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The Gamecock Puar,tsuzg WP1aK" Tita Soorna or "Ue SOUTH CAOL4* U-Itut SION, PAYAErtN og Entered as seconda matt* Norem. ber 20, 1908, at the postofcce at Columbia,~ 8. 0., Under the Act of March 8, 1879. TuE GAMEOcK solicits humoroys aketches, essays, Verses, etc, aii will gladly publish such as is available, when accompanied 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 B. B. Williams, Jr., Business Manager. h'dltorial Rooms in Plinn Hall. RusInese Manager. B. B. WItra.AIS, Jl............Norway Asststant Business Manager. T. T. OAnaou...:...........Columbla BOARD OF EDITORS. Editor-n-Chief. E. R. JETER (Clar.)..............Richland Assooiate Editor. M. W. PRIcE (Clar.).......Danville Va. I. - Assistant Editors. E. S. GAmnRELL (Clar.).......Anderson HADDON JOHNSON (Euph.)........Aiken C. P. BAAa, (Euph.)..........Lexington H. C. BRAmLEY (Euph.).............Lee E. W. MULLINs (Law).......Maron W. J. Scor (Y. M. C. A.)...Edgefleld M. A. Waiowr (Student Body) Edgefleld Columbia, S. C., December 6, 1913 That Thanksgiving Gernian was all right-what there was of it. * ** Do law students begin their Christmas presentation speeches with "Be it known by these pres ents?" * * * They do say that Davis Field track records were smashed again Thursday night. Shades of 'Lisha Levy! * * * One hopeful feature of this session is the lack of chicken stealing, the faculty having no fowls whatever. *** The freshmen have made spe cial arrangements with Mrs. Mladden and Van Metre for the big game with the sophs. *** If you want to know anything about the hetch-hetchy Hamilton Holt, Anna Pavlova or Carpenter can teach it to you in a single les son. * ** Reports this month are the best in the histor'y of the Uni versity and the moral life of the student body was never better. (Mark this paragraph 'and send the paper home) Seeing as how we have chain peened their cause all the year and 'lowing that they might want to show their apreclality 'long about Christnias, we advise the o.da~ right 'now that our ward robe Tacks socks. .The n~otiqalil , . h.. t n o# 014,g ~r~4 very povorabl m nt upon This but aother: I ication of the fact that we of6 ldually dtawing awa;r the :Id' arrt -chaic meth tht l*obt in d here for so lon; To some of those among us-those who are faithful archaeologists-this uli heaval will be distasteful and they will protest loudly against the desecration, as they consider it, of those relics of the past heaters and grates. To the majority of us, howev er, to those who care - more for their personal comfort-than for past performances, 'this reform is most gratifying, and it is this majority that is loudly praising the results achieved: Mertain it is that for the present, at any rate, steam heat fllls a very de sirable need in our progressive work. ANCESTOR WORSHIP. Here at Carolina we ure trying to do what so many other South ern colleges have tried to do; that is, "to live an impossible present upon a glorious past." We have been ardent and faithful wor shipers at the shrine of memory and of fame; we have rearedtour proudest structures upon the moss-covered vaults of those who went before us and we have attempted to reconcile modern conditions with ancient goods. Doubtless this is all very good, very true and very, noble. We have an heritage as proud as any institution of learning, in the United States. In those days when the Master of Monticello hitched his own Jiorse at the hitching post of the White House; in those days when the chival rous heart of the South reflected itself in its feudal like oligarchy, when brdcade, damask and broad cloth swept the ancestral halls, when love and life ran free and high and men and women danc ed gaily to the music of life's dance, it those days it was that the fame of the University of the Palmetto State was highest and her praises were sung in cabin and in the White House, by lowly plowmen aod the' head of the nation. Then it was that Cooper, the Liebejs, the Lecontes and those other great teachers in this institution pour ed out the fountajnn if their comprehensive knowl.4 Bu hedy o %to have had a blightin inMhuence upon us, Never havq *egain edour pristine glory, Never aince thenibaasour standMd waved so triumphantly in the eleer br -seof Vctyand j mqea the nane of Carolina ;bylor and a talisrna towhpo~eo need et fieader tI shar us with his presence, Youth:ir our,- strength is ours h pe la ours and with tteuali acations any r .sen to us We must succ$dl he memory of our sires demands it. If we but gird on the aramor for the confliot, if we but enter thai conflict with th@?srm and avowed purpose of wietory, . the lauei chaplet will rest upon our brwps before the sun of even our lires has set. - And therefe It behooves us at. preset to begir thI ighty work. Not in the jdtn and diSe tant future but in the great and mighty NOW. Such .opportuni ties come but once In a lifetiuze. Siall. we fail to grasp this oppor tunity and leave it to others tQ achieve where we have failed? If we do, then shall we be. . worthy the name of loyal Ca : linians. FEATHERSTOE.. FOOTBALL MANA Present Assistant Manaser Will Have Fun Charge of Team Next Season. At a meeting of the advisory board Tuesday afternoon J. Doug las Featherstone was elected manager of the football teatn for the coming year. During the past season he was one of man. ager Davenport's assistants, and his excellent work is, an indica tion that the business of the 1914 season will be well cared for. Featherstone had' charge of the second-team's trip to Char leston; and to his efforts the sue cess of the trip was in large measure due. Featherstone Is also bysiness 'manager of the Garnet and Black, the Univer sity annual. His work in these positions has helped to train him for the more important work he will vo in hand when the .ootball season opens next year. *Featherstone is a nmember of the probet Junior class, a hails fromi the good green wood other*ige kno*n as' Grewoq4 S., C ~ ~toLttJ ~sid Theetre V'e, s'., . p tite _jar Of Evry _ ig 4.1. co9lubSt Na.s*. c.dh* .l. ak- a * a- Hg. MI.!, .fEven [oca;ipio co1itgbia. S. C, AGENCY FOR ,,d V. Price&-Cor. TAILORING Lt US. Make Your Swt The Marshall-Frost Co for College Men SUITS MADE TO MFA.US PHONF 2420 - 1318. MAIN S S!INjIG *r4