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VoL VII. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., JANUARY 17. 1914 No -1f LAW BUILDING NEED 'OF THE UNIVERSITY Legislative Committee Urges Immediate Action. "If Department is to be Main. tained, Adequate Quarters Must be Provided." The need of a new building for law department of the University is strongly emphasized in the re port to the General Assembly of the legislative committee appoint ed to indpect all of the State in stitutions of higher education. This committee, whose members are Senator Crouch, and house members C. C. Wyche and T. W. Zeigler, visited the Universi ty some weeks ago and made an, inspection of the plant. Similar inspections were made at Win throp, the Citadel, Clemson, the State Medical College and the Colored Normal and Industrial College. The report on the University follows: "During the past year the pressing needs of this institu tion, or at least some of them, have been met. The dining hall has been enlarged but is unfin ished. There is need for money to. complete this work. The cook ing department has likewise been - enlarged, and the heating plant removed from the extreme low er eastern edge of the campus to a centrally located site. The cost of making the necessary con nections, owing to the heavy and deep cuts for piping, was a very costly item. "The new dormitory has been completed and fitted up with all' modern conveniences. "The attendance is the largest in its history. The needs of this institution can easily be ascer tained by the. members of the Geeeral Assenbly and they are invited to visit the plant. during the session of the legislatu're and ascertain at first hand what the most presing needs are. "Whether the General Assembly is right in endorsing the idea of special education or net, it is not for your committee to say. But since the legal department has been added to the University nec essary accomodatibns should be provided. The present quarters are cramped, shabby in appear ance, 4ill lighted and not properly heated, andUf it is to be main tandsucces||fully, adequate quar ters should be provided. UNIVERSITY FOUNDERS FITTINGLY HONORED Addresses by Wright, Raper and Denny Feature Day. General Alumni Association Ap. prjoves Coordination of Colleges. On January 15 the University of South Carolina celebrated "Founders Day" in honor of of those far sighted statesmen who in 1801 established South Carolina College, out of which has grown the University. The exercises began with a lively meeting of the General Alumni Asociation at 12 o'clock in LeConte College. At this meeting, after an interesting dis cussion, a resolution was adopted endorsing the Lumpkin bill to coordinate the University and the College for Women. The afternoon exercises began with a procession of students; alumni and faculty. After all had entered the chapel, Lieut. Gov. Smith introduced M. A. Wright, representlng the student body. Mr. Wright; speaking upon "A National Mission," was in his best form. To those who have heard him before this is sufficient praise. ''Shall the South Ca'olina Tax ation System Bring Forth Effi ciency and Justice" was the sub ject of Prof. Charles L. Raper, Dean of the Graduate School and Head of the Department of Eco nomics, University of North Carolina. Prof. Raper vividly described the failure of our pres ent system of property assess ment, and urged a State tax com mission with local deputies to have control of the taxes. At 8 o'clock in the hall of the House of Representatives Pres. G. H. Denny, of the University of Alabama, spoke upon "Certain Larger Dnties of the Educated Man." He asserted thatthe edu cated man who has the proper outlook on life will write as his creed, thou shalt love thy neigh bor as thyself, will give us an ideal of unselfish patriotism, a larger sense of civic duty and civic responsibility, and will help us check the ultra-commercial spirit now sweeping over the en tire country. Dr. Denny's plea was for Idealism In life and not for commercialism. The more pressing needs of this Institution are emphasized in the report of the president. STUDENT VOLUNTEER CONVENTION A SUCCESS Many Famous Speakers Ad dressed Great Gathering. University and Other Institutions of Columbia Well Represent ed--Someof the Details. The University was well repre sented at the seventh interna tional convention of the Student Volunteer for Foreign Missions, held 't Kansas City, Mo., from December 31 to January 4. The convention consisted of student volunteers, college students rep resenting 800 institutions of learning from the United States and Canada, and representatives of the volunteer movements of twenty foreign nations. The purpose of the convention was to bring the student mind of North America to realize the crying need of foreign missions to face the absolutely unprecedented world situation, to change the individual thoughts of 5,000 stu dens .in oz}e thought, the even tual evangelization of the world. One prime idea of the convention was to serve as a recruiting of fice for the great army that is needed to further the extension of Christendom. One of the most striking fea tures of the meeting was the per sonnel of its speakers. The men who delivered addresses were men of international repufation, of world-wide vision, of deep in sight and of broad human sym pathy. Men such as John R. Mott, ,"the master mind of the { convention," (who has literally ehanged certain parts of he globe; R. E. Spear, secty. of'the Presbyterian board of ,foreign missions; Sherwood Eddy, one of the best known student workers in the world; Dr. Robert Horton of London, an international au thority on missions; Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer, a missionary of.long service in Cairo, who is an au thority on Mohammadenism; Dr. J. A. MacDonald, editor of the Toronto Globe, "the Gladstone of Canada;" Secretary of State Bryan and. many others of prom inence. It was clearly emphasized in the report of the executive com mittee headed by Dr. Mott that the most critical ' -uggle facing protestant Christa aity is not in the orient nor in the unoccupied fields, but in the colleges of Can ada and the United States. "If GARNET AND BLACK LOSE TO FARMERS Second Road Game Went to A. and M., Score 30--15. Rasketball Team Shows Decided Improvement in Second Road Clash. In spite of the fact that their playing was of a decidedly better order than that against Wake Forest, the Carolina Gamececks went down in. defeat last Wed nesday evening before the strong quintette of the N. C. A. & M., by a score of 30 to 15. The play was at all times fast and furious and the spectators were very en thusiastic. With the score stand ing 20 to 8 in favor of their heav ier opponents the Garnet and Black men came back determin edly, the elongated Poole tossing in three baskets in as many min utes. Many substitutions were made in this half and when the game ended the score stood, A. & M. 30, Carolina 15. The lineup follows: A. & M. .30 CAROLINA 15 Terderer C Poole Mason RF Stoney Phillips RG Farrell McDougal LF Hanahan Scarry LG LaMotte Substitutions: A. & A.-Van Brocklin for McDougal; Sumner for Mason. Carolina-Brooker for, Hanahan, Chapman for Ston ey, Danner for Farrell, Farrell for Brooker. the churches of North America are to wage triumphant warfare in these distant and defiant lands the missionary facts and spirit must first dominate our seats of learning. The moral evils, the prevailing student temptations, the unfavorable college traditions and customs and everything else in college life must be overthrown if there is to most largely devel oped among us truly world con quering power," continued the report. All the institutions of learning in Columbia sent delegations. Those who represented the Uni versity were: Ward, Smith, Brooks and Hanna. The con vention has been and will be fur ther 'reported in the various churches of the city. A full holiday will be en.joyed by the students on Monday the 19th, this date being Lee's birth day, and a legal holiday.