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VOL. V. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., MAY 4, 1912. No. 28. JAMES ALLAN, JR. WINS SOUTHERN CONTEST Carolina Gets Coveted Honor Second Time in Ten Years. MEETING HELD AT UNIVERSITY OF ALA. Transylvania Comes Second-Uni versity Closes a Most Successful Year in Oratory. James Allan, Jr., representing the University of South Carolina, won first place in the Southern Intercol legiate Oratorical Contest held at the University of Alabama. S. J. Carrick of Transylvania came sec ond. This is considered the greatest honor a Southern college man can (Photo by Blanchard.) JAMIE'S ALLAN, JR. University Student Who Won First Place li South(ern Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Contest. win. lhis is the second time Caro lina has won first )lace in this con test, W. Gordon Belser winning it about ten years ago. The universi ties represented were: Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, University of South Carolina, University of Alabama, Transylvania, University of Kentucky. Mr. Allan's subject was, "The Light of an Ideal." Great Doings on the Campus. The news of the victory did not get to the campus as early as it might, owing to some slight delay. However, when notice was received the campus reverberated with the glad shouts of four hundred andl fifty students. Classes wvere sus pendedl fpr an hour after chapel and ever.y studlent joined in one of the most enthusiastic p)aradles held this year. Marching upl Main street the cheering students proclaimed to the cit.izens of Columbia that thiey had (Conlinued on Page Five.) EMINENT THEOLOGIAN ADDRESSED STUDENTS Dr. Guerry Spoke in Chapel Sunday Night. LECTURE ENJOYED BY MANY TOWN VISITORS The Greatest Man is He Who Has Done Most to Help His Fellowman. On last Sunday night Bishop William A. Guerry delivered a most interesting address to the students of the colleges of Columbia in chapel. After paying a tribute to the col lege Young Men's Christian Asso ciation, he announced as his text: "\Vhether he that sitteth at meat or he that serveth."' In a character istic style he outlined to his audi ence his conception of the words of the text. In part he said "that Christ de fned greatness in terms of service. He would define the greatest man not as the greatest author, poet, etc., but the man who is the greatest cit izen, the man who has (lone more to help his fellowman. We conceive of the president as the greatest man because he is the highest servant of the people. Service is the keynote of all religion. Christ came into this world to serve and because Ie served He saved. One of the most striking scenes in the life of our Savior is that scene we have of Him washing the feet of his disciples on the eve of His crucifiction. He did this menial act in order to teach them a lesson of service. Service should be the keynote in every man's life. All of us have a definite place to fill in this life of ours. But the most important thing is to find what God wants us to do. "The greatest comfort that comes to any man in his last (lays should be the thought that he has made the world better by having lived in it. To feel that somewhere there is stored away contributions made by him and that these contributions will live after him. "Vocation is alwvays p)recedled by consecration. D)av id w~a s conse cratedl long before lie w~as chosen ruler of the Israelites. Consecration is the offering of one's life to God(; vocation is the calling for which one is consecratedl. Sonie arec conse cratedh who atre not serviceable. In the instance where tile i :o men wvho DR. SMITH IS TO REMAIN AT CAROLINA Action of Student Body Meets with Success in Retaining Prominent Scholar on Faculty. Every Carolina man was highly pleased when, on last Monday morn ing, a letter from Dr. Reed Smith was read before the student body saying that he would remain at Car olina. The student body congratu lates itself on being the means of helping to retain such a strong man as Dr. Smith on the faculty. Dr. Smith was recently called to a full professorship in the Depart ment of English at the University of North Carolina, a position that might have offered much larger op portunities to him than Carolina can give at present. But being the broad minded man that he is, a man of large purpose and untiring devotion to service, he saw even at Caro lina a career that would prove bene ficial at least to her students. For this reason, and because of the in tense interest shown by the student body in the fear of losing him, he has decided to continue his excellent work in the Department of English at the University. Dr. Smith has been at Carolina three years, and during this time lie has been of inestiiiiable value in both his department and student life in general. His many friends are delighted to know that he will re main at Carolina, and wish for him many happy, use ful years among the young men of this State. INFIRMARY NOTES. (. D. Varn, who has been in the infirmary for some weeks with a blood-poisoned foot, has gone to his home at Moselle. S. E?. Owen has been in the in firmary the past week. I. A. Monash was on the sick list a (lay or two. J. J. M. Graham has been in the infirmary this week. volunteered for the foreign work at a recent student volunteer meet ing, many were turned down be cause of the failure to qlualify for one reason or another. Consecra tion is not enouigh for a man, he must be qualified. "Our Savior prepared himisel f 30 years to serve only thriee. Inl this we hav'e a wvonderful lesson taught in qualification. The world needs men wvho arec fully equipped for ser THE PRESS MEETING ENDS WITH BALL College Editors Close Conven tion With Frivolity. NEWSPAPER IDEA DOMINANT In Everything, Final Festivity Sug gestive of Serious Work of Young Association. The initial convention of the Southern College Press Association came to a close with the first annual ball of the association in the gym nasium of the University of South Carolina Thursday night, April 25. The dance was given in honor of the delegates by the German Club of the University, and there were present 20 couples. Decorations, Cards and Favors. The walls of the gymnasium were covered above the wainscoting with a row of newspapers and magazines suggesting the press atmosphere. if not exactly decorative in effect. The cards were miniature Carolinians, and contained 12 dances with three extras. The favors were newspaper stories of the dance: These Were There. The delegates in whose honor the dance was given were: Brevard 1). Stephenson, I.'niversity of North Carolina: Roht. B. Jacksoni College of William and .\lary; T. J. \\olf ter, University of Georgia; J. iT. Ktngeter. Clemson College: G. J. I Iearsey, Clemson College. 'Tihe couples were John 1-oev and .\iiss Rebecca Walker. C. F. W.: Frank Sims and Miss Margaret Green. Guy Maxwell and Mliss Minnie \Villianm son, BobOwens and Miss Susie Fitz Sinions, Whitner Carv an' Miss Louise Beadles, Smythe Flinn and i\liss Dorothy Eldridge, Ed Nott andi Miss Elizabeth \Woodson, Dun can Heyward and Miss Polly Snow den, Brother Woodrow and Miss Reaux Jones, ''on Bouchier and Miss Mary We11ls, Crane War.ing, andl MIiss ElizabethI Barton, Lyle \Vhitner and Miss Katie Graham 'Thompson, Reddy Metts and Miss Nan WValker, Pete Jones and Miss Frances Mayfield, Billy Cappelmann and Miss Raven Simkins, Gradly G;oggans and Miss Sarah Houseal, John H-Iughes Cooper and Miss ( Coutinued on Page Fiwe )