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Columbia, S. C., October 11, 1913
Where are all the mustaches
of yesteryear?
*4 t- *
The man who doesn't enter the
preliminary to the Davidson de
bate has warts on the back of
his neck.
*: * *:
We were glad to see so many
fair representatives of C. C. and
C. F. W. at the matinee last Sat
urday.
At this writing backers of the
Giants look as will the Clemson
line men after the fair week
game.
* * *
One of the wise guys among the
first year men was heard to re
mark that "the pen ain't half so
mighty as the board".
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We violate no confidence when
we say that slender, black-haired
Perry looks good as a backfield
contender-one of the best finds
of the season.
They say that in the original
Anglo-Saxon it was written fresh
man---two words, which shows
how expressive language was in
those days.
It is rumored that a number of
freshmen have not yet joined the
student body. Hereafter certifi
cates of membership will be re
quired..
Some guy said he had about as
much chance to make that foot
ball team as the far-famed ball
of snow; but then the tempera
ture mio-ht -nke a tumble..
THE HONOR SYSTEM AGAIN.
You will pardon us if again we
write upon this topic as some
thing on it appeared in last week's
issue; we believe recent develop
ments justify its appearence.
The action of the student body
in regard to hazing taken last
Monday morning is one to be
commended. It showed that the
students of the university are
capable of governing themselves
and that they wish to cooperate
with the faculty as far as pos
sible in preventing anything that
will injure Carolina.
Hazing has always been a mat
ter to be handled by the faculty, a
bone of contention between stu
dents and faculty. In few col
leges, if any, have the students
taken hazing into their hands
and placed upon it a ban so effec
tive as making it an infringment
of the direct laws of an honor
system. We may with safety
claim that Carolina is unique in
this.
There are those who fear that
the honor system will be overload
ed. But we claim that in incor
porating the prohibition of haz
ing in the rules and regulations
of the honor system the student
body did not acknowlege that
hazing was not before a violation
of the spirit of the honor system,
it merely incorporated it in order
to make the certainty of punish
ment greater and express its
hearty disapproval of the custom.
So we claim that nothing has
been added to the honor system,
the prohibition that it has always
placed, in spirit, upon the abuse
of this custom has simply been
put in concrete form. If the
student body is ever to be a truly
self-governing body thru the
honor system it must incorporate
in the rules and regulations of
this honor system those things
that it especially wishes to regu
late. We would not like to see
the honor system a "law and
order league" but we would like
to see it the judicial deparment
of a system of self government.
The more the student body of
its own volition takes action on
the large issues of student deport
ment the more the faculty will
surrender to it the right of self
government. Does not the ac
tion of the faculty in petitioning
'the trustees to remove the obnox
ious pledge against hazing show
this?
BASKET BALL.
Before long the football season
will end and basket ball will take
its place. A partial schedule has
been mapped out beginning with
the Newberry game here on the
twelfth of December. That gives
only eleven days of practice after
football season. But practice will
start in a few days and Coach
Blackburn wants to ave a bunch
of new men out to round into
shape before the football men
get into it. Any man has a good
chance to make the team if he
gets on the job now and keeps
pegging away at it till the season
opens. Several old basket ball
men are on the football squad
but with a two month's jump on
them you can push them hard for
their jobs even if you have never
seen a basketball.
This game has grown greatly
in popularity here during the last
year or so and without a doubt
much interest will be taken this
season. But this interest must
start now and not the day before
the first game.
Basket ball offers a good open
ing to those men who want to
play football and are prevented
by parental objection. The people
at home did not tell you not to
play basket ball; they think it is
a girls' game; if you do, start out
for practice and get disillusioned.
A CARD OF THANKS.
The wide advertisement of the
various games staged on Davis
Field during the year is due largc
ly to the generosity of the mer
chants of Columbia. They give the
managers of the teams permission
to place posters in their show
windows free of charge, very
few asking even for passes. The
merchants are willing to help
Carolina as much as possible and
the Gamecock feels that universi
ty men ought not to overlook
this. The managers of the Ideal,
Pastime, Lyric and Grand are al
so largely responsible, since by
running slides they probably
reach as many people as do the
window posters. We feel that we
are justified in thanking these
men for the privileges they offer
us in this respect.
LIGHTS IN THE LIBRARY.
It seems to the Gamecock that
for sometime there has been a
crying need for better lighting
facilities in the library. The
present system is, to say the
least, inadequate. The globes
have blackened by long use and
the light in few parts of the
building is bright enough to read
by without taxing the eyes.
It has been suggested that the
drop lights in each alcove be done
away with and a large globe be
put at the top of each alcove
about half way back to the wall.
This would enable one to read
plainly the titles of books on the
higher shelves and would spread
the ligh t more generally through
out the building.
If this change were made and
the globes in the chandeliers re
placed by new ones we feel sure
that the light in the whole build
ing would be very much better
and one would find no difficulty
reading in any nook or corner.
DINNER AT 2.05.
Every man who has a class
from one to two has had a serious
conflict, between dinner and that
class. Eager we are for know
ledge and no doubt were we liv
ing jn the age of scholasticism we
wodld shut ourselves away from
all things of a carnal nature and
pursue our quest for the golden
apple of knowledge undisturbed
by the ordinary cares of life. But
it so happens that we are living
in the twentieth century when
much attention is given to the
inner man. Therefore the first
two minutes after two o'clock are
probably the most important of
the day. These are often necessa
rily taken up in the classroom.
A professor cannot be expected
to stop in the middle of a sen
tence just because the bell rings;
to do so would possibly lose the
work of half a period. We are
glad this conflict between mind
and matter has been arranged by
moving the time for dinner up
five minutes. This will
give ample time for men to get
from the various class rooms to
the mess hall and we feel sure
that vef y few men will starve
by this time.
STRAIGHT TALK
AND COMMONSENSE
The Editor of The Gamecock
has received for publication the
following communication, which
speaks in clarion tones, comes
straight from the shoulder, and
rings with that very uncommon
quality-common sense:
To the Editor of The Gamecock:
This year, as has been the case
for some time during the past,
we are confronted with the prob
lem of putting a football team
on the field each man of which
will be able to participate in ev
ery game during the season. All
our previous efforts to do so have
been in vain. We have been
forced to meet our ancient rivals,
the Clemson Tigers, time and
time again with a patched up
eleven, and in this significant
fact lies the secret of our failure
to cope more successfully with
her in the past. Therefore, if
we would win out this year, we
must adopt some means whereby
such able performers as von Kol
nitz, Perry, Erwin and others
will be enabled to play in every
scheduled game, whether the op
position be S. I. A. A. teams or
not.
Why could we not form rules
of our own, such as those used
by the University of Virginia, re
garding the eligibility of the va
rious men of her eleven ? Caroli
na is not a "prep"~ school to be
dictated to by any and everybody;
she has suffered that limitation
long enough. The time has come
(C'nnnnonn Pagn 3.)