Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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VOL. V. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., MAY I8, 1912. No. 30. A NEW DORMITORY IS TO BE ERECTED Modern Building for Students-The Work of Construction Will Begin at Once. At a meeting of the trustees of the University of South Carolina on Tuesday afternoon they decided to build a new dormitory instead of an auditorium, as was first planned. The building is to be equipped with all the latest modern conveni ences. It will be three stories high and will accommodate one hundred and twenty students. The cost is estimated at fifty thousand dollars. This building will fill a long-felt need at the University. The de mand for more room was heard early in the year when the increase of students caused a most congested condition in all the dormitories. With this addition of rooms the University will be in a measure able to accommodate comfortably next year's students. This new building is to be situated within the wall on Pendleton street, where Marion street intersects with Pendleton. Work will commence at once and will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. This will be quite an addition to the appearance of the University. Broadus Mitchell to Edit Carolinian. At a joint meeting of the two so cieties last Saturday night Broadus Mitchell was elected to edit The Carolinian during the first term of next year. Mr. ,Mitchell is well known on the campus as a writer, and will make a competent editor for' The Carolinian. He has already had varied experiences in journal ism, having served as editor-in-chief of TIE GAMECOCK and done excel lent work on the staff of The Caro linian. His assistant editors will be: J. B. Waldrop and H. R. Crossland from the Clariosophic society, M. A. Wright and Sam Latimer, Jr., from the Euphradian. F. N. Farris was elected business manager, with H. N. Dick as assistant. W. A. Shiff ley is to have the managerial reins of THrII' GAMECOCK. B. M. Sawyet was chosen as his assistant. Statistics at Yale showv that the average Freshman spent $1,141; Sophomore, $i ,136; Junior, $i,1 56, and Senior, $1,196 per year. Of the present Senior class of 276, 102 have been abroad, thirty-nine are en gagedl to be married atid five are ac teun11y marrierd. MUSICAL GIVEN AT COLUMBIA. COLLEGE Carolina Men Join With Vocal Stu dents of Columbia College in a Musical. Monday afternoon the students of the vocal department of Colum bia College, assisted by several singers from the University, gave a most delightful. musical. There were quite a number of Carolina men present. The singers entertained from 8:30 to 9:30, after which a reception was given in the Conser vatory of Music until 10:30. This was one of the most enjoy able affairs given at Columbia Col lege this year and in view of the fact that the college is soon to close, many Carolina men attended, of course to hear the musical, but inci dentally to see for the last time this year within those walls some very dear friends (?). The programme was as follows: PROGRAMME. Spring Song from "The Flying Dutchman" (Wagner) - Miss Mattie Wimberly. Snow Flakes (Cowen) - Male voices. A Matrimonial- Experiment (Dix on)-Miss Mamie Burch. "Can't Go Home Dis Awaya," Gage, Blake and Gage; banjo-guitar ac companiment-Gage brothers. Magnetic Waltz (Arditi)--Miss Iva Mahaffey. Dream On (Stewart)-Misses Wimberly, Crum; Messrs. Blake, Wilkes, Layton. Love in Spring (Mendelssohn Shelly)-Misses Mahaffey, Bow man, Jones, Byrd, Beard and Griffin. Until the Dawn (Parks)-Male voices. Miss Owen, accompanist. H. W. Bell Addressed Students. Monday morning Mr. H. W. Bell, representing the Farmers' Union, addressed the students in chapel. Mr. Bell made a strong plea for a practical education along agricul tural lines, and told in glowing words of the marvelous possibilities for the man with a practical educa tion in the country. Freshmen at Northwestern are subject to unusual regulations. They may not use automobiles or cabs in the college town, must limit the dlepth of their trouser "cuffs" to four inches, atnd in add(ition are for bidden to smoke p)ipes or 'cigarettes in pnblic. CAROLINA ATHLETES GET BLOCK LETTERS Baseball Men Get Coveted Old Eng lish Letter-Next Year's Man agers Elected. The advisory board on Monday afternoon awarded Old English C's to the following members of the 1912 varsity squad: Mills, Watts, VonKolnitz, Moore, McMillan, Metts, Oglesby, DuBose and A. H. Williams, manager. M. G. McDonald of Fairfield, who is now a member of the junior law class, wvill manage the 1913 team. It is a safe guess that Caro lina will have a splendid schedule under the management of "Dooley." A. M. Greenfield will have charge of the track and basketball team. Carolina is young in basketball, but it is hoped that next year will see a team here that can hold its own with the best of them. SEARCH FOR OLD SONGS. University Boys Preparing Student Song Book-Information Sought. From The Sunday News (Charles ton) April 28. To the Editor of The Sunday News: The students, with the co-operation and approval of the faculty, I am in formed, are preparing a Students' Song Book for the University of South Carolina. The idea is to pub lish a few college songs known the world over, a few sung on our Col lege campus before the War for Southern Independence, and six or more alma mater songs, recently written or now in preparation. I have it'on the best authority that the late Mrs. Louisa S. McCord, of Columbia, wrote a song for South Carolina College just before seces sion which was sung by the student body publicly-and was circulated through the audience on private slips -the air being "Gaudeamus." She also wrote another for like purpose to the air, "Scots wha hae wi' Wal lace Bled." Neither of these songs, I am told, is in possession of the College stu-" dents or professors, though they surely should have place in the song book. Anyone having a copy of either or both of these songs of the gifted Mrs. McCord wvould do a great ser vice by communicating wvith Prof. Reid Smith; Mr. D. C. Heyward, editor of the Carolinian, or Mr. D. G. Perkins, president of the Glee Club, University of South Carolina. Smelfungus. Columbia, S. C. A NEW SECRETARY FOR THE Y. M. C. A. W P. Mills Resigns-W. U. Guer rant, a Davidson Man, Takes Charge. Mr. W. U. Guerrant has been chosen secretary of the Y. M. C. A. to succeed Mr. V. P. Mills, who has resigne( to take up Association work in China. Mr. Guerrant was born at Mt. Sterling, Ky., and reared in the Blue Grass region, near Lexington, in the town of \W'ilmore. He comes to us as a man of broad experiences and well prepared for the place. He was a student at Davidson College for three years and also for a half year at Central University of Kentucky. His theo logical education was obtained at Union Seminary, Richmond, Va. Mr. Guerrant has taught for one year at XWilson. N. C., and has also served for a year as principal of a school in Kentucky. He spent one summer in mission work in the mountains of Kentucky and another in similar work at Enfield, N. C. -He has been coach of three col lege baseball teams, manager of three North Carolina league teams, I and has had three years of profes sional baseball. He was captain of Davidson's baseball team and man ager of the football team and win ner of two tennis tournaments at Davi(son and Richmond. From the above sketch it will be seen that Mr. Guerrant conies to us as a man finely trained for his work. and he will be able, by virtue of his training, to fit at once into all phases' of college life and to make a real contribution to it. The studlent body may be sure that under his leader ship the Y. M. C. A. on the campus will be increasingly serviceable to the whole University. Pictures of Montreat. Mr. -enry Johnson, student sec retary of the Y. M. C. A. of the Carolinas, is to be here next week to show pictures of Montreat. These pictures, showing many beautiful views of the land of the sky, are wvell wvorth seeing. The Southlern studenCtts have an ideal place to 1ho1d thirl summiler conferences at Mon treat. There are 46! p)ublications at the colleges and universities of thlis coutrty, 19 of whlich are dailies. T'he Yale News is ile ninneer- taly.