Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GAMECOCK CHANGES EDITORS NEXT WEEK Old Staff Retires With This Issue. W. V. HOFFMAN IS NEXT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Some of His Assistants Have Had Experience on Gamecock-The New Staff. This is the last issue of THE GAMECOCK under the present staff. The outgoing editors are: From the Euphradians, Sam Latimer, Jr., editor-in-chief; Jas. B. Murphy, associate editor, and W. J. Robbins; from the Clariosophics, W. H. Mc Murray, C. G. Christopher and V. V. Hoffman ; from the Y. M. C. A., H. C. Brearley; from the student body, M. S. Brohun and M. C. Fos ter, from the law association. The new staff so far elected consists of: W. V. Hoffman, editor-in-chief; J. L. Greene and C. G. Christopher, from the Clariosophic Society, and W. J. Robbins, J. D. Featherstone and H. C. Brearley are the Euphra dian editors, with W. D. Barnett, from the lawyers. The Y. M. C. A. and student body editors have not yet been elected. Nearly all of the new scribes have had newspaper experience. Hoffman, the new editor-in-chief, has done splendid work on THE GAMECOcK this term. Robbins, Brearley and Christopher were on the staff this term and are already intimately acquainted with the workings. Pertaining to Flinn Hall and Its In fluence on the Campus. How often it has been said that Flinn Hall is the greatest single thing at the University from the standpoint of the student and stu dent body ! And if one would de termine how true this assertion is, let him propose-to almost any man or group of men on the campus that we do away with this institu tion ! Indeed, the one thought pro voked in the mind of the man who thinks of all that Flinn Hall mieans is that of real wonder as to howv the students ever~ managed to do wvith out it. We are all familiar with the story of the founding of this gr-eat centre of student activities-of how Dr. J. William Flinn began the work which led to its establishment, and of howv the stud(ents, faculty and fr-iends of the University all joined hands to make it what it now is but we wondler if those friends and memblers of the faculty who aided in this great work appreciate the miagnitudle and value of the thing which has g-rown from their efforts. Flinn Hall has become an abso lute niecessity to the men of the University. No other. element of the campus life means as much, for no other element has associated with itself the things for which Flinn Hall stands, and no other element can reach the men as does Flinn Hall. First and foremost in the list of activities which have their centre here we must place the student Y. M. C. A. and its attendant religious features; for where, better than on a University campus, can one find the need of such an influence as is exerted by the religion taught by the Y. M. C. A.-a religion for men and which helps to make men -a religion which, in looking after the spiritual needs, does not neglect those of the mind and body? Flinn Hall meets this need-meets it in every particular-and one has only to see the interest manifested in the Y. M. C. A. and its Bible and mis sion study groups now, as con trasted with the time before the es tablishment of Flinn Hall, to realize this. Again, what an ideal place for study during an hour between classes is found in the green room. More than once has the writer seen additional chairs brought from an other room by men who wished to take advantage of this opportunity, and more often than not is the iuom occupied. But, after all, perhaps the great est contribution made by Flinn Hall to the comfort and help of the stu dent is in giving him a place in which to rest after his work; a place where he can spend an hour, or an afternoon, or an evening, either reading or simply whiling away the time amid healthful surroundings and in company with others of his fellows. This year, as last, the county papers have been constant and regular visitors to the racks of the reading room; and these furnish for each man the local home news of necessity lacking in the larger dailies. The subscriptions to the leading magazines, both technical and fiction, have been continued, and so regularly are these papers read that one has often, in visiting the hall in search of a particular issue, to find it in use. The piano adds to the pleasure derived from Flinn Hall, and makes possible the music for the weekly religious meeting, as wvell as .forming a part of the concerts occasionally held in the reading rooms. Upstairs, the arrangements have remained much the same as they were last year, with the addition, however, of the badly-needed andh long-wished-for wvriting room. This room is furnished with a long writ ing table and several individual dlesks, on all of which are provided ev'erything necessary for corre spond(ence except stam1ps-and even these, with postcards, may be pur chased downstairs at the miniature postoffice sub-station. The wvriting room fills a much-felt need, and the student body certainly owe it thanks to Secretary Mills for hav ing made it a realization. The guest room is still used as formerly, affording a place of enter tainment for visitors who come as the University's guests; and this room, with the writing and publica tion rooms, makes up that part of the second floor not occupied l,y the secretary. Here again, hovever, we find Flinn Hall filling another niche, for on the floor above are several rooms given over as stu dents' apartments-and the hall be comes, literally for some men, what it is in effect for nearly all-a home. How .better, in closing, can we end this somewhat abridged account of what Flinn Hall means to the students of our University, than by expressing the earnest wish that this great institution may become even more valuable and more necessary on the campus-so that it must. appear to those in a position to help not alone a thing worthy of aid, but a thing vitally important-a thing, the means for the support and growth of which must be forth coming! S. A. White. CAMPUSGRAMS' J. G. Allen, W. H. \Vatson and W. J. Scott attended the B. Y. P. U. convention at Latta last week. W. S. McGraw of the class of '10 has been on the campus for sev eral days. He has been teaching at Richburg and has just closed a most successful session. ga/A erutg ih Bill's room. "When goodi fellows get to.. gether" there's always a call for Fatima Cigarettes. CAROLINA'S GLEE CLUB ON YEAR'S FINAL TOUR Sang in Beaufort Last Evening-In Charleston Tonight-Hartsville and Darlington Next Week. The University Glee Club is now on its final tour for this season. A concert was given at .Beaufort last night. The audience was delighted with the affair, and did not fail to give the boys a very warm recep tion. The club delivered the goods in every sense of the word. Tonight Hibernian Hall, Charleston, will doubtless have for them quite a large audience. The singers will go to Darlington on Tuesday evening and to Coker College, Hartsville, on the following evening. The several programmes are very elaborately arranged, differing very much from those rendered on previous occa sions. Since this is their last chance to appear before the audi ences of the State this season, they will doubtless strive to make this trip a record-breaker. With the success meted out to them on pre vious occasions they have no reason to expect less than a triumph at every entertainment. The Princeton eight hundred meter relay team lowered the record formerly held by Pennsylvania by 4-5 sec. The time was 2 min., 36 3-5 sec.-Exchange. ,r +i e Im