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MAY 4 1914 VOL. VII. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., MAY 2, 1914. No. '8 LIBRARIAN ADDRESSES SOUTHERN EDUCATORS Mr. Kennedy Makes Notable Speech in Louisville. Discusses Advantages of the County as Library Unit for Rural Extension. Mr. R. M. Kennedy, librarian of the University, delivered an address on "County (Public) Li braries'' before the Southern' Educational Association which met in Louisville, Ky., April 9. Mr. Kennedy discussed the ad vantages of the county as a li brary unit for rural extension, as follows: "The essentials of a successful unit for rural extension work should be about as follows; "1. The unit must not be too large for close and easy super vision, and for the influence of the library staff to be felt in a knowledge of local conditions and by personal acquaintance with the patrons. This has been one trouble with the State-oper terd trijg library system, the want of personal touch. "2. It should center in a li brary of considerable size and resources, which can be found usually only in a large town or city. I do not like that feature of the California law which ex empts a town, even the county seat, from the operations of the county system if it already has a public library and does not wish to come in. ''3. This center must also be the natural and commercial cen ter of the community to be serv ed. In the South, generally this is to be found at the county seat. "4. The directing head, or li brarian, must be an individual f tact, strong character, and no executive ability, and the ibrary force must be ample, ntelligent and trained. Such ervice commands good salaries. "5. To secure efficient machin ry for the working of such a ystem, the entire library re-, ources of the unit should be ontrolled by the central institu ion, in order to prevent dissipa ion of energy and duplication of Ifort. "6. The unit should be large nough for a free delivery sys m to be operated without waste f time and expense. "This delivery, in any up-to-. ate system of the future, must o, of course, b)y wagon, from armhouse to farmhouse. The CAROLINA WINS FIRST FROM WAKE FOREST Gamecocks Defeat Baptists by a Score of 5 to 0. Team Shows Up Well in First Game of the Trip---Mills and Shuler Lead Attack. Carolina persists in handing the goods to Wake Forest this season. The Gamecocks won their first road game on Wednes (lay afternoon from the Bap tists by the score of 5 to 0. Big Mills, tossing the ball, allowed Wake Forest five singles and won his game. The Carolina team gave him brilliant support and slugged the ball at oppor tune moments. Carolina scored in the first in ning when Shuler tripled and came in on Hensley's error. Carolina made three in the fourth inning when Shuler again led the attack with a single to center. W. Rudisiil's bunt was errored, Shuler going to third and Rudisill to second. Edens' .orifico fly scored Shuler and Rudisill went to third. Rudisill scored on Richards roller, which was played to the plate. Rich ards stole second. IHolding's er ror on the throw on Stoney's grounder sent Richards home. In the sixth Edens beat out a hit to second, went to third on Richards' sacrifice: and scored when -Iding tossed wild in an attempt to stop the flying cap tain. John Mills had Wake Forest at his mercy and was never in real danger. Stolen base, Richards. Sacri fice hits, Hillings, W. Rudisill, Richards. Sacrifice flies: Edens. Three-base hit, Shuler. Double plays, W. Rudisill to Edens to Stoney; Billings to Holden; W. Rudisill to Shuler. Struck out, Mills 5, F'euree 3. Base on balls, Mills 1. .Time of game, 1:20. Umpire, Caddell. plucky little Maryland city, Iagerstown, has placed herself in the forefront of progress in this matter and pointed the way. Delaware has recently followed the lead and provided for house to house delivery throughout the State.'" On Friday Mr. Kennedy wvent to Conway, where he dlivered an address on ''The Relation of Public Libraries to the Public Schools' CAROLINA WILL ENTER TRIANGULAR DEBATE Georgia and Virginia Will Meet in Columbia. Dudley, Wright, McInnes, and Jeter Represent Carolina in First Triangular Debate. Debating teams representing the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia, will meet in debate Saturday evening in Columbia under the auspices of the University. Miss Mc-, Clintock has offered the use of the College for Women auditor ium and this contest will be staged there. Music for the evening will be furnished by an orchestra and the Carolina quar tette. The question for debate is: "Resolved, That the United States should cease to maintain a position among the three lead ing naval powers of the world. The IJniversity of Virginia will uphold the affirmative, while the University of Georgia will have the negafive. The judges, who were chosen from Carolina's fac ulty, are Josiah Morse, Reed Smith, G. A. Wauchope, E. Mar ion Rucker, J. Nelson Frierson. Following the debate a recep tion will be given to the visiting teams and their friends. The Columbia College girls have been given a special invitation to be present, and they will most prob ably remain for the reception. Immediately after the recep tion a banquet will be given at the Jefferson hotel by the two literary societies of the Univer sity of South Carolina in honor of the two visiting teams. Be sides the debaters, there will be present at this banquet the judges, the retiring and newly elected presidents of the two literary societies and a few others. )r. A. C. Moore will be master of ceremonies. While this debate is in prog ress in Columbia, teams from the University of South Carolina will contest with the University of Georgia at the University g Virginian and one at the Univ< sity of JVirginia and at the Uni versity of Georgia. These twoj teams will debate the same ques tion as that debated in Columbia. The aflirmative team which will meet the University of Vir' ginia at Athens consists of' M. A. Wright and J. S. l)udley. The negative team, which meets the u niversity of Georgia at t,ho GAMECOCKS LEAVE ON NORTHERN TRIP Team in Unusually Good Form for Foreign Battles. Meet Strong Clubs in Virginia, North Carolina, Wake For est, and A. and M. On Tuesday, the 28th, the ag gressive Gamecock machinery launched upon its annual North ern tour. The aggregation left home with an unusual amount of inspiration, due to its late sweep ing victories over some of the stongest baseball forces in the South, during which the Carolina bunch have bedecked themselves with ten hard victories and fell in defeat only three times. The team leaves in splendid trim and hope, to say the least, to duplicate their stellar record attained on their native battle field. The lateness of the season has given the team the opportu nity for developing and bringing out all that they have in them. The team work has been brought to a fine point by ccntinuous afternoon practice for the last week. On general principles it may be well said that the club is in extraordinary condition, and they go forth on the arena of college baseball with an ex tensive reservoir of old time "pep'' and indomitable armors, developed by difficult experience. We have some oflensive oppo nents to meet on this pilgrimage. Some old opponents and others with whom we stage our initial engagements. Note that the fol lowing schedule is not given as per the one issued at first of' sea son, but it has been revised. On Wednesday, the 29th, Wake Forest is met. We also meet Davidson, the Agricultural and Mechanical College. and Trinity in North Carolina. Those in Virginia will be Virginia Military Institute at Roanoke, and Virginia Polytechnic Insti tute at Lexington. Gilford Col lege may also be met and prob ably other colleges in Virginia and North Carolina unofficially submitted. (-'ontion u_l un I'htt Six_._ University of Virginia consists )f E. R. Jeter and J. S. McInnis. T'his is the first series of dlebates '4f the new triangular (debating league formed last fall between [he Universities of Georgia, Vir' winin and Routh Carolinn.