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rj rasicoc PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY So CIETIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. TERMS $1.50 A SESSION, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Entered as second-class matter November 20, 1908, at the postoffice at Columbia, S. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE GAMECOCK solicits humorous sketches, essays, verses, etc., snd will gladly pub lish such as is available, when accom panied 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 J. P. Evans, Business Manager. Editorial Roons in Flintn Hall. Business Manager, J. P. EVANS, ..... ........ .Clio, S. C. Assistant Business Manager, GEo. H. EDwARDS, JR...........Darlington BOARD OF EDITORS. Editor-in-Chief. WADE V. HOFFMAN (Clar.)........Killian Associate Editor W. J. RODBINS (Eup.)........Georgetown Assistant Editors G. G. CIHRISToPIIER (Clar.) ........ Pickens J. L. GREENE (Clar.)......... Spartanburg H. C. BREARLY (Eup.).... St. Charles J. D. FEATHERSTONE (Eup.)....Greenwood G. W. WARn (Y. M. C. A.)......Greenville J. B. MURPHY (Stu. Body)........Arizona W. J. BARNETTE (Law) ..........Walhalla Columbia. S. C., May 11, 1012. This Number. There has not been in recent years an issue of the GAMECOCK devoted to the law school, but this- session the management of the weekly has kind ly loaned its columns to be filled as the law men see fit. The idea was adopted by, the two law classes with expressions of gratification to the editorial staff. This number is thus sent forth with the hope that the standing and the work of the law school may be shown and that a true and interesting insight may be given into this phase of Carolina's life. The Law School and the University. In the mind of the student body of our University the idea is gen eral that the academic or under graduate department is the body around which the other departments of the University are to develop and to which they are to be attached. In the history of the institution it is a fact that the courses leading to the bachelor's degree were the first to be established, and that, when through the experience of the years those courses became firmly estab lished, efforts were made to furnish for the young men of the State pro fessional as well as academic train ing. What relation should exist be tween the University and its law :school ? In a word, the relation of an arnm to the 1body), a b)ranch to the tree. The law school should1( occupy its owvn p)articullar place, separate yet joined, dlistinict yet connectedl. Th'le lawv school is or should be a school of specialists. Men too near ly mistake the meaning and charac ter that the school has assumied. It is a niistaken idlea that the lawv course is simp)ly one of the courses offered to mien entering college that instead of p)ressing the classical or mechanical or biological course, decsignedl especially for uinder-grad uates, they may as fittingly select the law course. As the law school has it own faculty, it should have its own methods of management, its own standard of scholarship, its own building and its own library. The growth of the department has been remarkable. It has dropped its swaddling clothes and is beginning to take its rank with the leading law schools of the South. As a distinct part of the University, it demands separate attention. Strong enough to stand alone, its growth in mem bers and in the general standards set by its students can best be fur thered by a separate organization. The law faculty, unaccustomed by reason of the character of their work, to dealing with academic students, should not be called into consultation over matters affecting those students. And so the academic faculty should apply its energies and its experience in the sphere to which they are more fittingly adapted. The discipline of the law students should be worked out on a different plan, a plan suitable to their distinct posi tion. And, when the separate organ ization of the law school is effected, the other changes that are awaited by all will follow as natural conse quences. When the school is made to stand out clearly so that its work can be distinctly seen and readily understood, the public opinion that supports its work will demand its further development. The authorities will be enabled to enlarge the faculty and the courses offered will be correspondingly broadened and the length of resi dence made three years. And finally the entrance requirements will be, as they should be, made more stringent. A separate organization for a sepa rate school is the present need of the law school. The Law Building Campaign. This session has marked great de velopment in the law school, but in no respect has the growth been more striking than in what is known as the "Law Building Movement." The students have become dissatisfied with the present equipment of the school in the way of buildings and library. Present conditions are im proper. There is not the proper number of legal texts at hand: no offices are provided for the pro fessors; the only distinctly law class room is in an 0k1(lormitory; there is no sep)arate room for moot court or add(resses to the lawv school. To remedly these dlefects the miembers of the law student body have launch edl a great p)lan to raise $40,000 for a sep)arate law building to be fitted uip with class rooms, offices, libraries, toilets, and an auditorium. The idea is to give this University a lawv build ing that will equal any in the South. And the students feel that the p)res ent high level of the wvork (lone and he high type of studlents that the lawv school is attracting, duec to the excellence of the teaching staff and to the central location of Columbia, dlemand that these dlefects of form beC remiedliedl. It is certain that the possession of this building will but foreshadow further improvements and additions, until we shall have a course of three years, a faculty of five professors. and an enviable library. The plan is the outcome of the thought and aspirations of Mr. Robert H. Pittman, a member of the senior law class. He worked up the outline which was warmly espoused by his fellow students. A rousing meeting of the law students was called and several inspiring talks were made. The following commit tee was appointed to carry on the work: R. H. Pittman, chairman; E. P. Guerard, Jr., H. G. Goggans, C. T. Graydon, F. Wmil. Cappel mann, secretary. I BRING THE WORLD TO YOU Something New and Inter esting Daily MONTGOMERY The Moving Picture Man THE GRAND, Columbia, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Sa vannah, Valdosta S. B. McMASTER SPORTING GOODS COLUMBIA, :-: S. C. 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