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91je C alucecocs PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITSmARY So CIETIES oF THE UNIVERSITY OF SoUTH CAROLINA. TERMS $I.o A SEssIoN, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Entered as second-class matter November 20, Igo8, at the postoffice at Columbia, S. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE GAMECOCK solicits humorous sketches, essays, verses, etc., and 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 W. A. Schifiley, Busi ness Manager. Editorial Rooms in Flinn Hall. W. A. SCHIFFLEY.............Orangeburg Assistant Business Manager. BEN M. SAWYER....................Saluda BOARD OF EDITORS. Editor-in-Chief. M. A. WRIGHT (Euph.)...........Trenton Associate Editor. J. S. DUDLEY (Clar.)............ Columbia Assistant Editors. H. C. BREARLEY (Euph.)........St. Charles E. R. JETER (Clar.) .......... .. .Columbia J. F. BROOKS (Clar.) ........,. Spartanburg J. I. COHEN (Euph.) ...........Columbia H. E. DANNER (Student Body)... Beaufort H. S. WELSH (Y. M. C. A.).... Charleston R. O. PURDY (Law) ...............Sumter Columbia, S. O. December 21, 1912. Everybody's doin' it early. Do your resolution framing early to avoid the rush. At the beginning of the holiday season, all roads lead to home. Our idea of legitimate graft is the position of flag raiser to the legislature. Why be a tightwad about your presents when Cobb and Kirby are still on the job? How will Hoke and Joe get along on that committee which selects the winner of the S. C. I. 0. A. contest ? Some one has suggested that a suitable motto for the gymnasium would be: "All soap abandon, ye who enter here." The politicians of the State could have (lone far worse than hearing the discussion of our primary law in the chapel Thursday evening. That was a rather pulchritudin otis set of young people that drifted lown from Winthrop Friday after 110011. Beasts of the field and fowls of the air will have to use their wits in a fewv (lays for the hunter wvill b)e abroad in the land. One of the societies recently dis cussed the qluestion : \Vill a kiss sat isfy thirst ? Those wvho have tried it say that nothing is more intoxi cating. The recurrence of Christmas brings to mind that bit of Biblical philosophy to wvhich we have al ways found it dlifficuilt to subscribe: "It is better to give than to re ceive." College Life. In an arraignment of present day university life before the National Education association, Chancellor Samuel 4very of the University of Nebraska took occasion to deplore the lack of contact between student and instructor. In this regard Chancellor Avery said: "A student nowadays must be very brilliant or very troublesome before the college president becomes acquainted with him at all." And since the vast majority of students are neither brilliant nor troublesome, being of the average intelligence and dispo sition, the president never learns to know the men in college. What Chancellor Avery has said of the heads of institutions may with equal truth be applied to the rest of the faculty. They know nothing of the men who sit under their tutelage except how these men conduct themselves in the class room, where, of all places, the real, student nature is poorest revealed. Since one of the best ways of gain ing culture and knowledge is through the contact with other per sonalities, the student of today ex periences a vital loss when lie con pletes a four-year course without having met those who have taught him on some other basis besides that of class room relations. The advantage of friendly inter course between teacher and pupil is not all a one-sided affair; not only is it- beneficial to the student but it is of equal importance from the standpoint of the professor. An in timate and friendly association be tween the two enables the latter to graps the student point of view ; to consider student affairs-even stu dent misconduct-in their proper proportions. He gains a greater knowledge of the elements which enter into student life and such knowledge can but render him more efficient in his professional capacity. He learns to consider the freshman not as a certain amount of bone and muscle and brain-mere raw mate rial with which to work, but as an individual with hopes, aspirations and ideals, perhaps, who is worthy of the intimate friendship of the faculty. Fellowship and the University. Professor Baker p)aidl the student body of this univecrsity no small compliment -whien he said recently, in a short adIdress in the chapel, that from his observation of the studlents of the various schools which he has v'isited, there is as great a (degree of genuine fellow ship on this campus as exists at any other institution andl a much higher dhegree than is found at most col leges andh universities. There a friendly intimacy about our student relations here which has frequently attractedl the favorable attention of visitors on the campus. And this is proper. Such intimacy, such friendliness as is evidenced hv greetings hetween students .a their attitude toward each other is an indication to the outsider of the existence of a spirit of co-operation without which but small results may be accomplished by any educational institution. / The university has been called the training camp of life. And since whatever vocation or business we enter, we will be thrown in daily contact with those about us, the greatest lesson which the university can teach is the cultivation of the social instinct. The student should learn here truths of conduct which will enable him to live on terms of friendship with his fellows when the university shall have become his alma mater. He must learn these for himself and the degree of fellowsliip which characterizes our relations here, of which Prof. Baker has spoken, may be taken as evidence that the stu dents of this university realize the important place which the cultiva tion of a friendly disposition should have in their development. "Bill" Clark Douglas Harbison THE COLLEGE "Where Gentlemen Recreate'" A BILLIARD HALL OF QUALITY 1231 MAIN STREET Fine Appointments, Luxurious Furnishings The Handsomest Room in the State All the Legitimate Sporting News on Tap; Come and Buzz With Us. College Barber Shop 825 Main Street Slylish Hair Cuts and First Clan Shawes Shave I Oc; Hair Cut 5 for $1.00 I. C. SEASE, Druggist Succseer to WILSON'S DRUG STORE PURE DRUGS, TOILET ARTICLES STATIONERY and CIGARS 908 Main Street Phone 1261 P ROFIT SHARING REMIUM CERTIFICATES FREE TO OUR CUSTOMERS Ask For Catalogue of Premiums J. S. Plnkussohn Cigar Co. 130'/ MAIN STREET CIGARS, SODA, POOL ROOM ISAVE 20% By Buying A $1.00 Coupon Book; 24 Drinks Good at SmitWfs, 3nc. IARCADE STORE & 1600 MAIN STREET IFrom Our Representative Mr. W. A. SCHIFFLEY GO -rO John Cornwell's BARBER SHOP For The Best Hair Cut Every Style The Sludenis Friend 1629 MAiN STR EET Neat Door toak th t ... -ran . -har SWAN'S . Stote of Style and Quallty UP-TO-DATE CLOTHING, HATSand FURNISHINGS 10 Per Cont. Discount to Students . B. MITQBBLL, Campas R.presentathe 1330 MAIN ST. -:- PHONE 306 NEXT TO ARCADB SHOES Good Selection, New Styles for Men and Boys WA LTERS 1420 Main Phone 573 OPEN ON SUNDAY 1345 Main St. Phone 372 THE SAVOY S. T. WESBERRY, Prop. Candy, Cigars, Tobacco New Fountain and Pool Room Installed COLLEGB BOYS ESPEOIALLY INVITBD SPECIAL LINE OF Clothes for College Men Hats and Furnishings The Newest and Latest 10 Per Cent. Disiount to Students SCRUGGS & BAILEY G. W. WARD, Campus Representative "Save a Dollar" 1333 MAIN STREET Shoes for Men and Women $2.50 and $3.00 ECONOMY SHOE CO. OPPOSITE ARCADE Stores in All Leading Cities S.B.McMASTER SPORTING GOODS COLUMBIA, :-: S. C. A BBOT T'S 1300 MAIN STREET TOBA CCO, CIGA RS and COLD DRINKS AGENTS FOR BBLL'S FORKDIPT and APOLLO CHOCOLATES EIIADOUARTERA10 OLLG MiUMaun