The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 16, 1914, Page 5, Image 5
LITERARY SOCIETIES
Dr. Joynes Kindly Contributes
, Beneficial Letter.
I thank you for the kind and
appreciative notice of the bulle
tin with which the University
has honored my eightieth birth
day. Though, unfortunately for
myself, I can now see so little of
our students, their sympathy and
good will, as indicated by the
editor of The Gamecock, are very
precious to me.
I regret to learn, from both
The Carolinian and , The Game
cock, that the Literary Societies
of the University are languishing.
This should not be so. In the
earlier days of South Carolina Col
lege, these societies were the
pride of the institution -I might
almost say, of the State. They
have a noble history, and each
has been illustrated by celebrated
names. That was in the "day of
small things." Now, with the
growth of the University, and
especially with the broadened
scope of education, interest in
the Literary Societies, instead of
languishing, should naturally be
increased.
If there is a modern charm in
the word or idea of "Athletics,"
then surely the Literary Socie
ties are the chosen and peculiar
field of intellectual and moral
"athletics"in colloge life. Apart
from their literary and forensic
exercises, and of their special
friendships, so well described by
The Gamecock, they are the
special arena of those conflicts
and contest which, like the ath
letic field, though on a higher
plane, serve so powerfully to de
velop manhood and character.
There man meets man; argument
meets argument; wit meets wit,
and the best qualities of mind
and temper are brought into
free play. I say, into free play;
in the class room the student is
under authority; he is asked to
give back only what he has
recived; his personality is neces
sarily subordinated. But in the
Literary Society he is his own
man- a free citizen in a democ
racy of equals, without fear or
favor; and all that he learned, in
class room or elsewhere, is now
his own, to be applied to the man
ly purposes of a practical though
mimic life. As a field for the
digestion, correlation and appli
cation of knowledge, or for the
acquisition and exhibition of
real power, nothing else off
ered in college life equals the
*Literary Society. Hence I have
* always regarded it as an invalu
able agent in the development of
intelligent and manly character,
\ which, after all, is the chief endI
of education.
B Iesidles this, its rules of order,
its practice of parlimentary pro
cedure, its several offices give to
Sthe student a valuable training
EUPHRADIAN CONTESTS
Debaters and Declaimers Seek
Oratorical Honors.
Every year near the close of
college each of the literary socie
ties has a debatars' and a de
claimers' contest. Juniors and
seniors are eligible for the de
bates, while only freshmen and
sophomores may take part in the
declamation contests.
On Wednesday night the Eu
phradians held their annual de
baters' and declaimers' contest.
The program was as follows:
Declaimers:
R. E. Brown, '17, ',True Amer
icanism."
P. K. Smith, '16, "Antony to
the Romans," "Brutus to the
Romans."
Solomon Blatt, '16, "The Trag
edy of War."
C. D. Brearley, '17, "Our Re
United Country."
David S. Polier, "The Defense
of Hofer," "The Tyrolese Pa
triot."
Debate:
Affirmative: H. C. Brearley,
T. B. Alford.
Negative: L. B. Harrison. D.
S. Jones.
Query: "Resolved, That every
home owner in South Carolina
should be exempt from taxes on
$2,500 worth of property."
Chief marshal, R. R. McLeod,
'15; assistant marshalls, J. P4ur
dy, and Bruggerman, '17.
The judges awarded David S.
Polier first place among the de
claimers; Solomon Blatt came
second. L. B. Harrison was de
cided on as the best debater of'
the evening.
Soon the Clariosophics will
hold their final contests for the
year. There will be a contest
for debaters, for declaimers, and
for orators. The exact dates for
these contests have as yet not
been announced.
for some of the highest functions
of citizenship, often of great
value in later life.
Let me hope that the appeal
of The Carolinian and The Game
cock may not fall upon deaf ears.
Possibly some reforms are need
ed, to adapt the Societies more
perfectly to modern conditions.
If so, let these be effected. It
is too late, perhaps, for the
present session; but the Societies
exist for all time.
Very respectfully.
Edward S. ,Joynes.
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