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VOL. VII. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., MARCH 14, 1914. No. 21
GAMECOCKS TO PLAY
COLUMBIA LEAGUERS
Carolina's Baseball Team Is
Rounding Into Form.
Coach Guerrant Picks About
Thirty Men for Season
Squad.
The baseball team is rapidly
rounding into form. The past
week has witnessed much im
provement in the working of the
team. This week of practice
eliminated a few of the candi
dates from the race, but Coach
Guerrant has retained every
man on the field who has shown
that he has the stuff from which
baseball players are made.
Every afternoon games have
been played between scrubs and
varsity. Judging by the score
of some of these games, it is a
difficnlt matter to say just which
is varsity and which is scrub.
The Gamecocks will tackle the
Columbia Comers next Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday. These
pre-season games will be played
on Davis Field.
It has always been the custom
for the Columbia league team
and Carolina to mix up before
the formal opening of the colle
giate season. These games will
give supporters of both the leag
uers and the Gamecocks an op
portunity of forming opinions as
to the playing of'the two teams.
Tho' the strength of the leaguers
cannot at all be determined, it
will give the fans something to
talk about and to form conject
ures upon. A pretty good idea
of the strength of our team can
be gotten. These games will
give both teams excellent prac
tice.
There is a contest raging for
that position behind the bat. No
less than seven are trying to
land this job, There is Dan Hey
ward' Frowsy Bill, Thomas, Lay
ton, Cooner, Stoney and, last
but not least. Malishi Levy, all
hoping to be the receiving end
of the battery that opens the
season with the Keystoners one
week from Monday.
Many are proving every day
that they are going to belong to
that varsity bunch, but they are
so numerous that it would re
quire a better baseball judgment
than ours to pick the nine best
bets. The games with the Coin
ers will show us a few things.
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MR. W. WAWNG MAKES
INTERESTING ADDRESS
Large Audience Hears Lec
ture on Socialism.
The Socialistic Movement and
It's Relation to Everyday Life
Discussed.
Wednesday afternoon in the
semi-circular room of LeConte
college, Mr. Willoughby Walling,
of Illinois, delivered a very inter
esting as well as instructive ad
dress on the Socialistic move
ment.
Mr. Walling opened his address
by saying that no definition of
Socialism would be able to con
vey an adequate meaning of the
movement. He remarked that
the Socialist movement was the
subject of his address rather
than Socialism. He continued:
"We find socialistic thought in
direct proportion to modern de
velopment and civilization."
He first mentioned what Social
ism is not. That it-is not a Uto
pian movement; it is not an idea
of what ought to be. The Social
ist looks at facts as they are and
tries to come to some decision as
to what should be done. He
spoke of Karl Marx who first
advanced the idea of Socialism,
and of the industrial revolution
that was taking place when he
lived. People began to work for
somebody else; the capitalistic
movement had its beginning at
this time.
Mr. Walling told of the philos
ophy of Adam Smith, who be
lieved that competition, 'laissez
faire" doctrine, would be all that
was necessary to cure all com
mercial ills. Karl Marx studied
the struggle for existence among
men, the struggles between sec
tions. Looking at this type of
civilization, he saw that a man
in order to work had to work for
somebody else. This state of
affairs had never before existed
to any great degree. Marx asked
himself this question: was this
to continue? He evoived the
'theory of social surplus, the
amount of service rendered
minus the wages received. The
only way of reinvesting this
social surplus was to increase the
manufacturing plant. This would
increase competition, resulting
in the formation of combinations
or alliances. Marx believed the
worker should take charge of
the business.
RESOLUTIONS ON DEATH
OF R. Q. MITCHELL
Student Representatives at
Funeral of College Mate.
Five Hundred Students March
to the Station Behind the
Hearse.
At 2:15 oclock on the afternoon
of March 6, Roy Quay Mitchell
died at the University Infirmary.
His death was caused by measles
and pneumonia. This was
Mitchell's second year at Caro-,
lina; he was a member of the
Sophomore class, was beloved by,
all, and gave large promise of a
useful life. His death was a
severe shock to everyone.
Mitchell's father and brother
were at his bedside at the last.
He was the son of W. C. and
and Sarah Virginia Mitchell, and
is survived by them and the fol
lowing brothers and sisters: Sa
rah Elizabeth, Cary F., A. F.,
W. K., and E. C. Mitchell.
On Friday night, March 6, the
student body met and elected W..
W. Wharton as its representative
at the funeral. J. McB. Dabbs
and A. E. Geer represented the
Sophomore class. Both the stu
dent body and the Sophomore
class sent floral tributes, and
both drew up resolutions of sym
pathy. Below are the resolutions
adopted by the student body:
"Bowing beneath the weight
of the severe shock which has
come to us this day, in the death
of our friend and fellow student,
Roy Quay Mitchell, and recog
nizing the loss to us of a friend
and partner in our life; and
"Whereas; he was a man shar
ing the highest ideals of this
campus, never failing to measure
up to all the requirements of a'
gentleman and companion among
us, and
"Whereas, in his course he had
given large promise of usefull
ness to his State and service to
his fellow man, keeping before
him principles of honor ahd un
selfishness: and
"Whereas, we, the students of,
the University of South Carolina,
desire to express our sympathetic,
sorrow to his family and com
munity in the loss of their son
and friend; therefore, be it
"Resolved, That the sympathy
of the student lody of the Ini
versity goes out to all who loved
him and all who share with us
the andness of his death.
MR. E. D. SOMPAYRAC
SPEAKS TO Y. M. C. A.
Lectures On Practical Side
of Achitecture.
Says Deciding on a Life Work
Should Be Prompt and Final
and Done With Care.
"The Practical Side of Archi
tecture" was the subject chosen
by Mr. E. D. Sompayrac, archi
tect, for the sixth of the series
of Life Work Lectures that the
Y. M. C. A is offering.
Mr. Sompayrac began his ad
dress with some remarks con
cerning his college career and
the difficulties he encountered
in seeking to discover his life
work. In this connection he
said, "I felt the need of practi
cal advice most keenly, and a
few weeks ago when asked to
make this talk, I accepted the in
vitation with a fulness of enthu
siasm and an interest inspired
the desire to help a fellow work
er over the bridge which I had
difficulty i: crossing."
Following up the discussion of
choosing a life work, he explain
ed that on account of the debts
incurred in college, which may
be either debts of gratitude only
or debts of both gratitude and
financial obligation, the student's
decision "should be prompt and
final, and above all it should be
complete with a firm and keen
determination."
After these preliminary re
marks relating to the choice of
life work, the architect skillful
ly presented "The Practical Side
of Architecture." He stated
that although the profession is
an old one, yet "it has not lost
any of its charms, on the con
trary, it'has become diversified,
it stands, with its allied arts,
first in importance in all our in
dustrial development." He then
mentioned the two branches of
knowledge that constitute the
fundamedtal principles of the
profession, namely, the technical
and the artistic; the former con
sisting in constructive ability;
the latter in appreciation of
things beautiful, proper propor
tionment and harmonious blend
ing of colors.
The first step towards enter
ing architecture as a profess
ion, according to Mr. Somayrac,
is to select some university with
a broad course of study which
wuil nprare the student for his