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The Gamecock PUBI.Is IiEl) wEEKI.Y BY TIIE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF TiHE INIVERlSITY OF Sotrii CARO.INA. TERMS $1.50 A SES SION, I'AYAai.E IN AIwANCE. Enltered as secolnd-class lIiaitter N('vein her 20. 1908, at the postolli(e at Colulnhin, S. C., under the At of March 3, 187!). Tin., GAMECOCK 1401e1(S hum111OuS sketches. 'ss Is, tie t, etc.. .1nd(l will gladly ilibhlishi sueh ats is nynilablle, w\hen a nil minild by the full] 1nnm1e of the aulthor. i'ilsigneld 1nnos(ripcts will1 iither le ne kniowvledged n()r retiirnedl. All eeks :Ind mOney" Ordelrs shoul be iadle p -Ih le to 1t. 1t. willi:is, .Jr., Business Mianlager. lIlOI"oia!liHoms in !-'linntl Hall. uin.ia u .llflnvirI . B. I. It J ......)......N or: . I. xi.lanali n114inexx .11(tnati(r. T. T. CARRni (Cr.a................Colmnhin BOAlRD OF E'DITMlts. E dilr-in-('h(ief. M. B. Boui.wARE (Euph. )... Winnsboro .-Ixx'iaillldiIOr. J. S. D)UDLEY (Clar. )........... Co]umbia .-\.sislanit li(Iors. J. McB. DAnS (Euph.).......Maysville H. C. BREARLEY (Euph.).............Lee 0. F. CROW (Clar.)................Pauline .J. A. TOLBERT (Clar.).........Abbeville R. P. BELLINGER (Law).......Augusta W. J. SCOTT (Y. M. C. A.)... Edgefield M. A. WRIGHT (Student Body) Edgefield Columbia, S. C., April 18, 1914. The student body overlooked a mighty good bet when it didn't elect us Easter king. Course everybody loves the cows and chickens, but this East er Week business is the life. * ** Ever since the show we have been lying awake nights think ing about cute little Foster Mar shall. The State might add to that "Famous South Carolina head lines" series, "Gamecocks Wal lop Ancient Rivals." * ** Number of fellows wouldn't save any chickens from the fire because they didn't want to let on that they knew where the house was. *i * * It's not such a long step from baseball to law---just a matter of driving home arguments instead of runs and chasing down clients instead of flies. * * * Most any time o' day you can see a bunch of freshmen scruti nizing Carpenter's features, try ing to imagine why they didn't recognize him a few nights ago. Glee club quartette signed up with Keith vaudeville company some weeks ago. Mr. Keith died a day or so later. Business troubles are said to have brought on his end. AT CHAPEL. Of late, it has been the prac tice of certain students on the campus to meet every morning outside of chapel instead of go ing in and taking part in the ex ercises. This has been com mented upon by many outside of the University, and the reputa tion of the University has suf fered as a result. Several times this has been brought to the notice of the stu dents by members of the faculty, but the practice is still in vogue. Now this may appear alright and proper to a few, but we do not believe that the majority of this student body hold this view. This is not a discussion or a criticism of absentees from chap el, but our voice is raised against congregating on the outside when the chapel exercises are being conducted. This practice is under no conceivable circum stances justifiable. These gatherings are usually composed of from four to over a dozen students, who sometime make noise enough to disturb those on the inside; their mere presence there has a demoralizing effect upon those who are taking part in the exercises. This is another one of those little things by which the Uni versity is judged. People form their opinions upon the conduct of the student with whom they are acquainted, or upon the ac tivities on the campus as they see them. Fellows, let us think about this and, as our president has expressed it, be loyal students of the University and refrain from this altogether uncalled for prac tice. THE MOOT COURT. The most noticeable features about the moot court in its re cent meetings have been the very apparent lack of interest in the proceedings, and the pitifully small attendances. Something must be done or the absolute failure of the moot court is inevitable. Where is the law student who can say that he had in the least degree done his duty in the moot court and not receiv ed much benefit therefrom? And where is the senior who does not feel that he should be awarded a diploma from the Law Association in June. It is a silent fact that what ever we attemp)t we are not go ing to get more out of it than we put in it, and the moot court is no exception to this familiar rule. The man whose name is on the role of the Law Association and who never attends a meet ing is the man who cannot be helped by the moot court; he is what is termed in common par lne, "a hopeless ase, a'nde is not only a detriment to himself but to the moot court as well. It is really sickening to walk into a session of the Association and find a little hand full of men hurdled together as though they were attending a funeral cere mony, and their faces about as blank as the inside of a Sunday morning newspaper. Yet this has been the condition, scarcely enough members present from which to select the several wit nesses, and empanel a jury. Are we going to let thins state of affairs again kill the Law As sociation; or shall we, with the simple feeble effort which it re quires, pilot her successful for the remainder of the year, and place her in the hai?ds of the next year's senior class on a solid foundation as a permanent institution of the Law Depart ment of the University? The moot court, though stag gering at times, has been kept running throughout the present session. This is a better record than has been attained for the past year or two. But to carry it so near the end and then the goal in sight to let the Associa tion fail would be nothing short of pitiable, and a sad reflection upon the members. There will probably not be more than four more meetings this year. We started out with full attendence and keen interest. Can we not end the same way? Surely every member can make some slight effort to attend these four final meetings-only four. 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