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DEDICATED TO CLASS OF 1914. MAY ' VOL. VII. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., MAY 16, 1914. No. 30 COMMENCEMENT IS NOT FAR DISTANT Arrangements for Closing of Session Completed. L. H. Smith, Dudley, Brooks, Jeter and Schwartz to Speak for Seniors. Plans for commencement are about completed. The baccalau reate sermon will be preached Sunday, June 7th, in the First Presbyterian Church, For this occasion Dunbar H. Ogden, D. D. of the First Presbyterian Church Atlanta, Ga., has been secured. He is a learned divine and is rec ognized as one of the foremost pulpit orators in the South. . The celebration of the two lit erary societies will take place in the chapel Monday night. On Tuesday afternoon and evening the alumni association will -old its annual celebrations. The speaker for this occasion has not yet been chosen. Wednesday the graduating ex orcises will take place in 'the chapel. Mr. A. F. McKissick has been chosen for the com mencement speaker. He is an alumnus of the University, hav ing finished in 1889 with the de grees of B. S. and A. M. He took post graduate work at Cornell University. After receiving a degree from there he was elected to the chair of electrical engi neering in the Alabama Poly technic Institute, which position he held for some years. He is now president of several cotton mills in the upper part of South Carolina. Lloyd Smith will be the speak er to represent the graduating law class. The senior academics have elected J. S. Dudley for their commencement clay speak er. J. F. Brooks, E. R. Jeter and Raymon Schwartz have been chosen by the faculty to speak for the senior class. At The Infirmary. Ackerman and Denkins are in the infirmary besieged with malaria. J. B. Holleman was in the in firmary for a short time. le was recently taken to the Colum bia Hospitalto undergo an opera tion for appendicitis. J. C. Williams, Williford, Stewart, Kilgore, L. H. Smith, Horger and Waters spent a brief interval in the infirmary this week, but are all out ag-ain. PICTURES WILL GRACE UNIVERSITY CHAPEL Ultimate Aim to Found an Art Gallery Here. Students Ask for Annual Appro priation to Collect Copies of Famous Masterpieces. A movement has recently been started to form the nucleus of an art collection for the Univer sity. The pictures thus collected will be placed in the chapel, eliminating the trouble of plac ing the societies' pictures there when any public contest is held. It is the ultimate aim of the pro moters of this scheme to found an art gallery where copies of all the famous masterpieces will be placed. The following peti tion, which is presented to Dr. A. C. Moore, represents by its signatures the unanimous vote of the organization of which the signers are members. "The students of the Univer sity of South Carolina request that you ask the Bor.d of Trus tees to set aside one hundred dollars for the purpose of secur ing copies of famous works of art; and this sum be made an annual appropriation. The fol lowing committees oonvey the unanimous vote of their respect ive organiaztion: JH. 0. Hanna, E. S. Gambrell, 0. F. Crow, from the Clariosophic society; H. C. Brearley, R. R. McLeod, 0. S. Crawford, from the Eu phradian society; Allan Paul, H. 0. Hanna, B. M. Sawyer from the student body.' S. P. SCHNEIDER Who HaD Won ,unior Fellowship in Clar nies2 GUERRANT ADDRESSES THE ASSOCIATION In Final Speech Gives Good Advice to Students. Says Definiteness of Aim and Mastery of Self Essential to Success. The Y. M. C. A. held its last regular meeting for this scholas tic year Wednesday evening. This organization has been under the management of Mr. W. U. Guerrant for the past two years, and with him as general secre tary it has been doing good work. The Y. M. C. A. and student body in general regret that Mr. Guerrant has resigned the secre taryship and will not be with us next year. He has resigned this' position in order to take up act ive ministerial work. "Gl" GUERRANT Who Leaves Carolina to Take Up Ministerial Work in Kentucky. As this was the last time that Mr. Guerrant whould. have the opportunity, he made the address of the evening. He chose as his subject: "The Essentials to Suc cess in Life." The speaker be gan: "If anyone were to ask me the three thing3 most essential to success in life, I would say: first, definiteness of aim. The sooner you make up your mind to do one thing, the better. The men who succeed in life are the men who do not scatter their efforts, but stick closely to one thing, expending all their efforts in one line of work." The speak er said that he has been scatter ing his efforts and taking part in too many side-issues, consequent ly has not succeeded in his work as he should have. "The second requisite for suc ess." said Mr. Gnerrant ''in "THE GARNET AND BLACK" APPEARS SOON Annuals Will Arrive Latter Part of the Month. Some Splendid New Features Will Make Carolina Volume One of the Best Yet. The Garnet and Black will be out the latter part of this month. This volume is the sum of the college activities for the entire year. The work is in the hands of The State Co., Columbia, and an engraving company in Minne apolis. Tne 1913-14 edition is promised to be one of the best Carolina has ever put out. Sam Latimer, the editor-in-chief, is one of the best writers on the campus, and has a reasonable amount of orig inality. He has added several new features to the annual and has taken out some unnecessary items to make room for more important things. The junior, sophomore, and freshman class histories have been ejected. The volume will contain many unique and original features. mastery of self." He empha sized the fact that a man will be measured by the power he has over his besetting sin. "If you can find out your besetting sin and overcome it," said he, "and if you can master yourself, you can master others." Mr. Guerrant said the third requisite for success is the culti vation of proper habits. He said that a man's success in any line of endeavor depends in large measure upon his power to culti vate proper habits. "Further more," said the speaker, "the man who succeeds in life is the man who is strong enough to pick proper associates associates who have acquired the proper habits, and who have ambition to stand for something in the world." In conclusion the speaker said that he has not had the success that he should have had, mainly because he has not had definite ness of aim, "I wish to fore warn you," said he, "not to make the mistake that I have made of scattering your efforts. Stick to one thing. If you do not agree with me now about these things, you will six years from now. I have seen my mis take in scattering my efforts and intendl in the future to concen trate them on one -thimr."