manager, 1'. S. MCMIrr,AN, Uhners. BOARD OF EDITORS. Editor-in-Chief, J. 0. SHE:PPAnD, '11..............Edgefleld Associate Editor, J. I. IIAZAnD, JR., '11. Athlotics Editors, J. A. GAtNEs, '12..............Clariosophic H. G. OrricEr, 'II ............. Clariosophic Local Bditors, ). B. BnOcKINoToN, '12.........Euphradian J. P. COATS, '11............... CIariosopnIe Y. M. C. A. Editor, J. H1. JoHNsoN. Student Body Editor, J. C. VoNLi1. CoLuMBIA, S. C., ,JANUARY 20, 1911. One week of grace before "exams." Get in some good work. In the coming examination, for the first time, the faculty will institute the "one-week system." To our mind this is a good system, as it is simply a waste of valuable time to spend two long weeks in giving examinations. Iut one thing is certain ; the pro fessors will have to make the examina tions shorter, if they expect the men to finish in the required time. For the past few years it has been the habit of our professors to give very long ex aminations. We sincerely hope that they will take note and will give reasonable examinations that can he finished in the required time. The great celebration of Uoulnders' Day showed one conclusive fact ; that the University is alive and wide-awake and that we are looking forward to a greater an(d grander University. The bringing within our hearing of such men as Mr. Page. editor of the World's IWork, and Dr. Knapp, of the Agricultural Del)artlent. is a decided step toward greater things. \We con gratulate those wvlho were in charge of the Founders' Day celebration upon their excellent arrangement of plans and the men of eloqluence whom they broughlt be fore us. We likewise felici tate the University upon entering her 107th year of great work and service to tihe State. It is a lamentab)le fact that it is nec essary for the p)residlent of the studlent b)ody to lbe forced to appoint two dloor keepers, ini ordler to p)revent the men from leaving tihe chapel (luring studoent body meetings. It is certainly a sadl display of college spirit to see tile freshmen, the men wiio in a few years will lbe the leadlers, leave tile hall. They shouldl observe the eIler men and copy from them. WVe dloubt seriously if there is any college or university in tihe South thlat gives as much rung p..v.. to it st.. dents as we have here. It should be a privilege and not only a duty to be a member of the student body, and to take part in its deliberations. Let every one, and especially the freshmen, remember that everythiig gives way to a student body meeting. The pro fessors will not mark a student absent when he goes to classes late because of a student body meeting. They rec ognize the fact that it is a student's duty to atiend all meetings. So let none rush out of a meeting in order to get to classes on time ; the professors will wait. \Ve sincerely hope to see an improvement in the next meeting. There is one tendency of the men on our campus that makes it very hard for the managers of the various stu dent organizations to make a financial success of such. And that is the tel dlency to either forget entirely their obligations to them or else carelessly put it off indefinitely. Fellows, this is a bad habit, and you should give some thought to it. It does not seem that there is a lack of willingness to co operate financially, but rather a care less consideration of the time of such co-operationi. Take for instance this paper. We have subscrilptioins almost enough to run us the entire year, but those subscriptions have not been paid. and unless they are paid we cannot hope to run very much longer. The publishers will ilot print the paper with nothing better in view than a lot of unpaid subscriptions. They have to be sure of where their money is coinig from. The paper nee(s your support, and without it cannot live very much longer. Take this to heart. P'ay up your subscription now. You intend doing it sooner or later, so why not at his time, when we need funds so badly. ADIEU-AND REFORMS. With this issue of TmHE G.m.xocK the presenit staff goes out of office anid turns "the bird" over to the newly elected staff. I I)i(l(liing farewell the editor de sires to first say that personally it has been a great pleasure for him to con duct TII E GAMEcoc<. lie hopes that he has given the student body a good, newsy paper; if he has, his aim has been fulfilled ; if he has not done so, he regrets it, but has the satisfaction of knowing that he has (oie his best. He desires to thank his staff for their goo(d work. At all times they were willing workers and did cheer fully and gladly all work assigned them. It was their p)rivilege to issue four early' edlitions ; that is, before the regular edlitionls of Fridav', the Fair Week, Thanksgiving, Christmas and F'oundlers' D)ay edlitions, at wvhich times they nobly rose to the occasion. H aving disp)osedl of his valedictory remarks, the editor begs the considera tion andl patience of his readers to a few things wvhich lhe has observed (luring his connection with the plaper. First of all he has observed that the students do not take as much interest in TiEi AM ECoCK as they should. Few men realize wvhat a great privilege it is to be able to write 'on a newvs p)aper. journalism is one of the great est callings of the (lay. The great daily papers are calling for the college man to take tip the jomral1stic -..rk, No... is a great opportunity to learn some thing about newspaper work and newspaper style. In order to give an opportunity to more men to learn the business the writer would recommend that four staff men be elected every year, instead of three, as now. This would likeise relieve each staff from such lot3g terms of office. Further more, the writer believes that this Uni versity is large enough and has news enough to support a semi-weekly paper. Every week we have from six to eight front-page stories which have to be condensed into short stories. when they could and should be used on the front page. The news is here, but we have not the money. The one way to secure the money to put Tun GAM EHCOCK on a steady financial basis is to curb the unrestricted license of 'he Carolinian. We (1o not mean any harm to our esteemed contemporary. 'he Carolinian, because it is a great magazine and fills a need in the lit erary life of the University, but the conclusive fact stands forth that The Carolinian has more money than is necessary to run it. Few students know that The Carolinian cleared $300 last year. of which one-half went to the business manager in gratuitous payment for his services rendered, and the other Cal f went into the treasuries of the two societies. At the same time TP Gi -%.iwocK (by a resolution of the societies, in order to let The Caro linian live ) was not allowed to solicit enough advertisements to run the whole year. TII GA:\1EcocK is a far better ad vertising medium than The Carolinian, simply and solely because it comes out four times as often. For this reason it is not allowed to solicit ads until The Carolinian has sufficient funds to run the whole year. But is it right to prevent Ti A MECOCK from living while The Carolinian clears three or four hundred dollars every year, wheln the plirpose of the resolution is to curb T G.:G-\mcoK so The Carolin ian can live? The writer sincerely hopes to see these conditions remedied by next year, and "the bird" put on a more secure financial basis, so we can have a live semi-weekly newspaper. Having preached his little preach ment, the editor again thanking his staff anl the few contributors who were public-spirited enough to hand in such stuff, for their services, lie turns over the Bird to one of the best edi tors-in-chief and staffs (as time will ProVe) TI GAM RcocK has ever had, and Wishing them the best of luck, he bids adieu. Law Association Notes. The association has hiad tw~o fairly successful meetings since the holidays. On \Vednesday bef ore last the famous case of the State v. E. T. Brown wvas tried. The dlefendlant wvas extremely wvell knowvn on the campus, and every one in court except the jury was suir prised wvhen the gentleman was found "nlot guilty." Thle counsel acting for the State were Guerard andl Cordes; for the defendant, Arrowvsmith and Stokes. On last Wednesday night a libel case was arguedl before Professor Rucker, sitting as Judge. No jury was imp)aneledl. The Court dlecidedl in favor of the plaintifs Cou.se for the plaintiffs, Etheredge and Murray; for the defendant, Stoney and Cordes. There has been a movement started in the association to try to secure credit for attendance and performance at the Moot Court. The attendance at the meetings so far this year has been very poor. The performance, we must admit, has been excellent. If we can get the faculty to give some credit for the Moot Court work, the attendance wil pick up wonderfully, and this a(lded incentive will make this year the most successful in the history of the organization. Public Health. A new course of study will be offered at the University, beginning February 1st, )y the Department of Biology. This course, which will be taught by Drs. Williams and Ward, of the State Board of Health, will be called "A Course in Public Health," and is designed to give in struction to the students who will sooti go out into the State in ma-t ters of which the av-erage citizen is woefully ignoran't. It is hoped by the teachers of this course to enroll a large number of young men in the class. If a large body of men are sent out into the various sections of t.he State each year, equippe(l with a knowledge of the means of safe guardiig the public health, much will be accomplished inl preventing sickness in South Carolina. Managers Elect Managers. On Monday morning the managers of the several athletic teams and of the college publications met and organ ized what is to be known as the Man agers' Club. This club is to be a permanent or ganization. Its chief aim is to pro mote a thorough business manage ment of all teams and publications. The following officers were elected: J. S. Hoey, president. P. L. Wright, vice president. R. P. Simpson, secretary. A. G. Hart, general manager. Members--I. B. Thomas, Football, 1910; A. G. Hart, Football, 1911; P. L. Wright, Baseball, 1 9 11 ; J. S. -oey, Track, 1911 ; E. N. Carnis, Carolinian, 1911; R. F. Siml)son. GANtEcOCK, 1911; D. A. Brockinton, Garnet and Black, 1911. Editor's Notice. Because of the approaching exami nations T H E G.\incocIc after this issue will susp)endl publication for the following twvo wveeks. The next edi tion will appear the week after exams, and wvill lie edited by the newly elected staff. Because of pressing business on the p)art 'of the editor-in-chief, the work of this issue is (due to the associate edi tor, M\'r. .1. I. H-azard, Jr., wvho kindly' edited the Bird in his place. Editor-in-Chief. NOTICE.-Group pictures will be taken of the 1st, 2d and 3d termi "Gamecock" staffs, at 3 p. m. Saturday, at Blanchard's Studio. Everyone is requested to be prmnt