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VOL. VIII UNIVEITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COLUMBIA. C.. FRRTTARY 1V 11c 'KT - BASKETBAll GAIES HERtE NEXT 'EEK Newberry and Wake Forest Teams Play Carolina. Wednesday and Saturday Nights Hard Fight Expected for All Other Games. The game with the Citadel last night and with the College of Charleston were postponed because no floor for the games could be obtained in Charleston. The teams may play later. Next Wednesday,night New berry College plays here. This is a very Important game for it determinies whether Carolina has any chance for the State cham pionship. Newberry won from the Citrdel, so if Carolina wins from Newberry she still has a slim chance. for the champion ship. Ashbaugh and McLean and other football men will play for Newberry and probably Car olinia's full team. Wake Forest comes here next Saturday night. This is the on ly college out of the State that Carolina plays this year. Caro-Ij lina was victorious last year and will put up a game fight this year. Wake Forest also has several football men on the team. Tne last game on the home floor this season is with the Clemson Tiger, whose claws we expect to pull out. The season closes with games with Wof ford at Spartan urg, on March 20, and with Newberry at New berry, on March 24. Mid-Winter Reception. The social committee has de cided to have the mid-winter re ception on February 22. It will be called the Washington Birth day Reception. Both of the col leges will be invited, but if you have a friend there send her a special invitation. Invite your town friends and help make this reception the biggest and best ever. Represents Iowa. Dr. G. A. Wauchope, dean of the Department of English, has been asked to represent the Uni versity of Iowa at the inaugura tion of President Graham of the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill,- April 21. For two years, 1895-97, Dr. Wauchope: was professor of English at the University or Iowa. CAROLINA QUINTET WINS FROM FURMAN GaOmecocks Defeat Furman by Score of 24 to 18. Carolina's Weakened Team Showed More Class Than Regulars. Thursday night in the gymnas ium, Carolina defeated Furman to the tune of 24 to 18. From the beginning until the whistle blew, the game was hotly fought. The first half ended with the score tied 9 to 9. In the second half Csrplina came back with a rush, and superior pass work succceded in turning the trick. The feature of the game was the playiing of Bowen for Carolina. Time: after time he made difficult shgts and his playing was the best seen here this season. Capt. Danner also played well for Caro lina at left guard, and no less commendable was Talley's work at?forward. For Furman Sims and Jeter starred, especially the the latter. The line-up follows: Carolina Furman Bowen ....... RF .. .. Lockwood Talley........ LF .........Jeter Burn......... C ..........Sim s Waring...... RG ..........Foy Danner...... LG .........Poag Substitutes: Furman, Drake, Meyers. Referee. Van Metre. Faculty Speak. Several members of the facul ty are very busy speaking at various places. Dr. Currell spoke to the Char leston Chamber of Commerce Thursday and is speaking twice to-day at Sumter, to the County Teachers Association' and the Woman's Club. To-morrow he speaks at Marion in the morning at the Baptist church and at the Methodist church in the evening. Tuesday he will speak tt Chapin to the School Im provement Association. Dr. Reed Smith spoke to the Charleston Woman's Federation Wednesday of examination week. He will deliver an ad :ress this afternoon at the D. A.. R. meeting on "The Popular Ballad in the South." The var 3ity quartet, Langston, Ed munds, Stoney and Carpenter, will sing several ballads taken from South Carolina soil. Dean Baker spoke last Satur dIay to the Saluda County Teach ers Assosiation of which T. N. Farris. A. B. '13, is president MID-WINTER GERMAN WILL BE MASQUERADE German Club Will Have Biggest Dance of Year. Monday Night at the Jefferson Hotel--Elaborate Decora tions and Costumes. The University German Club will hold the mid-winter German at the Jefferson Monday night. The dance will be a masquerade and is expected to be the biggest ever. Elaborate decorations have been planned and they to gether with the fancy costumes will show off most beautifully. Many girls from out of town will be there. Columbia College and the College for Women will be represented, besides colleges all over the State. Too, old members of the German Club and various other visitors will be on hand. The dance will begin at 9 o'clock and will last till the small hours of Tuesday morning. Punch will be served and light refreshments also. The dances will be led by the recently elected leaders, senior leader L. C. Wannamaker, and junior leader J. C. Williams. Comnstock's full orchestra will furnish the music. R. R. McLeod, the new presi dent, will be there, as well as the other new officers, C. C. Farrell vice-president, J. S. Ed munds Jr., treasurer, and L. A. Langston secretary. Dr. Venable Lectures. Dr. Francis P. Venable gave a series of lectures this week He came here as exchange profes sor from the University of North Carolina. The first lecture was on "Radium and Radio-activity." The speaker made an excellent address. The next lecture was to ;he student body, and town people Tuesday night in the chapel. The subject was, ''The Responsibility of a University in the Matter of Research and In vestigation." Other addresses were made before combined scientific classes. Everybody who attended was greatly ben efitted by the sddress s. Harry Costello. assistant coach of the 1914 football team, is in Columbia visiting his many friends. Dr. Charmberlayne will dre-is the Equai Suffrage League of (Charleston Mondav nig-ht PRESIDENT CURRELL IS FORMALLY INAUGURATED Founders' Day Exercises Gra ced by Academic Gowns. Prominent Educators From Sou thern Colleges Speak--The Inaugural Address. Dr. William Spenser Currell was formally inaugurated as president of the University of South Carolina on Founders' Day January 28. He has the distinc tion of being the first president inaugurated with the academic features. The faculty and repre sentatives from other colleges wore the academic cap and gown. AFTERNOON SESSION The faculty, visitors and stu dents formed a line of procession at the library and marched to the chapel. Lieutenant Gnvernor Be thea presided over the exercises in the auditorsum. The first speaker of the day was V r. Haddon Johnson of the senior law class who represented the student body. He .is one of Carolina's most able orators. He pointed out very forcibly that the bonds between the. Universi ty and the State are inseparable; that the "record of a century is the background of the Univer sity's work." President J. Henry Harms of Newberry College aptly named our State "the State of inaugu rations." He spoke in behalf of the colleges of the State. Professor Walter LeConte Ste vens, who has been associated for a number of years with our president at Washington and Lee University commended in the highest terms the work of Prof. Currell at that institution. He said that Dr. Currell was their most beloved professor. The speaker paid a glowing tribute to the work of the literary so cieties here. Chancellor Kirkland of Van derbilt University, a South Car olinian, gave a masterful address on the value of the University to the State. He said that our col lege had probably given more statesmen than any other insti tution to its state or to the re public. He especially con.me nd ed the Work of this institution to the Governor. In the words of the chancellor, "if we accep)t Jefferson ian democracy we hav'e to accept his dloctrine of unive - sal education.'' Dr. Capen of the United Sitae