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fit _______e VOL. VI. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., DECEMBER 21, 1912. No. 12. WILL NAVAL UFFIUER BE STATIONED HERE? Navy Department Considering Request From Authorities. Will Be Instructor of Engineering Department-To Take Up Duties at Next Session. A special to The State of De cember 17, says: A naval officer of high rank to be stationed permanently at the University of South Carolina is a proposition which has been pending here for some time and which is now almost ready. to become a cer tainty. Some time ago Dr. Mitchell took this matter up with Congress man Lever and the latter with the secretary of the navy. It was be lieved that if the department would assign an officer to the university it would be a good thing for the stu dents and at the same time a step that the alumni would no doubt thoroughly appreciate. Mr. Lever is today in -receipt of a letter from the department relative to the mat ter of which the following is a copy: "Replying to your letter of the 9th inst., enclosing a request from Dr. S. C. Mitchell of the University of South Carolina for the detail of a naval officer as an instructor at the university of that State, I beg to say: "Officers of the old engineer corps to the number of about 40 in all were from time to time detailed to various institutions under the terms of this act, many of these officers attaining considerable prom inence as leading educators in en gineering technic in this country. Prof. Hollis at Harvard, Prof. Cooley at Michigan State university and the late Prof. Spangler of the University of Pennsylvania were among those detailed, resigning from the navy to accept professor ships. "Since 1894 the shortage of of ficers in the service has prevented any further detail, but, although the shortage still exists, it is desirable to begin the resump)tion of this practice since there is much benefit to be derived by the officers and by the navy, as well as by the col leges in many ways. 3. W. Wilkes went home Satur dlay after a three wveeks stay at the infirmary. K00DEY DEBATE HELD THURSDAY Lloyd Smith of Junior Law Class is Winner. Annual Forensic Meet Between So cieties Hela in Chapel-Query Evokes Interesting Discussion. Lloyd Smith, a member of the junior law class and representing the Euphradian society, won the annual Roddey Medal debate between the Clariosophic and Euphradian so cieties held in the chapel Thursday evening. B. A. Sawyer of the Junior Academic Class and repre senting the Clariosophic Society, won second place. The query was: "Resolved, That the rules govern ing the primary elections of South Carolina should be as rigid as those controlling the general election." The affirmative was upheld by Messrs. C. Barre, Euphradian, and W. D. Barnett, Clariosophic; the negative was represented by Messrs. Lloyd Smith, Euphradian, and B. A. .Sawyer, Clariosophic. The dis cussion was interesting throughout and served to bring forth much in formation regarding our present primary system. Its defects were revealed by the affirmative, while the negative was as active in show ing how it has safeguarded elections since its origination. The rebuttal was spirited and snappy. J. B. Murphy of Clifton, Ari zona, presided, and W. V. Hoffman acted as chief marshal. The judges were: Dr. C. E. Burts, Senator F. H. Weston, Superintendent E. S. Dreher of the city schools, W. H. Jones, and Dr. Oscar LaBorde. College Students Leave for Homes. The holiday exodus of students from the city will begin Friday. From then until Monday the street cars, depots and out-going trains will be flooded with gay young truthseekers homeward bound. The College for Women girls and the young preachers of both seminaries, Presbyterian and Lutheran, will be liberated on Friday. Carolina men may make a get-away any time after two o'clock Saturday. The young ladies of Columbia College will not be given their freedom until Monday. The many friends of H. C. Brearley wvill be glad to know that he is improving nicely. NEW DORMITORY WILL SOON BE OCCUPIED Building to Be Thrown Open Second Term. Will Accommodate Thirty-six Stu dents-Many Will Change Head quarters at Once. The new dormitory is nearing completion. Most of the outside work is finished and that on the inside is being pushed very rapidly. Mr. Landis, the foreman, says that he will have some of the rooms ready when college opens after the Christmas holidays, and the entire building will be completed by Feb ruary i. The building will have -eighteen suites of rooms and will accom modate thirty-six boys. The rooms are nicely arranged and are being very neatly finished. They are modernly equipped and will be the nicest on the campus. More boys have applied for rooms than can be accommodated in the new dormitory. It seems that all the dormitory space will be taken during the second term, and by next fall there will be need for another building. A number of students are rooming in town and at the city Y. M. C. A., who are anxious to come to the campus just as soon as they can get rooms. It is hoped that the legislature at the next session will make provision for another building. The growth and efficiency of the college are ham pered by the lack of room. Engineering Students Construct Bridge at Sumter. Several senior engineering stu dents spent several days last week in Sumter taking an object lesson of the construction of a concrete-road bridge. This bridge is being built by Sumter county at Dingles Mill, a few miles from the city of Sumter, with Prof. Homes as consulting en gineer, and A. M. Greenfield, Jr., erstwhile "Snider," as engineer-in charge. The party, consisting of Messrs. "Neps" McCrady, Shaw, Ott and Pitts, left for Sumter Wednesday, and straggled back one by one the latter part of the wveek. If certain materials arrive and allow the work to advance the same party will soon return to study the construction at another stagre. SENIOR CLASS WINS CHAMPIONSHIP CUP Defeat Sophomores in Final Game Saturday. Complete Honorable Record by Hold ing Trophy for Fourth Year. Owen Star of Game. The grand old seniors again scored a triumph on the gridiron on Saturday when they defeated the sophomores 13 to o. This was the deciding game of the championship series and by winning it the seniors won the cup for 1912. The class of 1913 has never been beaten in all its four years in college, and the game Saturday closed a glorious record. The seniors, after a hard struggle, finally got away with juniors' scalp, scoring for the first time on this class in all its history. The sophs had romped on the fresh men previously and so won a place in the final struggle. Both senior touchdowns came in the last half and were made by Owen. During the first half both teams struggled desperately, but vainly, to score. At this stage of the game the teams seemed very evenly matched and a score looked improbable. However, toward the end of the third quarter the seniors began to show superior strength and steadily plugged their way toward the soph goal line. At last Green shoved the ball up to the 2 yard line and Owen charged through for the first touchdown. He failed to kick goal. The second touchdown came in nmuch the same way as the first. On steady plunges the seniors worked the ball down to the 6-yard line. From here Capt. Owen tore around end for another touchdown. He kicked goal, making the final score: Seniors 13, sophs o. The real star of the game was Capt. Owen. He is the only man on the team which survives of the team of four years that won the cup for this class. Playing in the line on defense he broke up play after play for the sophs. As full back on offense he wvas a steady ground gainer. H-V. again played a brilliant game M. half back. The senior endls, Doug lass and Hughes, did well. Greeni showed great ability to sneak through the line and his wvork in this respect played a large part in the victory. The sophs best ground (Continued on Page 3.)